Kerberos saga characters
Encyclopedia
This is a character guide to the radio drama, film, manga and anime works Kerberos saga
(ケルベロス・サーガ, keruberosu saga). Characters are sorted by organizations or groups according to the original works. The English adaptation equivalents are mentioned when available.
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1st Airborne Brigade
Panzer Jäger Unit (ギア部隊) a.k.a. Armored Soldier (機甲隊員), the military counterpart of the M.P.'s Tokki-tai except it is equipped with antitank rifles.
Tetsurō Kai is the JGSDF's 1st Airborne Brigade leader. In Kerberos Panzer Cop Act 5 he appears as a trainee of the Metropolitan Police Special Armed Garrison's Academy Training School "Zucht Schanze". Tetsurō Kai is impressed by his instructor Midori Washio, so after completing his session, the young man sends her an invite to the JGSDF public exhibition held in the Mount Fuji from December 17 to 20 of 19XX. Curious she goes to the parade with her fellow instructor Hachiro Tohbe and met there Tetsurō Kai wearing the Panzer Jäger full-body armor Type 61 (Protect Gear). In Act 8, Tetsurō Kai orders for the final battle against Tatsumi Shiro's Tokki-tai (Special Armed Garrison) during the "Kerberos Uprising" event.
An adolescent girl used by the Sect's Division Jacobson (ヤコブソン機関) to transport satchel charges without being suspected, nor checked, by the police patrols. While discovered in the sewers by the Kerberos brigadier Kazuki Fuze, she ducked her bomb and committed suicide in front of him causing heavy damages in Tokyo, heavy criticism against the Special Armed Garrison and an investigation about Kazuki Fuse.
While she was a teenager, Foxy Croquette used to be a Little Red Riding Hood courrier for the Sect when she was busted by a platoon of Kerberos. Brought to the Public Security Division headquarters she was used as a mole by Bunmei Muroto.
Kusaba is a saboteur who infiltrates the Transport Company's Aeronautical Experiments Platoon (航空実験小隊) to sabotage the Jagdhund assault helicopter newly delivered to the Special Armed Garrison. Even though he gets into Hachiro Kishu he eventually betrays him by ruining the latter's dream.
remembers those of the real-life Japanese Red Army
.
Fujiwara is the leader of the Lufthansa
flight 666 hijacking group. Surviving the aircraft crash on Showa Island landfill no.8 he refused to surrender to the Self-Police and was shot dead by Midori Washio.
After the National Diet Building incident, Foxy Croquette O-Gin disappeared from the streets of Tokyo and reappeared later in Palestina as a guerrilla known as AK Ginko.
Sabuchan is a boy fascinated by ANPO Hantai protests and supports them even though he is still a child.
tale. There is an explicit reference to the Grimm brothers version in Jin-Roh
as a German written Rotkäppchen book. However the tale version narrated in the anime is a composite version based on pre-Grimm oral versions, notably on Charles Perrault
's Le Petit Chaperon Rouge. In Jin-Roh, Akazukin is the nickname used by Bunmei Muroto to designate female bomb carriers of the Sect. Little Red Riding Hoods are active within the Sect's supplying division called "Division Jacobson".
The young Lady is first appearing as a mysterious mute character who leads Koichi Todome through Tokyo in The Red Spectacles
. The original theatrical trailer introduces her as an allegory for fate (運命,unmei) in the meaning of fatum. In Kerberos & Tachiguishi the character's backstory is eventually revealed, as a teenager she was caught by a Kerberos patrol while she was delivering bombs as a Sect Little Red Riding Hood. As a Division Jacobson terrorist she was brought to the Metropolitan Police Public Security Division's headquarters and was selected by Bunmei Muroto to become a mole.
A famous Fast Food Grifter and an old friend of Koichi Todome.
Keishicho: Metropolitan Police Department.
German Army (Wehrmacht
Nazi Germany
's armed forces are the main antagonist
s in the Kerberos Panzer Jäger
radio drama series.
In September 1942, the Captain Maki of the 808th German Propaganda Company (808th Propagandakompanie, 第808宣伝中隊) leaves the Warsaw
station to deliver Protect-Gear parts to the 101st Panzer Company fighting the Soviet Army at the Battle of Stalingrad
.
