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* Subverted twice in ''Anime/{{Monster}}''. When a journalist tries to help Dr. Tenma stop a murder, he ends up becoming one of the victims. Later on, we meet another journalist who seems to fit the bill... until we learn that his press pass is phony and that he's something else entirely.
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* Bernard Chatelet from ''Manga/TheRoseOfVersailles'', after he gets some CharacterDevelopment. He was a WellIntentionedExtremist with shades of PsychoForHire beforehand, but his encounters with Oscar and André ([[spoiler:and how it's because of him that André loses an eye]]) make him re-think his ways.
* ''Scoop Hunter Tamon'', an obscure Ishigaki Yuuki one-shot manga, have the titular character, Kyosuke Tamon, an ex-war journalist-turned-freelance reporter and photographer, who infiltrates drug dens, mansions of {{Corrupt Politician}}s, and investigate terrorist plots to get the latest scoop. He even have an ArchEnemy in the final chapter, a rival ImmoralJournalist who tries tarnishing Tamon's reputation.
* ''Scoop Hunter Tamon'', an obscure Ishigaki Yuuki one-shot manga, have the titular character, Kyosuke Tamon, an ex-war journalist-turned-freelance reporter and photographer, who infiltrates drug dens, mansions of {{Corrupt Politician}}s, and investigate terrorist plots to get the latest scoop. He even have an ArchEnemy in the final chapter, a rival ImmoralJournalist who tries tarnishing Tamon's reputation.
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* Bernard Chatelet from ''Manga/TheRoseOfVersailles'', after he gets some CharacterDevelopment. He was a WellIntentionedExtremist with shades of PsychoForHire beforehand, but his encounters with Oscar and André ([[spoiler:and how it's because of him that André loses an eye]]) make him re-think his ways.
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* Tatsumi Saiga from ''Anime/SpeedGrapher'', a RetiredBadass who was an ex-war photographer that now works as a freelancer for tabloids (much to his dismay) in a corrupt version of Japan. An interesting case, since it has been weaponized: thanks to his Euphoric powers, the focus of his pictures [[StuffBlowingUp explode]]. This later is used to rescue [[SuperEmpowering Kagura Tennozu]] and eventually stop [[NebulousEvilOrganisation Tennozu Group]] that controls Japan.
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* Tatsumi Saiga from ''Anime/SpeedGrapher'', a RetiredBadass who was an ex-war photographer that and now works as a freelancer for tabloids (much to his dismay) in a corrupt version of Japan. An interesting case, since it has been weaponized: thanks to his Euphoric powers, the focus of his pictures [[StuffBlowingUp explode]]. This later is used to rescue [[SuperEmpowering [[MacGuffinSuperPerson Kagura Tennozu]] and eventually stop [[NebulousEvilOrganisation the Tennozu Group]] that controls Japan.
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* In ''Manga/TokyoGhoul'':
** One of these ends up having played a major role in the background of the series. [[spoiler:Yoshimura was a hitman for the organization '''V''', and became involved with a human woman named Ukina. One day, he found a diary containing her notes and learned she was actually an undercover Investigative Reporter on the organization's trail. The couple had gotten involved without realizing the others' involvement.....but as punishment, they forced Yoshimura to kill Ukina to protect their secrets. He did so in order to buy the time to send their HalfHumanHybrid child to safety, leaving Eto with her mother's diary and all the secrets it contained]].
** Chie Hori has shades of this, though she's a freelance photographer and information broker rather than a professional reporter. Through her personal blog, she sells her photographs or trades in information, and has been known to do things like [[PlayfulHacker hack the CCG's databases]] or follow dangerous Ghouls and photograph their hunts in search of a good scoop. It ends up getting her in trouble on occasion, but she usually manages to outwit anyone that threatens her.
** One of these ends up having played a major role in the background of the series. [[spoiler:Yoshimura was a hitman for the organization '''V''', and became involved with a human woman named Ukina. One day, he found a diary containing her notes and learned she was actually an undercover Investigative Reporter on the organization's trail. The couple had gotten involved without realizing the others' involvement.....but as punishment, they forced Yoshimura to kill Ukina to protect their secrets. He did so in order to buy the time to send their HalfHumanHybrid child to safety, leaving Eto with her mother's diary and all the secrets it contained]].
