Natsumi Tsujimoto

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Natsumi Tsujimoto (辻本夏実, Tsujimoto Natsumi^?) is a fictional character in the You're Under Arrest franchaise. Her Japanese seiyu was portrayed by Sakiko Tamagawa and her English voice by Tamara Burnham Mercer. In the Live Action version, she was portrayed by actress Misaki Ito.

Contents 1 Fictional Bio 2 History 3 References 4 See Also

[edit] Fictional Bio

Natsumi is an officer stationed at the fictional Bokuto Station in Tokyo's Sumida Ward. She is very outgoing as well as very laid back. She often demonstrates superhuman strength and is a motorcycle enthusiast, capable of high-risk maneuvers on both bikes and mopeds. Natsumi has a prodigious appetite for food and alcohol, and has been known to show up at work with a hangover. She is also a chronic late sleeper. Despite having many bad habits, she is a very capable police officer and does her job seriously when needed. She keeps a mini-moped, a Hondo Moto-Compo (JR-2) in Miyuki's Honda Today squad car and uses it when a flanking strategy is required. It is prominently labelled "NATUMI", in the Nihon-shiki transliteration system.

Natsumi is also familiar with judo and kendo, being able to defeat her oppponents during training sessions. Her strength and her familiarity with unarmed combat next to Miyuki's brilliant mind in creating devices or modifying known vehicles, made her and Miyuki famous through Bokuto Station. Due to this, she is called Home run woman by Strikeman ^[1].

[edit] History

According to the information in the You're Under Arrest series, Natsumi was born on August 12, 1975. Not much information is revealed in the story, though she had lived in Asakusa before enrolling in the Metropolitan Police Department Academy and became classmates with Miyuki Kobayakawa before being dispatched elsewhere in the Greater Tokyo Area ^[2].

The two eventually met by accident when Natsumi was late for work during her first date on duty with the Bokuto Station. She was partnered with Miyuki for a number of years. But for a short time, Natsumi was scouted by Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department Headquarters to be part of a prototype female motorbike unit before declining an invitation to train further with them ^[3]. She was known to be infatuated with Detective Tokuno and the Kachou of the Traffic Division before meeting Shoji Tokairin, who became her rival and love interest ^[4] Natsumi and Miyuki, later on in the series, broke the back of a car smuggling syndicate that operated by stealing luxury vehicles, leading to the group's disbanding. Due to her actions, Assistant Kaoruko Kinoshita moved here to the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department with Miyuki as part of her specialized training program in enchancing officer's skills related to police work ^[5]. During the Hachi-Ichi-Go crisis (Bee Number One in the dub of You're Under Arrest: The Movie), she and Miyuki proved themselves as law enforcers when they apprehended renegade police officer Tadashi Emoto as he tried to commit suicide by trying to jump from the top floors of the Tokyo Tower. She was also sent to Los Angeles in the United States with Miyuki as part of a foreign officer exchange program with the Los Angeles Police Department ^[6].

At the end of the series, Natsumi is recruited to serve in the Special Assault Team and is currently an operative stationed with the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department branch. Her partnership with Miyuki and subsequent transfer to the Special Assault Team had then ended nearly terms, almost destroying their friendship until coming to terms with reality^[7]. She was replaced in Bokuto Station by Saori Saga, an ex-student who she and Miyuki saved during her police officer days before Saori was dispatched to the said station ^[8].

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[edit] See Also

• Miyuki Kobayakawa