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''Kerberos Panzer Cop'', also known as ''Kerberos Panzer Cops'' literally , is a 1988 to 2000 Kerberos saga manga written by Mamoru Oshii and illustrated by Kamui Fujiwara (Studio 2B) with mechanical design by Yutaka Izubuchi. This comic series tales events prior to those portrayed in Oshii's 1987 live-action feature film ''The Red Spectacles''. In 1991, Mamoru Oshii directed the movie ''StrayDog: Kerberos Panzer Cops'' which is based on the first volume of ''Kerberos Panzer Cop''. The complete comic series was loosely adapted for the screen in the 1999 animated feature ''Jin-Roh'' directed by Hiroyuki Okiura and written by Mamoru Oshii. Part One (Act 1~4) of ''Kerberos Panzer Cop'' was published in various Japanese comic magazines from 1988 to 1990, it was later completed with Part Two (Act 5~8) published in Monthly Shōnen Ace from 1999 to 2000. Translated versions of the complete series were issued in South Korea, Hong Kong, Macau, Malaysia and Taiwan in the early 2000s. A sequel named ''Kerberos Saga: Rainy Dogs'' was serialized in Ace Tokunoh from 2003 to 2005, then published as an extended single volume in 2005. An English language adaptation of the first four acts was published under the title ''Hellhounds: Panzer Cops'' in 1994 by Dark Horse Comics. The American translators from Studio Protheus, Alan Gleason and Toren Smith, randomly used the alternative titles ''Hellhounds (Cerberos -''sic''-: Panzer Cop)'' and ''Hellhounds''. This adaptation was later issued in the United Kingdom by Diamond Comic Distributors in 1998, and a translated version was published in the German magazine ''Manga Power'' in 1996. On April 2010, as a twentieth anniversary of the Original Edition (1990 volume compilation), Gakken publisher will issue ''Kerberos Panzer Cop a Revision : 20th edition'', a planned revised version (Act 1~8) with corrected scenes and "digitally refine" graphics by Kamui Fujiwara.〔(Kerberos-Saga.jp - 2009.07.17 - news099：『犬狼伝説 20周年エディション』＆限定仕様BOXが発売決定！ )〕〔''Kerberos Panzer Cops: Tokyo War'' (ケルベロス東京市街戦首都警特機隊全記録), obi strip information, March 17 of 2009〕 A 16 pages extra Act ''Kerberos Panzer Cop: Special Issue'' (前夜-ケルベロス騒乱異聞, ''zenya - keruberosu souran ibun'') was prepublished in ''Kerberos Panzer Cops: Tokyo War'', the Kerberos Saga's definitive guide.〔''Kerberos Panzer Cops: Tokyo War'' (ケルベロス東京市街戦首都警特機隊全記録), page 154, March 17 of 2009〕 ==Plot== ''Kerberos Panzer Cop'' is more of an anthology of vignettes depicting "incidents", eight acts, all of which contribute to the tale of the closing battles between Antigovernment urban guerrilla organizations, such as The Sect, and the Metropolitan Police's (M.P.) Special Armed Garrison nicknamed "", the Greek word for the mythological "Cerberus" hellhound. The manga ends with the fall of the M.P.'s Special Armed Garrison to the JGSDF's special force "Molosser" during a failed ''coup d'état'' in Tokyo. The ''putsch''s failing is due to a complex political conspiracy and a harsh struggle for command between rival police administrations. This Kerberos Saga key event is called "Kerberos Riot" (ケルベロス騒乱, ''keruberosu sōran''). Though, three Special Armed Garrison veterans escape, Koichi Todome, Midori Washio and Souichiro Toribe (a.k.a. the Devil's Trio). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kerberos Panzer Cop」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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