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{{nihongo|'''Ryōko Yakushiji'''|薬師寺涼子|やくしじ りょうこ|Yakushiji Ryōko}}
{{nihongo|'''Ryōko Yakushiji'''|薬師寺涼子|やくしじ りょうこ|Yakushiji Ryōko}}
:{{anime voices|Hitomi Nabatame}}
:{{anime voices|Hitomi Nabatame}} (TV)
:{{anime voices|Tomoko Kawakami}} (Drama CD)


:An officer in the [[Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department]] who had graduated from [[University of Tokyo|Tokyo University]]'s Law Faculty, she can speak in several languages including French. Her father, Hiroko Yakushiji, is the head of the multinational security company JACES. Her rank is Superintendent and the supervisor of Junichirō Izumida. She is quite an adept fighter, be it with firearms or bare handed. Ryōko doesn't hesistate to use JACES assets if necessary to help her in her work. She is called ''Oryo'' by Yukiko.
:An officer in the [[Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department]] who had graduated from [[University of Tokyo|Tokyo University]]'s Law Faculty, she can speak in several languages including French. Her father, Hiroko Yakushiji, is the head of the multinational security company JACES. Her rank is Superintendent and the supervisor of Junichirō Izumida. She is quite an adept fighter, be it with firearms or bare handed. Ryōko doesn't hesistate to use JACES assets if necessary to help her in her work. She is called ''Oryo'' by Yukiko.
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{{nihongo|'''Junichirō Izumida'''|泉田準一郎|いずみだ じゅんいちろう|Izumida Junichirō}}
{{nihongo|'''Junichirō Izumida'''|泉田準一郎|いずみだ じゅんいちろう|Izumida Junichirō}}
:{{anime voices|Hidenobu Kiuchi}}
:{{anime voices|Hidenobu Kiuchi}} (TV)
:{{anime voices|Kazuhiko Inoue}} (Drama CD)


:A non-career police officer with the rank of Assistant Inspector, he is assigned under Ryōko Yakushiji. Unbeknownst to him, Ryōko is infatuated with him and has tried to get his attention. Like his superior, Izumida can fight with either firearms or with bare hands and feet.
:A non-career police officer with the rank of Assistant Inspector, he is assigned under Ryōko Yakushiji. Unbeknownst to him, Ryōko is infatuated with him and has tried to get his attention. Like his superior, Izumida can fight with either firearms or with bare hands and feet.


{{nihongo|'''Yukiko Muromachi'''|室町由紀子|むろまち ゆきこ|Muromachi Yukiko}}
{{nihongo|'''Yukiko Muromachi'''|室町由紀子|むろまち ゆきこ|Muromachi Yukiko}}
:{{anime voices|Hōko Kuwashima}}
:{{anime voices|Hōko Kuwashima}} (TV)
:{{anime voices|Yuriko Fujisaki}} (Drama CD)


:A rival of Ryōko since their college days, she is also a Superintendent in the [[Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department]] based at the [[Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department Public Security Bureau|Public Security Bureau]]. Her subordinate is Akira Kishimoto. Being the daughter of a former career police officer, she refuses to use her family ties to help her in her Superintendent duties. Ryōko calls her ''Oyuki''.
:A rival of Ryōko since their college days, she is also a Superintendent in the [[Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department]] based at the [[Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department Public Security Bureau|Public Security Bureau]]. Her subordinate is Akira Kishimoto. Being the daughter of a former career police officer, she refuses to use her family ties to help her in her Superintendent duties. Ryōko calls her ''Oyuki''.


{{nihongo|'''Akira Kishimoto'''|岸本明|きしもと あきら|Kishimoto Akira}}
{{nihongo|'''Akira Kishimoto'''|岸本明|きしもと あきら|Kishimoto Akira}}
:{{anime voices|Kenji Nojima}}
:{{anime voices|Kenji Nojima}} (TV)
:{{anime voices|Yūji Ueda}} (Drama CD)


:He is also an officer like Izumida with the rank of Assistant Inspector, but he also happens to be an anime/manga otaku and looks up to Ryōko.
:He is also an officer like Izumida with the rank of Assistant Inspector, but he also happens to be an anime/manga otaku and looks up to Ryōko.

