Shibatora
Shibatora is a Japanese manga series written by Yuma Ando and illustrated by Masashi Asaki. It was serialized in Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine from December 2006 to October 2009 and compiled into 15 volumes.
It was adapted as a 11-episode TV drama broadcast in Japan in 2008, starring Teppei Koike as the main protagonist and Suzuka Ohgo as the heroine. The central character is nicknamed "Shibatora" and he forms "Team Shibatora" to investigate crimes.
Synopsis
Taketora Shibata is just a quiet, ordinary junior-high student. He looks so vulnerable that bullies try to rip him off on the streets. However, he is actually a police detective and an expert swordsman in kendo. Shibata has a special ability to see the "reaper's hands" around people whose life is in danger. One day, the Shibatora team is assigned on an undercover operation. Shibata's covers include a high school student, a maid cafe waitress and a delinquent sentenced to a juvenile detention center... With the cooperation from his various friends, he gets to the bottom of many crimes that occur.Characters
Team Shibatora
- Teppei Koike as Taketora Shibata
- Suzuka Ohgo as Mizuki Hosho
- Naohito Fujiki as Kojiro Fujiki
- Muga Tsukaji as Shinsuke Hakuto
- Miki Maya as Sakura Chiba
- Akina Minami as '''Tamaki Ayukawa'''
Other characters
- Daisuke Miyagawa as Toru Shinjo
- Shige Uchida as Kantaro Nanbara
- Naoki Kawano as Yuji Kusunoki
- Shunsuke Daito as Gakuto Kato
- Ryosuke Miura as Takeshi Kanazawa
- Haruka Suenaga as Rika Machida
- Ryohei Suzuki as Hiromi Mura
- Ryo Karato as Mizoguchi
- Ryo Hashizume as Takeo Ochiai
- Nobuo Kyo as Takayoshi Ino
- Waka Inoue as '''Ryoko Tokiwa'''