Deka Wanko

Deka Wanko (デカワンコ, Deka Wanko) is a manga by Kozueko Morimoto. It was serialized in Japan by Shueisha in the magazine You and was collected in 12 tankōbon volumes. The series follows the adventures of Ichiko Hanamori, a young woman who, while always dressing in lolita fashion, is also a homicide detective for the Tokyo Metropolitan Police. While inexperienced and often bumbling, she solves crimes using her sense of smell, which surpasses that of the best police dog. The title refers first, to the Japanese slang term for police detective (deka), and second, to a word play on Ichiko's name. Her name in kanji is 一子, meaning "one child", but her colleagues give her the nickname "Wanko", which both combines the Japanese pronunciation of the English word "one" with "ko", and is also an affectionate term for a dog in Japanese.

The series has been adapted into a television series starring Mikako Tabe as Ichiko that aired in 2011, and which was followed by several TV specials, one of which was set in Paris.^[1]

Television series

• Mikako Tabe as Ichiko Hanamori ("Wanko")
• Ikki Sawamura as Kan'ichi Shigemura ("Shige")
• Yūya Tegoshi as Ryūta Kirishima ("Kiri")
• Mitsuru Fukikoshi as Yūki Komatsubara ("Koma")
• Takeshi Masu as Jirō Monma ("Boss")
• Kōji Ōkura as Seishirō Yanagi ("Yana")
• Hidehiko Ishizuka as Jun Wada ("Chanko")
• Kensei Mikami as Duke Tanaka
• Shirō Sano as Taiichi Igarashi ("Gara")
• Tomorō Taguchi as Kazumasa Taguchi
• Shirō Itō as Police Commissioner Matsuda
• Naomi Watanabe as Kotomi Aoki

References

External links

• Live-action series official website (Japanese)