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Main article: Kerberos saga

The fictitious characters of the Kerberos saga (ケルベロス・サーガ, keruberosu saga) are sorted by organizations or groups according to the original works.

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[edit] Local Governmental 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, the new military police M.P. Organization Shutokei.

[edit] Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department (警視庁)

Keishicho: Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department.(MPD)

  • 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
    • Medical Platoon
  • MPD Public Security Division (警視庁公安部)

[edit] 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.

[edit] Chief of Staff

  • M.P. Defense Director of Division (首都警・警備部)
Isao Aniya
  • M.P. Public Security Director of Division (首都警・公安部)
Bunmei Muroto
  • M.P. Defense Special Armed Garrison Commanding Officer (首都警・警備部・特機隊)
Shiro Tatsumi

[edit] Academy Training School (首都警・養成学校)

The Academy is the place for practice for all trainees before they could join the Defense or Public Security divisions. Sergeant-Instructors educate the trainees to never surrender and to act like a wolf pack, each member backing his comrades, individual initiatives being forbidden for they jeopardize the whole team.

[edit] Instructors (教官)
Hachiro Tobe
Original name: Tohbe Hachiroh 搭部八郎
Aliases: -
Age: -
Cast: Yoshisada Sakaguchi (坂口芳貞)

Sergeant Hachiroh Tohbe is Kazuki Fuse's friend and superior in the Jin-Roh Brigade. Once, he trained both Kazuki and Henmi at the academy.

[edit] Metropolitan Police Defense Division (首都警・警備部)

Shutokei keibi bu

[edit] Director of Division (部長)

Isao Aniya
Original name: Aniya Isao (安仁屋勲)
Aliases: -
Age: -
Cast: Kenji Nakagawa (中川謙二)

Aniya is the director of division (Buchoh) in charge of the Metropolitan Security Police Organization's Defense branch (首都警・警備部). He is the highest rank officer in the organization hierarchy followed by Captains Shiro Tatsumi and Bunmei Muroto. Aniya is bald in the manga while he has gray hairs in Jin-Roh. His collar insignia is upranked in the anime.

[edit] Special Armed Garrison "Kerberos" (首都警・特機隊 ~ケルベロス~)

Shutokei Tokki-Tai ~Keruberosu~: the core unit of the Metropolitan Police (M.P.) in charge of Tokyo's public peace and order. Tokki-Tai (特記隊) has different translations in Hellhounds including "Special Armored Police", "Cerberos", "Cerberus Teams" (for Kerberos Platoons).

[edit] Chief of Staff
Shiro Tatsumi
Original name: Tatsumi Shiroh (巽志郎)
Aliases: -
Age: -
Cast: Ryuichi Horibe (堀部隆一)

Captain Tatsumi is the Commanding Officer (隊長) of Tokki-Tai (首都警・特機隊). Kerberos Panzer Cop reveals he is a founding member of the organization with Aniya. The organization was created five years before the events portrayed in the manga's first part. In Kerberos Panzer Cop: Conclusion he takes part to a coup d'état with his subordinate Handa and the Kerberos Panzer Cop and Kerberos Panzer Jäger joint units. In Jin-Roh he is upranked from one class (副長).

Hajime Handa
Original name: Handa Hajime (半田元)
Aliases: -
Age: 39
Cast: Yukihiro Yoshida (吉田幸絋)

Hajime Handa is the Executive Officer (副長) of the Tokki-Tai (首都警・特機隊). In Hellhounds #1 he is given the rank of Lt.Cdr but he actually has not rank name in the original version but his collar insignia. In Jin-Roh his collar insignia is different and upranks him from one class.

[edit] 1st Company

[edit] 1st Assault Platoon (第一突入小隊)

Translated as "1st Assault Team" in Hellhounds #1.

Koichi Todome
Original name: Todome Kohichi (都々目紅一)
Aliases: Red Devil
Age: 28
Cast: Shigeru Chiba

Koichi is a central figure in the saga. In the feature trilogy, he is the Kerberos officer who led the "Kerberos Riot" movement when the Japanese government ordered for the organization's dissolution. At the end of the siege, he escaped through helicopter and exiled himself with the promise to his men to come back and free them later with the help of a newly created Kerberos force. In StrayDog, which is based on a different collar insignias, he is upranked from two classes.

