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.
