This article is about the Japanese manga by Tsukasa Hojo. For the Hong Kong action comedy film, see City Hunter (film). For the South Korean live-action series, see City Hunter (TV series).
City Hunter (Japanese: シティーハンター , Hepburn: Shitī Hantā ) is a Japanese manga series writt and illustrated by Tsukasa Hojo. It was serialized in Shueisha's shōn manga magazine Weekly Shōn Jump from 1985 to 1991, with its chapters collected in 35 tankōbon volumes. The manga was adapted into an anime television series by Sunrise Studios in 1987. The anime series was popular in numerous Asian and European countries.
City Hunter spawned a media franchise consisting of numerous adaptations and spin-offs from several countries. The franchise includes four anime television series, three anime television specials, five animated feature films (including a film released in February 2019 and upcoming one in September 2023), several live-action films (including a Hong Kong film starring Jackie Chan and a Frch film), video games, and a live-action Korean TV drama. It also had a spin-off manga, Angel Heart, which in turn spawned its own anime television series and a live-action Japanese TV drama.
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The series follows the exploits of Ryo Saeba, a sweeper who is always found chasing beautiful girls and a private detective who works to rid Tokyo of crime, along with his associate or partner, Hideyuki Makimura. Their City Hunter business is an underground jack-of-all-trades operation, contacted by writing the letters XYZ on a blackboard at Shinjuku Station.
One day, Hideyuki is murdered, and Ryo must take care of Hideyuki's sister, Kaori, a tomboy who becomes his new partner in the process. However, Kaori is very susceptible and jealous, oft hitting Ryo with a giant hammer wh he does something perverted. The story also follows the behind-the-sces romance betwe Ryo and Kaori and the way they cooperate throughout each mission.
Ryo is the main protagonist of the series. At the age of three, Ryo was the only survivor of a plane crash in Ctral America. He was raised as a guerilla fighter and has no knowledge of his prior idtity. After the war, Ryo makes his way to the United States, before evtually moving to Tokyo.
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While in Tokyo, he forms the City Hunter team with Hideyuki Makimura, but after Hideyuki's death, Kaori takes his place as Ryo's new partner. A highly skilled gunman, Ryo is known for executing the one-hole shot, a series of shots that all land in exactly the same spot on the target. His preferred weapon is the Colt Python .357 Magnum.
Ryo invted the nickname Umibozu for his fellow colleague Hayato Ijuin, and he answered giving Ryo his own, The Stallion of Shinjuku (新宿の種馬 , Shinjuku no Taneuma ) (an ironic name, because Ryo is a real pervert who tries to hit on any beautiful woman he meets or sees, failing every time). Ryo is an accomplished marksman with revolvers, semiautomatic guns, machine-pistols, rifles, carbines and crossbows; he knows hand-to-hand combat very well and drives as a real daredevil wh needed; his car is a Mini.
Kaori is Ryo Saeba's partner. She is primarily responsible for arranging clits and other managerial tasks. Ryo's skirt-chasing rouses her ire more than just once. Though the partners frequtly pick on fights or argumts, they actually form a great team together. She might have be mistak as a man sometimes due to her hairstyle. She is the adoptive Hideyuki's sister, her real name being Kaori Hisaishi (久石 香 , Hisaishi Kaori ) .
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Hideyuki is Kaori's adopted older brother and Ryo's partner at the beginning of the series. Kaori is not related to him by blood, his father had adopted her wh she was a child. He is a former police detective with a strong sse of justice. Kaori become Ryo's partner and takes over her brother's role after he is murdered by gangsters. His last wish before he died was for Ryo to take care of his sister. His first name is not specified in the original manga, but wh it was adapted into an anime, the official setting for his first name was established as 'Hideyuki', the same as the voice actor who voiced him.
Voiced by: Tesshō Gda (Japanese); Lou Perryman (ADV Films dub), Adam Dudley (The Secret Service; ADV Films dub), Chris Rager (Discotek Media dub) (glish)
Umibōzu is another sweeper working the rounds in Tokyo. Umibozu is a Special Forces emy of Ryo's from the Ctral America conflict. Despite being on opposing forces, the two develop a fridship and mutual respect. Betwe his jobs, Umibozu works as waiter at the Cat's Eye café, owned by Miki, his former fellow soldier and lover.
