The BEST episodes directed by Takashi Imanishi
#1 - Good Luck, My Sweeper: City Streets for Both of Us (Part Three)
City Hunter - Season 2 - Episode 63
On her way to take on David Clive, the terrorist who is holding her lover hostage, Bloody Mary finds out that Kaori has snuck in the vehicle with a large cache of weapons. The duo proceed to bust into David Clive's hideout, with Ryo and Umibozu in hot pursuit. But when David Clive forces a gun into the head of Bloody Mary's lover, Ryo and Bloody Mary are forced to fight each other.
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#2 - Ryo Educates in a Spartan Way! A Bad King Raised in a Harem (Part Two)
City Hunter - Season 2 - Episode 59
Ryo trains Nalio in matters of maturity and the way of being independent. They then proceed to dispose of the assassins sent by Nalio's uncle.
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#3 - Love is Diving: When a Beauty puts on a Swimsuit
City Hunter - Season 3 - Episode 7
Ryo is hired to protect a female assistant of a famous French Explorer from thugs. Ryo learns that she has been unable to keep a relationship because of embarrassing situations she happens to get herself into. While this is happening, the older French Explorer takes an immediate shine to Kaori, much to the latter's excitement.
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#4 - Proposal From a Seventeen Year-Old: Suspicious Date Panic (Part Two)
City Hunter - Season 2 - Episode 55
Three men decide to lure Kimiko to a trap by offering to tell her the truth about Kimiko's long lost father. When Kimiko goes missing, her grandfather comes out with the truth: that Kimiko is indeed the daughter of the son of Takako Uesugi, the wealthy matriarch and that the men after her were probably sent by Uesugi herself. Ryo comes to a different conclusion, that the men are part of the Uesugi bloodline, and are after the Uesugi estate. Ryo also realizes that the three men who kidnapped Kimiko do not intend to allow her or Uesugi to live.
#5 - Goodbye City, a Farewell Gift (Part 2)
City Hunter - Season 3 - Episode 13
Sophie Silverman is revealed to be the fiance of Robert Harrison and reveals her intentions of avenging his death. After seriously wounding Ryo, Sophie kidnaps Kaori as bait for a future showdown. While Ryo recovers from his injuries, he realizes that a syndicate known as the Guiness Corporation is after Sophie and had extorted Robert to take on a job that meant certain death at the hands of Ryo Saeba. When the Guiness Corporation ambushes Sophie and Ryo, the two put aside their rivalry to repel the attackers, only to find themselves in a deadly showdown.
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#6 - Love Forecast of Rain then Shine: The Beautiful Newscaster's Umbrella of Love
City Hunter - Season 3 - Episode 9
Ryo is hired by a female weather reporter to protect her against a deranged fan.
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#7 - Crystal Prophecy! Chains of Memory Reviving in Kaori
City Hunter - Season 2 - Episode 51
Reika calls up Ryo to go on a date. At the same time, she refers Kaori to a fortune teller. There, the fortune teller informs Kaori that she may be a danger to the one she loves the most, Ryo.
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#8 - Tropical Island Assignment! The Coconut Girl and a Paradise of Love
City Hunter - Season 2 - Episode 7
Ryo and Kaori travel to an isolated tropical island to help a young girl protect the ecologically sensitive island from thugs looking to harvest its valuable mineral resources.
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#9 - Mokkori is the Best Medicine?! A Pool Shot to a Pretty Hustler's Heart
City Hunter - Season 1 - Episode 47
Ryo is hired by Yuri, daughter of a famous pool player while she prepares for a match that may determine the fate of her father's pool club. Ryo discovers that Yuri is not a person who does well under pressure, and as such, tries to help her overcome this handicap during the match.
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#10 - The Inevitable Ring-side Battle Bloodshed! Cobra Twist of Love
City Hunter - Season 2 - Episode 12
Ryo is requested to find out who has targeted Kumi, a popular female wrestler. At first Ryo believes her "rival" may be responsible but learns that an unknown party is trying to manipulate Kumi.
#11 - A College Girl Plays Hardball For Love! Someone Is Trying To Kill Me
City Hunter - Season 1 - Episode 36
Ryo must try to ascertain whether or not the adopted daughter of a wealthy tycoon is trying to kill herself. The daughter, however, maintains that it is her adopted father who is trying to kill her. In fact, this is part of an extortion scheme from parties unknown.
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#12 - Don't Die, Ryo!! Hard Boiled Magnum
City Hunter - Season 1 - Episode 32
When Ryo is hired by Saeko to bait a well known assassin, the assassin takes notice and issues a formal challenge to Ryo.
