Geobreeders
Plot. Ayagane City has a phantom cat (also called "bake neko" and "were-cat") problem. A young and overzealous group of entrepreneurs called Kagura Total Security can be hired to combat this problem for the right price when Hound, the official government arm, isn't enough. However, there are plots and subplots floating beneath the surface, both involving Kagura, and the were-cats, led by Kuro-Neko, themselves. Both the manga and the OVAs are heavily action-driven, with gunfights appearing every few chapters. Media. Manga. Written and illustrated by Akihiro Ito, "Geobreeders" started in Shōnen Gahōsha's "seinen  manga magazine Young King OURs" in 1993. Its latest chapters was published on June 30, 2009, and the series has been on hiatus since. Shōnen Gahōsha has collected its chapters into individual "tankōbon" volumes. Sixteen volumes were released from May 24, 1995, to December 10, 2010. In North America, the manga was licensed by CPM Manga, who only released the first five volumes from January 2000 to January 2003. Original video animation. A three-episode original video animation by Chaos Project, titled in Japan as , was released from May 21 to October 21, 1998. Another four-episode OVA, titled , was  released from July 26, 2000, to March 23, 2001. In North America, both OVAs were licensed by Central Park Media. The first OVA was released on May 16, 2000, and the second on August 13, 2002.