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 Cover of the first volume of the MPD-Psycho manga. |
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| 多重人格探偵サイコ (Tajū-Jinkaku Tantei Saiko) |
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| Genre | Detective fiction, Psychological horror | ||
| Manga | |||
| Author | Eiji Ohtsuka | ||
| Illustrator | Shou Tajima | ||
| Publisher |  Kadokawa Shoten |
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| English publisher |  Dark Horse Comics |
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| Demographic | Seinen | ||
| Magazine | Shōnen Ace, Comic Charge (former) Young Ace |
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| Original run | 1997 – ongoing | ||
| Volumes | 13 | ||
| TV drama | |||
| MPD Psycho: Kazuhiko Amamiya Returns | |||
| Director | Takashi Miike | ||
| Episodes | 6 | ||
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Multiple Personality Detective Psycho (多重人格探偵サイコ Tajū-Jinkaku Tantei Saiko) is a manga series written by Eiji Otsuka (大塚 英志 Ōtsuka Eiji) and illustrated by Shou Tajima (田島 昭宇 Tajima Shōu), published in Kadokawa Shoten's Comic Charge since 1997. The series follows a police detective suffering from multiple personality disorder.
MPD Psycho was adapted in 2002 as a live action television miniseries, directed by Takashi Miike.
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Plot
Yôsuke Kobayashi is a detective and is on the case of a serial killer who dismembers his victims. The killer later sends Yôsuke's girlfriend dismembered but kept alive.[1] Yôsuke hunts down the killer and due to the events, loses his sanity and develops Dissociative identity disorder with the two main personalities being Kazuhiko Amamiya, a cool headed detective and Shinji Nishizono, a reckless psychopath.[1] After being placed in prison for murderering the killer, Yôsuke Kobayashi is released and works for an independent detective agency ran by Machi Isono.[1] Later serial killers are appearing with barcodes in their left eyes, which Yôsuke Kobayashi also has. Yôsuke Kobayashi investigations lead him to believe he is not who he thinks he is and that his Kazuhiko and Shinji personality existed since childhood. During the Lucy Seven case, Shinji gains control of Yôsuke Kobayashi and disappears.[2][3]
Later, it is found out that the Gakuso organization is behind the barcodes. Machi investigates and learns that Kazuhiko Amamiya and Shinji Nishizono are personalities genetically created so that they could merge into a personality that is alike to Lucy Monostone. It is revealed that there are multiple Shinji Nishizono personalities and that one exists in Machi's sister, Miwa.[4] Miwa meanwhile runs into Yôsuke Kobayashi on a plane and manages to absorb the Kazuhiko Amamiya personality.[5] At the same time, Tetora Nishizono escapes from the Gakuso organization and runs into Miwa.[6] She later gives the Kazuhiko personality to Tetoro who she asks to keep Kazuhiko alive.[6]
A few years later, Tetora continues his run from the Gakuso organization.
Characters
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Protagonists
Yosuke Kobayashi
Yosuke Kobayashi (小林 洋介 Kobayashi Yōsuke) is a police detective and inoffensive family man tracking down a serial killer who mutilates his victims by severing their limbs. When the killer sees Yousuke on television he claims to recognize something in the detective and mutilates Yousuke's girlfriend. Yosuke eventually tracks down the killer at which point a new personality called Shinji Nishizono (西園 伸二 Nishizono Shinji), an arrogant and callous psychopath, emerges and shoots the killer. From this point onward, the personality of Yousuke is replaced by Kazuhiko Amamiya (雨宮一彦 Amamiya Kazuhiko), a cool-headed, serious criminologist who is arrested and imprisoned for the murder of the serial killer. Kazuhiko's personality fluctuates several times during the course of the story, most commonly switching between Kazuhiko Amamiya and Shinji Nishizono in the early chapters. It is usually clear to the reader which personality is in control at any given time as Kazuhiko Amamiya is near-sighted and wears glasses, whereas Shinji Nishizono does not require glasses. He is killed by a Gakuso Company member.
Machi Isono
Machi Isono (伊園 磨知 Isono Machi) is an intelligent female criminologist who runs a private consultancy firm. She employs Kazuhiko Amamiya upon his release from prison and invites him to live in the large apartment which serves as home to herself and her sister as well as the headquarters of her business. Her real name is revealed to be Wakana Izono.
Miwa Isono
Miwa Isono (伊園 アリワン 美和 Isono Miwa) is the younger sister of Isono Machi. She is initially introduced as a schoolgirl with a forceful personality who occasionally helps Machi and Amamiya in their cases. As the series progresses, she becomes more important as revelations about her role in the conspiracy that runs through the book are revealed. Miwa Isono appears episodes five and six of the television series as a comatose girl rescued from a burning hospital who later forms a relationship with Amamiya.