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Yakushiji Ryōko no Kaiki Jikenbo
File:Yakushiji Ryōko no Kaiki Jikenbo Title.jpg
Yakushiji Ryōko no Kaiki Jikenbo title
薬師寺涼子の怪奇事件簿
GenreAction, Horror, Mystery
Manga
Written byYoshiki Tanaka
Illustrated byNarumi Kakinouchi
Published byJapan Kodansha
Volumes8
Manga
Written byYoshiki Tanaka
Illustrated byNarumi Kakinouchi
Published byJapan Kodansha
MagazineJapan Magazine Z
DemographicSeinen
Original runJuly 23, 2004[1] – present
Volumes10
Anime
Directed byTarō Iwasaki
StudioDogakobo
Released July 5, 2008 – September 27, 2008

Yakushiji Ryōko no Kaiki Jikenbo (薬師寺涼子の怪奇事件簿, , lit. "Ryōko Yakushiji's Strange Case Files") is a series that consist of TV anime, mangas and light novels created by Yoshiki Tanaka and illustrated by Narumi Kakinouchi.

The show centers around Ryōko Yakushiji, an elite police officer with the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department who had graduated from Tokyo University under its Law Faculty. She is involved with her subordinate Junichirō Izumida as they investigate cases that pertain to the paranormal and supernatural as they cannot be investigated with modern science.

Plot

Ryōko Yakushiji, a Superintendent in the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, works with Junichirō Izumida to investigate seemingly paranormal, supernatural or bizarre events that get involved in criminal cases. Ryōko works with her colleagues, including her rival Yukiko Muromachi, alongside JACES security forces personnel and her personal maids Lucienne and Marianne to resolve the cases before they go out of hand.

Characters

Protagonists of Yakushiji Ryōko no Kaiki Jikenbo. From left to right: Assistant Inspector Junichirō Izumida, Superintendent Ryōko Yakushiji, Assistant Inspector Akira Kishimoto and Superintendent Yukiko Muromachi.

Main

Ryōko Yakushiji (薬師寺涼子, やくしじ りょうこ, Yakushiji Ryōko)

Voiced by: Hitomi Nabatame (TV)
Voiced by: Tomoko Kawakami (Drama CD)
An officer in the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department who had graduated from Tokyo University's Law Faculty, she can speak in several languages including French. Her father, Hiroko Yakushiji, is the head of the multinational security company JACES. Her rank is Superintendent and the supervisor of Junichirō Izumida. She is quite an adept fighter, be it with firearms or bare handed. Ryōko doesn't hesistate to use JACES assets if necessary to help her in her work. She is called Oryo by Yukiko.
Her grandfather, Masamoto Yakushiji, was the founder of the Japanese Empire Security Service. She has an older sister named Kimeko Yakushiji.

Junichirō Izumida (泉田準一郎, いずみだ じゅんいちろう, Izumida Junichirō)

Voiced by: Hidenobu Kiuchi (TV)
Voiced by: Kazuhiko Inoue (Drama CD)
A non-career police officer with the rank of Assistant Inspector, he is assigned under Ryōko Yakushiji. Unbeknownst to him, Ryōko is infatuated with him and has tried to get his attention. Like his superior, Izumida can fight with either firearms or with bare hands and feet.

Yukiko Muromachi (室町由紀子, むろまち ゆきこ, Muromachi Yukiko)

Voiced by: Hōko Kuwashima (TV)
Voiced by: Yuriko Fujisaki (Drama CD)
A rival of Ryōko since their college days, she is also a Superintendent in the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department based at the Public Security Bureau. Her subordinate is Akira Kishimoto. Being the daughter of a former career police officer, she refuses to use her family ties to help her in her Superintendent duties. Ryōko calls her Oyuki.

Akira Kishimoto (岸本明, きしもと あきら, Kishimoto Akira)

Voiced by: Kenji Nojima (TV)
Voiced by: Yūji Ueda (Drama CD)
He is also an officer like Izumida with the rank of Assistant Inspector, but he also happens to be an anime/manga otaku and looks up to Ryōko.

Allies

Satomi Kaizuka (貝塚さとみ, かいづか- さとみ, Kaizuka Satomi)

Voiced by: Misato Fukuen
A uniformed officer in the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, she is responsible for mostly handling clerical work under Ryōko.

Mario Abe (阿部真理夫, あべ まりお, Abe Mario)

Voiced by: Otoya Kawano
A colleague of Ryōko and Izumida's.

Inspector Maruoka (丸岡警部, まるおか けいぶ, Maruoka Keibu)

Voiced by: Minoru Inaba
An old man who is a detective under Ryoko.
Lucienne and Marianne.

