manga series · Japan

1988 to 1999

Created by
Mamoru Oshii

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Cover of Kerberos Panzer Cop

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Kerberos Panzer Cop.

犬狼伝説

Kerberos Panzer Cop, also known as Hellhounds Legend (Japanese: 犬狼伝説, Hepburn: Kenrō Densetsu; lit. 'Legend of Dogs and Wolves') and Hellhounds: Panzer Cops, or just Hellhounds overseas, is a Japanese alternate history political thriller manga series written by Mamoru Oshii and illustrated by Kamui Fujiwara with mechanical designs by Yutaka Izubuchi, running from 1988 to January 2000. Part of the Kerberos Saga and set before Oshii's 1987 film The Red Spectacles, the manga details the history and events surrounding the Special Armed Garrison, nicknamed "Kerberos", a Tokyo-based counterterrorist police tactical unit operating in an alternate history authoritarian postwar Japan. Part I (Act 1~4) of Kerberos Panzer Cop was published in various Japanese comic magazines from 1988 to 1990, it was later completed with Part II (Act 5~8) published in Monthly Shōnen Ace from 1999 to 2000.

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Type
manga series
Country
Japan
Published
1988 to 1999
Appeared in
Monthly Shōnen Ace, Combat Comic
Language
Japanese

Run

In print
The story

Kerberos Panzer Cop, in three panels

  1. 1988. Kerberos Panzer Cop begins in Japan.

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