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Hard-Boiled Cop and Dolphin #1
灼熱のニライカナイ 1 [Shakunetsu no Nirai Kanai 1]
新宿署の刑事・鮫島灼熱（ボイル）は､その無鉄砲さから遥か南の島・姉ヶ島署に左遷（トバ）される｡そこには｢神託の巫女｣と呼ばれる幼女とまさかの相棒となる刑事が待っており、次々と怪事件が！ 刑事×少女×海のハードボイルド物語（ストーリー）開幕!!
192 pages, Paperback
First published November 4, 2020
About the author
Ryuhei Tamura
111 books71 followersRyūhei Tamura,born April 19, 1980 in Gifu Prefecture is a Japanese manga artist.He is best known for being author and illustrator of the manga Beelzebub which was first published as a one shot in Weekly Shōnen Jump, 2008. It was then serialised in 2009. Tamura was formerly assistant/student to Toshiaki Iwashiro, the author of Psyren, also serialized in Weekly Shōnen Jump
See also: 田村 隆平 (Japanese name)
See also: 田村 隆平 (Japanese name)
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February 1, 2023
Just looking at the title had me hooked and everything inside was just as weird and wild as I expected.
November 27, 2021
Samejima’s a hard-boiled cop, a lethal weapon looking to die hard or something (at least he’s neither dirty, nor hairy). But his antics get him sent to the island of Anegashima in the backend of nowhere. Teamed with a walking dolphin named Orpheus (you heard me), however, Samejima may find that island life suits this man to a tee (sorry, I really stretched for that one).
Comedy manga often have a critical failing and it’s not the snarky response that they often aren’t funny (though that does tend to be true). The problem is that they spend a lot of time hammering one joke into the earth and that’s fine if your joke is good, but if it isn’t you get more than a few chapters of, say, We Never Learn!.
Doing the shotgun approach can be dangerous too, but if you’re landing more hits than misses the overall impression is enough that you come out on the positive side and, yes, that’s exactly where this review’s going.
Between some occasionally woefully translated puns and some fourth wall breaking and some ludicrous fan service, this book goes all over creation and back again for its jokes and largely manages to pull it off. There are sight gags, observational humour, absurdity, slapstick, and probably some other stuff I forgot mixed in.
Samejima’s a classic 80’s detective in a 2020’s world and his attempts to be cool end with him getting his comeuppance as often as he gets to be as cool as he thinks he is. His hard-boiled narration almost justifies the entire running gag with the fan service for his fellow officer Umi, who is mostly there for her breasts but is at least a little more than that (I actually really like her character, shh).
Then there’s Orpheus, the dolphin in a suit, and that whole thing with his human daughter who used to be in a cult and then this whole enterprise starts to go absolutely insane. The narrative shoots for theatre of the absurd while keeping one toe in reality and it pulls it off more often than not.
Orpheus and Samejima have the classic frenemies thing of a buddy cop film going on, complete with snippy banter, and they even manage to toss out a few dolphin facts that aren’t nonsense into the mix (Orpheus using his phone is great) - the bulletproof vest omake at the end made me laugh hard and I still don’t know why.
The daughter’s a little precocious, but they pull it off because she has a rather tragic backstory and an incredibly unusual power that makes you feel just bad enough for her that she gets a little leeway. And she can be pretty cute.
This definitely gets better as it goes - the last half really settles in as some poachers get theirs, then a cliffside rescue that escalates and escalates (teenagers are horny seems to be the lesson here), plus an oceanic mission that involves a lot of folklore mixed with goofing around.
I hate to say it, but the fan service works because it isn’t too lecherous but also because Umi is not stupid (minus her issues with sizing) - she knows guys are staring at her boobs (Samejima gets dinged by this twice, at least once is in the middle of a fourth wall break that the story almost pulls off perfectly).
I had to laugh in the last section when she’s in her bikini and her major complaint is that she’s wearing last summer’s bikini, not that she’s in it at all. Apparently I can take a lot more fan service if it has some body positivity/confidence wrapped around it. That’s really why this all works - it always goes a step further than most manga would and it almost always pays off.
It would be easy to really go into a lot of stuff with this book (I haven’t even mentioned the exploding octopus man!), which takes itself none too seriously, except when it does. As a consequence it straddles a very thin line and, honestly, does it better than I expected.
