Kyoko Karasuma
Kyoko Karasuma ( Japanese烏丸 響 子 の 事件簿Karasuma Kyōko no Jikenbo ) is a manga series by the illustrator Yusuke Kozaki based on a story by Ohji Hiroi . The fantasy manga, which has been published since 2003 and has so far comprised around 900 pages, is aimed primarily at an adult, male readership, so it can be assigned to his genre.
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In Tokyo in the near future, 16-year-old Kyoko Karasuma (烏丸 響 子Karasuma Kyōko ) belongs to a special police department that deals with unusual crimes that take place in the Asakusa district of Tokyo . These crimes are mostly committed by so-called abnormalities, beings that should not actually exist and mostly come from the legendary world.
At the beginning, Kyoko Karasuma has to deal with Oni , demons who stand out with a horn on the forehead and cause chaos and destruction and also attack people. Then she has to deal with the mysterious disappearance of children. A gang of foreigners is linked to it, but Karasuma soon realizes that there could be another legend connected with a fox behind it. In the next case she will be dealing with the legendary Onikirimaru sword . Whoever touches this sword is overwhelmed by the spirit of the sword and is no longer master of his senses.
The security department of the Asakusa Police Department includes Kyoko Karasuma as well as her level-headed boss Kozo Mitamura, the university graduate and desk stallion Shoichi Ise and the one-eyed daredevil Raymond Kumano. Although the department solves many cases, it does not have a good reputation because the government does not recognize the existence of the saga beings. The successes of the department are hushed up or suppressed.
The main character Kyoko Karasuma himself also has unusual abilities that could possibly be abnormal.
Publications
The manga has been published in Japan in individual chapters every month since December 2003 in the manga magazine Comic Birz , in which Rozen Maiden and Butterfly were also published. The Gentōsha- Verlag has been publishing these individual chapters since 2004 in anthologies, ten of which have so far been published.
Carlsen Comics has been publishing the books in Germany since May 2007 . So far, ten volumes have been published in German. At the end of the German version there is a glossary that explains the sagas and beings from Japanese mythology that appear in the manga. In France, Taifu Comics publishes Kyoko Karasuma under the title Kyoko Karasuma, Inspecteur à Asakusa .