I'll make this review short and tell my thoughts clearly.
City Hunter is a legendary series. It's one of those hidden gems that I have found during all these years of my fascination to anime. I marathoned the whole anime, and I think it's the funniest anime I've ever watched along Saiki Kusuo. After finishing the anime I gave it straight up 10 (masterpiece) rating. However I don't think it was because of the story. The story is quite monotonous, simply because of one thing -- it has the same gags and they never change! I think no one would be willing to count how many times Kaori has bashed Ryo with her giant hammer, and how much does Saeko owe Ryo right now? Probably one million MOKKORI. The manga and the anime are episodic so I understand why it was repetitious, but still I really grew tired of the same jokes and same conversations. Also I was kinda disappointed that Kaori and Ryo's relationship never really developed, they had only a few romantic moments during the series and they were always in danger during those moments. Kaori had a lot of reasons to leave Ryo during the series, but she never did, and this will happen a lot during the series. Character development was at the bottom, which is probably the biggest reasons why the story is so monotonous.
The art both in the manga and the anime were fantastic. Both also really resemble each other, so it was easy to watch and it at the same time. It really gives you an 80s vibe which I personally am a big fan of.
I also love this series as a man a lot because most of the female character are beautiful. Man, 80s character looked so human, I don't know what happened but now a stereotypical anime character has eyes size of a plate and nose so small you can barely even see it.
Saeba Ryo, he is hands down one of the greatest character ever made. His pervert nature mixes awesomely with his cool side when saving girls and shooting bad guys. It's weird why I think he's hilarious, he is just a pervert and doesn't tell any jokes. I think it's all because of his voice actor in the anime Kamiya Akira, he also voiced Kenshiro in Hokuto no Ken and can make a lot of hilarious voices. Also Ryo's facial expressions are really fun and of course the all powerful MOKKORI.
But you may still ask, why 10?
Honestly when you have cool, strong and charismatic main character, awesome 80s music (anime), beautiful artstyle, great action scenes, and as childish sense of humor as I do, what else do you need. Honestly if this wasn't episodic I don't think it would've made it to 10, but for some reason I never really got so bored that I was not enjoying it. I was really just in to the action, music, Ryo, and the girls (obviously), and always got something out of every chapter.
Overall City Hunter is a series that has really entertained me and I will remember this series as one of the GOAT anime series ever made.
How is this a short review? I still need to finish my homework *sigh*