** Chie Hori has shades of this, though she's a freelance photographer and information broker rather than a professional reporter. Through her personal blog, she sells her photographs or trades in information, and has been known to do things like [[PlayfulHacker hack the CCG's databases]] or follow dangerous Ghouls and photograph their hunts in search of a good scoop. It ends up getting her in trouble on occasion, but she usually manages to outwit anyone that threatens her.
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** One of these ends up having played a major role in the background of the series. [[spoiler:Yoshimura was a hitman for the organization '''V''', and became involved with a human woman named Ukina. One day, he found a diary containing her notes and learned she was actually an undercover Investigative Reporter on the organization's trail. The couple had gotten involved without realizing the others'involvement.....involvement... but as punishment, they forced Yoshimura to kill Ukina to protect their secrets. He did so in order to buy the time to send their HalfHumanHybrid child to safety, leaving Eto with her mother's diary and all the secrets it contained]].
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** Chie Hori has shades of this, though she's a freelance photographer and information broker rather than a professional reporter. Through her personal blog, she sells her photographs or trades in information, and has been known to do things like [[PlayfulHacker hack the CCG's databases]] or follow dangerous Ghouls and photograph their hunts in search of a good scoop. It ends up getting her in trouble on occasion, but she usually manages to outwit anyone that threatens her.
** One of these ends up having played a major role in the background of the series. [[spoiler:Yoshimura was a hitman for the organization '''V''', and became involved with a human woman named Ukina. One day, he found a diary containing her notes and learned she was actually an undercover Investigative Reporter on the organization's trail. The couple had gotten involved without realizing the others'
** Chie Hori has shades of this, though she's a freelance photographer and information broker rather than a professional reporter. Through her personal blog, she sells her photographs or trades in information, and has been known to do things like [[PlayfulHacker hack the CCG's databases]] or follow dangerous Ghouls and photograph their hunts in search of a good scoop. It ends up getting her in trouble on occasion, but she usually manages to outwit anyone that threatens her.
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* Goh "Rocky" Mutsugi from ''Manga/Area88'': Photojournalist on the battlefields of North Africa. Shot down while out taking pictures, rescued by a BedouinRescueService but forced to fight the chief, wins the fight with a BarehandedBladeBlock, then goes out with a bang [[spoiler:by ramming a tank with a Jeep]] when the camp is attacked. Oh, and survived all that, though he did lose a hand.
** Makoto Shinjou, an {{expy}} of Rocky in the ''Manga/Area88'' TV anime, also qualifies.
%%* Harvey Livingston from ''Anime/AshitaNoNadja'' doesn't look the part, but boy is he good at ObfuscatingStupidity...
%%* Michael Seebach from ''Anime/TheBigO''. before his transformation in "Schwarzwald".
* ''Manga/BlackMagicM66''. Sybil faces extreme danger to get the story and even saves the scientist's granddaughter from the title robot.
* Okamura from ''Anime/BloodPlus'', going so far as to follow the main characters around the world for his story.
* Aoi Hino from ''Manga/CannonGodExaxxion''. Lampshaded by the fact that the other, more level-headed members of the news team she's on think she's nuts. There's also her little sister Akane, who is determined to follow in her big sister's footsteps, but every attempt she makes to do so ends in disaster. Also subverts this trope by having another recurring news team who are much more realistic & down to Earth... who happen to be space aliens.
* Diethard Reid from ''Anime/CodeGeass'' starts out as a reporter getting information about Zero into the public, and then joins the Black Knights as apparently its PR officer.
* The Creator/FUNimation dub of ''Manga/CrayonShinChan'' has Bitzi, Mitzi's sister. She was a photographer who was often sent to third-world hell holes filled with political and military turmoil like Africa and Burma. Her experiences led to her being addicted to drugs. Her favorite in particular is Brown-Brown, a mixture of cocaine and gunpowder.
%%* [[BizarroUniverse Edolas]] Gajeel from the ''Manga/FairyTail'' [[AdaptationExpansion anime]].
* ''Anime/Figure17TsubasaAndHikaru'' features a reporter who stumbles across a dying meadow (caused by the MonsterOfTheWeek) and begins to investigate further.
* Aya Stanford from ''Anime/FutureGPXCyberFormula SIN'', a photographer for a sports magazine. She finds herself at the center of the rivalry between Bleed Kaga and Hayato Kazami and the mysterious car [[SuperPrototype Ogre]].
%%* Hajime Shibata from ''Anime/HellGirl''.
%%* Hibiki from ''Anime/MacrossII'' starts this way.
* ''Anime/MagicUsersClub'' features two reporters investigating the magical powers of the main character.
