City Hunter

"City Hunter" is a notorious contractor group with the call sign "XYZ." No matter the job, they will take it, cleaning up the scum on the streets of Tokyo. The key member of City Hunter is Ryou Saeba; armed with his trusty Colt Python and pinpoint accuracy, he works alongside willful tomboy Kaori Makimura.

Together they solve tough cases and tackle the numerous dangers that accompany their trade head-on. However, when he's not out hunting crooks and villains, Ryou finds pleasure in chasing beautiful ladies with only Kaori and her one hundred-ton hammer to keep him in check. From pickpockets and arms dealers to crime syndicates, nothing can stand in the way of Ryou Saeba when he takes aim at his next mission.

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Saeba, Ryou Main

Kamiya, Akira Japanese

Makimura, Kaori Main

Ikura, Kazue Japanese

Nogami, Saeko Supporting

Ichiryuusai, Harumi Japanese

Ijuuin, Hayato Supporting

Genda, Tesshou Japanese

Makimura, Hideyuki Supporting

Tanaka, Hideyuki Japanese

Mohamed Supporting

Kamei, Saburou Japanese

Nogami, Reika Supporting

Takamori, Yoshino Japanese

Torakichi Supporting

Suzuki, Kiyonobu Japanese

Kawada, Atsuko Supporting

Han, Keiko Japanese

Kouenji, Miho Supporting

Fukami, Rica Japanese

Nakatani, Toshio Producer

Ueda, Masuo Producer

Kodama, Kenji Director

Urakami, Yasuo Sound Director

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Feb 18, 2024

SenseiSempai-san

Recommended

A Great Action Comedy Anime of the 80s and 90s Era

City Hunter is one of the great anime of the late '80s and '90s. It still survives till today with movie specials that are released every couple of years or so. This shows how good the concept is. It has other spin-offs of sort like Angel Eyes from the same manga artist. The songs used and the music are top notch. If you are a fan of city pop of the '80s and '90s, then the soundtrack of City Hunter would be of interest.

The City Hunter is about the sweeper or vigilante similar to the ... role of McCall in The Equalizer of the same era. In this case the sweeper is Ryo Saeba. He is an orphan of Japanese heritage but somehow he ended up in the war zone as a child. The war zone was not named but it looks like South East Asia in the '70s. So he was trained and was able to survive in the war zone, learning skills and martial arts. His shooting skills are top notch. He is supported by a host of characters of which Kaori Makimura is the most important. She is also his greatest regret in some sort of ways. Watch it and you will not regret it.

Reviewer’s Rating: 9

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Nov 4, 2021

zensurfer68

Mixed Feelings

Saeba Ryo is the second most lecherous man in the universe, beaten only by Moroboshi Ataru (Urusei Yatsura). Most of these episodes are more about Ryo perving on women, and being hit with hammers by his partner Makimura Kaori. It is light hearted fun, and there is some action. However the series started with Saeba being a 'sweeper' which seemed to mean something of an assassin/problem eliminator, he shot people and a couple of episodes were dark, but by about the 5th episode it turned into a comedy, with a bit of action. Ryo is an over the top human superhero, he has no ... powers but he has a heightened sixth sense and unbelievable accuracy with guns. His problem is he is always trying to get into women's pants, though he is never successful. It's pretty much the same joke over and over again, somehow it never wore thin. It's and OK watch but I wouldn't binge watch it unless you are a fan.

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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Oct 4, 2022

ettethealien

Not Recommended

I'mma rate the series as whole, with a 6. When I watched the anime, I already had read the manga, and turned out to be a bad idea, since the anime adaptation is A FREAKING DISASTER. Most of its episodes are all fillers, and the episodes that are canon were adapted so wrong, not to mention the amount of censorship it has, which doesn't make sense since the original story isn't that violent or graphic (I came to miss Roy's mokkoris, much of the jokes lost their charm because the lack of erectios lol) , even tho the overall feeling the anime tries to transmit ... is more like "cool and badass gunman" the series portraits the complete opposite, most of the episodes are so silly I can't take seriously a story like that (the manga share the same problem but not as much) I tried watching this anime expecting something different like "well maybe it'll be less repetitive and I'll get more RyoxKaori moments" which, in the first place, yeah is not as repetitive, but that didn't make those episodes better or interesting, and two, Ryo and Kaori relationship was done so dirty in this adaptation, the anime ignores vital events in their relationship (and for the plot itself) like in the episode where they helping the ghost of a murdered woman (Mami-san I believe) and the part where Kaori and Ryo end up drugging each other, it was supposed that they slept in the couch together and in the next morning Kaori wakes up with Ryo above her, resting his head over her chest, but they cut that out in the anime, which I can't understand since at that point it was stated they had feelings for each other, this is only one example but the anime had many moments like that cut off. The fact that it didn't even tried to give the anime a proper ending, when the last season aired the manga was already finished, Okay I get it, you fucked it up with that random Robert when the manga had Mick, but if the plot has some many things chopped up, manage to make the final arc without the bestie that died (in a very lame episode) in your crappy adaptation. Anyway, this anime is a mess, but like with the manga the episodes that I truly enjoyed were the ones that were Kaori focused or RyoxKaori focused (like the Christmas episode and ep 50 from season 2)


Plot and adaptation aside, the animation is pretty nice, not amazing tho (the movies did a lot better in that regard) but definitely the best thing about this anime (above anything else) is the music. The OST is so freaking good, I even think it was kinda a waste making so good music for for such a lame anime adaptation, wish I had the same excitement watching the anime as I felt listening to Get Wild everytime one episode ended.


If I couldn't recommend the manga, much less can I recommend the anime, the terrible adaptation ruined it for me, and if not only that much of the original episodes the anime had, were a disaster, with little proper execution, seriously city hunter need a readaptation ASAP

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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