4 stars - I laughed at the jokes, I laughed even harder at the sheer audacity of the story at times. This manga feels, more than anything else, absolutely fearless and happy to do what it wants and that’s probably a large part of why it ends up being so dang fun.
Comedy manga often have a critical failing and it’s not the snarky response that they often aren’t funny (though that does tend to be true). The problem is that they spend a lot of time hammering one joke into the earth and that’s fine if your joke is good, but if it isn’t you get more than a few chapters of, say, We Never Learn!.
Doing the shotgun approach can be dangerous too, but if you’re landing more hits than misses the overall impression is enough that you come out on the positive side and, yes, that’s exactly where this review’s going.
Between some occasionally woefully translated puns and some fourth wall breaking and some ludicrous fan service, this book goes all over creation and back again for its jokes and largely manages to pull it off. There are sight gags, observational humour, absurdity, slapstick, and probably some other stuff I forgot mixed in.
Samejima’s a classic 80’s detective in a 2020’s world and his attempts to be cool end with him getting his comeuppance as often as he gets to be as cool as he thinks he is. His hard-boiled narration almost justifies the entire running gag with the fan service for his fellow officer Umi, who is mostly there for her breasts but is at least a little more than that (I actually really like her character, shh).
Then there’s Orpheus, the dolphin in a suit, and that whole thing with his human daughter who used to be in a cult and then this whole enterprise starts to go absolutely insane. The narrative shoots for theatre of the absurd while keeping one toe in reality and it pulls it off more often than not.
Orpheus and Samejima have the classic frenemies thing of a buddy cop film going on, complete with snippy banter, and they even manage to toss out a few dolphin facts that aren’t nonsense into the mix (Orpheus using his phone is great) - the bulletproof vest omake at the end made me laugh hard and I still don’t know why.
The daughter’s a little precocious, but they pull it off because she has a rather tragic backstory and an incredibly unusual power that makes you feel just bad enough for her that she gets a little leeway. And she can be pretty cute.
This definitely gets better as it goes - the last half really settles in as some poachers get theirs, then a cliffside rescue that escalates and escalates (teenagers are horny seems to be the lesson here), plus an oceanic mission that involves a lot of folklore mixed with goofing around.
I hate to say it, but the fan service works because it isn’t too lecherous but also because Umi is not stupid (minus her issues with sizing) - she knows guys are staring at her boobs (Samejima gets dinged by this twice, at least once is in the middle of a fourth wall break that the story almost pulls off perfectly).
I had to laugh in the last section when she’s in her bikini and her major complaint is that she’s wearing last summer’s bikini, not that she’s in it at all. Apparently I can take a lot more fan service if it has some body positivity/confidence wrapped around it. That’s really why this all works - it always goes a step further than most manga would and it almost always pays off.
It would be easy to really go into a lot of stuff with this book (I haven’t even mentioned the exploding octopus man!), which takes itself none too seriously, except when it does. As a consequence it straddles a very thin line and, honestly, does it better than I expected.
4 stars - I laughed at the jokes, I laughed even harder at the sheer audacity of the story at times. This manga feels, more than anything else, absolutely fearless and happy to do what it wants and that’s probably a large part of why it ends up being so dang fun.
February 7, 2022
Jedna z nejlepších mang co jsem za poslední rok četl (Hells Paradise je na stejném místě). Konečně shonen který není o zběsilé akci, namachrovaném a uřvaném hrdinovi, ale konečně tu dostáváme fakt neskutečně chytře fázovanou komedii která se moc u shonen jump mang nevidí. Hlavním hrdinou je policajt Samejima, který je kvůli své horkokrevnosti a potřebě všechno řešit old schoolovým způsobem, převelen do ostrovního městečka s malou policejní základnou a stejně malým počtem obyvatel. Na tomto ostrově totiž jeden náboženský kult zmizel beze stopy a nechal za sebou malou holčičku která říká že byla vychována delfíny. To Samejima samozřejmě musí vyšetřit, jenže brzy zjistí že jeho parťákem je POLICISTA DELFÍN, V POLICEJNÍM ÚBORU A RUKAMA A ta holčička mu říká TATI!!!
