Mirai Keisatsu Urashiman (未来警察ウラシマン, "Future Policeman Urashiman") is a Japanese manga series written by Hirohisa Soda, illustrated by Noboru Akashi and Haruka Inui and published by Akita Shoten in Weekly Shonen Champion. It was adapted into an anime television series produced by Tatsunoko Productions that ran from January 9 to December 24, 1983, on Fuji TV. It was later released in Germany and Sweden as Rock 'n Cop, in Finland as Rocki-kyttä (Rocki-Cop), in France as Super Durand (roughly, "Super Jones" or "Super Smith"), and in Italy as Ryo, un ragazzo contro un impero ("Ryo, a boy against an empire").
Saban Entertainment dubbed it under the title Rock 'n Cop, but this dub was never released in the United States.[2] The Saban version was however used as the base for the German, Italian, Swedish and Finnish versions. A film version was in the works but also abandoned.[3] The anime is licensed in North America by Sentai Filmworks.
Plot
The story tells of a young man and his cat who are being pursued by the police during a particularly stormy night in a city in 1983. The man drives his car into the middle of a cyclone and is caught in a space/time anomaly. As a result, they end up in the year 2050.
Suffering from complete memory loss, he soon finds that he is being pursued by the army-like forces of Necrime, a top criminal organization led by Ludovich. Taking the name Ryū Urashima, the man joins the police force and fights back against Necrime.[4] He is joined in the fight by Sophia, a happy-go-lucky ex-nun, and Claude, a fellow officer. The unit is run by Inspector Gondo Toru. He is also joined by his cat, Myaa, who made the time journey with him and is one of the few links to his past that he remembers.
