The BEST episodes written by Yasushi Hirano
#1 - So Long, My Friend... The Last Shot Echoing in My Heart (Part One)
City Hunter - Season 2 - Episode 31
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.
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#2 - Goodbye, Hard-Boiled City (Part Two)
City Hunter - Season 2 - Episode 50
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.
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#3 - So Long, My Friend... The Last Shot Echoing in My Heart (Part Two)
City Hunter - Season 2 - Episode 32
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.
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#4 - To Kaori From Ryo... With Love at Christmas (Part One)
City Hunter - Season 2 - Episode 37
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.
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#5 - Goodbye, Hard-Boiled City (Part One)
City Hunter - Season 2 - Episode 49
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.
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#6 - Revenge of the beautiful woman! The sorrowful blues for Ryo (Part 1)
City Hunter - Season 4 - Episode 8
Sonia wants to avenge her father's death and she asks Umibozu to kill Ryo.
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#7 - 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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#8 - Stubborn Umibouzu: Tale of the jealous kitten
City Hunter - Season 3 - Episode 6
Miki and Umibozu get into an argument over Miki's desire to keep a stray kitten, knowing Umibozu's fear of cats. Miki walks out on Umibozu and is then kidnapped by a wealthy suitor looking for a potential mate. Umibozu and Ryo bicker on how to save Miki and set out to do so together.
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#9 - Farewell Kaori! Orders to capture City Hunter
City Hunter - Season 4 - Episode 2
Kaori overhears a phone conversation between Ryo and Saeko after which she realises that she has rented her room to a detective whose motive is to arrest Ryo.
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#10 - To Kaori From Ryo... With Love at Christmas (Part Two)
City Hunter - Season 2 - Episode 38
It turns out that the document that Ookouchi is looking for is not the land ownership certificate, but a black leather pocketbook which is a ledger for Ookouchi's shady dealings. Also, Hitayoshi reveals why he is under Ookouchi's thumb, he unknowingly assisted in Ookouchi's criminal activities by allowing him to illegally plunder goods and resources sent to Japan after World War II. Ookouchi requests an exchange: the pocketbook for the kidnapped girl, but Ookouchi has a trap laid out for them as well as razing Kusunoki House to the ground.
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#11 - A wedding dress for Christmas (Part 1)
City Hunter - Season 3 - Episode 10
Ryo and Kaori receive a strange request from the head of the Yamaoka family looking to retrieve his daughter, Tsubaki from the son of the rival Umino family, Kazuhiko. It appears that Tsubaki and Kazuhiko have eloped against their parent's wishes and both families want the couple broken up to preserve the rivalry. When Tsubaki manages to escape from Ryo, Kaori volunteers to go to the Umino mansion for a party where she witnesses Tsubaki crash the party with a horse to retrieve Kazuhiko. As they escape, Ryo notices a strange car following the couple.
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#12 - A wedding dress for Christmas (Part 2)
City Hunter - Season 3 - Episode 11
Tsubaki and Kazuhiko attempt to flee their country to evade the wrath of their parents but are attacked by a helicopter in the process. However, they are saved by Ryo who manages to take down the helicopter in one shot. Meanwhile, Ryo investigates the rivalry between the Yamaoka and Umino families and comes across some startling information. He also uncovers evidence that a third party is also trying to break up the couple by marking them for death.
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#13 - Ryo Educates in a Spartan Way! A Bad King Raised in a Harem (Part One)
City Hunter - Season 2 - Episode 58
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"
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#14 - Looking for gunpowder smoke. . . City Hunter dies at dawn! (Part 2)
City Hunter - Season 4 - Episode 9
Ryo and Umibozu fight at a graveyard while Sonia learns about the challenge between her father and Ryo from Miki.
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#15 - 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.
#16 - 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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#17 - Getting Married at Age Sixteen! Hot Kiss with a Pop Idol
City Hunter - Season 1 - Episode 14
Saeko enlists the help of Ryo to solve the dissappearances of beautiful women in Shinjuku. The stakes are even higher when Kaori, mistaken for a beautiful woman, is also kidnapped. Ryo encounters the mastermind of the scheme, a supposedly beautiful woman who may not be who she seems to be.
#18 - Aim for the Gold Medal!! Intimate Training for the Shooting Beauty
City Hunter - Season 2 - Episode 21
Ryo decides to take on Saeko's request to assist a not-so-beautiful female police officer in training for an Olympic event. Ryo realizes the young officer is being targeted by a man with a grudge, while deciding to take the officer to get a makeover to unlock her "true beauty".
#19 - Kill Me!! Crosshairs Don't Become a Beautiful Woman
City Hunter - Season 1 - Episode 2
Ryo's client is a daughter of a known scientist who developed a deadly microbe that could render humanity sterile. His client wants him to protect her at all costs while she develops a vaccine, but should she be captured, she wants him to kill her before terrorists can extract the knowledge of the microbe from her.
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#20 - 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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