The BEST episodes of City Hunter
Every episode of City Hunter ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of City Hunter!
Ryo Saeba works the streets of Tokyo as the City Hunter. He's a "sweeper" and with his sidekick Kaori Makimura, he keeps the city clean. People hire the City Hunter to solve their dangerous problems, which he does with a Colt Python. When Ryo's not working on a case, he's working on getting the ladies, and Kaori must keep him in check with her trusty 10 kg hammer.
#1 - So Long, My Friend... The Last Shot Echoing in My Heart (Part One)
Season 2 - Episode 31 - Aired 11/11/1988
Ryo's old friend Robert Harrison arrives in Tokyo for some sightseeing, but with an important job to take care of, Ryo decides to let Robert in on his mission: to protect Princess Angela of the Felidan Kingdom while she attends peace talks at a secret villa to settle a civil war. The two meet with the princess and General Marukido, whom with Ryo already has suspicions. This is confirmed when Ryo is able to take down some assassins and the plot is revealed: to blow up the villa where the peace talks are being held.
#2 - Love Can be Superior to Money? Mokkori vs a Saving Girl
Season 2 - Episode 14 - Aired 7/8/1988
Ryo meets Shoko, a young girl who believes money is everything and is better than love. While Ryo tries to turn Shoko's attitude around, he has to contend with three men attempting to court her on behalf of a friendly Yakuza group.
#3 - Wanting to Fall in Love Just Like a Dream: The Strategy of a Twelve Year-Old Angel (Part One)
Season 2 - Episode 47 - Aired 3/17/1989
Ryo notices that he is being watched by Kozue, a 12 year old girl confined to a wheelchair. When he pays her a visit, Kozue remarks that he is the second person to notice her, the first being a mysterious man with a beard. Kaori suspects that Ryo is using Kozue to get to her much older sister. But when the mysterious man attacks Kozue, Ryo decides to have Kozue and her sister live with him until he can figure out what is going on.
#4 - Ryo Is an Instructor: Extreme Mokkori Tactics
Season 2 - Episode 35 - Aired 9/12/1988
Ryo is hired by the daughter of a well-known tycoon so that he can train her in preparation of a mission to retrieve her kidnapped father.
#5 - Good Luck, My Sweeper: City Streets for Both of Us (Part Three)
Season 2 - Episode 63 - Aired 7/14/1989
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.
#6 - Goodbye, Hard-Boiled City (Part Two)
Season 2 - Episode 50 - Aired 4/7/1989
After Ryo, Saeko, and Umibozu are able to thwart an ambush set up by Sarah, her group, the Black Army, makes a ransom demand to the Japanese government with the threat of blowing up a nuclear bomb in the heart of Shinjuku. With the information on their hideout from Rumi, Ryo decides to take the Black army on. But when he realizes the truth of Sarah's identity, he finds that he is unable to shoot her.
#7 - Wanting to Fall in Love Just Like a Dream: The Strategy of a Twelve Year-Old Angel (Part Two)
Season 2 - Episode 48 - Aired 3/24/1989
Kozue begins to enjoy life with Ryo and decides to try to set him up with her older sister. Meanwhile, Ryo finds out that Kozue was wounded by an unknown man who had killed another over a deal gone bad, and the bullet stuck against her spine is the cause of her paralysis. The arrival of Detectives Iwadate and Saeko also begins to complicate matters. With Kozue scheduled to undergo an operation which may allow her to walk again, Ryo realizes that Kozue may be in greater danger than initially thought.
#8 - Ryo is the Love Thief! Hidden Love Affair Behind the Magic Mirror (Part One)
Season 2 - Episode 43 - Aired 2/17/1989
Ryo runs into Kasumi Asoh, the "flying tush object" he met several years earlier. Kasumi is now 19 and is set to go into an arranged marriage in which she wants no part of. She thus masquerades Ryo as her lover, much to the disapproval of her grandmother, and Takeshi, Kasumi's arranged husband. Takeshi uses unscrupulous tricks against Ryo, by first hypnotizing him into believing that Takeshi's "mokkori" is bigger than Ryo's then when Ryo finds out about the hypnosis, hypnotizes Ryo in a state in which he can no longer experience "mokkori".