Tang Mie is a Taiwanese girl that used to live with Koichi Todome when the latter flew to Taipei during his post-Kerberos Riot three-years-long exile. When paroled Inui left Tokyo to find the track of his former leader/master Koichi Todome instead he bumps into Tang Mie and befriend with her. Shortly the pair leaves the condo and travel Taiwan after Koichi Todome. When they eventually find him at Tainan, the former elite Kerberos panzer cop has become a peaceful peasant inviting them to start their life anew living in a ménage à trois
. Later Inui leaves the home to meet Hayashi and his own lethal destiny, thereafter Koichi, who also left the home ("the roost"), turns back to Tokyo leaving behind Tang Mie and eventually facing his death (see The Red Spectacles). Tang Mie enjoys a Platonic love
relationship with both Koichi and Inui; Koichi reveals to Inui that "she was her who picked up both of [them]".
Papa's Lunch Room Waitress is a main character in The Killers short story published in Kerberos Saga: Rainy Dogs. She talks to the two killers searching for Koichi Todome.
Detective Matsui from Patlabor
is hired to solve the "Fast Food Grifter Clubbed to Death Case" (マッハ軒立食師撲殺事件異聞) involving Fast Food Grifter (or "Tachiguishi") Cold Badger Masa and the Special Armed Garrison's Chuichi Koshiramaru (2nd Company, 7th Platoon). A part of the Kerberos saga staff, called Headgear
, worked on the Patlabor TV series and feature films, including its creator, Mamoru Oshii
, who directed two feature films respectively in 1989 and 1993.
Golgo 13 a.k.a. Duke Togo (デューク東郷), which is a mysterious identity professional assassin, appears among the killers in the bar restaurant called Papa's Lunch Room. While he's waiting at a table, a boy enters the bar delivering a large packet and asking to the crowd "Mister Togo 13, please?" ("東郷十三さん......いますか？", p. 362), "that's over here" ("掩だ", p. 362) he answers. Then he pays the boy, gets the present that comes with an happy birthday card and heads to the toilet with the packet. He later reappears smoking a cigarette, wearing mittens and holding his famous M16 rifle
. A firing ensues between the five killers, Golgo 13 headshots the man in black with the two automatic pistols while the latter shoot him dead with multiple gunshots in the chest. The Killers is a short story that was published prior to the release of the Kerberos Saga Rainy Dogs manga series in Ace Tokunoh comic magazine in 2003. This short story by Mamoru Oshii and illustrator Mamoru Sugiura was added as an epilogue in the tankōbon (compilation volume) of Kerberos Saga Rainy Dogs published in 2005.
Kerberos saga
The is a military science fiction franchise and alternate history universe created by the Japanese writer and filmmaker Mamoru Oshii in 1986. The saga is centered around the fictitious Tokyo police Special Armed Garrison which emblem and nickname is Kerberos , the mythological three-headed...
(ケルベロス・サーガ, keruberosu saga). Characters are sorted by organizations or groups according to the original works. The English adaptation equivalents are mentioned when available.
Metropolitan Security Police Organization "M.P." (首都圏治安警察機構 ~首都警~)
Shutoken chian keisatsu kikoh: often shortened to Shutokei (首都警) is the third Japanese armed forces together with the Self-Defense Force and the Self-Police. "Metropolitan Police" and its initials "M.P." are used as official translation in the English-language written synopsis available in all Kerberos Panzer Cop Japanese editions - as well as in the licensed versions published in Asia in the 2000s. The original version of Jin-Roh, released in Europe one year prior to Japan, translates the synopsis term as "POSEM" (contraction of "POlice de SÉcurité Métropolitaine"), French for "Metropolitan Security Police". However the English language anime version kept the manga's 1994 English adaptation - Hellhounds - with "CAPO" (for "CApital POlice") rather than "Metropolitan Security Police". Also Hauptstadtpolizei (shortened to Polizei), the German term for "Capital Police", is used as an additional emblem on the M.P.'s (首都警) aerial reconnaissance helicopter Fa-330, while it was not featured in the manga version.Metropolitan Police Defense Division (首都警・警備部)
The Metropolitan Police Defense Division (首都警・警備部, shutokei keibibu) directed by Isao Aniya is the main branch of the M.P. This division is famous for its Special Armed Garrison nicknamed "KerberosKerberos
Kerberos may refer to:* Cerberus, the hound of Hades * Kerberos saga, a science fiction series by Mamoru Oshii* Kerberos , a computer network authentication protocol* Kerberos Dante, a character from Saint Seiya...
