Deka Wanko

Deka Wanko (Japanese: デカワンコ) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Kozueko Morimoto. It was serialized in Japan by Shueisha in the magazine You and was collected in 12 tankōbon volumes. The series follows the adventures of Ichiko Hanamori, a young woman who, while always dressing in lolita fashion, is also a homicide detective for the Tokyo Metropolitan Police. While inexperienced and often bumbling, she solves crimes using her sense of smell, which surpasses that of the best police dog. The title refers first, to the Japanese slang term for police detective (deka), and second, to a word play on Ichiko's name. Her name in kanji is 一子, meaning "one child", but her colleagues give her the nickname "Wanko", which both combines the Japanese pronunciation of the English word "one" with "ko", and is also an affectionate term for a dog in Japanese as "wan" is also the bark of a dog.

Deka Wanko
Cover of volume 1.
デカワンコ (Deka wanko)
Manga
Written by	Kozueko Morimoto
Published by	Shueisha
Magazine	You
Demographic	Josei
Original run	2008 – 2013
Volumes	12
Television drama
Original network	Nippon TV
Original run	15 January 2011 – 26 March 2011
Episodes	10
Live-action television film
Deka Wanko chotto dake ritānzu
Original network	Nippon TV
Released	30 April 2011 (2011-04-30)
Live-action television film
Deka Wanko shinshun supesharu
Original network	Nippon TV
Released	7 January 2012 (2012-01-07)

The series has been adapted into a television series starring Mikako Tabe as Ichiko that aired in 2011, and which was followed by several TV specials, one of which was set in Paris.[1]