Tsujimoto, Natsumi

辻本夏実

Natsumi is an officer stationed at the fictional Bokuto Station in Tokyo's Sumida Ward. She is highly outgoing and extremely laid-back. She frequently displays superhuman strength, second only to Shoji Tokairin, and is a motorcycle enthusiast capable of executing high-risk maneuvers on both motorcycles and mopeds. Natsumi has a prodigious appetite for food and alcohol, and she has been known to arrive at work with a hangover. She is also a chronic late sleeper. Despite her many bad habits, she is a very capable police officer who performs her duties seriously when necessary. She keeps a mini-moped, a Honda Moto-Compo (JR-2), in Miyuki's Honda Today squad car and uses it when a flanking strategy is required. It is prominently labeled "NATUMI" (using the Nihon-shiki transliteration system) before her first day at Bokuto in the beginning of the first anime; it is later re-colored and re-labeled "POLICE" in subsequent appearances and on the Bandai Model kit of the Honda Today. When off-duty, she operates a Yamaha RZV motorbike until it is damaged beyond repair during the later part of the first season. She is subsequently tricked into buying a Subaru R2, which is in a near-non-functioning state. Miyuki then thoroughly renovates and heavily modifies this car into a patrol vehicle. She uses the wrecked motorbike's engine, modifying the car so that its operation closely mimics that of a motorbike. In the manga version, this car operates with double engines.
Natsumi is also familiar with judo and kendo, enabling her to defeat her opponents during training sessions. Her strength and familiarity with hand-to-hand combat complement Miyuki's brilliant mind in creating devices or modifying known vehicles very well, making her and Miyuki famous throughout Bokuto Station. She is also the only person in this series able to consistently defeat Strikeman's fastballs, and Strikeman calls her Home-Run Woman for this very reason.