Midori Washio
Original name: Washio Midori (鷲尾翠)
Aliases: -
Age: 25
Cast: Machiko Washio


Soichiro Toribe
Original name: Toribe Soichiroh (鳥部蒼一郎)
Aliases: -
Age: 27
Cast: Hideyuki Tanaka


Inui
Original name: Inui (乾)
Aliases: -
Age: -
Cast: Yoshikatsu Fujiki

[edit] 2nd Assault Platoon (第二突入小隊)

This unit is named "Assault Team Two" in Hellhounds #1.

Platoon leader
Original name: -
Aliases: -
Age: -
Cast: -

The 2nd Platoon leader cares for his men and dislikes the new recruit Toru Inui's methods. While on a patrol in the sewers, he fires the latter for being indisciplined.

Toru Inui
Original name: Inui Tohru (乾亮)
Aliases: -
Age: 22
Cast: -

A young man transferred from the Self-Police's 6th Riot Squad to the MP according to the joint operation policy. After being trained with Protect-Gear he switches his armor with the Protect-Gear "type 92" (92式). During a patrol in the sewers he is banished by the platoon commander for acting like a mad dog. While returning to the transport truck he is shot by a female member of the Sect.

[edit] 2nd Company

[edit] 3rd Assault Platoon (第三突入小隊)
Kazuki Fuse
Original name: Fuse Kazuki (伏一貴)
Aliases: -
Age: -
Cast: Yoshikatsu Fujiki

[edit] 3rd Transport Company

[edit] 5th Sniper Platoon (第五狙撃小隊)

The elite sniper unit equipped with German-built H&K PSG1. PSG1 stands for Präzisions-Scharfschützen-Gewehr, precision sharpshooting (semi-automatic) rifle. This unit is translated as "Sharpshooting Team Five" in Hellhounds #1.

[edit] Sniper Platoon
Eito Kurosaki
Original name: Eito Kurosaki (黒崎英斗)
Aliases: Afghan Hound
Age: -
Cast: -

He is sent after exiled Koichi Todome in Kerberos Saga Rainy Dogs.

[edit] 6th Assault Platoon (第六突入小隊)

[edit] 7th Platoon (第7小隊)

[edit] 8th Communications Platoon

[edit] 9th Platoon

[edit] Aerial Squadron

[edit] Aeronautical Experiments Platoon (特機隊・航空実験小隊)
Karasawa
Original name: Karasawa (唐澤 長)
Aliases: -
Age: -
Cast: -

Karasawa is the commander of the M.P.'s aerial unit; he is also the test pilot for the Jagdhund FA-666 JH-1 helicopter prototype.

[edit] 1st Platoon (第一小隊)
Hachiro Kishu
Original name: Kishuh Hachiroh (紀州八郎)
Aliases: -
Age: 29
Cast: -

Hachiro Kishu is a skilled pilot patrolling in his Fa-330 light helicopter equipped with built-in MG34 gun.

[edit] Jin-Roh (人狼)

The Jin-Roh Brigade 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.

[edit] Metropolitan Police Public Security Division (首都警・公安部)

[edit] Director of Division (部長)

Muroto Bunmei
Original name: Bunmei Muroto
Aliases: -
Age: -
Cast: Tessho Genda, Kousei Hirota (廣田行生)

As Director of Division of the Intelligence branch of the Metropolitan Police, Muroto is Aniya's rival. Accepting a deal with the Self-Police chief of staff and the government he becomes the chief of the new Metropolitan Police soon after the dissolution of the Kerberos branch.

