Police Officer (Bokuto Station)[]
Natsumi Tsujimoto[]
(辻 本 夏実 Tsujimoto Natsumi)
is a fictional character and protagonist in the You're Under Arrest franchise. Her Japanese Voice was provided by: Sakiko Tamagawa (Japanese), Pinky Rebucas (Filipino) & her English voice by Tamara Burnham Mercer. In the Live Action version, she was portrayed by actress Misaki Ito (Live Action).
Fictional biography[]
Natsumi showing off her superhuman strength to stop a teenage voyeur from escaping.Natsumi is an officer stationed at the fictional Bokuto Station in Tokyo' Sumida Ward. She is very outgoing as well as very laid back. She often demonstrates superhuman strength second only to Shoji Tokairin and is a motorcycle enthusiast, capable of high-risk maneuvers on both bikes and mopeds. Natsumi has a prodigious appetite for food and alcohol, and has been known to show up at work with a hangover. She is also a chronic late sleeper. Despite having many bad habits, she is a very capable police officer and does her job seriously when needed. She keeps a mini-moped, a Honda Motocompo (JR-2) in Miyuki's Honda Today squad car and uses it when a flanking strategy is required. It is prominently labeled "NATSUMI" (in the Nihon-shiki transliteration system) before her first day at Bokuto in the beginning of the first anime, later re-coloured and re-labeled "POLICE" in the later appearances and on the Bandai Model kit of the Honda Today. When off-duty, she operates a Yamaha RZV motorcycle until it is damaged beyond repair during later part of the first season. She is subsequently tricked into buying a 1972 Subaru R-2, which is in a near-non-functioning state. This car is then thoroughly renovated and heavily modified by Miyuki into a patrol car. She uses the wrecked motorbike's engine, modifying the car to make its operation follow closely to that of a motorbike. In the manga version, this car operates with double engines.
Natsumi is also familiar with judo and kendo, being able to defeat her opponents during training sessions. Her strength and her familiarity with hand-to-hand combat complement Miyuki's brilliant mind in creating devices or modifying known vehicles very well, making her and Miyuki famous throughout Bokuto Station. She is also the only person in this series able to consistently defeat Strikeman's fastballs and is called Home-Run Girl by Strikeman for this very reason.
Notable Parents of Police Officer Natsumi Tsujimoto
Kazuhiro Tsujimoto (Father)
Hiromi Tsujimoto (Mother)
History[]
According to the information in the You're Under Arrest series, Natsumi was born on August 13, 1975. Not much information is revealed in the story, though she had lived in Asakusa before enrolling in the Metropolitan Police Department Academy and became classmates with Miyuki Kobayakawa before being dispatched elsewhere in the Greater Tokyo Area.
The two eventually met by accident when Natsumi was late for work during her first day on duty with the Bokuto Station. She was partnered with Miyuki for a number of years. But for a short time, Natsumi was scouted by Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department Headquarters to be part of a prototype female motorbike unit before declining an invitation to train further with them. She was known to be infatuated with Detective Tokuno and the Kachou of the Traffic Division before meeting Shoji Tokairin, who became her rival and love interest. Natsumi & Miyuki, later on in the series, broke the back of a car smuggling syndicate that operated by stealing luxury vehicles, leading to the group's disbanding. Due to her actions, Assistant Inspector Kaoruko Kinoshita moved her to the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department with Miyuki as part of her specialized training program in enhancing officer's skills related to police work.
At the end of the series, Natsumi is recruited to serve in the Special Assault Team and was an operative stationed with the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department branch. Her partnership with Miyuki and subsequent transfer to the Special Assault Team had then ended nearly on bad terms, almost destroying their friendship until coming to terms with reality. She was replaced in Bokuto Station by Saori Saga, an ex-student who she and Miyuki saved during her police officer days before Saori was dispatched to the said station.
She had been temporarily been at Bokuto again[9] before being transferred out to be trained under the JGSDF's Ranger Platoon before being reassigned again to Bokuto Station, serving as Miyuki's partner again after Saori had left Bokuto to be relocated in another station. 「Negative Two Year Before Disappear of Megumi Yokota kun」
Miyuki Kobayakawa[]
( 小早川 美幸 Kobayakawa Miyuki)[1]
is a fictional character and protagonist in the You're Under Arrest franchise. Her Japanese voice was provided by Akiko Hiramatsu, Kathyin Masilungan (Filipino) Her English voice, however, was provided by two voice actors. The OVA version was done by Jo Ann Luzzatto and the rest was done by Juliet Cesario In the Live Action version, she was portrayed by actress Sachie Hara.