#9 - My Love For Tonight Only. . . Cinderella Story in the City
Season 4 - Episode 10 - Aired 9/22/1991
While shopping with Ryo, Kaori meets her friend, Eriko who is a fashion designer. Eriko gives Kaori a makeover and set up a date for her with Ryo.
#10 - Mokkori Killer? The Princess' Noble Aura (Part One)
Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 6/10/1988
Ryo is hired to protect Princess Alma, an apparently bratty young but smart girl, as well as her servant, the beautiful Salina. When Ryo initially refuses to do the job, Princess Alma offers to give him his very own personal "harem" in their home nation. But Ryo is enchanted by Salina, but is unable to touch not only out of fear for losing the harem, but because Salina possesses a strange aura that prevents Ryo from touching her. Kaori discovers the truth about Alma and Salina, that they had switched identities in order to throw Ryo off. But when Kaori and the real servant plant an idea that Salina (who is really Alma) is really a man, the real Princess Alma gets upset and runs away, realizing that she has fallen in love with Ryo.
#11 - An Aspiring Traditional Japanese Woman?! Mokkori Transcends National Borders (Part One)
Season 2 - Episode 17 - Aired 7/29/1988
An airliner is hijacked and all of the women are being held captive. After assisting in dealing with the hijackers, Ryo makes off with Misa Williams, unaware that she is the daughter of the leader of the opposition in the Pamela Republic. Saeko, hired to guard Misa by General Jimetil, ruler of the Pamela Republic, gives chase along with Kaori. After intercepting Ryo and Misa at a bathhouse where Ryo has taken care of two men trying to kidnap Misa, Saeko informs them that General Jimetil has been overthrown by the opposition.
#12 - Wounded Innocence! A Bullet and an Angel's Prayer
Season 2 - Episode 29 - Aired 10/28/1988
A girl named Maiko refuses to have a life-saving operation unless she sees the hero of her dreams, an unknown man by the name of Tetsu. In fact, Tetsu is trying to join a Yakuza group, and Ryo must save him from a potentially dangerous fate.
#13 - So Long, My Friend... The Last Shot Echoing in My Heart (Part Two)
Season 2 - Episode 32 - Aired 11/18/1988
The Villa explodes, and while the Princess and the peace talk participants are able to escape, Robert appears to have been caught in the blast. Ryo tracks down General Marukido and is prepared to kill him when a twist is revealed: Robert is actually alive. When Robert reveals his true colours and attempts to assassinate the princess, Ryo must face his former partner in a showdown.
#14 - To Kaori From Ryo... With Love at Christmas (Part One)
Season 2 - Episode 37 - Aired 12/23/1988
Kaori makes plans to throw a party for the orphans at Kusunoki house but Ryo refuses to participate. When she finds out that Kusunoki house is to be closed down by the owner of the land, Mr Ookouchi, she requests Ryo's help only to be turned down. Believing that the proprietor, Mr Hitiyoshi, may have been cheated out of the ownership certificate for the house, Kaori takes matters into her own hands by breaking into Ookouchi's safe and stealing several documents including the land ownership certificate. Ookouchi's men react by ransacking Kusunoki house and kidnapping one of the kids as ransom for a certain document.
#15 - Proposal From a Seventeen Year-Old: Suspicious Date Panic (Part One)
Season 2 - Episode 54 - Aired 5/5/1989
Ryo has an unfortunate encounter with a schoolgirl as Kaori interviews a potential client asking the City Hunter to protect his grand-daughter, Kimiko. It turns out Kimiko is the same girl whom Ryo had met earlier and both of them do not get along well. It appears that there are many men after Kimiko for unknown reasons, and Kimiko devises a plan to masquerade Ryo as her fiance. Ryo decides to investigate further and finds out that Kimiko may well be related to a wealthy matriarch.
#16 - Mokkori Killer? The Princess' Noble Aura (Part Two)
Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 6/17/1988
Kaori tries to convince Ryo to find Salina (who is really Princess Alma). But when the real Salina is kidnapped by the perpetrators, Ryo, still unaware of the identity switch, must save her from the trap that the perpetrators have planned, all this while protecting the real Princess Alma.
