"Hakozume: Police Box Girls Strike Back" is a series serialized in Weekly Morning and will be adapted into an anime starting in January 2022. It was also broadcast as a TV drama until recently, which ended with great acclaim. The story centers around police officers working at police stations, and depicts the harsh conditions in which they are criticized by both inside and outside the police station, making it a dark and entertaining comedy that will make you not want to become a police officer, as well as the interactions with their colleagues. The original work is basically a heartwarming dark comedy with each episode standing on its own, but it is not completely story-free, as the TV adaptation follows up on an incident that also appears in the original work. In this article, we will be introducing spoilers for the story of the TV adaptation! This is the second part, and we have summarized the contents of episodes 5 to 9!
Hakodume Drama Episode 5 Synopsis Spoilers
Mai Kawai (played by Mei Nagano), a rookie police officer working at a police box, feels anxious about the situation of girls her age enjoying romantic relationships. When Mai reveals her desire for a boyfriend, her partner, the capable senior detective Fuji (played by Erika Toda), bluntly dismisses her, saying that police officers don't have time for that. However, Fuji, a Robocop who has given up her job to fulfill her duties, invites her to a group date. When their coworker can't make it, the two decide to join a group date, but by chance, they bump into Gen (played by Shohei Miura) and Yamada (played by Yuki Yamada) from the Criminal Investigation Division, who are also having a group date nearby. They try to stay out of the way, but in the end, a scramble breaks out and the group date is canceled. Police officers don't have time for group dates.
Episode 5 Part 2
The next day, an elderly man named Miyake rushes into the police station, claiming that his wife almost killed him, but his story is quite incoherent. Later, the wife comes to the police station and it is discovered that the man has dementia. The wife is a reliable person, and at first glance there seems to be nothing wrong with her. Later, Kawai, staggering from overwork at a fire scene, is saved by a handsome firefighter named Takeda. Kawai falls in love and, with the help of Fuji and the others, manages to go on a date, but when he meets the Miyake couple during the date, he feels something is off. He interrupts the date and chases after the Miyake couple, only to find that Fuji has already found them there. Perhaps due to her personality, the reliable wife is unable to confide her troubles to anyone and is about to commit suicide together. Kawai manages to stop the suicide just in time, but social media reveals that Takeda and Kawai have very different lifestyles, and Kawai's romance comes to an abrupt end.
Hakodume Drama Episode 6 Synopsis Spoilers
Police work is intense and extremely stressful. He's forced to mediate a silly marital dispute between a married couple, and even undergoes mental health care training despite being exhausted. One day, he's overheard badmouthing the Traffic Division by Miyahara (played by Suruga Taro), a senior officer in the Traffic Division who has a reputation for being scary. He also has to subdue a man wielding a chainsaw. However, as he continues to perform these duties, Kawai gradually becomes accustomed to the job.
Episode 6 Part 2
One day, Kawai heads to the scene of a traffic accident and encounters his first fatal accident. Having dismissed the incident as minor, Kawai is deeply shocked and is instructed by Igazaki (played by Tsuyoshi Muro) to take a rest. Fuji quickly teams up with Igazaki to tackle the case, but realizes how important Kawai is to Fuji as well. However, words from Miyahara and Fuji help Kawai recover. Kawai then returns to his duties and saves some children by throwing himself in the way of an approaching car. The car stopped just in time, and Kawai only suffered a scratch, but Fuji and Igazaki appeared terrified. In fact, Fuji and Igazaki had a past together. That past involved a female police officer who was Fuji's classmate and Igazaki's former partner.
Hakodume Drama Episode 7 Spoilers
Kawai finds a photo of a senior female police officer named Sakura Shiori, who was once Igazaki's partner. She is the woman he once saw in a photo in Fuji's room. He asks Igazaki about Sakura, but doesn't get any details... At that moment, a major incident occurs at Machiyama Police Station. Yamada loses his police ID. It is kindly picked up by a shoplifter whom Gen had previously interrogated, and Yamada escapes unscathed. The next day is Igazaki's wife's due date, but starting with a call that a male university student had been hugged by a pervert, a series of incidents begin to pour in. Igazaki, whose sole purpose in life is usually to slack off, displays his hidden abilities and solves one case after another. However, in the end he is unable to be present at the birth.