To ale není vše, nechci nic spoilovat ale představte si že tu potkáte teroristickou chobotnici apod.
I přes naprosto ujetý námět je to ale psaný neuvěřitelně svěže a zábavně, hlavní hrdinové v čele s delfíním poldou Orpheusem, jsou neskutečně sympatičtí, mezi všemi je chemie a hlavně humor je neskutečný. Opravdu často jsem u fázování scén měl pocit jak kdybych sledoval anime, jako vážně, gradace humorných a absurdních scén je tu zvládnutá jak dlouho v žádném japonském komiksu (naposledy tak u Gintami). Nemluvě o tom že v dnešní době kdy se každý snaží bourat čtvrtou stěnu, tak tady je to udělané s citem a inteligentě.
Takže pokud vás nebaví pořád ty stejné shonen jump výjevy a máte chuť na Miami Vice s delfínem, tak tohle je pro vás.
To ale není vše, nechci nic spoilovat ale představte si že tu potkáte teroristickou chobotnici apod.
I přes naprosto ujetý námět je to ale psaný neuvěřitelně svěže a zábavně, hlavní hrdinové v čele s delfíním poldou Orpheusem, jsou neskutečně sympatičtí, mezi všemi je chemie a hlavně humor je neskutečný. Opravdu často jsem u fázování scén měl pocit jak kdybych sledoval anime, jako vážně, gradace humorných a absurdních scén je tu zvládnutá jak dlouho v žádném japonském komiksu (naposledy tak u Gintami). Nemluvě o tom že v dnešní době kdy se každý snaží bourat čtvrtou stěnu, tak tady je to udělané s citem a inteligentě.
Takže pokud vás nebaví pořád ty stejné shonen jump výjevy a máte chuť na Miami Vice s delfínem, tak tohle je pro vás.
January 17, 2025
Fun and silly. Lots of puns, lots of good physical humor. If you're looking for something serious, stay away. If you want a light and fluffy story about a hard boiled cop and his partner who is an actual dolphin, check this series out.
August 9, 2020
Note: This was written with five chapters of the manga out.
Shonen Jump is going through a bit of a rough time right now. A large amount of long-running series ended. Just today the writer of up-and-coming Act-Age was arrested for sexually harassing two middle school girls, so that manga's probably dead. The magazine needs a savior. AND THAT SAVIOR IS HARD-BOILED COP AND DOLPHIN!
There's going to be a lot of this people who look at this manga, see a cop, and walk away. And I get that. BUT LET ME EXPLAIN!
Ryuhei Tamura is a cop so hard-boiled his internal monologue boxes have blood splatters. He's transferred to a remote island- Where he finds out his new partner is a dolphin who walks on two legs who has become a surrogate father to a little girl previously worshiped by a cult due to her powers to talk to fish and turn them humanoid.
THEY THEN FIGHT OCEAN GANGS!
This manga perfectly matches my niche taste of absurd humor. This manga is absolutely wack. It's hinting at just enough story to keep it from turning into an episodic comedy of which Jump has like, ten of currently. It has buddy-cop comedy, wacky villains of the chapter, a cute child. just look at this!
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It's perfection.
Shonen Jump is going through a bit of a rough time right now. A large amount of long-running series ended. Just today the writer of up-and-coming Act-Age was arrested for sexually harassing two middle school girls, so that manga's probably dead. The magazine needs a savior. AND THAT SAVIOR IS HARD-BOILED COP AND DOLPHIN!
There's going to be a lot of this people who look at this manga, see a cop, and walk away. And I get that. BUT LET ME EXPLAIN!
Ryuhei Tamura is a cop so hard-boiled his internal monologue boxes have blood splatters. He's transferred to a remote island- Where he finds out his new partner is a dolphin who walks on two legs who has become a surrogate father to a little girl previously worshiped by a cult due to her powers to talk to fish and turn them humanoid.
THEY THEN FIGHT OCEAN GANGS!
This manga perfectly matches my niche taste of absurd humor. This manga is absolutely wack. It's hinting at just enough story to keep it from turning into an episodic comedy of which Jump has like, ten of currently. It has buddy-cop comedy, wacky villains of the chapter, a cute child. just look at this!
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It's perfection.