%%* Kinue Crossroads from ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam00''. Also, her and Saji's DisappearedDad. [[spoiler:They both were killed because they dug too far.]]
%%* Kai Shiden in ''Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam''. Also, [[spoiler:Beltochika Irma, after her CharacterDevelopment]]
* Subverted twice in ''Anime/{{Monster}}''. When a journalist tries to help Dr. Tenma stop a murder, he ends up becoming one of the victims. Later on, we meet another journalist who seems to fit the bill... until we learn that his press pass is phony and that he's something else entirely.
%%* Kazumi Asakura in ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi''. She toes the line between ChaoticNeutral and the TokenEvilTeammate at times. But she does have standards and won't continue going for stories if they'll make a lot of trouble for someone like Negi or Sayo.
%%** The first anime had her head straight into ChaoticGood territory (her mercenary manga characterization around the Sayo arc was almost completely reversed, and Asakura looked EXTREMELY sympathetic by comparison in the first anime. The official manga waited a long while later before doing this.)
* In ''Manga/OnePiece'', a mysterious reporter called Absa has been exposing all sorts of juicy tidbits to the world since the Paramount War, such as the alliance between Eustace Kidd, Scratchmen Apoo, and Basil Hawkins. [[spoiler:As a reader guessed in an SBS, it's Absalome, the invisible pervert from Thriller Bark.]]
%%* Yuuka/Rhonda form the ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'' anime.
* In ''Manga/{{Remote}}'', Ayaki's fiance Shingo quits his job to become a reporter. His idea of working is to use his girlfriend's presence at a particularly grisly murder scene to get a scoop. She is not best pleased.
* Yoko of ''Manga/RideBack'' tries to be this, ignoring evacuation orders to try and get a scoop about the "Rideback Girl".
* Bernard Chatelet from ''Manga/TheRoseOfVersailles'', after he gets some CharacterDevelopment. He was a WellIntentionedExtremist with shades of PsychoForHire beforehand, but his encounters with Oscar and André ([[spoiler:and how it's because of him that André loses an eye]]) make him re-think his ways.
%%* Scarlet Garcia from ''Anime/SonicX'', particularly during the ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure2'' adaptation.
* Tatsumi Saiga from ''Anime/SpeedGrapher'', a RetiredBadass who was an ex-war photographer that now works as a freelancer for tabloids (much to his dismay) in a corrupt version of Japan. An interesting case, since it has been weaponized: thanks to his Euphoric powers, the focus of his pictures [[StuffBlowingUp explode]]. This later is used to rescue [[SuperEmpowering Kagura Tennozu]] and eventually stop [[NebulousEvilOrganisation Tennozu Group]] that controls Japan.
%%* Hiyono from ''Manga/{{Spiral}}''.
* In ''Manga/TokyoGhoul'':
** One of these ends up having played a major role in the background of the series. [[spoiler:Yoshimura was a hitman for the organization '''V''', and became involved with a human woman named Ukina. One day, he found a diary containing her notes and learned she was actually an undercover Investigative Reporter on the organization's trail. The couple had gotten involved without realizing the others' involvement.....but as punishment, they forced Yoshimura to kill Ukina to protect their secrets. He did so in order to buy the time to send their HalfHumanHybrid child to safety, leaving Eto with her mother's diary and all the secrets it contained]].
** Chie Hori has shades of this, though she's a freelance photographer and information broker rather than a professional reporter. Through her personal blog, she sells her photographs or trades in information, and has been known to do things like [[PlayfulHacker hack the CCG's databases]] or follow dangerous Ghouls and photograph their hunts in search of a good scoop. It ends up getting her in trouble on occasion, but she usually manages to outwit anyone that threatens her.
%%* CanonForeigner Tina in the ''Manga/{{Toriko}}'' anime is one. Unfortunately, [[YankTheDogsChain she has a tight leash as far as getting scoops go]].
%%* Suena Dalton from ''Manga/TowardTheTerra''. It helps that she happens to be personal friends with both TheHero and the antagonist.
%%* Susan Somers from the ''Manga/VenusWars''.
%%* Yuusuke Tozawa from ''Anime/{{Witchblade}}''.
%%* Carly Nagisa from ''Anime/YuGiOh5Ds'', [[spoiler:at least up until a very cruel turn of events.]]