[edit] Special Agents (員)

Hayashi
Original name: -
Aliases: Man in White (白服の男)
Age: -
Cast: Takashi Matsuyama (松山鷹志)


Tsujimura
Original name: -
Aliases: -
Age: -
Cast: -


Atsushi Henmi
Original name: Henmi Atsushi (辺見敦)
Aliases: -
Age: -
Cast: 木下浩之

[edit] Ground Self-Defense Force (陸上自衛隊)

[edit] 1st Airborne Brigade (第1空挺団)

  • Panzer Jäger Unit (ギア部隊)

[edit] 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.

[edit] Revolutionary Communist students

  • Division Jacobson
Kei Amemiya
Original name: Amemiya Kei (雨宮圭)
Aliases: Long Hairs
Age: -
Cast: Sumi Mutou (武藤寿美)

[edit] Sect (セクト)

(Sekuto)

Nanami Agawa
Original name: Agawa Nanami (阿川七生)
Aliases: Short Hairs
Age:
Cast: Eri Sendai (仙台エリ)

An adolescent girl used by the Sect 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 and a diplomatic incident.

[edit] Four Seasons League

Kazuya Fujiwara
Original name: -
Aliases: -
Age: 28
Cast: -

[edit] 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

[edit] Little Red Riding Hoods (赤ずきん)

Akazukin: young female characters dressed in red like in the Little Red Riding Hood 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.

Young Lady
Original name: Shojo (少女)
Aliases: Foxy Croquette O-Gin, AK Ginko, Young Lady of Fate (運命の少女, Unmei no Shojo)
Age: -
Cast: Mako Hyodo

A mysterious mute character who leads Koichi Todome in Tokyo. The original theatrical trailer of The Red Spectacles introduces her as an allegory for fate (運命,unmei) in the meaning of fatum.

  • Nanami Agawa
  • Kei Amemiya

[edit] 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 Amamoto, 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 Ishikawa


Cold Badger Masa
Original name: Hiyashi Tanuki no Masa (冷しタヌキの政)
Aliases: -
Era: 1965~1970
Cast: Toshio Suzuki


Beefbowl Ushigoro
Original name: Gyudon no Ushi-Goro (牛丼の牛五郎)
Aliases: -
Era: 1965~1970
Cast: Shinji Higuchi


Hamburger Tetsu
Original name: Hanbāgā no Tetsu (ハンバーガーの哲)
Aliases: -
Era: 1971~1980
Cast: Kenji Kawai


Frankfurter Tatsu
Original name: Furankufuruto no Tatsu (フランクフルトの辰)
Aliases: -
Era: 1977~1983
Cast: Katsuya Terada


  • Medium Hot Sabu
Original name: Chu-Kara no Sabu (中辛のサブ)
Aliases: -
Era: 1984~2006
Cast: Shoji Kawamori


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 -

[edit] German Army (Heer)

[edit] 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 Sakakibara
Era: 1940s

In September 1942, the Captain Maki of the German Propaganda Company leaves the Warsaw station to deliver Protect-Gear parts to the 101st Panzer Company fighting the Soviet Army at the Battle of Stalingrad.

[edit] Secondary characters

Kusada
Original name: -
Cast: -
Tang Mie
Original name: -
Cast: Sue Eaching
Tokumitsu Shinada
Original name: -
Cast: Fuyuki Shinada
Manager Kamiyama
Original name: -
Cast: Kenji Kamiyama

[edit] Organization scheme

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[edit] Police System

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[edit] Ranks

Collar insignias changed in Jin-Roh compared to Kerberos Panzer Cop and StrayDog. The original character design is based on the Second World War Imperial army hierarchy, except the stars are replaced by the Japanese national police's emblem, while the anime version adopted the German one.

  • Senior officers
  • Junior officers
  • Warrant officers

Military rank abbreviations used in the article are: Dir.: Director of Section, Cdr.: Commander, Lt.Cdr.: Lieutenant-Commander, Cpt.: Captain, Sgt.: Sergeant, Cpl.: Corporal, Adj.: Adjutant and Bgd.: Brigadier.

[edit] See also

[edit] Sources

[edit] External links

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Kerberos saga by Mamoru Oshii
Kerberos arc
Tachiguishi arc
Kerberos files
Saga • Chronicles • Characters • Protect-Gear