(L) Police in a Pod

[HandofFate]

reminds me a lot of the other civil servant working show, Servant x Service

[Kanon]

First anime of the year!

I can't say this impressed me, but I can see the potential. I already like Fuji a lot, and I can kind of tell why Kawai is going to regret meeting her. She was trying to repress herself throughout most of the episode, and there is obviously a reason she was demoted. She seems like a textbook case of "looks can be deceiving".

I too wonder if people can really get away with insulting police officers this easily in Japan. Then again, it's not like they don't get insulted over here.

It's funny you should mention it feels like live-action because there is a live-action series of this. Apparently, it's really good, so I'm not sure why they're bothering with an anime adaptation to be honest. It doesn't add anything. Works the other way around, making a live-action of a manga that was already adapted into anime is pointless.

[Last Sinner]

It's decent. I'll continue for now.

Its main hook for me is its relatively accurate depiction of public servants. There's not much gratitude to be had from the public or the media. But you can make a difference if you care enough to notice what most don't and to try and promote such thinking in others, which is what I appreciate about Fuji and that she genuinely wants to look out for Kawai. As well as the genuine venting moments - those are inevitable. If you're not listening to someone else vent and helping them get over it through that, you're not a public servant.

[Guardian Enzo]

I wonder if they’ll include the random harassment of foreigners.

[Last Sinner]

I wonder whether they'll include corruption.

[Obelisk ze Tormentor]

Originally Posted by Kanon

It's funny you should mention it feels like live-action because there is a live-action series of this. Apparently, it's really good, so I'm not sure why they're bothering with an anime adaptation to be honest. It doesn't add anything. Works the other way around, making a live-action of a manga that was already adapted into anime is pointless.

From what I've seen, the live action is better since the conversation/scenes flow more naturally and the characters don't have clunky movements of static animation.

Here's the same scooter scene but in live action:

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https://youtu.be/XygFMS7CA-c

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And another scene:

Spoiler for plot point:

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https://youtu.be/FNUJmsxuATM

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[Yu Ominae]

Been trying to find some English subs for the LA version.

Otherwise, am planning to read/watch all three.

[serenade_beta]

Spoiler for ep1:

Pretty fun to watch
Gives you light chuckles here and there

I guess the only problem I see so far is that both of the heroines have the same face and I could only tell who is who by the hairstyle really
That, and maybe the eyes are too big, because looking straight in their face is somewhat disturbing

Originally Posted by Kazu-kun

This is a bit off-topic but that looks freaking weird at 60 FPS. They ruined it.

There are some people out there that unfortunately think that the smoother the better
Even though one of the great parts of animation is the choppiness

[Yu Ominae]

Originally Posted by Kanon

First anime of the year!

I too wonder if people can really get away with insulting police officers this easily in Japan. Then again, it's not like they don't get insulted over here.

I've seen videos of that happening IIRC. Usually though, it's with the drunk guys.

The only ones doing that are those from the ultranationalists doing protests and if they refuse to obey orders to leave.

[BBOvenGuy]

Originally Posted by Yu Ominae

Been trying to find some English subs for the LA version.

*Mod edit*

Toda Erika plays Fuji, and I've always liked her.

A couple of differences I noticed:

Spoiler for Live-action:

First, Kawai's dad never shows up at her place. She writes him letters, but we never see him. Also, there's no mention of him drinking or liking porn.

Second, there's a reason why Fuji is in the police box. The power harassment story is just a cover. Her real reason is the overarcing storyline of the series.

[Friday]

this definitely reminds of "you're under arrest"

[Yu Ominae]

Thanks BBO

PS - Maybe I'll have to read the manga and put up a separate thread.

[Skidda]

Originally Posted by Guardian Enzo

I wonder if they’ll include the random harassment of foreigners.

There is a chapter on police randomly questioning people on the street actually.

[Yu Ominae]

A little FYI/interesting things about the mangaka.

Miko Yasu worked in the prefectural police (can't find speific details where) and left the force after 10 years and made her debut as a mangaka in 2017.

Reason why she wrote Police in a Pod was to show the "actual" realities of how it's like to be a police officer and the mundane things she/her fellow officers experienced.

Kawai's groaning while working the koban beat is actually a reference to her actual career when she started (Yasu's first job is a koban beat). Yasu also did crime prevention activities.

And the manga art (and why it looks the same in the anime)... Yasu worked with crime victims by doing sketches of persons of interest. That's where she got her artist experience.

Yasu has read Attack on Titan and Saint Young Men.

[Frontier]

Originally Posted by Kanon

It's funny you should mention it feels like live-action because there is a live-action series of this. Apparently, it's really good, so I'm not sure why they're bothering with an anime adaptation to be honest. It doesn't add anything. Works the other way around, making a live-action of a manga that was already adapted into anime is pointless.

This reminds me of Science Fell in Love which similarly got an anime adaption after they did a live-action adaption...although I'm more into anime, so it works out better for me .

[Alchemist007]

Well I was already in middle of watching You're Under Arrest, this feels like a more realistic version than the goofiness that is YUA.

I enjoyed the first ep but I already know I'm in for a different kind of show; which I would consider a good thing in our boring world of remakes.

[Kanon]

I checked the first three chapters of the manga and the stuff with the dad was there, so it looks like the anime is a more faithful adaptation, which makes its existence worthwhile after all.

[Wandering Soul]

That was an okay first episode. It's nothing bad or good, so unless I really lose interest, it's something to watch on Wednesday.

[Yu Ominae]

https://forums.animesuki.com/showthr...95#post6497695

This here is for the manga. Let's try to keep manga stuff away from here.

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This was the funniest thing I've seen with Fuji being a hypocrite. She doesn't want to be painted in a position like the child-friendly police posters.

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[Decel]

The art reminds me of the Vandread/Gatekeepers era. (Edit: found it, it reminds me of Keiji Gotoh, Nadesico and stuff)

Novel plot line and nicely animated, but doesn't seem to fit my cup of tea. Dropping this.