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AFTER BEING HU­MIL­I­AT­ED BY THE ALIEN SU­PER­COP CASHMAN IN HIS YOUTH, DEVIL KID GREW UP TRAU­MA­TIZED. DESPITE THAT, HE SETS OUT TO BECOME A HERO IN HIS OWN RIGHT BUT, ON HIS OWN TERMS. DIS­IL­LU­SIONED BY CASH­MAN'S CAP­I­TAL­IST "HERO FOR HIRE" AP­PROACH, DEVIL KID VOWS TO HELP PEOPLE FOR FREE, BE­LIEV­ING TRUE HEROES DON'T FIGHT FOR CASH, REWARDS, OR MERIT. BUT... KAKO­DAIMAN ISN'T YOUR TYPICAL SU­PER­HERO. HE USES HIS CHILD­LIKE, MIS­CHIE­VOUS NATURE TO FUEL HIS ACTS OF "JUSTICE" AND TARGETS THE POLICE FOR THEIR EMO­TION­LESS AP­PROACH TO LAW EN­FORCE­MENT. YET HE SYM­PA­THIZES WITH CRIM­I­NALS AND CIT­I­ZENS WHO ACT OUT OF EMOTION IN DES­PER­ATE SIT­U­A­TIONS EVEN IF THEY'RE COM­MIT­TING CRIMES CRE­AT­ING A SENSE OF MORAL AM­BI­GU­I­TY. KAKO­DAIMAN IS IN­SPIRED NOT ONLY BY AKIRA TORIYA­MA'S CASHMAN, BUT ALSO BY HIS WORKS "JIYA" AND "JACO THE GALAC­TIC PA­TROL­MAN", AS WELL AS THE CHAR­AC­TER MERUS FROM DRAGON BALL SUPER. THESE STORIES PORTRAY THE GALAC­TIC PATROL AS AN OR­GA­NI­ZA­TION THAT EN­FORCES ORDER THROUGH A DE­TACHED, "COLD" JUSTICE AN IDE­AL­IZED, UNI­VER­SAL STAN­DARD THAT OFTEN CLASHES WITH HUMAN EMOTION AND MORAL NUANCE. IN JIYA AND JACO, HU­MAN­I­TY IS JUDGED FOR ITS FLAWS AND ITS RIGHT TO EXIST IS QUES­TIONED. WHEN BARDOCK, GOKU'S FATHER, WARNS AGAINST THE PATROL QUES­TION­ING THE MORAL PHI­LOS­O­PHY BEHIND DE­STROY­ING AN IN­NO­CENT CHILD EVEN IF HE IS DAN­GER­OUS, CASHMAN, AS A COP WHO CHARGES PEOPLE FOR HELP, BECOMES THE EM­BOD­I­MENT OF THIS IN­STI­TU­TION­AL DE­TACH­MENT OR "COLD JUSTICE". IN CON­TRAST, KAKO­DAIMAN FOLLOWS DEVIL KID A MIS­CHIE­VOUS FORMER RIVAL WHO BECOMES A ROGUE HERO NOT TO ENFORCE THE LAW, BUT TO CHAL­LENGE IT. HIS JOURNEY EX­PLORES EMOTION, EGO, AND HUMAN IM­PER­FEC­TION NOT AS WEAK­NESS­ES TO SUP­PRESS, BUT AS ES­SEN­TIAL EL­E­MENTS OF A MORE FIERY, COM­PAS­SION­ATE, AND GROUND­ED FORM OF JUSTICE. WILL THAT JUSTICE BE TAKEN TOO FAR? WHO'S PHI­LOS­O­PHY IS RIGHT IN THE END? READ KAKO­DAIMAN AND DECIDE FOR YOUR­SELF!

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