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snowynight ([personal profile] snowynight) wrote2010-10-20 03:03 pm
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Yakushiji Ryōko no Kaiki Jikenbo overview

Yakushiji Ryōko no Kaiki Jikenbo:
She is a superintendent with a devil may cry attitude and sharp intellect. He is her reluctant subordinate. Together they fight (mostly supernatural) crimes. Think Supernatural meets Sherlock Holmes, but with awesome female protagonists who kick ass.


Main Characters


Yakushiji Ryōko"God has given her beauty, intellect and riches, leaving  Devil to give her her personality".  An adept fighter and gun swinger, she is a rare female magnificent bastard with role models as Catherine the Great and J. E. Hoover. Her high-heeled shoes are a powerful weapon to crush the evil. She is nicknamed as the woman who can repel even demons.
Junichirō Izumida is a non-career police detective whose peaceful life was forever shattered when assigned to serve under Ryōko. He is the Watson to Ryko 's Sherlock Holmes, reluctantly dragged to all kinds of weird cases and acts as a buffer between Ryoko and the world.


 Yukiko Muromachi

Rival of Yakushiji Ryōko. Althou they both Come from a police family and studied law at Tokyo University, Yukiko is like the antithesis to Ryoko: serious, go by the rule, idealistic. But she is very competent too.

Plot
Yakushiji Ryōko, the most dangerous woman possibly in the world, always involves herself and her subordinate Junichirō Izumida in any bizarre and seemingly supernatural cases. With sharp intellect, she solves all the cases with style.

Anime
List of episode description on wikipedia


Where to see
Originally a series of light novels, it has been adapted into manga and anime. You can find episodes of it on Youtube and other channel.

Other resources:
Wikipedia Page
TVTropes page

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