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Some Cop Craft
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Oh what's this... gritty crime series about a border town near portals to other dimensions?
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15 years ago, a dimensional gate that no one has seen before, appeared over the Pacific ocean.
Beyond bundle of a cloud-like gate that always changes its form, lies a strange world. A world where fairies and monsters exist. The “Leto-Semani”.
[City of San Teresa, Caliaena island]
A city located on a giant island that suddenly appeared together with the gate. Built in the northern part of the island, it became the front gate of both worlds.
[Tilarna Exedilica], a knight squire from another world.
[Kei Matoba], a detective of special force police department.
They have to chase after the same culprit, in this city of the borderline between science and magic.
From the same author of FULLMETAL PANIC! and illustrator of LASTEXILE
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Ah, this light novel art!
Ok, this could be fun!
What? They announced an anime adaptation? What does that look like?!
Huh.....
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[Review] Cop Craft – Episode 1
What’s it about? 15 years ago, a gate to another world appeared near the city of San-Teresa. Since then, the beings from the other side of that gate have mixed uneasily with humanity. Detective Kei Matoba’s partner is killed in a drug bust gone bad, and he’s forced to team up with Semanian knight Tilarna Exedilica in order to catch the killer.
CONTENT WARNING for racism and police brutality
You know how Netflix put out that movie Bright back in 2017, and it was really well-received and everybody liked it?
Oh, that’s not what happened at all?
Cop Craft might have a problem then.
Read it at Anime Feminist!
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First Impression: Cop Craft
Fifteen years after an interdimensional gate opened in the Pacific, the sprawling community of San-Teresa has become ground zero for a meeting of the races, of alien and human. Enter Kei Matoba, a gruff police officer who is part of a special force meant to keep the peace in the city, but as he explains, doing so is a complicated thing, and made even more difficult when he’s paired with an alien girl named Tilarna Exedilica, who is charged with finding a fairy who has been abducted. The two must overcome their own prejudices, pride, and mistrust if they’re to track down a killer, rescue the fairy, and perhaps unweave a web of deceit and murder.
The 1980s were the heyday of the buddy cop film, movies with similar formulas: a straight-laced detective, often older, would be paired with one who doesn’t play by the rules, and they bond with one another as they hunt down violent, often psychotic criminals. Cop Craft is precisely this, with the roles switched and a sci-fi element brought in (though it’s not the first to do so—Alien Nation comes immediately to mind). The series is developed by Shoji Gatoh, the writer of Full Metal Panic, and his fingerprints are on it from the get go: brutality and foul language abound, as do difficult issues like immigration, racism, and the military industrial complex. He also loves to juxtapose the cuteness of anime, here represented by Exedilica, who calls Kei a “boliceman” and waves a sword around while wearing a dress that seems half-alien, half-Chinese, with heavy doses of violence, often graphic (the first episode features a neck breaking and a stabbing). And I’m loving it. For a cop movie to work, you’ve got to root for both leads, and I can do that with Kei and Exedilica, both of whom are at the fringe of their characterizations and also very “human.” I can’t wait to see how their relationship develops in their thorny and grim world.
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Cop Craft can be streamed on Hulu.
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Tilarna from Cop Craft! She is adorable!
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TV Anime adaptation of light novel "COP CRAFT" announced for 2019!
Teaser visual revealed!
Synopsis:
15 years ago, a dimensional gate that no one has seen before, appeared over the Pacific ocean.
Beyond bundle of a cloud-like gate that always changes its form, lies a strange world. A world where fairies and monsters exist. The “Leto-Semani”.
[City of San Teresa, Caliaena island]
A city located on a giant island that suddenly appeared together with the gate. Built in the northern part of the island, it became the front gate of both worlds.
[Tilarna Exedilica], a knight squire from another world.
[Kei Matoba], a detective of special force police department.
They have to chase after the same culprit, in this city of the borderline between science and magic.
From the same author of FULLMETAL PANIC! and illustrator of LASTEXILE (via novelupdates)
src: https://natalie.mu/comic/news/314446
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