Episode 7 Part 2
While heading to the hospital with Igazaki, Kawai hears from Igazaki's wife that he resembles a police officer named Sakura Shiori. When Kawai asks Igazaki about it, he learns that Sakura Shiori, a colleague of Fuji's who Igazaki was once paired with, was involved in a hit-and-run accident and is currently undergoing rehabilitation. However, the evidence was washed away by rain, and the case remains unsolved. Later, as part of his portrait training, Kawai is asked by Gen to draw a portrait of a certain person based on the testimony of a senior colleague who is currently on parental leave. The suspect was a suspect in a case known as the "Guardian Angel," and he had been staring intently at a rookie female police officer. The sketch ultimately didn't work, but Kawai later accidentally overheard a conversation between Minamoto and Yamada. They revealed that Fuji had been transferred to the police station to use Kawai, who resembled Shiori Sakura, as a decoy.
Hakodume Drama Synopsis Episode 8 Spoilers
Kawai learns from Miyahara about a hit-and-run incident three years ago. Because the evidence in that case was washed away by rain, the only clue was the white truck Igazaki witnessed. Igazaki suspects that the culprit is the "guardian angel," but Fuji is the only one who believes it to the end. It is almost certain that Fuji's purpose in being transferred was to use Kawai as a decoy to lure out the guardian angel. Later, Fuji and Igazaki, along with members of the Criminal Investigation Division, stake out a restaurant where the owner of an illegal brothel is scheduled to appear. However, Gen and Yamada, who have come on a crucial date, show up, and the restaurant turns into a public execution, with their coworkers watching their embarrassing date. And by some coincidence, Kawai also falls for an insurance solicitation and ends up in the restaurant.
Episode 8 Part 2
Although the owner of the illegal sex shop sacrificed the dignity of Gen and Yamada to arrest him, Kawai and Fuji remain somewhat awkward and lackluster. However, the situation suddenly becomes tense when a suspect carrying a gun points it at the suspect at a crime scene. Even so, Fuji refuses to back down and subdues the suspect, pointing his gun at him to protect his colleague and his precious partner. That day, Fuji confesses that he used Kawai as bait to capture the guardian angel. Upon learning Fuji's true feelings, Kawai encourages him, saying he will strive to become a police officer who is glad to have been paired with him. Later, Kawai again draws a portrait of the guardian angel, which looks exactly like the one Igazaki had seen before. Then, a man resembling the sketch appears at the neighboring Murakawa Police Station.
Hakodume Drama Episode 9 Spoilers
One week after the sketches were distributed within the police department, there was no progress on the case. While working and assisting Gen and Fuji with the forensics, an eyewitness finally gives testimony that the sketch matches. The man's name is Kimura Yoshinori, and he is the "guardian angel" himself, who matches Igazaki's memories. Kimura had abandoned his wife and child due to debt, and his daughter had previously worked for the police. When she first started working there, she resembled both Sakura and Kawai. It is also discovered that the white pickup truck belonging to the farm where Kimura works had evaded the investigation, and investigators separately pursue the president and Kimura.
Episode 9 Part 2
According to the president, Kimura testified that he crashed his light truck into a fence and scrapped it. Not wanting the police's daughter to find out, he didn't report it to the police and scrapped the truck himself, making Kimura the likely culprit. Meanwhile, Kawai bumps into his guardian angel, Kimura. While both parties are flustered, they regain their composure through communication with Fuji and manage to get Kimura to reveal the location of the crashed vehicle. Evidence of a hit-and-run is found in the crashed vehicle, but Kimura disappears, leaving behind a note hinting at suicide.
Episode 9, Part 3
However, Igazaki guessed the suicide location and, relying on his intuition, found Kimura, successfully apprehending him just before his suicide attempt. Although the case was solved, Sakura Shiori had already decided to retire from the police force. As Sakura was about to submit her retirement application, Kawai began to verbally abuse Fuji through the door, angering Sakura. Hearing this, she withdrew her retirement plan and resolved to return to work after undergoing rehabilitation. Kawai continued to work at the police box as a police officer and Fuji's partner.
[Hakozume: Police Box Girls' Counterattack] Drama Spoiler Summary, Part 2
I've put together a summary of the drama version of "Hakozume: Police Box Girls' Counterattack"! This is the second part, and I also have an article summarizing episodes 1 through 4, so please check that out too! Be sure to check out the anime too!
