Look how bright the children's eyes are shining.
Here at Hatsuya Department, they're selling something children love.
Bugs. That's right, insects.
Kids would catch them in mountains,
but now, they're sold at department stores.
Which bug do you like, young man?
What's that one up there?
Well, let me see.
Could it be a big unicorn beetle?
That's today's main feature.
It flew right into a jacklighting boat.
Professors are saying it might be a new species.
Wow, sounds interesting.
It'll cost you at least 100,000 yen.
4 months of salary?
My 100,000 yen!
What can be happening?
A fog, a black fog.
The Black Fog that's been disrupting transportation these few days.
This must be it.
What is this fog?
Don't worry.
Thank you for saving me.
What are they?
They're Tartaros Bugmen.
Go, report on it.
You're a pro.
But we couldn't use it for the show anyway.
It's a ghost!
(August, the 41st of Shinka Era, Ginza)
Concrete Revolutio ~Superhuman Phantasmagoria~
I heard it A voice cursing fate
I found it A way to use my power
What you want are not words, are they?
That love inside I want to send it on
Justice is not on my side
The only thing absolute for me is myself
Come on Wakers. Ready, go!
Protecting the illusions that somebody dreamed of
will liberate the stagnant sky
We hurl our unanswerable cries at each other
And they become the reason we live
What can I do in this hopeless world we live in?
Only those that keep searching
can become the future
Start the revolution!
(Inside the "Black Fog")
This place hasn't changed a bit.
(Winner)
- Yay, I won! - Oh my.
Then here's another one.
This is a winner too.
Nobody's here.
Must be at college or working.
(August, the 41st of Shinka Era, Harumi)
Meteorterre.
Hoshinoko. Witch powers...
Can only be used for helping humans, yes?
But nobody's looking.
We'll never be able to go back to our home like that.
Oh, time for the news.
You're doing it too, Ullr.
As we have been reporting...
The Black Fog that appeared at 9 a.m.
flowed from Ginza to Kasumigaseki.
What can this be?
No idea.
There are so many superhumans and rivaling evils on this planet.
Science, magic, different plant, future...
It could be any of those.
Let's go. We've got work.
Mr. Hitoyoshi! Why so suddenly?
Besides, the key...
This is a superhuman shelter provided by the Bureau.
I have a spare key.
We have work. Get dressed.
Is it the Black Fog?
No.
But the Superhuman Bureau specializes in handling superhumans, yes?
The government doesn't officially acknowledge superhumans.
But they exist.
Like me and aliens like Mr. Grosse Augen.
To fight evil aliens and unknown beings.
But they don't officially acknowledge it.
In newspapers and TV, one photo would get you fired.
Sometimes, humans get caught in the rivalry between superhumans.
I don't like the word "rivalry."
Heroic superhumans are fighting evil forces.
Our job is to handle affairs secretly,
and manage and protect superhumans.
But isn't the Black Fog related to superhumans?
As far as we know,
there is no Black Fog in the superhumans we registered.
Then what's our job today?
First Security Division to the National Diet Building.
Command the mobile unit as reinforcement.
Guard Unit 1 and 2, check the survivors.
Hey, Mr. Hitoyoshi.
Mr. Jiro, where are you going?
Three, four.
Here I go.
Wait up!
No one could enter the Black Fog?
Why don't they use that robot detective for this?
No way, because I'm a ghost.
Always pulling pranks!
Surround him with people.
He can't pass through living things.
Gosh.
A ghost?
Do it, Kikko.
You called me that again.
Meteorterre.
What are you doing?
Convenient body.
You could travel as cargo.
I'm no railroad package!
Um, we're sorry.
Health and Welfare Ministry sub-division.
- I'm from Super Population Research. - Cute!
Wow, that sounds so cool.
The Superhuman Bureau, huh?
I've heard rumors of you guys.
That there are people who protect superhumans.
Huh? The Super Population Research Laboratory...
Superhuman... Where's the "Bureau"?
What is this thing?
A ghost, I guess.
Ogre Emi's kind, huh?
Monsters and ghosts are different.
Monsters are a different lineage from humans.
It's a name for an old intelligent life form.
- Ghosts are... - What?
We don't really know.
They like to play with children and they never age.
That's all we know.
I've never seen a real one before.
I see.
So you're all superhumans too.
I'm the only human here.
Human?
Oh well.
Sounds fun. Count me in. The Superhuman Bureau.
Hey, now.
We aren't recruiting right now.
We just hired Kikko.
I'll be blunt.
We took you in to watch you so you don't make more trouble.
We'll register you and regularly check your dwelling.
I don't have a home.
There was a kid I was friends with until recently.
I got kicked out for too many pranks.
So I'm a homeless ghost now.
I bet you're surprised.
Come on, let's go fight those Tartaros Bugmen.
Tartaros? What's that?
What? You don't know?
The thing controlling the Black Fog.
What did you say?
Boss, we can't contact the prime minister and others in the fog, yes?
It seems so.
But the Public Security Force is already on the move.
Here you go.
Hey, I'm not a real dog, you know.
You might look like a child, but you're really not.
Be good.
I'll always be a kid, and I can always play.
That's what a ghost is.
You grow at a different speed from humans too.
Humans all die after a few decades.
But I'll still be a kid then.
Aren't we perfect for each other?
Hey, wait!
What is it with girls, anyway?
There are no official statements,
but the prime minister and officials are inside...
I've heard of Tartaros Bugmen before.
But it was ages ago.
I believe they lived in a different world.
If they're evil, there has to be a superhuman counterpart.
Yes, those are the rules.
But there are no signs of any so far.