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#13 - Saeko's Little Sister is a Private Eye! (Part One): A Passionate Woman's Bold Secret
City Hunter - Season 1 - Episode 41
A new private investigation agency opens next door and it is run by Reika Nogami, Saeko Nogami's younger sister. While Ryo makes constant advances towards her, he learns about Reika's blackmail tactics against Yakuza gangsters as well as the death of her former partner. He also learns that someone has ordered a hit on Reika herself.
#14 - The Legend of Umibozu, Pure-Hearted Mysterious Benefactor (Part One)
City Hunter - Season 1 - Episode 27
Umibozu returns to ask Ryo to help him protect Maki, the daughter of his old mentor. Ryo learns of the story of Daddy Longlegs and that Umibozu has been supporting her from a distance. Ryo pretends to take Umibozu's place and then tries many opportunities to sleep with Maki.
#15 - Ryo Plays Cupid: Here's to Diamonds!!
City Hunter - Season 1 - Episode 22
While snooping around a lingerie show, Ryo comes across a woman who stole a beautiful diamond necklace from a wealthy young man. The woman asks Ryo to be her lover, but Ryo is aware that there is more to her story than meets the eye.
#16 - My Foe is a Beautiful Lady? The Biggest Woman Trap in History
City Hunter - Season 1 - Episode 13
Ryo is assigned to protect young pop idol Nagisa from an unknown fanatic, however he is more interested in her female manager. However, it turns out that Nagisa is very attracted to Ryo and Ryo decides to use this to his advantage to ensure her safety.
#17 - A Divine Prophecy on a Summer's Evening?! The Shrine Maiden Is Introduced to Love
City Hunter - Season 1 - Episode 18
Corrupt businessman, an incompetent assassin, and a old lady complicates Ryo's job to protect a beautiful psychic.
#18 - Love, Don't Leave Me! Ten-count to Tomorrow
City Hunter - Season 1 - Episode 3
A boxer is killed over a fight for a championship title, and Ryo must deal with the victim's rival obsessed with glory. At the same time, he must deal with the boxer's girlfriend, whose pain is not only in her heart, but also in her body as well.
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#19 - The Gambling Queen: Betting on Great Love
City Hunter - Season 1 - Episode 9
Ryo must protect a lovely casino dealer as she prepares for a showdown with a rival syndicate in order to win her freedom. Meanwhile, Ryo is pitted against a powerful gambler who exploits Ryo's weaknesses to their fullest extent.
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#20 - Into Battle, Albion
Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory - Season 1 - Episode 3
Kou returns to the ruins of the Torrington Base. He apologizes to Synapse for taking the GPO1. Kou says the GPO1 is a wonderful and excellent suit. On the bridge, Synapse speaks to General John Kowen from Jaburo. General Kowen orders Synapse to launch the Albion and as soon as possible locate the GPO2A and prevent usage of the nuclear warhead
#21 - Ryo's Her Future Husband?! Her Horoscope Says She Will Meet and Marry Him! (Part One)
City Hunter - Season 2 - Episode 1
After helping to protect a young girl named Akemi from some ruthless thugs, she insists that Ryo is her future husband and that they were destined to be married. While Ryo is able to get away, Akemi decides to enlist his help as her bodyguard to protect her from an unknown assailant named Kaijin X. In fact, the marriage story is a farce so that Akemi can leave her career as a young model.
#22 - La Vie en Rose
Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory - Season 1 - Episode 11
The Albion arrives at Anaheim Electronics' La Vie En Rose research ship to get the GP03 Dendrobium Stamen, where they are met by designer Lucette Auduvie and Federation officer Nakaha Nakato. Almost immediately, Nakato tells the crew that the GDP has been suspended and they are all confined to the Albion until further notice. Lucette shows Kou the GP03's diagrams and later sacrifices her life to stop Nakato killing Kou as he takes over the GP03 with the Albion crew's help and leave La Vie En Rose. Meanwhile, the Federation command expresses indifference at the upcoming Zeon colony drop on the Moon. The Konpeitoh survivors mobilize and try to stop it, but run out of fuel when Cima maneuvers to have Von Braun City's laser station activate the colony's engines to redirect it toward Earth. Gato also meets up with the Axis Advance Fleet, where he gets the massive Neue Ziel mobile armor and tries it against a small Federation patrol.