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He goes by the professional name Falcon (ファルコン , Farukon ) and his real name is Hayato Ijuin (伊集院 隼人 , Ijūin Hayato ); the kanji haya in his name can also be read hayabusa (falcon in Japanese), hce his professional name; the nickname Umibōzu was giv by Ryo. His favorite weapons are the S&W M29 .44 Magnum six-inch revolver, the Saco-Defse M60 machine-gun (sometimes he uses the M249) and the M1A6 bazooka. Despite his fearsome appearance he has a phobia of kitts, he is very shy with wom and much more unselfish than Ryo. His vision is very weak because a fight he had with Ryo in Ctral America, wh Ryo was a guerrilla fighter and Umibozu was a mercary; since th, Umibozu wants a duel with Ryo to close that story; during the series, he will go permantly blind and he'll have to learn how to use the other four sses to move and fight; however, he decides to not retire before finishing their matter. Later Shin Kaibara, Ryo's adoptive father and former guerrilla fighter who became a drug lord, comes in Japan; his drug was tested on Ryo during his youth, causing him to attack Umibozu and his unit; wh Umibozu learns this from Bloody Mary, an old acquaintance of Ryo's and daughter of the other Ryo's fatherly figure in the jungle, he joins Ryo and Kaori against Kaibara. During the last story arc he marries Miki, but she is shot by emy soldiers deployed by a new emy of Ryo; Umibozu ters the firefight trusting Miki will not die.
The Umibōzu is a yokai (spirit) from Japanese folklore; he is said to turn ships upside down if someone aboard talks to him; he is portrayed bald as a bōzu (Buddhist monk); the character umi means 'sea'.
Voiced by: Mami Koyama, Miki Itō (Bay City Wars, Million Dollar Conspiracy) (Japanese); Amalia Stifter (ADV Films dub), Johanna McKeon (The Secret Service; ADV Films dub), Michelle Rojas (Discotek Media dub) (glish)
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Miki was a war orphan who Umibozu found in a completely destroyed village. Contrary to her habits, Umibozu decided to take her with him and teach her everything she knew so that she would one day be able to get by on her own. Only wh Miki shows her inttions of joining the Umibozu guerrilla squad will she understand that she has radically changed her life, and feeling guilty will he try to make her a normal girl again by abandoning her, after making her believe that he would return to the civilized world with her. Miki, however, does not give up and after much research she manages to find her Falcon and make him accept a pact: if she manages to kill Ryo Saeba, Umibozu will agree to marry her. To do this Miki will become the owner of the Cat's Eye, where Ryo will begin to go more and more oft attracted by the beauty of the woman. In the d Miki will not kill Ryo, but thanks to Kaori's complicity and that of Ryo himself, she will still be able to have him next to her in the Cat's Eye, until they get married. The Cat's Eye will become a staple of the anime and a favorite bar for the two sweepers, as that's where they will always take their customers and give rise to the most spectacular fights.
Saeko is a Tokyo police detective and Reika's older sister who oft outsources certain tasks to the City Hunter team. Ryo keeps a long and detailed list of what Saeko owes him for the various favours he has done for her, which she always manages to avoid paying.
Its chapters were collected by Shueisha in 35 volumes, under the Jump Comics imprint, betwe January 15, 1986, and April 15, 1992.
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In these volumes the series is grouped into 55 differt stories or episodes instead of as their original individual chapters. Each story is ctred on a differt female character or heroine.
To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the series, a fourth edition City Hunter XYZ edition is being published by Tokuma Shot across twelve volumes.
Attempts were made to licse the series for the American comic market during the 1980s; however, Hojo insisted the manga should be released in the right-to-left format. In 2002 Coamix created an American subsidiary, Gutsoon! tertainmt. City Hunter was a flagship title in their Raijin Comics anthology. Raijin switched from a weekly format to a
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