Miyuki is fearful of anything that cannot be explained by science, such as the Paranormal, Supernatural or anything that was similar to science fiction. She is also afraid of reptiles.[3]
Her character design was also used as the template for a goddess whom the characters prayed to in a four panel gag strip added to a version of YUA who eventually became Belldandy when the strip proved popular and was developed into Oh! My Goddess.[4]
According to the information in the You're Under Arrest series, Miyuki was born on April 7, 1976. She had previously lived in the Okayama Prefecture before moving to the Greater Tokyo Area & entered the Metropolitan Police Department Academy and was classmates with Natsumi Tsujimoto before being transferred to Bokuto Station. She residences currently in Kōtō, Tokyo alongside Natsumi.[5]
When she was trying to pick up Natsumi, she met with her instead by luck when seeing her breaking some of traffic violation rules but she knew at once that she's Natsumi, her partner to be. Eventually catching up with her, Miyuki made a first impression with her and after Natsumi's transfer to Bokuto Station was complete, Miyuki and Natsumi became partners in the station's Traffic Division. The two became famous with Miyuki's brains and Natsumi's fists in solving various cases involving either themselves or with their colleagues. Miyuki was the other half of the duo responsible for ground breaking work in dismantling a mysterious car smuggling syndicate operation in Tokyo, resulting in her subsequent transfer to the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department's Criminal Investigation Bureau [6] under its Scientific Investigations Laboratory. The Lab invited her to permanently transfer to the department, but she refused the offer.
In the Hachi-Ichi-Go (蜂一号) crisis (Bee Number One in the dub of You're Under Arrest: The Movie), Miyuki's expertise in computers and in electronics have managed to gain breakwork during initial investigations over the mysterious power outages in the Sumida Ward, but was not able to secure any details regarding them. Nearing the end of the movie, she and Natsumi apprehend renegade officer Tadashi Emoto after wounding Kachō as a means of "proving" that he acted alone throughout the crisis. Miyuki was sent to Los Angeles with Natsumi as part of a foreign police officer exchange program for a short time with the Los Angeles Police Department.[7]
Nearing the end of the series, Miyuki nearly broke her friendship with Natsumi after learning that the latter wasbeing recruited into the Special Assault Team. The two patched up their differences when Miyuki told Natsumi that she wasn't open enough for her to accept Natsumi's recruitment into the SAT [8]
since the two had acted like real friends, even like sisterswhen Miyuki explained that Natsumi's SAT recruitment happened so fast without her realizing it all along, which forced her to shield herself from seeing reality as it was.[9]Miyuki also renewed her "friendship" with Nakajima, further opening their relationship to other possibilities.[1] Her partner is Saori Saga, who took over Natsumi's position after she was permanently stationed in the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department branch as part of her duties as an SAT operative [10] before being transferred to the United States to conduct forensic training.[11] she modified 1985 Honda Today 700cc (although still having a yellow number plate for K-cars) and added twin cams, a turbo-charger, and nitrous oxide boost.
Aoi Futaba[]
(双 葉 葵 Futaba Aoi )
Voiced by: Rica Matsumoto (Japanese), Sherwin Revistir (Filipino) & Amy Tipton (English)
who joins Bokuto Station in the first season. The Japanese version explains that she came from the Anti-Chikan Unit. Chikan refers to men who molest women. Aoi "went native" and now is more feminine in appearance and personality than most of the other female officers. In Second Season. Her colleagues treat her as a woman, although they speculate on her romantic preferences. In a story where actor Mr. Kitakoji proposes to her, she turns him down and wears men's clothes for the only time in the series. In another episode, she gets involved in an Internet romance and is torn about meeting this man and revealing her secret. Prior to entering the force, Aoi played golf and attracted many female admirers. In the anime, Aoi played basketball. In the Full Throttle episode "Aoi-chan Becomes a Man!?", Aoi meets her ex-superior Udamura Kumanosuke who had headed the sting operation.