December 12, 2022
so close to being cute but my enjoyment was dampened by the usual issues with SJ books: sexualization of the one adult female character in the story. These books ruin boobs for me.
The story is a hard boiled cop gets transferred to a small precinct on an island and ends up becoming partners with a dolphin man. “Orfie” has a daughter, Chako, who sort of follows them around as they deal with ocean crime. Ocean crime consists of people that are part fish and part human. It’s a crazy premise but it was pretty fun. Chako is adorable and Orfie is funny.
The only downside of this series is the unnecessary treatment of Nanase. She’s the only adult female character and she’s introduced boobs first. There’s a “gag” that her shirt buttons bust open whenever she salutes. There’s an entire gross issue about people volunteering to save her father (hanging from a cliff) if they get to touch her boobs. I am sad this is meant for young male readers bc it just continues teaching them women exist to be groped and ogled.
Anyway, the rest of this series is a cute premise. I maintain Spy x Family is the ONLY series on Shonen Jump I can enjoy without having to see female characters treated that way. That series will always be the best.
The story is a hard boiled cop gets transferred to a small precinct on an island and ends up becoming partners with a dolphin man. “Orfie” has a daughter, Chako, who sort of follows them around as they deal with ocean crime. Ocean crime consists of people that are part fish and part human. It’s a crazy premise but it was pretty fun. Chako is adorable and Orfie is funny.
The only downside of this series is the unnecessary treatment of Nanase. She’s the only adult female character and she’s introduced boobs first. There’s a “gag” that her shirt buttons bust open whenever she salutes. There’s an entire gross issue about people volunteering to save her father (hanging from a cliff) if they get to touch her boobs. I am sad this is meant for young male readers bc it just continues teaching them women exist to be groped and ogled.
Anyway, the rest of this series is a cute premise. I maintain Spy x Family is the ONLY series on Shonen Jump I can enjoy without having to see female characters treated that way. That series will always be the best.
October 31, 2020
** Leído de la Versión en Español de MangaPlus** es una entretenida historia de un policía rudo de ciudad que es transferido a una ciudad costera para cubrir los crímenes que ahí suceden, pero surge misteriosamente el caso de una niña que apareció del mar junto a delfín anomorfo comienzan a parecer de ahí en adelante otros seres anomorfos del mar realizando delitos en esa ciudad todo apunta que se debe a niña. Es muy divertida me ha gustado la actitud de los 3 personajes principales, el dibujo es muy bueno, seguiré leyéndolo y se recomienda.
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January 9, 2021
A cop teams up with a dolphin who’s daughter is a human and has... the power of prophecy. Together they make up the defense against sea crimes.
It’s real bonkers. A lot to like. I wonder where it’ll go?
It’s real bonkers. A lot to like. I wonder where it’ll go?
December 2, 2020
I got smitten at the first double page of this manga.
It's very silly but I love it!
It's very silly but I love it!
December 21, 2020
Ele não escrevera nada tão bom quando foi Beelzebub.
November 25, 2021
More like 3.5 stars. It’s got a lot of good, absurdist jokes, the concept’s fun, but it’s missing a bit of meat to hang it all on. I’ll probably read the next volume and decide from there.
i-give-up
December 20, 2021Omg what the heck was I just reading? Way too odd for me.
August 6, 2023
Cheeky humor with memorable character designs. REALLY wish this one had not been canceled early and that we had more of it.
December 3, 2024
The title is exactly what it is. The "shoot first, ask questions later" Hollywood-style tough guy cop gets sent (exiled) to the coast to learn to chill. While there, he ends up partnered with a manly dolphin. They try to out tough-cop each other.
Boyle is sort of the ridiculous straight-man pointing out that his partner is a dolphin and they're fighting sea monster criminals. There's a little girl that's being raised by the dolphin that is implied to have mystic powers tied to the anthropomorphic sea creatures.
It's a mix of over the top action-comedy weirdness and parental surrogacy.
Boyle is sort of the ridiculous straight-man pointing out that his partner is a dolphin and they're fighting sea monster criminals. There's a little girl that's being raised by the dolphin that is implied to have mystic powers tied to the anthropomorphic sea creatures.
It's a mix of over the top action-comedy weirdness and parental surrogacy.
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