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Special Armed Garrison "Kerberos" (首都警・特機隊 ~ケルベロス~)
The Special Armed Garrison (首都警・特機隊 ~ケルベロス~, shutokei tokki-tai ~keruberosu~) is the core unit of the M.P.. This garrison is in charge of Tokyo's public peace and order. Notable members include Koichi Todome, Soichiro Toribe, Midori Washio, Inui and Kazuki Fuze.Jin-Roh (人狼)
"Jin-Roh the Wolf Brigade" (人狼, jinroh) is a self-preservation secret unit formed among the Special Armed Garrison to maintain its own existence against the Public Security Division, Self-Police, National Safety Commissioners joint conspiracy. The conspirators main motivations is to create a single chain of command in the Tokyo police, and to avoid direct confrontation between the rival anti-riot units of the Self-Police and the Metropolitan Police. Hajime Handa is the head of the Jin-Roh group, his adjutant is instructor Hachiroh Tohbe.1st Airborne Brigade1st Airborne Brigade (Japan)The , also known as the Narashino Airborne Brigade , is stationed in the Narashino Japan Ground Self-Defense Forces Base in Funabashi, Chiba Prefecture. It is part of the Eastern Army in the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force...
(第1空挺団)
Panzer Jäger Unit (ギア部隊) a.k.a. Armored Soldier (機甲隊員), the military counterpart of the M.P.'s Tokki-tai except it is equipped with antitank rifles.
- Tetsurō Kai
- Original name: Kai Tetsurou (甲斐哲朗)
- Aliases: -
- Age: -
- Cast: -
- Appearances: Kerberos Panzer Cop - Part II (Act 5 and Act 8).
Tetsurō Kai is the JGSDF's 1st Airborne Brigade leader. In Kerberos Panzer Cop Act 5 he appears as a trainee of the Metropolitan Police Special Armed Garrison's Academy Training School "Zucht Schanze". Tetsurō Kai is impressed by his instructor Midori Washio, so after completing his session, the young man sends her an invite to the JGSDF public exhibition held in the Mount Fuji from December 17 to 20 of 19XX. Curious she goes to the parade with her fellow instructor Hachiro Tohbe and met there Tetsurō Kai wearing the Panzer Jäger full-body armor Type 61 (Protect Gear). In Act 8, Tetsurō Kai orders for the final battle against Tatsumi Shiro's Tokki-tai (Special Armed Garrison) during the "Kerberos Uprising" event.
Antigovernment urban guerrilla organizations (反政府組織 都市ゲリラ)
Hanseifu soshiki toshi gerira: Antigovernment groups appeared during the Economic High-Growth era. With the end of the occupation period, the country had entered internationalization under a forced economic re-organization of the whole society. Re-organization caused massive unemployment and floods of poverty appeared in the capital slums. Vicious organized crime and black market corruption increased rapidly as did opposition parties ranks. A part of the population refused the new society and started to protest in the capital. In order to protect the institutions, the government answered by police repression and authoritarian policy which worsened the situation turning public protest movements into underground guerrilla groups using sabotage and terrorism eventually leading to an armed conflict within the capital's urban area.Revolutionary Communist students
Revolutionary Communist student groups.- Kei Amemiya
- Original name: Amemiya Kei (雨宮圭)
- Aliases: Langhaar (Long Hairs)
- Age: 17~18
- Cast: Sumi Mutou (武藤寿美)
- Appearances: Jin-Roh
- Reiko
- Original name: Reiko (レイコ)
- Aliases: -
- Age: -
- Cast: -
- Appearances: Kerberos Saga Rainy Dogs (Act 3)
Sect (セクト)
The Sect (セクト, sekuto) emerged from forbidden anti-government leftist party cells and became an organized terrorist group fighting with the Police. The Sect uses the Tokyo sewers to transport and store firearms and explosives. Teenage girls nicknamed Little Red Riding Hoods are used as bomb carriers. The Special Armed Garrison was created by the government to get rid of the Sect activities.- Nanami Agawa
- Original name: Agawa Nanami (阿川七生)
- Aliases: Kurzhaar (Short Hairs)
- Age: -
- Cast: Eri SendaiEri Sendaiis a Japanese female voice actress who is represented by Production Baobab.-TV animation:*Atsuko Hongō - Yomigaeru Sora - RESCUE WINGS -*Arika - Medabots*Ayaka - xxxHolic*Ayumu Oume - Best Student Council*Furfur - Umineko no Naku Koro ni...
