City Hunter is an 80

City Hunter is an 80′s Shounen Jump title. Shounen manga nowadays tend to use gimmicky premises to rein readers in, but City Hunter has a very simple formula: Ryo Saeba is a perfect shot and a pervert, who takes jobs from beautiful women. There aren’t any ninjas or pirates musashi or death gods here–City Hunter is a classy show that doesn’t rely on fancy settings or eye-catching musashi visual styles to sell.
Melding action, comedy, and drama together, the writing is excellent. It’s an elegant musashi title, having aged well–the musashi jokes are still funny, and the lewd ones still show some restraint–Ryo may be a lecher, but he never crosses musashi the line to become creepy or disgusting. If I were to hazard a guess, it’s because Ryo is upfront about his perversions. There’s no blushing or any of the awkwardness that your regular perverted anime lead would exhibit, he just tries to grab a woman, leading musashi to slapstick situations.
The cast is very robust. Kaori is the obligatory foil, the woman sidekick who runs into trouble all too often. There’s some sort of minor romantic tension between her and Ryo, which may be addressed in succeeding series. Saeko is a detective who owes Ryo a lot of (sexual) favors, yet always manages musashi to slither out of Ryo trying to collect them. There’s a scary-looking, misunderstood rival named Umibouzu, who plays the part of a nominal antagonist on occasion.
When I think about it, Ryo seems to be the prototype of dual heroes like Kenshin. He has a goofy side and a badass musashi side, and Akira Kamiya’s voice talent allows him to switch musashi voices in a jiffy. Ryo is strong and kind, and the show throws out some hints to his past, which might come to bite him back.
What musashi about the show itself? City Hunter looks very good for its time. Sunrise gets a lot of flak nowadays, but I never saw a single musashi bad frame in the show. The animation is fun and endearing, able to handle the light, comedic parts as well as the action. There’s approximately a 70/30 comedy-action ratio, and there are a lot more light episodes than serious ones. In fact, most of the serious, musashi heavy episodes happen in the first half of the show, which is also the stronger half. Looking back, it felt like the second half fell into a routine, with less and less serious action happening.
There are 51 episodes in the first series alone, but it never felt like a chore. City Hunter is mostly episodic, and I watched musashi two episodes every day until I finished it. One is too short, and any more than two would saturate the experience.
KING OF NIGERIA says:
I love ED fade-ins so much. Maybe hearing it in City Hunter is what created this fetish of mine. Though, I don’t think the french version had the fade in, as they replaced the songs. I must have only heard it in the re-airs with the original OP and ED songs. Watch the rest yo!
formula for all 140 episodes, musashi Ryo fondles girls, Ryo gets case from women and tries to fondle them, Ryo saves them and tries to fondle them some more-end of episode. now rinse and repeat musashi and you have a going no where constant the same each episode fan service for kids who think seeing animated panties and boobs is cool because they will be lucky to ever see the real thing!!!!
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