Set in a different Tokyo on a different world than ours, the
story follows Tokunana, a unit of assembled misfits in the
Metropolitan Police Department. Tokunana battles against
"Nine" — an organization commiting crimes in their zealous
worship of the dragons that once roamed the world.
(Source: Anime News Network)
_~~~In a modern world where humans, vampires, elves and
dwarves live together, rookie cop Seiji Nanatsuki joins the
Special 7, a small anti-terrorism police unit whose cases
sometimes run toward the supernatural, and whose members
have their own secrets and trauma.~~~_ In my never-ending
quest to find more fun mystery shows since
Kindaichi Returns
isn’t putting out new episodes, I’ll try just about
anything, even if this fall 2019 show was more police
procedural than mystery. And it was interesting! The idea of
a modern world almost identical to our own except these
other mythological races are also mixed in the regular
population? Cool! A riff on the isekai idea that has modern
characters thrust into fantasy lands, this one instead has
fantasy characters in modern society. (…Okay, the comparison
isn’t exact, because said non-humans didn’t arrive from
another world, or at least not recently and/or in ways that
would affect the plot. Anyway.) So first of all, it’s only
12 episodes, so not a lot of story time–so there’s one main
story: the terrorist group they’ve been trying to stamp out
is gearing up for some large attack, and the team has to
deal with several smaller incidents in the lead-up. The
connection runs deep: the rookie only became a cop because 9
years earlier he was rescued from another one of the attacks
by the now-former partner of…his new partner. The characters
are interesting, but sadly we never really delve into what
makes, for example, a vampire a _vampire._ Does Akane do
anything vampiric other than be really fast and good with a
sword? What does being a dwarf, or an elf, really mean
beyond being hairier and having pointier ears than humans,
respectively? Overall, it’s a good way to pass the time.
Maybe it’s not a series everyone is talking about, but it
picks up the cop-detective-duo formula and stays within
expected tropes. And I think the characters, for all that
the character types are pretty easy to pick out, were
generally likable, and I’d definitely enjoy a second season.
