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Kenichi Kurokawa, nicknamed "Pops" or "Mr. K," is a former Tokyo Police detective whose cynical outlook stemmed from seeing guilty criminals escape justice, leading him to adopt questionable tactics. Dismissed under disputed circumstances and stripped of his pension, he retaliated by authoring a bestselling exposé under a pseudonym, detailing police corruption and embarrassing the department.
After his firing, he co-founded the Danger Service Agency (DSA) with Mikura Suzuki and Tomohisa Harada, forming the team known in press reports as the "Risk Their Lives Trio." Kurokawa assumes a leadership role at the DSA, arranging jobs and leveraging his deep knowledge of police procedures and underworld operations, though his authority is often informal or self-assigned. His criminal tactics expertise remains vital to the group.
Middle-aged with dark-tanned skin and thinning black hair, Kurokawa is notably sensitive about his receding hairline, lamenting over hair growth commercials yet refusing to buy the products. His attire in "Mezzo Forte" consists of a light grey hoodie under a green sweater and khaki overcoat with brown pants. In "Mezzo DSA," he wears a red and pink striped button-down under a burgundy jacket with black pants, adding a yellow apron featuring a bunny image while cooking.
Kurokawa possesses an obsessive love for noodles, eating them almost exclusively and reacting negatively when others consume foods like fish and rice. He drives a Volkswagen Beetle, initially yellow in "Mezzo Forte" but replaced with a pink model after its destruction. He frequently cracks puns and openly expresses attraction to women, exemplified when he instinctively looked for a reported nude woman during a distraction.
Within the DSA, Kurokawa shares a pragmatic, familial dynamic. Mikura and Harada defer to him as "Pops," though they occasionally mock his hair loss. He displays protectiveness toward Mikura in "Mezzo DSA," intervening when she is targeted. His backstory reveals he arrested both Mikura and Harada during his police career before their partnership. A "Mezzo DSA" subplot involves an assassin from the mercenary group Black Scissors hunting him, contracted by his former police chief whom Kurokawa blackmails using a compromising DVD. This DVD contains evidence of the chief's inappropriate relationship with an underage pop star, which Kurokawa uses to extort ammunition and resources for the DSA.
Kurokawa has mixed Japanese and American heritage and resides in a converted double-decker bus serving as the DSA headquarters. He acts as the team's primary cook, emphasizing noodle dishes to his partners' annoyance. Trivia includes his comedic frustration over hair loss, a recurring large mole on his cheek in caricatures, and his dedicated cooking role despite the limited menu.
After his firing, he co-founded the Danger Service Agency (DSA) with Mikura Suzuki and Tomohisa Harada, forming the team known in press reports as the "Risk Their Lives Trio." Kurokawa assumes a leadership role at the DSA, arranging jobs and leveraging his deep knowledge of police procedures and underworld operations, though his authority is often informal or self-assigned. His criminal tactics expertise remains vital to the group.
Middle-aged with dark-tanned skin and thinning black hair, Kurokawa is notably sensitive about his receding hairline, lamenting over hair growth commercials yet refusing to buy the products. His attire in "Mezzo Forte" consists of a light grey hoodie under a green sweater and khaki overcoat with brown pants. In "Mezzo DSA," he wears a red and pink striped button-down under a burgundy jacket with black pants, adding a yellow apron featuring a bunny image while cooking.
Kurokawa possesses an obsessive love for noodles, eating them almost exclusively and reacting negatively when others consume foods like fish and rice. He drives a Volkswagen Beetle, initially yellow in "Mezzo Forte" but replaced with a pink model after its destruction. He frequently cracks puns and openly expresses attraction to women, exemplified when he instinctively looked for a reported nude woman during a distraction.
Within the DSA, Kurokawa shares a pragmatic, familial dynamic. Mikura and Harada defer to him as "Pops," though they occasionally mock his hair loss. He displays protectiveness toward Mikura in "Mezzo DSA," intervening when she is targeted. His backstory reveals he arrested both Mikura and Harada during his police career before their partnership. A "Mezzo DSA" subplot involves an assassin from the mercenary group Black Scissors hunting him, contracted by his former police chief whom Kurokawa blackmails using a compromising DVD. This DVD contains evidence of the chief's inappropriate relationship with an underage pop star, which Kurokawa uses to extort ammunition and resources for the DSA.
Kurokawa has mixed Japanese and American heritage and resides in a converted double-decker bus serving as the DSA headquarters. He acts as the team's primary cook, emphasizing noodle dishes to his partners' annoyance. Trivia includes his comedic frustration over hair loss, a recurring large mole on his cheek in caricatures, and his dedicated cooking role despite the limited menu.