(仙台エリ) - Appearances: Jin-Roh
An adolescent girl used by the Sect's Division Jacobson (ヤコブソン機関) to transport satchel charges without being suspected, nor checked, by the police patrols. While discovered in the sewers by the Kerberos brigadier Kazuki Fuze, she ducked her bomb and committed suicide in front of him causing heavy damages in Tokyo, heavy criticism against the Special Armed Garrison and an investigation about Kazuki Fuse.
- Foxy Croquette O-Gin
- Aliases: Foxy Croquette O-Gin, Young Lady
- Original name: Ketsune Korokke Ogin
- Age: -
- Cast: Mako Hyodo
- Appearances: The Red Spectacles, Kerberos & Tachiguishi
While she was a teenager, Foxy Croquette used to be a Little Red Riding Hood courrier for the Sect when she was busted by a platoon of Kerberos. Brought to the Public Security Division headquarters she was used as a mole by Bunmei Muroto.
- Kusaba
- Original name: Kusaba (草場)
- Aliases: -
- Age: -
- Cast: -
- Appearances: Kerberos Panzer Cop Act.2
Kusaba is a saboteur who infiltrates the Transport Company's Aeronautical Experiments Platoon (航空実験小隊) to sabotage the Jagdhund assault helicopter newly delivered to the Special Armed Garrison. Even though he gets into Hachiro Kishu he eventually betrays him by ruining the latter's dream.
Four Seasons League (四季協会)
The Four Seasons League (四季協会, shiki kyokai) is an ultra-leftist terrorist group with members originating from the Sect. Its background and modus operandiModus operandi
Modus operandi is a Latin phrase, approximately translated as "mode of operation". The term is used to describe someone's habits or manner of working, their method of operating or functioning...
remembers those of the real-life Japanese Red Army
Japanese Red Army
The was a Communist terrorist group founded by Fusako Shigenobu early in 1971 in Lebanon. It sometimes called itself Arab-JRA after the Lod airport massacre...
.
- Kazuya Fujiwara
- Original name: Fujiwara Kazuya (藤原 和也)
- Aliases: -
- Age: 28
- Cast: -
- Appearances: Kerberos Panzer Cop Part I
Fujiwara is the leader of the Lufthansa
Lufthansa
Deutsche Lufthansa AG is the flag carrier of Germany and the largest airline in Europe in terms of overall passengers carried. The name of the company is derived from Luft , and Hansa .The airline is the world's fourth-largest airline in terms of overall passengers carried, operating...
flight 666 hijacking group. Surviving the aircraft crash on Showa Island landfill no.8 he refused to surrender to the Self-Police and was shot dead by Midori Washio.
Middle-East guerrillas
- AK Ginko
- Aliases: Foxy Croquette O-Gin, Young Lady
- Original name: AK no Ginko (AKの銀子)
- Age: -
- Cast: Mako Hyodo
- Appearances: Tachiguishi-Retsuden, Onna-Tachiguishi Retsuden
After the National Diet Building incident, Foxy Croquette O-Gin disappeared from the streets of Tokyo and reappeared later in Palestina as a guerrilla known as AK Ginko.