* ''Anime/ZombieLandSaga:'' [[Characters/ZombieLandSagaMajorCharacters Arata Okoba]] starts investigating [[Characters/ZombieLandSagaFranchouchou Franchouchou]] after getting a familiar feeling from "Number 4" aka the supposedly deceased Junko Konno. [[spoiler:TheStinger of the season shows him fully aware of not only her looking identical to the long-dead Junko Konno, but "Number 3's" and "Number 6's" resemblances to the more recently deceased Ai Mizuno and Lily Hoshikawa.]] When he returns in Episode 6 of ''Revenge'', he tries to dig up more dirt on the group by following Tae around. [[spoiler:He succeeds in figuring out something is up after Sakura accidentally knocks off Tae's head. It's followed up on next episode where he very much realizes they're all dead.]]
* ''Manga/ZombiePowder'' gives us the most unorthodox intrepid reporter in fiction, ever, in the form of Wolfgangina. Period. How unorthodox, you ask? Her tripod is a [[ImprobableWeaponUser cannon.]] No, really.
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* Goh "Rocky" Mutsugi from ''Manga/Area88'': Photojournalist on the battlefields of North Africa. Shot down while out taking pictures, rescued by a BedouinRescueService but forced to fight the chief, wins the fight with a BarehandedBladeBlock, then goes out with a bang [[spoiler:by ramming a tank with a Jeep]] when the camp is attacked. Oh, and survived all that, though he did lose a hand.
** Makoto Shinjou, an {{expy}} of Rocky in the ''Manga/Area88'' TV anime, also qualifies.
%%* Harvey Livingston from ''Anime/AshitaNoNadja'' doesn't look the part, but boy is he good at ObfuscatingStupidity...
%%* Michael Seebach from ''Anime/TheBigO''. before his transformation in "Schwarzwald".
* ''Manga/BlackMagicM66''. Sybil faces extreme danger to get the story and even saves the scientist's granddaughter from the title robot.
* Okamura from ''Anime/BloodPlus'', going so far as to follow the main characters around the world for his story.
* Aoi Hino from ''Manga/CannonGodExaxxion''. Lampshaded by the fact that the other, more level-headed members of the news team she's on think she's nuts. There's also her little sister Akane, who is determined to follow in her big sister's footsteps, but every attempt she makes to do so ends in disaster. Also subverts this trope by having another recurring news team who are much more realistic & down to Earth... who happen to be space aliens.
* Diethard Reid from ''Anime/CodeGeass'' starts out as a reporter getting information about Zero into the public, and then joins the Black Knights as apparently its PR officer.
* The Creator/FUNimation dub of ''Manga/CrayonShinChan'' has Bitzi, Mitzi's sister. She was a photographer who was often sent to third-world hell holes filled with political and military turmoil like Africa and Burma. Her experiences led to her being addicted to drugs. Her favorite in particular is Brown-Brown, a mixture of cocaine and gunpowder.
%%* [[BizarroUniverse Edolas]] Gajeel from the ''Manga/FairyTail'' [[AdaptationExpansion anime]].
* ''Anime/Figure17TsubasaAndHikaru'' features a reporter who stumbles across a dying meadow (caused by the MonsterOfTheWeek) and begins to investigate further.
* Aya Stanford from ''Anime/FutureGPXCyberFormula SIN'', a photographer for a sports magazine. She finds herself at the center of the rivalry between Bleed Kaga and Hayato Kazami and the mysterious car [[SuperPrototype Ogre]].
%%* Hajime Shibata from ''Anime/HellGirl''.
%%* Hibiki from ''Anime/MacrossII'' starts this way.
* ''Anime/MagicUsersClub'' features two reporters investigating the magical powers of the main character.
%%* Kinue Crossroads from ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam00''. Also, her and Saji's DisappearedDad. [[spoiler:They both were killed because they dug too far.]]
%%* Kai Shiden in ''Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam''. Also, [[spoiler:Beltochika Irma, after her CharacterDevelopment]]
* Subverted twice in ''Anime/{{Monster}}''. When a journalist tries to help Dr. Tenma stop a murder, he ends up becoming one of the victims. Later on, we meet another journalist who seems to fit the bill... until we learn that his press pass is phony and that he's something else entirely.
%%* Kazumi Asakura in ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi''. She toes the line between ChaoticNeutral and the TokenEvilTeammate at times. But she does have standards and won't continue going for stories if they'll make a lot of trouble for someone like Negi or Sayo.
%%** The first anime had her head straight into ChaoticGood territory (her mercenary manga characterization around the Sayo arc was almost completely reversed, and Asakura looked EXTREMELY sympathetic by comparison in the first anime. The official manga waited a long while later before doing this.)
