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“Hard-boiled cop Samejima partners with a dolphin and mysterious girl in remote Ogasawara Islands.”
Hard-Boiled Cop and Dolphin
灼熱のニライカナイ
6.54
17,352 rank · 6,694 readers · 24 favorites
Shounen
Detective
Comedy
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Synopsis
Hard-boiled cop Samejima partners with a dolphin and mysterious girl in remote Ogasawara Islands.
Meet hard-boiled cop Boyle Samejima. He's just been assigned to the remote Ogasawara Islands. There he finds coworkers, a mysterious young girl and a dolphin for a partner?! Cop x girl x ocean! Welcome to the craziest hard-boiled cop story you'll ever read! (Source: MANGA Plus)
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 5 sampled reviews
7.4
/10
What 5 readers settled on.
100%
recommend
Score distribution
median 8
mode 8
σ 1.36
Agreement
Mostly aligned
σ 1.36 · some divergence
The polarity gap
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Not enough recommend signal yet
Score over time
↓ 0.60
Running avg · Jan 2021 → May 2025
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 8 “The pandemic affected everyone in different ways. For me, it meant that all my college friends started watching anime. Which is great, but no longer my medium of choice. I picked up Hard-Boiled Cop...”
- 7 “To sum up this story I would say for every good idea it had there was an equally bad one. Shakunetsu no Nirai Kanai was cancelled within a year of publication so that says a lot about the overall...”
- 8 “Have you ever seen an anime/manga where that has a series within a series(like a tv show) with a ridiculous premise? One I can think of is Kamakiri Man from Zatch Bell about a giant praying mantis...”
Verbosity
Short · 20%
Medium · 0%
Long · 80%
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A Manga Publication
- Format 47 × 5 ch × vol
- Total read 6h 16m approx
- Published Jun 2020 – Jun 2021
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M54071 catalog