Lucienne (リュシエンヌ)

Voiced by: Christelle Ciari
One of Ryōko's maids from France. A blonde-haired girl, she is an expert in hacking though she can handle firearms.

Marianne (マリアンヌ)

Voiced by: Satomi Sato
Another of Ryōko's maids from France with Lucienne. A short black-haired girl, she is an expert in handling all kinds of small arms.

Yakushiji Family

Kimeko Yakushiji (薬師寺弘毅, やくしじ　ひろき, Yakushiji Kimeko)

Voiced by: Mie Sonozaki
Older sister of Ryoko.

Masamoto Yakushiji (薬師寺正基, やくしじ　まさもと, Yakushiji Masamoto)

Voiced by: Atsushi Ono
The main founder of the Japanese Empire Security Service and grandfather of Kanami and Ryoko Yakushiji.

Antagonists

Ruriko Isurugi (石動瑠璃子, いするぎ　るりこ, Isurugi Ruriko)

Voiced by: Sumi Shimamoto
A woman who has influence within Shiba. She appears to know Ryoko on a personal basis. She is also the true head of the Japan Private Police. Ruriko is seemingly ageless, having been alive after through World War II and was a co-founder of the Japanese Empire Security Service with Ryoko's grandfather Masamoto Yakushiji before she diverged and created JPP originally with the intent of reestablish a true Japanese military using a security company as a cover.
She was revealed to be a clone at the end of the TV series, leaving the status of the original Ruriko unknown.

Kazuma Nonogase (野長瀬一馬, のながせ　かずま, Nonogase Kazuma)

Voiced by: Daisuke Hirakawa
An aide to Ryoko in JACES, he is also a double agent working on behalf of JPP. An attack on him and Ruriko using an acidic-like perfume formula revealed that he was also cloned from the original Kazuma.

Monsters

The following are monsters that have appeared in the anime[2]

Giant Snake

Making its appearance in the Babylon building in Ginza, it was created as a result of ingesting various growth hormones. It died when the building was destroyed in an explosion.

Wisps

It's not known how they appeared, but they had apparently showed up in the digital copies of the journalists' cameras.

Unknown Alpha Human

Created as a result of combining human sperm/egg cells with DNA from an unknown prehistoric human, it resulted in the creation of a monstrous alpha human that killed several yakuza assassins before it would die of rapid cell degeneration.

Centipede Robot

A counter-terrorist robot created by the JPP, it went rogue after a traffic accident result in an altercation of its defense systems that recognizes anyone with a dangerous object as an enemy. Ryoko defeats it by shooting its main sensor.

Organizations

JACES

Owned by the Yakushiji family, it's a security company that ex-police officers both enlisted and high-ranking are employed into after their retirement. JACES is well-known as one of Asia's best security companies. Its personnel use gray for their uniform color.

In combat operations, they use PASGT ballistic helmets, gray BDUs, tactical vests and light to medium body armor. JACES personnel are armed with expandable baton sticks when they encounter unarmed people.

Its origins are traced back to the end of World War II when the Japanese Empire Security Service was established before it became JACES.

Japan Private Police

Known as the Nippon Private Police (日本の私用警察, nihonnoshiyokeisatsu), it was founded by ex-Diet member Ryojin Tadomura and heavily funded by the Government of Japan to counter the influence of JACES in the domestic and international security market. They are known to be hired in war-torn countries after military forces are pulled back, conducting police duties in their place. JPP personnel are also hired as private security guards. JPP uses green as its color as evident in their uniforms.

Tadomura was, however, killed when mutant mangrove vivipary seeds were embedded in his body. The will of the genetically enhanced plants had destroyed his living will as they had spread throughout his entire body. It's unknown who the CEO is after Marianne fired napalm grenades at his Okinawa villa to prevent the rogue seeds from spreading on the entire Okinawan island and to kill him to prevent him from infecting others.

During combat operations, JPP personnel are identified with green heavy body armor, helmets with faceshields and are armed with mostly Heckler & Koch MP5 and Minebea PM-9 submachine guns with expandable baton sticks. In normal operations, JPP personnel operate as private guards and sometimes, deploy robot droids to help them conduct searches and patrols with/for them.

Shiba

Located in the Greater Tokyo Area, it is said to house several departments of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department that operate under secret circumstances for covert missions.

