| Title: | Hyper Police
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| Overall: | Unevaluated |
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1997, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Police, Sci-Fi, TV
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Set somewhere in a future time, when what remains of society is desperately trying to recover from the turmoil of an earlier apocalyptic event, those normal humans that have survived have learned to live with many changes. Now they resentfully have to share their world with beast-creatures. These beasts face a constant struggle to find their space within a society controlled by humans, when most humans make their dislike of these late-comers clearly known and openly discriminate against against them. The two different races rarely interact, and when they do so, it is almost certain to result in violence. Civil order is maintained by different police businesses that fight whith each other over the rewards for capturing wanted criminals. While they accept minor independent (privatized) bounty hunters, the Police groups don’t tolerate too much competition and are not beyond putting others out of business. The best way to move amongst the shadows in this new society is by not being noticed, but if you are, then you had better be armed to the teeth, keep your fist on your knife, show a gleam of murder and blood in your eyes, and your third eye always watching behind you.
The jurisdiction of Shinjiku is patrolled by the ‘Mad’ police, a group which consists entirely of humans. Living in the shadows is a not-so-successful bounty hunter named Sasahara Natsuki, who makes her money by accepting cases of beasts who have involvements and infringements with humans. Accepting that most humans are well protected by their allies and powerful neighbors, Natsuki is a half-human/half-cat-beast, who manages to walk a perilous line between the two races, while trying to stay true to herself and the law. She is helped by a group of (mostly friendly) non-humans who are part of her clan, who ready to help when she is in trouble. Her team consist of a werewolf, Batanen, is afraid to admit that he is in love with her (a cat), another werebeast name Tommy, and a strange kyubi fox daemon named Sakura who has grand plans of her own, (namely eating Natsuki to absorb her magic, which would allow her to grow all of her tails, thereby permitting her to transform into a nine-tailed-magic-fox.)
25 TV episodes, released in 1997
Produced by Studio Pierrot & TV Tokyo
Licensed by Image Entertainment for R1-USA release.
Six DVDs in set (last episode released in June 2003)
These series may be out of print/release/distribution.
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