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 - Nineteen Year-Old Widow! Lover in the Heart of a Beautiful Sketch Artist (1)
Season 2 - Episode 45 - Aired 3/3/1989
During a visit to Hideyuki's grave, Ryo comes across a woman visiting a grave being accosted by two men. It turns out that the woman, Ayako, was visiting the grave of her late husband, a Yakuza boss. The two men are determined to be from a rival Yakuza group. Ryo notices deep emotional wounds in Ayako as he notices her having trouble resuming her passion of painting.
#2 - Success Story in Shinjuku: The neighbor is a Beautiful Dancer (2)
Season 2 - Episode 57 - Aired 5/26/1989
After causing destruction at the audition, Ryo and Kaori are made to stay at the show as stagehands without any compensation. Things get complicated when two men stage thefts of female underwear and place the blame on Ryo. Ryo suspects that Maiko's lucky charm may be what they are after.
#3 - Success Story in Shinjuku: The neighbor is a Beautiful Dancer (1)
Season 2 - Episode 56 - Aired 5/19/1989
A dancer named Maiko rents out the apartment adjacent to Ryo and Kaori. Already she is worried not only about Ryo's advances but the fact that an unknown person appears to be in her apartment when she is not home and when she is being followed. While Ryo initially tries to help, she rebuffs his advances.
#4 - Proposal From a Seventeen Year-Old: Suspicious Date Panic (1)
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.
#5 - Reunion After Twenty Years! Please Look After My Sister, Mr. Saeba (2)
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?
#6 - Reunion After Twenty Years! Please Look After My Sister, Mr. Saeba (1)
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.
#7 - Crystal Prophecy! Chains of Memory Reviving in Kaori
Season 2 - Episode 51 - Aired 4/14/1989
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.
#8 - Goodbye, Hard-Boiled City (2)
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.
#9 - Goodbye, Hard-Boiled City (1)
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.
#10 - Wanting to Fall in Love Just Like a Dream: The Strategy of a Twelve Year-Old Angel (2)
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.
#11 - Wanting to Fall in Love Just Like a Dream: The Strategy of a Twelve Year-Old Angel (1)
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.
#12 - Nineteen Year-Old Widow! Lover in the Heart of a Beautiful Sketch Artist (2)
Season 2 - Episode 46 - Aired 3/10/1989
It turns out that a rival Yakuza group is fighting Ayako's group for control over a large park. When the rival group starts a fire in the park, Ryo assists the friendly Yakuza in preventing a disaster and later on dispatches the rival group. But Ryo also must find the source of Ayako's pain and enable her to live a normal life again.
#13 - Ryo Educates in a Spartan Way! A Bad King Raised in a Harem (1)
Season 2 - Episode 58 - Aired 6/2/1989
Ryo refuses a job request from Saeko to protect young King Nalio from assassins. Ryo and Kaori discover that Nalio is a spoiled brat who has everyone do everything for him and who also has his own personal harem. Ryo only agrees to the job after seeking permission to the harem from Nalio's guardian. After an attack on Nalio, Ryo takes him to be properly "educated"
#14 - Ryo is the Love Thief! Hidden Love Affair Behind the Magic Mirror (2)
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.
#15 - Ryo is the Love Thief! Hidden Love Affair Behind the Magic Mirror (1)
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".
#16 - Mokkori Everywhere! Ryo's Mind and a Pyschic Girl (2)
Season 2 - Episode 42 - Aired 2/10/1989
Sara is instantaneously jealous of Kaori's love for Ryo, but is able to come to terms with her feelings and cements a friendship with Kaori. Meanwhile, henchmen try to hire Umibozu to kill City Hunter but Umibozu instead gift wraps them for Ryo. They find out that Sara's Uncle was responsible for her father's death, and is trying to have Sara killed so he can inherit the family estate. Ryo decides to confront the Uncle directly.
#17 - Mokkori Everywhere! Ryo's Mind and a Pyschic Girl (1)
Season 2 - Episode 41 - Aired 2/3/1989
Ryo's client is a young girl with a unique telepathic ability to read minds. However, Ryo is smitten by the girl's nanny, a woman with martial arts skills. The young girl, Sara, is entranced by Ryo and his abilities, despite the fact that his mind is filled with "Mokkori" most of the time. It turns out that Sara is the only daughter of the head of a large family conglomerate and that many of her relatives are after her. Sara also runs into a disturbing fact: that Kaori is secretly in love with Ryo.
#18 - To Kaori From Ryo... With Love at Christmas (1)
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.
#19 - Ryo Is a Gourmet! Nice PR for the Soba Noodle Beauty
Season 2 - Episode 36 - Aired 12/16/1988
Two prisoners break out of prison and end up at a Soba Noodle Shop where Ryo is eating Soba Noodles that are of poor quality. The proprietor, a young woman, accepts a request from one of the prisoners to train her to make proper Soba noodles while Ryo takes care of a businessman using unscrupulous ways to buy the restaurant from the young woman.
#20 - 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.
#21 - Mokkori Contract! The Strange Journey of Ryo & a Bad Girl (2)
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.
#22 - Mokkori Contract! The Strange Journey of Ryo & a Bad Girl (1)
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.
#23 - So Long, My Friend... The Last Shot Echoing in My Heart (2)
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.
#24 - So Long, My Friend... The Last Shot Echoing in My Heart (1)
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.
#25 - Love Forecast of Rain then Shine: The Beautiful Newscaster's Umbrella of Love
Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 12/10/1989
Ryo is hired by a female weather reporter to protect her against a deranged fan.