Media

A cover of manga Yakushiji Ryōko no Kaiki Jikenbo by Narumi Kakinouchi.

Light Novel

The light novel series had first started in 1996[3] with 8 volumes in circulation. Kodansha has the publication rights on the series and published all bunko editions, but other publishers also published some volumes borrowing the rights by Kodansha.

Drama CD

Two drama CDs were put on the market by Avex in 1999 (Tokyo Nightmare) and 2001 (Matenrō). The cast was different from the later anime version, Ryoko Yakushiji was acted by Tomoko Kawakami.

Manga

The manga first started on July 23, 2004 under Kodansha's seinen manga magazine Magazine Z. It had been printed with 10 volumes released.

Anime

An anime version of Yakushiji Ryōko no Kaiki Jikenbo had aired on July 5, 2008 with 13 episodes planned for broadcast[4] after it was announced for a TV adaptation[5][6]. A DVD version is scheduled for release on September 26, 2008 with 3 episodes each[7]. Other releases include October 22, December 25 of 2008 and January 21, 2009[7].

OST

A BGM OST, Volume 1 with music from the show was released on June 4, 2008 with 8 tracks[8]. The second volume had been released on August 6, 2008 with 17 tracks[8] with a third OST on September 10, 2008 with 13 tracks[8]. All three OSTs have the title Le recueil des faits improbables de Ryōko Yakushiji, which is the show's title in French.

Bibliography

Japanese Title English Title Year First publisher ISBN
魔天楼 (Matenrō) 1996 Kodansha Bunko ISBN 4-06-263346-9
東京ナイトメア (Tokyo Nightmare) Tokyo Nightmare 1999 Kodansha Novels ISBN 4-06-182042-7
巴里・妖都変 (Paris Yōto-hen) 2000 Kobunsha Kappa Novels ISBN 4-334-07371-9
クレオパトラの葬送 (Cleopatra no Sōsō) Funeral of the Cleopatra 2001 Kodansha Novels ISBN 4-06-182197-0
黒蜘蛛島 (Black Spider Island) Black Spider Island 2003 Kobunsha Kappa Novels ISBN 4-334-07541-X
夜光曲 (Yakōkyoku) 2005 Shodensha Non-Novels ISBN 4-396-20793-X
霧の訪問者 (Kiri no Hōmonsha) 2006 Kodansha Novels ISBN 4-06-182499-6
水妖日にご用心 (Suiyō-bi ni Goyōjin) 2007 Shodensha Non-Novels ISBN 4-396-20840-5

Promotion

To promote the show, the cast and Yoshiki Tanaka went on a tour in Tokyo, Nagoya and Osaka[9][10] with them telling about their experiences and their thoughts on the show[9].

References

  1. ^ Yakushiji Ryōko no Kaiki Jikenbo manga releases. Retrieved on July 14, 2008.
  2. ^ Yakushiji Ryōko no Kaiki Jikenbo's Monster Page, Yakushiji Ryōko no Kaiki Jikenbo's Starchild Page. Retrieved on August 26, 2008.
  3. ^ Episode 01: Yakushiji Ryouko no Kaiki Jikenbo (薬師寺涼子の怪奇事件簿). Retrieved on July 14, 2008.
  4. ^ Yakushiji Ryōko no Kaiki Jikenbo's Episode Guide, Anime News Network. Retrieved on July 14, 2008.
  5. ^ 祥伝社/祥伝社ノンノベル/ノンノベル（小説）. Retrieved on August 10, 2008. Template:Ja icon
  6. ^ Galactic Heroes Author Does Yakushiji Mystery TV Anime (Updated). Retrieved on August 10, 2008.
  7. ^ a b Yakushiji Ryōko no Kaiki Jikenbo's DVD Page, Yakushiji Ryōko no Kaiki Jikenbo's Starchild Page. Retrieved on July 14, 2008. Template:Ja icon
  8. ^ a b c Yakushiji Ryōko no Kaiki Jikenbo's CD Page, Yakushiji Ryōko no Kaiki Jikenbo's Starchild Page. Retrieved on July 14, 2008. Template:Ja icon
  9. ^ a b 薬師寺イベントオフィシャルレポ. Retrieved on August 20, 2008. Template:Ja icon
  10. ^ 「薬師寺涼子の怪奇事件簿」アニメ化記念イベントについて. Retrieved on August 20, 2008. Template:Ja icon

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