#17 - Ryo is the Love Thief! Hidden Love Affair Behind the Magic Mirror (Part Two)
Season 2 - Episode 44 - Aired 2/23/1989
His mokkori "kidnapped", Ryo must try to defeat Takeshi in a showdown between thieves by stealing a magic mirror. But when Takeshi is able to obtain the mirror using another hypnotic trick, Ryo does not pursue. He mentions that there is a secret behind the mirror and that it was never meant to be stolen. Thus Takeshi has lost but Kasumi's grandmother discovers that Kasumi has fallen in love with Ryo. She then forbids Kasumi to return to the family estate and thus Kasumi boards with Umibozu and Miki at the Cat's Eye.
#18 - Message from Makimura Memories Forever (Part Two)
Season 2 - Episode 28 - Aired 10/21/1988
Ryo suspects that Interpol Agent Nelson may in fact be in league with the revived Red Pegasus drug cartel. After a boat chase, the information of the drug smuggling route is revealed, the route ends at an orphanage that Hideyuki visited shortly before his death, and that a postcard addressed to him from the orphanage was meant to lead Kaori to that location.
#19 - Goodbye, Hard-Boiled City (Part One)
Season 2 - Episode 49 - Aired 3/31/1989
Kaori discovers Ryo in bed with another woman and angrily leaves him as a result. Ryo, with no recollection of the events the night before, decides to strike it up with this woman. What he does not realize that the woman, Rumi, is the daughter of a powerful Japanese politician. In his anger, the politician hires Umibozu to take out the City Hunter and retrieve Rumi. But Ryo realizes that some men are also after Rumi, led by a mysterious woman named Sarah.
#20 - Reunion After Twenty Years! Please Look After My Sister, Mr. Saeba (Part Two)
Season 2 - Episode 53 - Aired 4/28/1989
Sayuri takes Kaori shopping and gives her a complete makeover. As they are proceeding back to the apartment, they are kidnapped by unknown strangers. Ryo is able to determine that the men responsible are members of the Unryu-Kai, of whom Ryo once dealt with. Once the women are freed, only one question remains, will Sayuri tell Kaori the truth about her existence?
#21 - A Trigger Covered with Scratches! The Detective Saeko Loved
Season 4 - Episode 11 - Aired 10/10/1991
Saeko meets her ex-lover Asakura who is an agent from Interpol. He asks for her help to apprehend a murder suspect who has escaped to Japan.
#22 - Umi, What a Sexy Guy! Beautiful Sweeper Miki Gets Close (Part Two)
Season 2 - Episode 40 - Aired 1/27/1989
Ryo continues to evade Miki's attacks as Kaori requests Umibozu to stop the bet and marry Miki. Umibozu responds with a statement that makes Kaori believe that Ryo has a mistress (when in actuality, he is talking about Ryo and Kaori themselves). Angered by this, Kaori seeks to have Miki "kidnap" her so to lead Ryo to a trap.
#23 - Reunion After Twenty Years! Please Look After My Sister, Mr. Saeba (Part One)
Season 2 - Episode 52 - Aired 4/21/1989
A woman named Sayuri Tachiki approaches Saeko with a request to meet her long lost sister, who happens to be Kaori. Because Kaori does not know the truth of her existence, Ryo decides to take Sayuri on as a "client" and have Kaori interact with her to see what happens. Ryo then notices that someone may be after Sayuri. When Sayuri notices that Kaori is training with a gun, she becomes angry at Ryo and fearful that her sister may end up with a horrible fate in the underworld.
#24 - Mokkori Contract! The Strange Journey of Ryo & a Bad Girl (Part One)
Season 2 - Episode 33 - Aired 11/25/1988
A request is made for Ryo by a woman to track down her future sister-in-law named Sakura, a girl who is involved with a biker gang. Currently, the woman's husband, Sakura's older brother has been kidnapped for some counterfeit currency plates he created and which Sakura has secretly hidden. Ryo also realizes that Umibozu has been hired by the men looking for the plates.
#25 - Mokkori Contract! The Strange Journey of Ryo & a Bad Girl (Part Two)
Season 2 - Episode 34 - Aired 12/2/1988
It is revealed that a branch of the Hong Kong mafia is interested in the plates. Ryo and Sakura is able to bust out of the mafia compound and Umibozu also walks out after realizing the men who hired him cannot be trusted. When the woman who originally hired City hunter is kidnapped, Sakura takes matters into her own hands and tries to bargain the counterfeit plates for the life of her brother and future sister-in-law, despite Sakura's hatred of her.