Ice Blade

Ice Blade
First tankōbon volume cover, featuring Kyoya Ida
地雷震
(Jiraishin)
Manga
Written byTsutomu Takahashi
Published byKodansha
English publisher
MagazineMonthly Afternoon
English magazine
DemographicSeinen
Original run19921999
Volumes19 (List of volumes)
Manga
Jiraishin Diablo
Written byTsutomu Takahashi
Published byKodansha
MagazineGood! Afternoon
DemographicSeinen
Original runNovember 7, 2008November 7, 2011
Volumes3 (List of volumes)

Ice Blade (地雷震, Jiraishin, Earth-Lightning-Quake or Landmine Quake) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Tsutomu Takahashi. It was serialized in Kodansha's seinen manga magazine Monthly Afternoon from 1992 to 1999, with its chapters collected in nineteen tankōbon volumes. The story follows Kyoya Ida, a plainclothes police officer, and his colleagues at the Shinjuku Police Department as they investigate and solve crimes in the Greater Tokyo Area. Sometimes, these crimes are solved with some prices to pay.

A sequel, titled Jiraishin Diablo, was serialized in Kodansha's Good! Afternoon from 2008 to 2011, with its chapters collected in three tankōbon volumes. It portrays Ida and his interactions with various people after his absence from the force due to an eye disease while hearing of mysterious deaths of villagers living in the fictional Amakura Island in Japan's Ishikawa Prefecture in the year 2008 while assisting a police detective in initially trying to figure out who or what was responsible for their deaths after it was reported back in 2007.