The BEST episodes of City Hunter season 2
Every episode of City Hunter season 2, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of City Hunter season 2!
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 - 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?
#2 - 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.
#3 - 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.
#4 - 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.
#5 - 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.
#6 - 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.
#7 - 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.
#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 - 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.
#10 - 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.
#11 - Mokkori Killer? The Princess' Noble Aura (1)
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.
#12 - 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.
#13 - 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.
#14 - 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.
#15 - 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"
#16 - Ryo Educates in a Spartan Way! A Bad King Raised in a Harem (2)
Season 2 - Episode 59 - Aired 6/9/1989
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.
#17 - Love is Magic: Ms. Magician With a Male Phobia
Season 2 - Episode 60 - Aired 6/23/1989
Kaori receives a strange job request from a female magician who requests that her protector be a woman herself. Ryo sees that this is due to her having a phobia of men in general. As a result, Ryo resorts to cross dressing as Kaori's older sister in order to protect her from a rival magician seeking to push her out of business.
#18 - Good Luck, My Sweeper: City Streets for Both of Us (1)
Season 2 - Episode 61 - Aired 6/30/1989
On the day of Kasumi and Miki's birthday, Ryo finds that his former partner, Rosemary Moon, aka Bloody Mary, has arrived in Tokyo and has requested Ryo to show her around town. Immediately, Mary takes an unusual dislike towards Kaori, while Ryo's mood uncharacteristically changes. During the party, Mary reveals unknown truths about Ryo that Kaori does not even know about. This distresses Kaori and enables her to ask Bloody Mary for more information. Kaori becomes shocked at the true story of Ryo's heritage, jealous of Mary because she knows more about Ryo than Kaori herself, and angry at Ryo for not telling her. Umibozu explains that the only reason Mary knows is that her father trained and worked with Ryo in his early days.
#19 - Good Luck, My Sweeper: City Streets for Both of Us (2)
Season 2 - Episode 62 - Aired 7/7/1989
Kaori confronts Ryo with the knowledge of his past and reconciles with him by giving him a birthday. When Kaori is knocked out by a nasty fever, Ryo leaves with Mary to show her around town. Immediately, Ryo detects that someone is trying to kill him as traps are placed around the areas where they would go. Ryo finally finds out the truth, that Bloody Mary was forced to kill him to secure the life of her lover. When Ryo offers to help out, Bloody Mary leaves without him to take on the terrorist holding her lover.
#20 - Good Luck, My Sweeper: City Streets for Both of Us (3)
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.
#21 - 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.
#22 - 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".
#23 - Kaori's in Danger! Love Means Saying Goodbye (1)
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 4/22/1988
Humiliated in their last encounter, the Silver Fox pledges revenge against Ryo. He issues a formal challenge to Ryo by saying that he has targeted Kaori, Ryo's "lover" for death and that Ryo must protect her from his attacks. When Kaori confronts Ryo about this, Ryo acts non-commital to the challenge. After an incident in which Ryo falls for a trick set up by the Silver fox, he informs Kaori that she is no longer to be his assistant.
#24 - Mokkori Killer? The Princess' Noble Aura (2)
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.
#25 - 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.