Come on, let's go home.
Retreat!
Superhumans of the Public Security Force.
This really just might become our job.
Ouch.
It's the bug from this morning.
I'm glad we met again.
Again? When did we meet?
I need a favor. I...
Sorry. There's someone I like.
- I just met her... - That's not it.
I just want to be friends.
Friends?
- That's it? - Yes.
It's my job as a ghost to be friends with kids.
Sure thing.
- My name is Campe. - I'm Fuurouta.
Oops. I have to be going somewhere.
See you later.
Campe?
Was she a ghost too?
Hey, ghosts aren't supposed to play tricks on other ghosts.
It says so in the ghost laws or something.
So this is the place.
(Hitoyoshi)
There are no official statements, but the prime minister...
Mr. Akita. Sorry to keep you waiting.
Not at all.
Thanks for all you do, Professor.
How's Jiro doing?
He's a great help.
So that is...?
In South America before the war...
I was taken to a grave of huge insects that are said to be extinct now.
The world was ruled by huge insects at first.
Then amphibians, and then reptiles.
But why did the huge insects concede their power?
Perhaps the Tartaros Bugmen
are their form after they moved somewhere and evolved.
I have cultivated the virus I found at the grave.
So this dragged them down from power 3 hundred million years ago.
Yes.
Are they superhumans?
No.
They are invaders.
Even if they're past rulers, there's no need to accept them.
Welcome home, Young Master and Miss Emi.
I'm sorry. We decided to eat out today.
No worries.
You've got work to do tomorrow.
Yes sir.
I know.
So those two are living under the same roof.
You knew?
In college, Miss Emi was Prof. Hitoyoshi's assistant.
That's how she met Hitoyoshi Senpai.
And they got a job at the Bureau where the Professor is an advisor.
But they live together.
They're going out, so it's fine.
I just wanted to let you know.
I figured that out a long time ago.
But it'd be weird to quit the Bureau now.
You've got it wrong. I got a job to protect this planet.
Wait, stop!
I advise you to run , little boy.
(August, the 48th of Shinka Era, Kawasaki)
I'm of the Superhuman Bureau. Don't get me wrong.
I've looked everywhere for you.
I've finally grown enough to fight you.
What did you say?
Die, Fuurouta!
Hitoyoshi!
Long time no see, Fuurouta.
You haven't changed a bit.
Why are you here?
I've already told you, Campe.
Campe?
(August, the 41st of Shinka Era, Superhuman Bureau)
The superhumans of the Public Security Force have all died.
We can't let the Tartaros Bugmen run free any longer.
Yesterday they said we're not needed.
We can't overlook those that occupy the National Diet Building.
I'll do it.
- Way to go, Jiro. - But...
They might be superhumans that have turned to evil.
So let me negotiate first.
Beating bad guys, right?
Then I'll do it.
- It's freezing. - Idiot!
The virus is temporarily dead in liquid nitrogen.
You're just here to meet with a lawyer.
I know about them.
I can easily enter the Black Fog.
And I want to do something good too.
Something good?
If I succeed, let me join the Bureau.
Fuurouta!
That's how you came.
To where we were.
We? What do you mean?
Why are you here?
Hey, it's you again.
I'll save you.
Take this!
Did it work?
That was close.
Hey!
Don't get caught by humans or Tartaros anymore!
You let it escape?
Nah, that one was just a big bug.
I can talk with bugs and animals.
I was the queen of Tartaros.
The queen?
Still being young, I was captured by humans.
I was about to be sold.
But you saved me.
The Black Fog had come for me.
Then you really are...
Since mythological times, Tartaros Bugmen had lived in Japan's woods.
That was the contract with humans. However...
Today's politicians had forgotten the agreement.
They sold off the national forests.
The Tartaros Bugmen lost their habitat and came to punish the politicians.
Together with the Black Fog.
That means I...
So what happened to your people, Campe?
You know what it was that you threw.
A virus...
Campe is the lone survivor of the Tartaros Bugmen.
That's why you're here.
I thought that you, at least, were my friend.
I didn't know.
I had no clue that you were the same as that bug.
But still, I was happy.
That there was still someone who would be friendly with us.
But...
Stop.
I told you. I had meant to attack you all too.
Even if your goal was just,
your means was not of a superhuman of justice.
It's fine.
I've done something irreparable. So...
You think your single life is worth the millions you took from Campe?
You could never compensate for it.
But what difference would it make to take Fuurouta's life?
But I can't forgive him.
Campe.
You can't forgive him because you're friends.
Because he's a friend, you can't forgive?
Fuurouta. Look at me.
I've grown up.
But you're still the same as before.
The way we are now, we cannot be friends.
It was easier back then.
Yeah.
There were bad guys, and good superhumans beat them.
I was a hero, too.
Wasn't I?
Since when did things get so complicated?
No distinction between good and bad.
You and I are enemies too. Why?
Is it because I'm forever a kid that I can't understand?
Then I want to grow up too.
No, it's fine.
You stay the way you are.
It's fine.
Now, to let Fuurouta join us or not.
Those in favor raise your hand.
I think he'll be useful.
Having a ghost would be fun.
Hoshino?
I don't think this is a place for children to work.
Besides...
I was against it from the start. So...
- Huh? - Why?
He thinks we fight evil and protect good superhumans.
What?
If he's here, I'll always be able to remember that.
So we need him.
It's fine.
You stay the way you are.
The one Metropolitan Police Department detective who handles superhuman cases
With the soul of justice in a steel body,
I work in secret for people's peace and safety.
Don't call me superhuman.
I'm just a detective. Detective Raito Shiba!