ANPO Hantai
- Sabu
- Aliases: Sabuchan
- Original name: Sabu (サブちゃん)
- Age: -
- Cast:
- Appearances: Kerberos & Tachiguishi
Sabuchan is a boy fascinated by ANPO Hantai protests and supports them even though he is still a child.
Little Red Riding Hoods (赤ずきん)
Akazukin: young female characters dressed in red, like in the Little Red Riding HoodLittle Red Riding Hood
Little Red Riding Hood, also known as Little Red Cap, is a French fairy tale about a young girl and a Big Bad Wolf. The story has been changed considerably in its history and subject to numerous modern adaptations and readings....
tale. There is an explicit reference to the Grimm brothers version in Jin-Roh
Jin-Roh
is a 1999 Japanese animated feature film directed by Hiroyuki Okiura. The film is the third adaptation of Mamoru Oshii's Kerberos saga manga, Ken-Roh Densetsu, after The Red Spectacles released in 1987 and StrayDog: Kerberos Panzer Cops released in 1991 in Japanese theaters.The film takes place in...
as a German written Rotkäppchen book. However the tale version narrated in the anime is a composite version based on pre-Grimm oral versions, notably on Charles Perrault
Charles Perrault
Charles Perrault was a French author who laid the foundations for a new literary genre, the fairy tale, with his works derived from pre-existing folk tales. The best known include Le Petit Chaperon rouge , Cendrillon , Le Chat Botté and La Barbe bleue...
's Le Petit Chaperon Rouge. In Jin-Roh, Akazukin is the nickname used by Bunmei Muroto to designate female bomb carriers of the Sect. Little Red Riding Hoods are active within the Sect's supplying division called "Division Jacobson".
- Young Lady
- Original name: Shōjo / Shoujo (少女)
- Aliases: Foxy Croquette O-Gin, AK Ginko, Young Lady of Fate (運命の少女, Unmei no Shoujo)
- Age: -
- Cast: Mako HyodoMako Hyodo, also credited as Mako Hyoudou, is a Japanese voice actress and member of 81 Produce company.- Notable roles :* Girl in Angel's Egg* Christella Revi in Birdy the Mighty and Birdy the Mighty: Decode* Young Lady in The Red Spectacles...
The young Lady is first appearing as a mysterious mute character who leads Koichi Todome through Tokyo in The Red Spectacles
The Red Spectacles
is a 1987 absurdist, surrealist Japanese film directed by Mamoru Oshii, co-written with Kazunori Ito, and starring Shigeru Chiba and Mako Hyodo.This is the first film of the Kerberos saga and last episode in Oshii's Orwellian Watchdog of Hell feature trilogy.-Chronicles:Kerberos saga historical...
. The original theatrical trailer introduces her as an allegory for fate (運命,unmei) in the meaning of fatum. In Kerberos & Tachiguishi the character's backstory is eventually revealed, as a teenager she was caught by a Kerberos patrol while she was delivering bombs as a Sect Little Red Riding Hood. As a Division Jacobson terrorist she was brought to the Metropolitan Police Public Security Division's headquarters and was selected by Bunmei Muroto to become a mole.
- Nanami Agawa
- Kei Amemiya
Fast Food Grifters (立喰師)
(Tachiguishi)- Moongaze Ginji
- Original name: Tsukimi no Ginji (月見の銀二)
- Aliases: Moon-viewing Ginji
- Era: 1902~1945
- Cast: Hideyo AmamotoHideyo Amamotowas a prolific Japanese actor from the Wakamatsu ward of Kitakyūshū best known for portraying Dr. Shinigami in the original Kamen Rider series as well as many other characters in tokusatsu films and the Godzilla series. Amamoto also used the pseudonym of Eisei Amamoto for most of his career, Eisei...
, Kaito Kisshoji
A famous Fast Food Grifter and an old friend of Koichi Todome.
