Ice Blade
| Ice Blade | |
First tankōbon volume cover, featuring Kyoya Ida | |
| 地雷震 (Jiraishin) | |
|---|---|
| Manga | |
| Written by | Tsutomu Takahashi |
| Published by | Kodansha |
| English publisher | |
| Imprint | Afternoon KC |
| Magazine | Monthly Afternoon |
| English magazine | |
| Original run | September 25, 1992 – November 25, 1999 |
| Volumes | 19 |
| Manga | |
| Jiraishin Diablo | |
| Written by | Tsutomu Takahashi |
| Published by | Kodansha |
| Imprint | Afternoon KC |
| Magazine | Good! Afternoon |
| Original run | November 7, 2008 – November 7, 2011 |
| Volumes | 3 |
Ice Blade (地雷震, Jiraishin; lit. 'Earth-Lightning-Quake') is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Tsutomu Takahashi. It was serialized in Kodansha's seinen manga magazine Monthly Afternoon from September 1992 to November 1999, with its chapters collected in 19 tankōbon volumes. The story follows Kyoya Ida, a plainclothes police officer, and his colleagues at the Shinjuku Police Department as they investigate and solve crimes in the Greater Tokyo Area. Sometimes, these crimes are solved with some prices to pay.
A sequel, titled Jiraishin Diablo, was serialized in Kodansha's Good! Afternoon from November 2008 to November 2011, with its chapters collected in three tankōbon volumes. It portrays Ida and his interactions with various people after his absence from the force due to an eye disease while hearing of mysterious deaths of villagers living in the fictional Amakura Island in Japan's Ishikawa Prefecture in the year 2008 while assisting a police detective in initially trying to figure out who or what was responsible for their deaths after it was reported back in 2007.