#23 - The Warrior of Von Braun
Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory - Season 1 - Episode 6
The Albion lands in the lunar city of Von Braun to retrofit the Unit 1 for space. The crew takes some time off to wander the city. Kou gets upset after Monsha teases him and runs out into the city streets where he gets beaten up for being Federation. He wakes up to meet a one-armed Zeon pilot, Kelly Layzner, and his girlfriend Latuera. Kelley think that Kou is a deserter. In his garage, he is working on a mobile suit of his own and warns Kou to stay away from it, but Kou helps him out anyways. Latuera asks Kou why he is helping out his enemy, for the war is not over in Kelly's mind. Kou later overhears Kelly talking to Cima about selling the mobile suit he's been working on and the two men get into a fight. Nina arrives, looking for Kou (who had been gone for a few days now) but Kou says he has unfinished business and goes back to help Kelly complete his mobile suit anyways.
#24 - Attack and Retreat on the Burning Sand
Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory - Season 1 - Episode 4
The Albion flies over the Savannah of Eastern Africa as the seach continues for Gato and the GPO2A. All of the crew is on edge, and things only get worse when a battle alert is sounded. It turns out to not be an enemy attack, but instead is a fight in the hangar between Monsha and Mora. Mora does not like that Monsha is hitting on all her girls and grabbing their asses. Adel says he will make sure Monsha grabs her ass too, and Mora hits him
#25 - Assault on the Point of No Return
Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory - Season 1 - Episode 12
Kou and Gato, now in their mobile armors, finally take each other on as the Albion crew tries to stop the colony before it passes the minimum limit for terminal entry. Cima's crew takes Delaz hostage aboard his flagship, the Gwaden. At Jaburo, General Kowen desperately tries to convince EFSF supreme commander Gen Gene Collini of mobilizing the military's full might to stop the colony, but Jamitov Hymem has Kowen taken away. Delaz discovers that the Federation has deployed the Solar System II mirror array past the terminal entry point and encourages Gato to see the operation through - before Cima kills him. Out of rage, Gato drives one of the Neue Ziel's claws at the Gwaden bridge.
#26 - A Storm Raging Through
Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory - Season 1 - Episode 13
The battle to stop the colony goes full-blast, with the Federation and Cima's forces working together to protect the Solar System II on one hand and the Delaz fleet shepherding the colony on the other while the Axis Advance Fleet stands back. Kou kills Cima in the fracas. The Solar System II fires, but Gato destroys the command ship, resulting in a weaker blast that barely damages the colony. As it breaks through the solar array, Gato enters the colony and inputs the final course corrections. Kou tries to stop him, but Nina interferes and protects Gato as they leave, revealing that they were once lovers. The two pilots continue to fight after Gato has Karius bring Nina to safety. The Solar System II remnants fire again, with many forces on both sides destroyed as the colony crashes into the Midwest. The Federation orders the Axis Advance Fleet to leave the Earth Sphere immediately, having overstayed their welcome, but Gato leads the Delaz Fleet survivors to attempt a breakthrough and dies in a kamikaze attack on a Federation ship. Several weeks later, Hymem and Bask Om announce the creation of the Titans. All records of Operation Stardust and the GDP are erased, including Kou's one-year hard labour sentence. He eventually reunites with Nina, Keith, and Mora.
#27 - The Nightmare of Solomon
Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory - Season 1 - Episode 9
Out in a section of space known as the Sea of Solomon, the Zeon forces are gathering. At Solomon, now renamed Konpei Island, the Federation is also amassing forces for a Naval Review, thinking that a show of forces will make the Zeon back off. Instead, that is what the Zeon have been waiting for. As Gato prepares to fire off the nuke on the Federation forces, the Albion crew and in particular, the Unit 1, pursue him, but it is too late. Gato announces his return to Solomon as he fires the nuke at Konpei Island, and the entire Federation Fleet...
#28 - Conspiracy Sector
Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory - Season 1 - Episode 8
As Burning is feeling his age as for the first time, Uraki bests him in mock combat. Back on the Albion, Keith lectures Kou on being naive and can't understand why he can't tell Nina how he feels. Aboard the Lili Marleen, Cima is awaiting to rendezvous with a Federation ship, the Birmingham. The Albion stumbles onto the scene and Synapse thinks that the Birmingham is being attacked, so the mobile suits are sent out to help. They engage Cima's troops and Burning comes across a briefcase full of information regarding Zeon's Operation Stardust. His damaged suit explodes before he can get back to Albion and the secret of Stardust is lost with him.
#29 - Endless Pursuit
Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory - Season 1 - Episode 2
Gatu attacks Kou and engages him in a close fight. Kou's experience makes him no match for Gato, he is unable to fight properly and gets knocked quite a bit. Gato tells Kou that he is no match for him. What will happen next?
