Kerberos Panzer Cop

Kerberos Panzer Cop, also known as Hellhounds Legend (Japanese: 犬狼伝説, Hepburn: Kenrō Densetsu; lit. 'Legend of Dogs and Wolves') and Hellhounds: Panzer Cops, or just Hellhounds overseas, is a Japanese alternate history political thriller manga series written by Mamoru Oshii and illustrated by Kamui Fujiwara with mechanical designs by Yutaka Izubuchi, running from 1988 to January 2000. Part of the Kerberos Saga and set before Oshii's 1987 film The Red Spectacles, the manga details the history and events surrounding the Special Armed Garrison, nicknamed "Kerberos", a Tokyo-based counterterrorist police tactical unit operating in an alternate history authoritarian postwar Japan. Part I (Act 1~4) of Kerberos Panzer Cop was published in various Japanese comic magazines from 1988 to 1990, it was later completed with Part II (Act 5~8) published in Monthly Shōnen Ace from 1999 to 2000. Translated versions of the complete series were issued in South Korea, Hong Kong, Macau, Malaysia and Taiwan in the early 2000s. An English language adaptation of the first four acts was published under the title Hellhounds: Panzer Cops in 1994 by Dark Horse Comics. The American translators from Studio Protheus, Alan Gleason and Toren Smith, randomly used the alternative titles Hellhounds (Cerberos: Panzer Cop) and Hellhounds. This adaptation was later issued in the United Kingdom by Diamond Comic Distributors in 1998, and a translated version was published in the German magazine Manga Power in 1996. In 2009, an omake-style issue, Kerberos Panzer Cop: Special Issue (前夜-ケルベロス騒乱異聞, Zenya - Keruberosu Sōran Ibun), was published in Kerberos Panzer Cops: Tokyo War, the Kerberos Saga's definitive guide. In April 2010, for the 20th anniversary of the Original Edition (1990 volume compilation), publisher Gakken issued Kerberos Panzer Cop a Revision: 20th Edition (犬狼伝説 20周年エディション), a digitally refined and corrected reissue of the entire manga, alongside a special pamphlet...