Mirai Keisatsu Urashiman (未来警察ウラシマン) is an anime television series created by Hiroshisa Soda and produced by Tatsunoko Production that ran from January 9 to December 24, 1983, on Fuji Television and its affiliates. It was later released in Germany and Sweden as Rock 'n Cop, in Finland as Rocki-kyttä (Rocki-Cop), in France as Super Durand (roughly, "Super Jones" or "Super Smith"), and in Italy as Ryo, un ragazzo contro un impero ("Ryo, a boy against an empire"). A manga adaptation by Soda, illustrated by Noboru Akashi and Haruka Inui and published by Akita Shoten in Weekly Shonen Champion.
Saban Entertainment dubbed it under the title Rock 'n Cop, but this dub was never released in the United States.[2] The Saban version was however used as the base for the Latin American, German, Italian, Swedish and Finnish versions. A film version was in the works but also abandoned.[3] The anime is licensed in North America by Sentai Filmworks.
Plot
The story tells of a young man and his cat who are being pursued by the police during a particularly stormy night in a city in 1983. The man drives his car into the middle of a cyclone and is caught in a spacetime anomaly. As a result, they end up in the year 2050.
Suffering from complete amnesia, he soon finds that he is being pursued by the army-like forces of Necrime, a top criminal organization led by Ludovich. Taking the name Ryū Urashima, the man joins the police force and fights back against Necrime.[4] He is joined in the fight by Sophia, a happy-go-lucky ex-nun, and Claude, a fellow officer. The unit is run by Inspector Gondo Toru. He is also joined by his cat, Myaa, who made the time journey with him and is one of the few links to his past that he remembers.
Characters
Police Division 38 (Magna Police Force)
- Ryū Urashima (ウラシマ・リュウ)/Urashiman:
- Claude Mizusawa (クロード（蔵人）・水沢):
- Sophia Nina Rose (ソフィア・ニーナ・ローズ):
- Myaa (ミャー):
- Inspector Tōru Gondō (権藤 透):
Necrime
- Adolf von Ludwig (アドルフ・フォン・ルードヴィッヒ):
- Mylène Savelyeva (ミレーヌ・サベリーエワ):
- Jitanda Funda (ジタンダ・フンダ)/Yetander:
- Stinger Wolf (スティンガー・ウルフ):
- Stinger Cat (スティンガー・キャット):
- Stinger Hawk (スティンガー・ホーク):
- Stinger Shark (スティンガー・シャーク):
- Stinger Bear (スティンガー・ベアー):
- Führer (総統フューラー):, Kazuyuki Sogabe (young)
- Josephine Catsburg (ジョセフィーヌ・キャッツバーグ):
Episodes
External links
- Mirai Keisatsu Urashiman at Tokyo MX
References
- 作品データベース Tatsunoko.co.jp, retrieved 2012-08-03^
- Future Police Urashiman Tatsunokousa.com, retrieved 2012-03-01^
- Classic | Journey | Reo | Sugar Daddies | Beatles | Alice Wonderland | Vertige at Anime-classic.net, retrieved 2012-03-23^
- Tatsunoko Pro Tatsunoko.co.jp, retrieved 2012-08-03^