- Foxy Croquette O-Gin
- Original name: Ketsune Korokke no Ogin (ケツネコロッケのお銀)
- Aliases: Oginsan (お銀さん), Young Lady, AK Ginko
- Era: 1946~1960
- Cast: Mako Hyodo
- Crying Inumaru
- Original name: Naki no Inumaru (哭きの犬丸)
- Aliases: -
- Era: 1961~1964
- Cast: Mitsuhisa IshikawaMitsuhisa Ishikawais Japanese anime entrepreneur, the co-founder and current president and CEO of Production I.G, as well as a leading producer for the studio. He was also a former executive at Bee Train from 1997–2006, and as of 2010 is expected to join Tatsunoko Productions company as a part time director.Ishikawa...
- Cold Badger Masa
- Original name: Hiyashi Tanuki no Masa (冷しタヌキの政)
- Aliases: -
- Era: 1965~1970
- Cast: Toshio SuzukiToshio Suzuki (producer)is a film producer of anime and a long-time colleague of Hayao Miyazaki, as well as the current CEO of Studio Ghibli. Suzuki is renowned as one of Japan's most successful producers after the enormous box office success of many Ghibli films. According to Miyazaki, "If it were not for Mr...
- Beefbowl Ushigoro
- Original name: Gyudon no Ushi-Goro (牛丼の牛五郎)
- Aliases: -
- Era: 1965~1970
- Cast: Shinji HiguchiShinji Higuchiis a storyboard artist and is one of the top special effects wizards in Japan, best known for his work on the Heisei Gamera Trilogy. He works on both anime and tokusatsu projects.-Biography:...
- Hamburger Tetsu
- Original name: Hanbāgā no Tetsu (ハンバーガーの哲)
- Aliases: -
- Era: 1971~1980
- Cast: Kenji KawaiKenji Kawai, born April 23, 1957 in Shinagawa, Tokyo, is a Japanese music composer, for motion pictures, anime movies, video games and televised programs. He has contributed to the musical scores for numerous films from Japan and other countries in Asia, working in film genres as diverse as anime, horror,...
- Frankfurter Tatsu
- Original name: Furankufuruto no Tatsu (フランクフルトの辰)
- Aliases: -
- Era: 1977~1983
- Cast: Katsuya TeradaKatsuya Terada, is a Japanese illustrator and cartoonist from the town of Tamano, Okayama. His alias is .-Biography:Katsuya Terada is probably best known in the United States as the character-designer for the animated film Blood: The Last Vampire...
- Medium Hot Sabu
- Original name: Chu-Kara no Sabu (中辛のサブ)
- Aliases: -
- Era: 1984~2006
- Cast: Shoji KawamoriShoji Kawamoriis a Japanese anime creator, screenwriter and mechanical designer, having created or co-created such notable series as The Super Dimension Fortress Macross, The Vision of Escaflowne, Earth Maiden Arjuna, Genesis of Aquarion, Macross 7, and Macross Frontier. He is currently executive director at the...
- Baked Bean Pastry Amataro
- Original name: -
- Aliases: -
- Cast: -
- Era: -
- Crepe Mami
- Original name: Kurepu no mami (クレープのマミ)
- Aliases: -
- Era: -
- Cast -
Self-Police (自治警)
Jichi kei: the Japanese local police in charge of security, peace and public security. Due to the increasing violence of paramilitary anti-government groups, the "Self-Police" soon became unable to maintain public order, hence the creation of a specialized anti-riot force, a military police called Shutokei (Metropolitan Police).Metropolitan Police Department (警視庁)
- MPD Guard Division (警視庁警備部)
- 2nd Riot Battalion (警視庁・機動隊)
- Communications Support Team
- 5th Riot Battalion
- 1st Company
- 2nd Company
- 6th Riot Battalion (第六機動隊)
- Assault Team
- The Assault Team is stationed on Katsushima island.
- Toru Inui
- Assault Team
- Medical Platoon
- 2nd Riot Battalion (警視庁・機動隊)
- MPD Public Security Division (警視庁公安部)
German Army (WehrmachtWehrmachtThe Wehrmacht – from , to defend and , the might/power) were the unified armed forces of Nazi Germany from 1935 to 1945. It consisted of the Heer , the Kriegsmarine and the Luftwaffe .-Origin and use of the term:...