* In ''Manga/OnePiece'', a mysterious reporter called Absa has been exposing all sorts of juicy tidbits to the world since the Paramount War, such as the alliance between Eustace Kidd, Scratchmen Apoo, and Basil Hawkins. [[spoiler:As a reader guessed in an SBS, it's Absalome, the invisible pervert from Thriller Bark.]]
%%* Yuuka/Rhonda form the ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'' anime.
* In ''Manga/{{Remote}}'', Ayaki's fiance Shingo quits his job to become a reporter. His idea of working is to use his girlfriend's presence at a particularly grisly murder scene to get a scoop. She is not best pleased.
* Yoko of ''Manga/RideBack'' tries to be this, ignoring evacuation orders to try and get a scoop about the "Rideback Girl".
* Bernard Chatelet from ''Manga/TheRoseOfVersailles'', after he gets some CharacterDevelopment. He was a WellIntentionedExtremist with shades of PsychoForHire beforehand, but his encounters with Oscar and André ([[spoiler:and how it's because of him that André loses an eye]]) make him re-think his ways.
%%* Scarlet Garcia from ''Anime/SonicX'', particularly during the ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure2'' adaptation.
* Tatsumi Saiga from ''Anime/SpeedGrapher'', a RetiredBadass who was an ex-war photographer that now works as a freelancer for tabloids (much to his dismay) in a corrupt version of Japan. An interesting case, since it has been weaponized: thanks to his Euphoric powers, the focus of his pictures [[StuffBlowingUp explode]]. This later is used to rescue [[SuperEmpowering Kagura Tennozu]] and eventually stop [[NebulousEvilOrganisation Tennozu Group]] that controls Japan.
%%* Hiyono from ''Manga/{{Spiral}}''.
* In ''Manga/TokyoGhoul'':
** One of these ends up having played a major role in the background of the series. [[spoiler:Yoshimura was a hitman for the organization '''V''', and became involved with a human woman named Ukina. One day, he found a diary containing her notes and learned she was actually an undercover Investigative Reporter on the organization's trail. The couple had gotten involved without realizing the others' involvement.....but as punishment, they forced Yoshimura to kill Ukina to protect their secrets. He did so in order to buy the time to send their HalfHumanHybrid child to safety, leaving Eto with her mother's diary and all the secrets it contained]].
** Chie Hori has shades of this, though she's a freelance photographer and information broker rather than a professional reporter. Through her personal blog, she sells her photographs or trades in information, and has been known to do things like [[PlayfulHacker hack the CCG's databases]] or follow dangerous Ghouls and photograph their hunts in search of a good scoop. It ends up getting her in trouble on occasion, but she usually manages to outwit anyone that threatens her.
%%* CanonForeigner Tina in the ''Manga/{{Toriko}}'' anime is one. Unfortunately, [[YankTheDogsChain she has a tight leash as far as getting scoops go]].
%%* Suena Dalton from ''Manga/TowardTheTerra''. It helps that she happens to be personal friends with both TheHero and the antagonist.
%%* Susan Somers from the ''Manga/VenusWars''.
%%* Yuusuke Tozawa from ''Anime/{{Witchblade}}''.
%%* Carly Nagisa from ''Anime/YuGiOh5Ds'', [[spoiler:at least up until a very cruel turn of events.]]
* ''Anime/ZombieLandSaga:'' [[Characters/ZombieLandSagaMajorCharacters Arata Okoba]] starts investigating [[Characters/ZombieLandSagaFranchouchou Franchouchou]] after getting a familiar feeling from "Number 4" aka the supposedly deceased Junko Konno. [[spoiler:TheStinger of the season shows him fully aware of not only her looking identical to the long-dead Junko Konno, but "Number 3's" and "Number 6's" resemblances to the more recently deceased Ai Mizuno and Lily Hoshikawa.]] When he returns in Episode 6 of ''Revenge'', he tries to dig up more dirt on the group by following Tae around. [[spoiler:He succeeds in figuring out something is up after Sakura accidentally knocks off Tae's head. It's followed up on next episode where he very much realizes they're all dead.]]
* ''Manga/ZombiePowder'' gives us the most unorthodox intrepid reporter in fiction, ever, in the form of Wolfgangina. Period. How unorthodox, you ask? Her tripod is a [[ImprobableWeaponUser cannon.]] No, really.
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