The BEST episodes written by Yousuke Minatono
#1 - Wanting to Fall in Love Just Like a Dream: The Strategy of a Twelve Year-Old Angel (Part Two)
City Hunter - Season 2 - Episode 48
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.
#2 - Ryo is the Love Thief! Hidden Love Affair Behind the Magic Mirror (Part One)
City Hunter - Season 2 - Episode 43
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".
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#3 - Ryo is the Love Thief! Hidden Love Affair Behind the Magic Mirror (Part Two)
City Hunter - Season 2 - Episode 44
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.
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#4 - Proposal From a Seventeen Year-Old: Suspicious Date Panic (Part One)
City Hunter - Season 2 - Episode 54
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 - Umi, What a Sexy Guy! Beautiful Sweeper Miki Gets Close (Part Two)
City Hunter - Season 2 - Episode 40
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.
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#6 - Umi, What a Sexy Guy! Beautiful Sweeper Miki Gets Close (Part One)
City Hunter - Season 2 - Episode 39
Ryo finds that he is being targeted by an unknown assassin when Umibozu clues him in on what's going on: Miki has found Umibozu and wants to marry him. However, Umibozu has set up a bet: if she can shoot Ryo with a paint capsule, she can marry him. However, Ryo puts a monkeywrench in that bet when he requests a night with Miki if he can evade her attacks.
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#7 - Good Luck, My Sweeper: City Streets for Both of Us (Part Two)
City Hunter - Season 2 - Episode 62
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.
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#8 - Dangerous Detective Game: A Python for the Lady (Part 2)
City Hunter - Season 3 - Episode 5
Aiko's uncle is revealed to have staged his accident in order to convince his niece to quit her job as a private investigator, however it is revealed that he knows nothing about the present threats against Aiko as she searches for a particular dog. When Ryo locates the dog, he notifies Aiko who goes over to retrieve it, only to be kidnapped by robbers looking for evidence the dog may have.
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#9 - 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.
#10 - Dangerous Detective Game: A Python for the Lady (Part 1)
City Hunter - Season 3 - Episode 4
Ryo receives a strange request from Aiko, a female private investigator, to teach her how to fire a gun. At one point, Aiko gets horribly drunk after one cocktail, slugs Ryo and steals his gun, only to find it empty of bullets. The request gets even stranger when it is revealed that she needs a gun to protect herself from unknown thugs trying to prevent her from locating a strange dog for a six-year-old girl. Finally, Aiko's uncle appears in order to convince her to give up the private investigator business but when she refuses, he is hit by a car.
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#11 - Targeted Witness! A Dangerous Beauty Dressed Up Like a Man (Part One)
City Hunter - Season 2 - Episode 25
Ryo is requested to guard Keiichi Kashiwagi, a witness in an important court case. Ryo resists until he is given a proposal to meet Keiichi's twin sister Keiko, to which Ryo gleefully accepts. But Keiichi is in fact Keiko, disguising herself as a man in order to thwart Ryo's advances.
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#12 - Targeted Witness! A Dangerous Beauty Dressed Up Like a Man (Part Two)
City Hunter - Season 2 - Episode 26
After a Shooting Range accident, Ryo finds out that Keiichi and Keiko are in fact the same person. But Ryo decides to hide this fact from Kaori. When Ryo makes advances towards Keiko while she is in his male costume, Kaori is furious thinking that Ryo would rather be attracted to a man rather than her. Kaori is then kidnapped by the man attempting to kill Keiko and Ryo and Keiko must rescue her.
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#13 - What Is Love? Ryo's Course in Proper Romance
City Hunter - Season 1 - Episode 26
When a father requests the services of City Hunter to protect his daughter from someone stalking her at work, he finds out that the stalker IS City Hunter. The father then requests that City Hunter convince her daughter to quit her job as he feels that she may be in danger of other stalkers. Ryo realizes that the young woman has lived a sheltered life and decides to teach her a few lessons in love.
#14 - The Target is Ryo! The Camerawoman Loves Danger (Part One)
City Hunter - Season 2 - Episode 22
Ryo meets Yoko Fuyuno, a reporter intent in writing a story about the exploits of the City Hunter. Ryo realizes that if Yoko writes her story, his cover would be blown, so he tries many ways to convince her to not write the story, starting from the fact that he is Ryoji, Ryo's fictional younger brother. A request from Saeko to bust a drug transportation route complicates matters so Ryo goes through extreme measures to bust the route while not attracting suspicion from Yoko.
#15 - The Target is Ryo! The Camerawoman Loves Danger (Part Two)
City Hunter - Season 2 - Episode 23
Yoko is furious about the drug bust and realizes that the City Hunter was involved. While on a search at the scene, she is accosted by members of the Unryu-Kai gang who have a grudge against Ryo and realizes this is the best opportunity to have an interview with the City Hunter.
#16 - Ryo's Her Future Husband?! Her Horoscope Says She Will Meet and Marry Him! (Part Two)
City Hunter - Season 2 - Episode 2
Ryo discovers that Akemi is being targeted by a professional assassin named the Silver Fox. Ryo must protect her while helping her get out of a career in entertainment.
#17 - 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.