Hyper Police

Hyper Police
North American DVD cover of Hyper Police
はいぱーぽりす (Haipā Porisu)
Genre	Comedy, Police, Science Fiction
Manga
Written by	Minoru Tachikawa
Published by	Kadokawa Shoten
English publisher	NA Tokyopop
Demographic	Shōnen
Magazine	Gekkan Dragon Magazine
Original run	1993 – 2004
Volumes	10
Anime television series
Directed by	Takahiro Omori
Studio	Studio Pierrot
Licensed by	NA Image Entertainment
Original network	TV Tokyo
Original run	3 April 1997 – 25 September 1997
Episodes	25

Hyper Police (Japanese: はいぱーぽりす, Hepburn: Haipā Porisu^?) is the name of a manga and anime series created by Minoru Tachikawa under the pseudonym MEE. It is a comic science fiction, set in a period in the far future, in which humanity is almost extinct and most of the population are monsters. It is mostly set in the offices of a private police company and focuses on the life of Natsuki Sasahara, a young catgirl, and her co-workers: Foxgirl Sakura Bokuseiinmonzeninari, werewolf Batanen Fujioka and his cousin Tomy Fujioka (spelled Tommy in the anime).

For many years, the only western language to have official translations of the Hyper Police manga was Spanish. English translations have been completed by US company Tokyopop.

The anime takes place in the year 22 HC (Holy Century), in the Tokyo ward of Shinjuku. Although theoretically about the competition of rival private police corporations (licensed bounty hunting firms) in an Earth where humanity is in danger of extinction, in actuality it focuses more on the lives of the main characters, such as; Natsuki Sasahara, Sakura Bokuseiinmonzeninari, and Batanen Fujioka. The monsters are usually taken from Japanese mythology, updated for the modern era. In the anime, repeat criminal offenders in Tokyo have their memories wiped. However, in the manga version, they are castrated. Mithril exists in this world/setting; it is a sort of specially enchanted silver that is especially effective towards supernatural characters.