Tetora Nishizono
Tetora Nishizono (西園 弖虎 Nishizono Tetora) is a young teenaged version of Kazuhiko Amamiya, Tetora Nishizono also carries the psychopathic personality of Shinji Nishizono, although the personality of Shinji is far more dominant in Tetora. Tetora Nishizono does not appear in the TV mini-series.
Antagonist
Gakuso Company
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Lucy Monostone
Lucy Monostone (ルーシー·モノストーン) is a deceased former American pop star and terrorist, Lucy Monostone is thought by the mysterious corporation at the heart of the conspiracy to be the perfect killer. While genetic engineering can recreate Monostone's body, the challenge appears to be recreating his soul in order for the ultimate murderer to be reborn. It seems that this can only be achieved by combining a number of personalities, representing the different parts of Monostone, into a single vessel.
Other characters
- Tooru Sasayama (笹山 徹 Sasayama Tōru)
A bumbling police detective and friend of Kazuhiko and Machi. Short tempered and easily confused, Sasayama is nevertheless a "straight arrow" and reliably on the side of the good guys.
Media
Manga
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Live-Action Series
The plot is similar to the beginning of the manga series but does not relate to the incidents of Lucy Monostone and the Gakuso Company. Yosuke Kobayashi, a detective assigned to a homicide unit, saw his wife killed by a serial killer, Shinji Nishizono. From the shock of the incident, he suffers from multiple personality disorder and becomes Kazuhiko Amamiya. Soon after he manages to hunt down and kill his wife's murderer. Now a series of murders have started and the suspect claimed to be Shinji Nishizono.
Episodes
| # | Title | Original air date |
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| 1 | "Memories Of Sin/Drifting Petals" | |
| A sadistic criminal is turning his victims into human flower pots. Detective Amamiya Kazuhiko is called out of early retirement to work on the case, which is tied to horrific events in his past. His new wife goes missing and a mysterious cult with barcodes tattooed on their eyeballs surfaces to wreak havoc on the city. | ||
| 2 | "How To Create A World" | |
| A brutal serial killer cuts babies from their mothers' womb in what appears to be a copycat crime from five years earlier. All of the women have barcodes tattooed on their eyeballs. The victims, under some sort of hypnosis, purchase the surgical quality knives used to kill them the day before their murders. As Detective Amamiya's wife wanders the city in a trance, he discovers someone from his past is involved in the crime wave. | ||
| 3 | "Life Is A Constant Double Helix" | |
| Detective Amamiya and the police team are investigating the mass suicide of forty girls from a posh high school. Amamiya goes undercover as a high school teacher to find out why and learn more about a new generation of barcoders, many of whom are students at this militaristic high school. Chiaki Kuriyama guest stars. | ||
| 4 | "The Crushed Ant" | |
| Perfectly severed body parts with numbers cut into them are discovered in a field. In a nearby arcade, two rival youth gangs battle each other and Amamiya's wife is taken prisoner by a gang leader. The Police Chief tries to put together more of Amamiya's hidden past with the assistance of a one-eyed snuff filmmaker. | ||
| 5 | "Coronation Of The Cursed King" | |
| Cult members spontaneously combust when the barcoder network is infected. The burn victims are taken to the local hospital where a lonely employee's cyber girlfriend tells him to kill people. Detective Amamiya and his team lock down the hospital, while strange things happen on the secret 13th floor. | ||
| 6 | "Soaring Souls And Human Bondage" | |
| The Police Department denies that the barcode case ever existed in a massive cover-up attempt. Three remaining members of the investigation team decide to continue working on the case on their own. The Police Chief's entire family dies under mysterious circumstances. Amamiya tracks down the baby stealer to a remote cabin in a snowstorm for a final showdown to recover his own missing child. | ||
References
- ^ a b c Ohtsuka, Eiji; Shou Tajima. "Files 2" (in Japanese). 多重人格探偵サイコ. Volume 1. Kadokawa Shoten. ISBN 978-1-59307-770-9.
- ^ Ohtsuka, Eiji; Shou Tajima. "Files 31" (in Japanese). 多重人格探偵サイコ. Kadokawa Shoten.
- ^ Ohtsuka, Eiji; Shou Tajima. "Files32" (in Japanese). 多重人格探偵サイコ. Kadokawa Shoten.
- ^ Ohtsuka, Eiji; Shou Tajima. "Files 37" (in Japanese). 多重人格探偵サイコ. Kadokawa Shoten.
- ^ Ohtsuka, Eiji; Shou Tajima. "Files 43" (in Japanese). 多重人格探偵サイコ. Kadokawa Shoten.
- ^ a b Ohtsuka, Eiji; Shou Tajima. "Chapter 45" (in Japanese). 多重人格探偵サイコ. Kadokawa Shoten.
External links
- Kadokawa Shoten MPD Psycho website (Japanese)
- Multiple Personality Detective Psycho (manga) at Anime News Network's Encyclopedia
- Multiple Personality Detective Psycho at the Internet Movie Database
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