)
Nazi GermanyNazi Germany
Nazi Germany , also known as the Third Reich , but officially called German Reich from 1933 to 1943 and Greater German Reich from 26 June 1943 onward, is the name commonly used to refer to the state of Germany from 1933 to 1945, when it was a totalitarian dictatorship ruled by...
's armed forces are the main antagonist
Antagonist
An antagonist is a character, group of characters, or institution, that represents the opposition against which the protagonist must contend...
s in the Kerberos Panzer Jäger
Kerberos Panzer Jäger
Kerberos Panzer Jäger is a 2006 radio drama series based on a story written by Japanese filmmaker and novelist Mamoru Oshii...
radio drama series.
808th Propagandakompanie (第808宣伝中隊)
(Dai 808 Senden Chutai)- Cpt. Maki Stauffenberg
- Aliases: -
- Original name: Maki Shutaufenberuku Taii (マキ・シュタウフェンヴェルク大尉)
- Cast: Yoshiko SakakibaraYoshiko Sakakibarais a Japanese voice actress.-Direct-to-video animation:* 1983 Dallos - Melinda Hurst* 1985 Greed - Mimau* 1985 Area 88 - Yasuda* 1985 Cream Lemon – Rio* 1985 Megazone 23 – Reina* 1985 The Karuizawa Syndrome - Kaoru Matsunuma...
- Appearances: Kerberos Panzer Jäger
In September 1942, the Captain Maki of the 808th German Propaganda Company (808th Propagandakompanie, 第808宣伝中隊) leaves the Warsaw
Warsaw
Warsaw is the capital and largest city of Poland. It is located on the Vistula River, roughly from the Baltic Sea and from the Carpathian Mountains. Its population in 2010 was estimated at 1,716,855 residents with a greater metropolitan area of 2,631,902 residents, making Warsaw the 10th most...
station to deliver Protect-Gear parts to the 101st Panzer Company fighting the Soviet Army at the Battle of Stalingrad
Battle of Stalingrad
The Battle of Stalingrad was a major battle of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in southwestern Russia. The battle took place between 23 August 1942 and 2 February 1943...
.
Other characters
- Manager Kamiyama
- Original name: -
- Cast: Kenji KamiyamaKenji Kamiyama, born on March 20, 1966 in Saitama Prefecture, Japan, is a Japanese anime director. He has worked regularly with the anime studio and production enterprise, Production I.G, such as his work on Jin-Roh, Patlabor, Blood: The Last Vampire, and for whom he has directed the Ghost in the Shell: Stand...
- Appearances: Tachiguishi-Retsuden
- Tang Mie
- Original name: Tan Mi (唐密, タンミー)
- Cast: Sue Eaching
- Appearances: StrayDog
Tang Mie is a Taiwanese girl that used to live with Koichi Todome when the latter flew to Taipei during his post-Kerberos Riot three-years-long exile. When paroled Inui left Tokyo to find the track of his former leader/master Koichi Todome instead he bumps into Tang Mie and befriend with her. Shortly the pair leaves the condo and travel Taiwan after Koichi Todome. When they eventually find him at Tainan, the former elite Kerberos panzer cop has become a peaceful peasant inviting them to start their life anew living in a ménage à trois
Ménage à trois
Ménage à trois is a French term which originally described a domestic arrangement in which three people having sexual relations occupy the same household – the phrase literally translates as "household of three"...
. Later Inui leaves the home to meet Hayashi and his own lethal destiny, thereafter Koichi, who also left the home ("the roost"), turns back to Tokyo leaving behind Tang Mie and eventually facing his death (see The Red Spectacles). Tang Mie enjoys a Platonic love
Platonic love
Platonic love is a chaste and strong type of love that is non-sexual.-Amor Platonicus:The term amor platonicus was coined as early as the 15th century by the Florentine scholar Marsilio Ficino. Platonic love in this original sense of the term is examined in Plato's dialogue the Symposium, which has...
relationship with both Koichi and Inui; Koichi reveals to Inui that "she was her who picked up both of [them]".