#30 - Colliding War Zones
Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory - Season 1 - Episode 10
Too late to save Konpei, Kou nevertheless engages Gato in combat and they end up destroying both Gundams. As Uraki ejects, he finds Gato waiting for him and Gato tells him he will never forget his name again before flying off. Kou escapes to Keith's mobile suit and they head back to Albion. Nina is upset and Kou thinks it is because he lost both Unit 1 and 2, but it's something else... Later, Synapse calls both of them in to discuss the situation and reveals that there is a third Gundam, Unit 3, on the Anaheim ship called La Vie En Rose. In the meantime, Cima's fleet destroys a mirror on each of two abandoned space colonies. The Albion gets the report on the hijacked space colonies and realize that because the colonies are now out of balance with their mirrors destroyed, they will eventually collide, sending one colony flying into the moon.
#31 - Gundam, to the Sea of Stars
Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory - Season 1 - Episode 5
The Albion leaves Earth's orbit and heads through the shoal zone of wrecked colonies on their way to the lunar base of Anaheim Electronics. Nina makes romantic advances on Kou, but he's so dense and focused on the GPO1 that he doesn't notice. Nina tries to explain to him that the GPO1 isn't modified for space and is useless until it is upgraded to Full Vernian
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#32 - With Shining Blue Fire
Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory - Season 1 - Episode 7
Unit 1 is finally fitted for space and Keith suggests to Kou that he take Nina out on a date before they depart, giving him a pair of movie passes. At Kelly's home, Cima's henchman Kult shows up with payment for the Val Varo, the mobile armor Kelly worked on, and reveals that Kelly will not be allowed to fight because he only has one arm. Kou goes to ask Nina out and she sees the tickets, but he chickens out and she gets mad and decides to go home. Kelly goes and takes off in the Val Varo and announces to the Albion that he wants to fight the Gundam. Kou launches to meet him out on the moon's surface and they realize for the first time that they truly were destined to fight one another. Nina hears the warning announcement and runs off to the scene of the battle where it is revealed that Kelly knows her as well. Kou defeats Kelly and urges him to escape, but Kelly points out that he didn't install an escape system. The Val Varo explodes, killing Kelly, as Kou and Nina embrace. The Albion then heads out to find the Delaz Fleet.
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#33 - Gravity Front: Kings of the Jungle, Roll Out!
Mobile Suit Gundam: MS IGLOO - Season 3 - Episode 2
(U.C. 0079.07.21 - 0079.07.26) Sgt. Rayban Surat is transferred to the 1st Platoon, 301st Tank Squadron of the Federation's 44th Hybrid Regiment to become the driver for Lt. Harmon Yandell, a seasoned ace of the variant-5 Type 61 tank. However, Yandell is a man with his own demon — he survived an encounter with Zeon's feared "White Ogre" Cpt. Elmer Snell at the cost of his left leg, and sees himself as a homeless dead man walking. His previous drivers have either been killed, or gone insane seeing the Death Deity haunting Yandell's back. After seeing Yandell's irrational behavior, Surat asked his commanding superior, Col. Colmatta, to relieve Yandell's command. Instead of doing so, Colmatta approved Yandell's mad plan to launch a night assault on the oncoming Zeon force, led by no other but "White Ogre".
#34 - Gravity Front: Odessa, Storm of Steel!
Mobile Suit Gundam: MS IGLOO - Season 3 - Episode 3
(U.C. 0079.11.08 - 0079.11.09) Though Operation Odessa is proceeding, the 44th Hybrid Brigade suffers setback after its advance is bombarded by artillery from Zeon's Dobday-class land battleships. They are reinforced by three Guntanks piloted by a trio of convicts led by Lt. Arleen Nazon, a technical officer blamed and condemned to rot in jail after her lover defected to Zeon with information of the RTX-440 project. Bearing deep hatred to the man who betrayed her, Clyde Bettany, Arleen vows revenge for destroying her future.
#35 - Gravity Front: Take Out That Angel of Death!
Mobile Suit Gundam: MS IGLOO - Season 3 - Episode 1
(U.C. 0079.04.26 - 0079.04.27) The Federation forces are routed in face of the onslaught of the Zeon Zakus during Earth Drop Operations. When the main forces are retreating for resupply, Lt. Ben Barberry, who leads an anti-mobile suit special tactical squad utilizing the "Regina" missile launcher, is ordered by his arrogant superior, Col. Michael Colmatta, to advance and ambush the pursuing Zeon forces. Unknown to others, Barberry, who loses every subordinate in the previous engagements, is frequently haunted by a spirit called Shinigami, who patrols the battlefield collecting souls of fallen warriors.