Kankichi Ryotsu

Ryosan is a thirtysixyearold police officer with the personality of a twelveyearold. His laziness when it comes to work is matched only by his zeal and cleverness in hatching moneymaking schemes the fruits of which are invariably squandered on toys gadgets and cheap entertainment. He is the stereotypical streetsmart shitamachi type sporting a Crew cut and stomping about in ratty sandals even in uniform and narrowminded towards the outside world as he makes his rounds on a creaky old bicycle. At the same time he is a superotaku up on all the latest fads in popular culture and consumer technology. While most of his interests are of the juvenile sort such as video games and collectibles he also indulges in more typically salarymantype pastimes such as drinking pachinko and gambling especially horseracing. Despite his undisciplined lifestyle he possesses superhuman strength and stamina which he is forced to depend on at times. Ryotsu is a bachelor and seems relatively uninterested in women yet occasionally attracts the attention of nave young female acquaintances though never with any eventual success.