- Tokumitsu Shinada
- Original name: -
- Cast: Fuyuki Shinada
- Appearances: Tachiguishi-Retsuden
- Papa's Waitress
- Original name: Papa no wueitoresu (パパスのウェイトレス)
- Aliases: Neechan (ネエちゃん)
- Cast: -
- Appearances: Kerberos Saga: Rainy Dogs (The Killers)
Papa's Lunch Room Waitress is a main character in The Killers short story published in Kerberos Saga: Rainy Dogs. She talks to the two killers searching for Koichi Todome.
Cameo characters
- Detective Takahiro Matsui
- Original name: Matsui Takahiro (松井 孝弘)
- Cast: -
- Appearances: Kerberos Panzer Cop Act.6
- Original work: Patlabor: The Movie
Detective Matsui from Patlabor
Patlabor
Patlabor also known as , is an anime and manga franchise created by Headgear, a group consisting of director Mamoru Oshii, writer Kazunori Itō, mecha designer Yutaka Izubuchi, character designer Akemi Takada, and manga artist Masami Yūki.The popular franchise included a manga, a TV series, two OVA...
is hired to solve the "Fast Food Grifter Clubbed to Death Case" (マッハ軒立食師撲殺事件異聞) involving Fast Food Grifter (or "Tachiguishi") Cold Badger Masa and the Special Armed Garrison's Chuichi Koshiramaru (2nd Company, 7th Platoon). A part of the Kerberos saga staff, called Headgear
Headgear
Headgear, headwear or headdress is the name given to any element of clothing which is worn on one's head.Headgear serve a variety of purposes:...
, worked on the Patlabor TV series and feature films, including its creator, Mamoru Oshii
Mamoru Oshii
Mamoru Oshii is a Japanese filmmaker, television director, and writer. Famous for his philosophy-oriented storytelling, Oshii has directed a number of popular anime, including Urusei Yatsura 2: Beautiful Dreamer, Ghost in the Shell, and Patlabor 2...
, who directed two feature films respectively in 1989 and 1993.
- Golgo 13Golgo 13is a manga series written and illustrated by Takao Saito, published in Shogakukan's Big Comic magazine since January 1969. In 1976, the manga won the 21st Shogakukan Manga Award for general manga...
- Original name: Togo 13 (東郷十三)
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- Appearances: The Killers (from Kerberos Saga Rainy DogsKerberos Saga Rainy DogsKerberos Saga Rainy Dogs, . Hayashi . .]]Kerberos Koichi Todome chases elite sniper Eito Kurosaki a.k.a. "Afghan Hound" in Asia with a vengeance. During the Kerberos Riot event , Kurosaki betrayed the Special Armed Garrison by letting know Bunmei Muroto about the coup d'état...
) - Original work: Golgo 13Golgo 13is a manga series written and illustrated by Takao Saito, published in Shogakukan's Big Comic magazine since January 1969. In 1976, the manga won the 21st Shogakukan Manga Award for general manga...
Golgo 13 a.k.a. Duke Togo (デューク東郷), which is a mysterious identity professional assassin, appears among the killers in the bar restaurant called Papa's Lunch Room. While he's waiting at a table, a boy enters the bar delivering a large packet and asking to the crowd "Mister Togo 13, please?" ("東郷十三さん......いますか？", p. 362), "that's over here" ("掩だ", p. 362) he answers. Then he pays the boy, gets the present that comes with an happy birthday card and heads to the toilet with the packet. He later reappears smoking a cigarette, wearing mittens and holding his famous M16 rifle
M16 rifle
The M16 is the United States military designation for the AR-15 rifle adapted for both semi-automatic and full-automatic fire. Colt purchased the rights to the AR-15 from ArmaLite, and currently uses that designation only for semi-automatic versions of the rifle. The M16 fires the 5.56×45mm NATO...
. A firing ensues between the five killers, Golgo 13 headshots the man in black with the two automatic pistols while the latter shoot him dead with multiple gunshots in the chest. The Killers is a short story that was published prior to the release of the Kerberos Saga Rainy Dogs manga series in Ace Tokunoh comic magazine in 2003. This short story by Mamoru Oshii and illustrator Mamoru Sugiura was added as an epilogue in the tankōbon (compilation volume) of Kerberos Saga Rainy Dogs published in 2005.
External links
- Kerberos saga official website (Japanese)