If there is to be another Inaba style 4-koma...

[OkashiiKisei]

How about the uptight by-the-book beat cop? Or the chain-smoking dispatcher? Or the overworked liberal social worker?

Oh god I love this idea.

Respectively Shikieiki, Mokou and Youmu.

[Sinner]

Aya trying to make it as a real reporter in the outside world. Momiji has tagged along. While Aya is superconfident, Momiji is a bit scared of the outside world. They are roommates, and get into many zany misunderstandings as they become acquainted with things like "home delivery pizza" and "utility bills". Yukari makes cameos now and then to make sure things don't get too out of hand, and sometimes to play little pranks on them. On occassion, she gaps in other Gensokyans to visit. That's what I want to see.

At first I laughed, then realized this would make an amazing 4koma. Aya and Momiji hating each other in cannon shouldn't matter too much, Kaguya and Mokou's problems with each other were toned down a lot for Inaba.

[Fightest]

I agree with the Keine choice for angry police chief, just for visual comedy alone. Also fits how she's generally portrayed as a caring person in her normal form.

Mokou for cop-turned-vigilante with an axe to grind.

And, despite the high validity of the above suggestion, I would recommend Youmu for the uptight by-the-book position. Shiki has much more potential than that.

[fakeedit] Hay gaise, Aya for plucky gonzo reporter, am I a genius or what? :V

[realedit] Though Youmu must have in her possession, at all times, two guns: a .357 Magnum (The things it can't shoot through are next to none) and a ... dunno. Not very knowledgeable about guns.

[Recon 5]

I'd expect that ZUN would do something a bit closer to canon. Kotohime as the hard-boiled officer, for example.

[Dizzy H. "Muffin" Muffin]

But in any case,


we're still going


with HoRantio.

[Fightest]

Good thing any given "YEEEEEEEAAAAAAAH!" moment fits the 4-koma format perfectly.

[warpshadow]

I demand blood. Namely who is going to be Ran's ex partner whom she angsts about and who is the cop that is 2 weeks away from retirement?

[OkashiiKisei]

I demand blood. Namely who is going to be Ran's ex partner whom she angsts about and who is the cop that is 2 weeks away from retirement?

Namely who is going to be Ran's ex partner whom she angsts about

and who is the cop that is 2 weeks away from retirement?

Yukari.

[Iryan]

I demand blood. Namely who is going to be Ran's ex partner whom she angsts about?

I'd say Orange. Not only is she the closest to being killed off of any character has gotten to officially, but also, well think about it:

Old partner: Orange.
New partner: Chen.

[Tengukami]

We also need a clean-cut rookie who ends up getting shot to death in a crackhouse, wracking Ran with guilt.

[P♂ zeal]

We also need a clean-cut rookie who ends up getting shot to death in a crackhouse, wracking Ran with guilt.

Mima
kogasa

[Tengukami]

No, I think you were right the first time. Mima it is.

Alright ... let's see ... we need a bitter, corrupt cop who's in cahoots with criminals, yet is somehow untouchable because he has the spineless mayor under his thumb. Also, who plays the mayor?

[orinrin]

Don't forget the hundreds of civilians so we can have collateral damage.

[Tengukami]

Yes! And the nervous, tear-choked wife who's always seen washing the dishes and often bursts into sobs about how "you love your job more than me" and "this case is tearing our marriage apart" and so on.

[Alfred F. Jones]

Ammy, you will begin writing this story and post it in PSL, and after peer review we shall send it off to Toshira Arata and ZUN for publication.

[Bias Bus]

Makai group is all I want. Don't care how it's done. I just want it.

"Chen, this is your new playmate, Neco Arc Chaos. have fun you two!"

Or this. Fucking THIS.

Or maybe Bubsy.

"So, you're that bobcat that recently died, how about you come with me to Gensokyo?"

"What could possibly go wrong!"

EVERYTHING

[Fightest]

I demand blood. Namely who is going to be Ran's ex partner whom she angsts about and who is the cop that is 2 weeks away from retirement?

Wait, wait, can't we have a fun, PG-13 romp with wacky cops and dastardly criminals? Do we always have to push for the 16, or even 18 ratings? People of the world! I have a dream! etc.

On the other hand, get this:

Orin, still a kid, wheels around a wheelbarrow through areas of violent crime, looting valuables off the dead to support her family, the creaking of the wheel occasionally interrupted by the clinking of bullet casings lying in the road that it pushes aside. If she is found, she knows she'll be killed for the valuables she has collected, yet she knows that, without her, her family wouldn't live a day...

[Tengukami]

Ammy, you will begin writing this story and post it in PSL, and after peer review we shall send it off to Toshira Arata and ZUN for publication.

Well we have to get Fightest in on it, too. This was all his fault, er, inspiration.

[Alfred F. Jones]

First, musical analysis, then the world's tiniest Bad Apple, and now this. Fightest carries the standard of the western Touhou community high!

[Fightest]

Well we have to get Fightest in on it, too. This was all his fault, er, inspiration.

Oh good, another project to go gloriously unfinished! :V

So I'm actually quite adamant for the core storyline, as it were, to be mostly lighthearted. After all, buddy cop shows are more about mutual understanding, teamwork and wisecracks than murdering hundreds on-screen. However, for those crying for blood, we can make the backstory be dark as hell, so flashbacks have plenty to work with.

[Tengukami]

No, I'm with you, Fightest. I'd also like it to be a light-hearted story. Preferably one that mocks the hell out of every cop show/movie we can think of. We don't need to go all Harvey Keitel on people. Was thinking more Don Johnson.

[OkashiiKisei]

No, I think you were right the first time. Mima it is.

Alright ... let's see ... we need a bitter, corrupt cop who's in cahoots with criminals, yet is somehow untouchable because he has the spineless mayor under his thumb. Also, who plays the mayor?

Mayor: Akyu
Corrupt Cop: Kanako

[warpshadow]

Also every so often Shou and Nazrin step in from the GSIA (Gensokyo Security Investigation Agency) to steal a case when Ran and Chen are this close to solving it.

[Shizzo]

TO WHAT POINT DID THIS TOPIC CAME TO?!

[Fightest]

I believe it was Yukari who was killed off, that forces Ran into angst? Clearly Yukari and Ran were partners in the way Ran and Chen are now. Yukari is driven into obsession over a case that, eventually, gets her killed in front of a helpless Ran, who arrived too late to help her out. This is to be mirrored in the Ran'n'Chen story, where Ran falls into a similar obsession, but is pulled out of it in the nick of time by Chen, thus facilitating a bonding moment between the two, with tearful "we're partners, dammit!" moments.

[game2011]

How did the topic change into this...?  I asked for people to share their ideas of a 4-koma similar to Inaha, and now it's mostly about cops, crimes, etc...

[Firestorm29]

How did the topic change into this...?  I asked for people to share their ideas of a 4-koma similar to Inaha, and now it's mostly about cops, crimes, etc...

Sometimes, you should just let the awesome flow. May not end up as you intended, but it'll be better at the end.

[Drake]

How did the topic change into this...?  I asked for people to share their ideas of a 4-koma similar to Inaha, and now it's mostly about cops, crimes, etc...

are you really complaining about something this amazing

[game2011]

I just thought that it's going a little bit off-topic.

[Spidere]

I just thought that it's going a little bit off-topic.

We're discussing 4koma. The concept is just about Touhou going Miami Vice.