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“Retired scientist Omori and alien patrolman Jaco team up to defend Earth from a looming galactic threat.”
Jaco the Galactic Patrolman
銀河パトロール ジャコ
6.98
9,985 rank · 12,095 readers · 96 favorites
Shounen
Action
Comedy
Sci-Fi
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Synopsis
Retired scientist Omori and alien patrolman Jaco team up to defend Earth from a looming galactic threat.
Retired scientist Omori lives alone on a deserted island while continuing his research into time-travel. His quiet life in interrupted when galactic patrolman Jaco crash-lands and decides to move in with him. This agent from space claims to be elite, but sometimes it can a little hard to believe. Can Jaco get along with the old man long enough to save the earth from a dangerous threat? (Source: VIZ Media)
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 7 sampled reviews
8.1
/10
What 7 readers settled on.
100%
recommend
Score distribution
median 8
mode 7
σ 1.25
Agreement
Mostly aligned
σ 1.25 · some divergence
The polarity gap
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Not enough recommend signal yet
Score over time
↓ 1.86
Running avg · Jun 2015 → Nov 2023
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 8 “I found Jaco: the Galactic Patrolman a great manga, not for his wonderful story or wonderful characters but for the feel of being thrown once again in the awesome (and for someones meaningful)...”
- 7 “I notice not many people have seen this but Ginga Patrol Jaco was a really good short fun manga. Now it's only 1 volume and around 11 chapters maybe 220 pages but in that short time I actually came...”
- 7 “A short and sweet manga from Akira Toriyama that tells it's own self contained story in the vein of his more light hearted stuff, that is until the end when it's actually revealed that this is a...”
Verbosity
Short · 43%
Medium · 14%
Long · 43%
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A Manga Publication
- Format 12 × 1 ch × vol
- Total read 1h 36m approx
- Published Jul 2013 – Sep 2013
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M22828 catalog