This adaptation was later issued in the United Kingdom by Diamond Comic Distributors in 1998, and a translated version was published in the German magazine Manga Power [de] in 1996.

In the late 1940s and early 1950s, when the German occupation attempts to globalize and urbanize Japan through a government called the "Weimar Establishment" (ワイマール体制, waimāru taisei), it sparks massive increases in poverty and class stratification, resulting in the rise of anti-government movements that escalate into terrorism when their protests are countered with repression.

Metropolitan Police rookie Toru Inui, part of Kerberos, engages with Sect terrorists in the storm sewers of Tokyo, but fails to kill a suicide bomber and is unable to apprehend a suspicious wounded man escaping through a manhole with an innocent woman; the man is shot by Metropolitan Police snipers and revealed to be an armed terrorist.

The Sect mole, revealed to be a Metropolitan Police aircraft mechanic, plants a bomb aboard the Fa-666 and detonates it during the demonstration, destroying the helicopter and Kishu's aspirations.

Public Security Division director Bunmei Muroto, realizing society has evolved to the point that it will eventually no longer need Kerberos, and deciding there is no room for them in the Metropolitan Police anyway, begins to work against it.

As Handa launches a diversion, Koichi, Midori, and Soichiro storm Flight 666 and kill most of the Four Seasons League terrorists, but before they can fully secure the plane, Fujiwara orders the pilot to take off.

With Koichi and Soichiro dazed from the crash, Fujiwara attempts to escape, but Midori climbs the fuselage and begins setting up her Mauser C96 sidearm for long-range shooting.

Tetsurō Kai, the young leader of the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force's 1st Airborne Brigade Panzer Jäger Unit (ギア部隊), nicknamed "Molosser" and equipped with Protect Gear and anti-tank rifles, enters Kerberos's Academy Training School (首都警·養成学校) as an undercover trainee, where he falls in love with Midori and invites her to a JGSDF public equipment exhibition at Mount Fuji.

Midori visits the event with fellow instructor Hachiro Tohbe and sees Kai demonstrating the Type 61 Protect Gears used by the JGSDF's Panzer Jägers.

A tachiguishi ("Fast Food Grifter" in English) named Cold Badger Masa is brutally beaten to death by Kerberos member Chuichi Koshiramaru in Mach, an illegal stand-and-eat (tachigui) soba restaurant.

The Self-Police's investigation, led by Detective Takahiro Matsui (from Patlabor), details the intricacies of the existence and extent of the tachiguishi in the Japanese society of the Kerberos Saga.

Two German officials visit Japan on a diplomatic trip, but are met by hundreds of anti-Weimar Establishment protestors at a bridge junction near Tokyo International Airport.

As the protest devolves into violence, the diplomatic convoy is attacked, and the Self-Police are overwhelmed, Kerberos members deployed on standby as backup open fire on the protestors, killing around 200 people.

In response to backlash, and deeming Kerberos no longer necessary in modern society, the National Public Safety Committee votes for the Metropolitan Police's dismantlement.

After several hours, at 12:00 noon, Shiro rallies the remaining Kerberos members for a last stand, and they exit the Self-Police headquarters to charge at the JGSDF, who fire back in response.

Additional contents such as prologues, production notes, scenarios, organization charts, glossary, staff interviews, and bibliographies are always included in tankōbon editions to explain the Kerberos Saga's complex background.

This original edition features a curved silver dust jacket cover that included a white obi strip promoting the StrayDog theatrical adaptation's March 1991 roadshow ("映画化公開決定!").

The Zen ("Complete Book") edition is a boxset reissue of the Frozen version including Acts 1~8 in a +400 pages single volume bundled with goodies.