Jiraishin
Ice Blade
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Jiraishin

Alternative Titles

Synonyms: Ice Blade
Japanese: 地雷震
English: Ice Blade
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Type: Manga
Volumes: 19
Chapters: 72
Status: Finished
Published: Sep 25, 1992 to Nov 25, 1999
Genres: Action Action, Drama Drama, Mystery Mystery
Theme: Detective Detective
Demographic: Seinen Seinen
Serialization: Afternoon
Authors: Takahashi, Tsutomu (Story & Art)

Statistics

Score: 7.751 (scored by 24722,472 users)
1 indicates a weighted score.
Ranked: #14952
2 based on the top manga page. Please note that 'R18+' titles are excluded.
Popularity: #1835
Members: 11,606
Favorites: 164

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Synopsis

Kyoya Ida is a hard-nosed detective from the Shinjuku Police precient. He is known in the force as an unreasonable type who would use lethal force to solve cases, making him unpopular with the enlisted and high-ranking officers in the National Police Agency. Despite this fact, there are some in the force that admire Ida for his bravery and cleverness in using lethal force to solve criminal cases whenever legal means are met in a dead end.

(Source: MU)

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Reviews

Jun 25, 2008
Written by the author now most famous for Alive and Skyhigh, thanks to successful film adaptations, this manga easily surpasses both, such is the fate of masterpieces forever burdened with the 'underrated' label.

Tsutomu Takahashi's crime thriller Jiraishin is a decisive step away from most manga tropes and conventions. It feels more like a manga adaptation of a gritty US TV series in the vein of NYPD Blue, or to go even further back, like a Japanese take on TV series The Equalizer.

What we have here are an array of very disturbing cases involving a variety of depraved yet fascinating characters who usually leave dead bodies ...
Sep 7, 2010
Well, I really didn't like this manga.
If you ask me why, I would say cause I finished reading and I felt something like disgusted and sad with the world. Well, maybe that's what the autor wanted.
Kyoya gives me the impression that he's not human. I don't like him.
But, just to say something different, the art is really good.

I prefer manga with good psicological stories and something that I can learn in the end (ok that's cliche but its my taste). So, if you're searching something twisted and creepy, take your time and read Jiraishin, you'll like it.
Mar 13, 2024
Mixed Feelings
Visible, apparent improvement from an artist always leads to a fulfilling experience. People often forget how much one has to truly grow as a creator to create a masterpiece. Experiencing the first works of my favourite storytellers has motivated me to keep writing. While Takahashi Tsutomo isn’t one of my favourites, he has a distinct style and skills. He may not be consistent, but he wrote “Bakuon Rettou”, which shows that he knows what he’s doing.

At one point though, he didn’t. Before “Bakuon Rettou”, “Blue Heaven”, “NeuN”, or anything else, Tsutomo created “Jiraishin”. Honestly, what’s here doesn’t differ from mainstream episodic cop shows like ...

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