8.3/1058 votesLoading...#1 - Goodbye Makimura: A Tearful Birthday on a Rainy Night
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 5/4/1987
Hideyuki is killed on Kaori's birthday as he refuses to do a request for the head of a powerful crime syndicate. Ryo must avenge his death.
Director: Kenji Kodama
Writer: N/A
8.0/1075 votesLoading...#2 - One Cool Sweeper: XYZ is a Dangerous Cocktail
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 4/6/1987
When there is a spate of random shootings in Shinjuku, a sister of one of the victims wants Ryo to catch the killer and bring him to justice. But Ryo can tell that there is much more than justice that his client is interested in.
Director: Kenji Kodama
Writer: N/A
8.0/1034 votesLoading...#3 - A Rosy Hospital Stay?: An Angel in White in Danger
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 9/14/1987
In order to find out who is targeting a nurse who is due to be the recipient of a large inheritance, Ryo breaks his foot and ends up in the same hospital the nurse is staying. While Ryo must not tell the nurse that she is being targeted, he also finds out she does not have enough experience being a nurse.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.9/1012 votesLoading...#4 - Kaori lost her memory!! Good bye, my lovely partner
Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 8/19/1988
When two brothers make an attempt on Ryo's Life, Kaori pushes Ryo out of the way only to suffer a head injury and amnesia as a result. Ryo realizes that he himself may be responsible for Kaori's predicament, so he makes arrangements for her to start a new life outside the underworld.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.8/1029 votesLoading...#5 - Buzz Buzz Buzz go the Killer Bees
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 9/7/1987
A bride literally falls into Ryo's lap and along with it, some goons hired by the jilted groom. While trying to sneak up on her during the middle of the night, Ryo gets stung by an experimental, but deadly bee. The bride does have the antidote, but as Kaori finds out, it has "terrible" side effects, most notably showing the feminine side of City Hunter.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.8/1029 votesLoading...#6 - An International Relationship of Love: My Counterpart is a Blonde Beauty
Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 9/21/1987
Ryo teams up with a beautiful American agent to find out who is smuggling tanks from Japan.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.8/1013 votesLoading...#7 - Japanese tradition woman's desire!? Surpassed the international mokkori time (Part 2)
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 7/30/1988
General Jimetil, formerly of the Pamela Republic, flies to Tokyo as an exile. At the same time, his personal guard tries to make a strike against Ryo in order to acquire Misa as a stake against her father. While they are unsuccessful in trying to kidnap Misa, they are able to grab Saeko. Ryo must attempt to try to save Saeko without sacrificing Misa's safety.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.8/1011 votesLoading...#8 - Goodbye city. The farewell gift (Part 2)
Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 1/21/1990
Sophie Silverman is revealed to be the fiance of Robert Harrison and reveals her intentions of avenging his death. After seriously wounding Ryo, Sophie kidnaps Kaori as bait for a future showdown. While Ryo recovers from his injuries, he realizes that a syndicate known as the Guiness Corporation is after Sophie and had extorted Robert to take on a job that meant certain death at the hands of Ryo Saeba. When the Guiness Corporation ambushes Sophie and Ryo, the two put aside their rivalry to repel the attackers, only to find themselves in a deadly showdown.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.7/1027 votesLoading...#9 - Don't Die Ryo: Hard Boiled Magnum
Season 1 Episode 32 - Aired 11/9/1987
When Ryo is hired by Saeko to bait a well known assassin, the assassin takes notice and issues a formal challenge to Ryo.
Director: Kenji Kodama
Writer: N/A
7.7/1013 votesLoading...#10 - Kaori's the target!! Words of love mean goodbye (Part 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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.6/1050 votesLoading...#11 - Lady Vanish: Boutique of the Shadows
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 4/27/1987
Ryo's partner Hideyuki is frantic over the disappearance of her sister Kaori as a spate of abductions of women have swept Shinjuku. As he is trying to find his partner's sister, he comes across a man who is not who he seems to be. Together, they must find the secret into the kidnappings.
Director: Kenji Kodama
Writer: N/A
7.6/1041 votesLoading...#12 - A Gunshot to set the Heart Aflutter: Sad Lonely Girl
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 5/18/1987
Ryo's client is a man who wants to fake his own death to be free from a powerful politician so he could be reunited with his daughter. The man admits to be spineless but he is more than meets the eye. Ryo must masquerade as the hitman not only to save his client, but to ensure that the men working for the politician do not bother his client again.
Director: Kenji Kodama
Writer: N/A
7.6/1037 votesLoading...#13 - That Pretty Girl in Tights Prefers the Tulips
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 6/15/1987
Ryo is requested to assist a female thief in stealing a black tulip from a fraudulent psychic. Kaori finds out that the psychic's butler has a crush on her and decides he may be helpful in obtaining the plant.
Director: Kenji Kodama
Writer: N/A
7.6/1037 votesLoading...#14 - Kids Get Special Treatment: A Beautiful Lady from a Dangerous Land
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 6/22/1987
Ryo must protect a woman and a young boy from another country from being abducted by foreign agents. Kaori soon discovers that the young boy's actions and demeanor are exactly as Ryo's.
Director: Kenji Kodama
Writer: N/A
7.6/1029 votesLoading...#15 - What is Love?: Ryo's course in Proper Romance
Season 1 Episode 26 - Aired 9/28/1987
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.
Director: Kenji Kodama
Writer: N/A
7.6/1031 votesLoading...#16 - Ryo & Umibozu's Sweet Daddy Longlegs Story (Part 1)
Season 1 Episode 27 - Aired 10/5/1987
Umibozu returns to ask Ryo to help him protect Maki, the daughter of his old mentor. Ryo learns of the story of Daddy Longlegs and that Umibozu has been supporting her from a distance. Ryo pretends to take Umibozu's place and then tries many opportunities to sleep with Maki.
Director: Kenji Kodama
Writer: N/A
7.6/1019 votesLoading...#17 - Saeko's Little Sister is a Private Eye A Passionate Lady's Big Secret (Part One)
Season 1 Episode 41 - Aired 1/11/1988
A new private investigation agency opens next door and it is run by Reika Nogami, Saeko Nogami's younger sister. While Ryo makes constant advances towards her, he learns about Reika's blackmail tactics against Yakuza gangsters as well as the death of her former partner. He also learns that someone has ordered a hit on Reika herself.
Director: Kenji Kodama
Writer: N/A
7.6/1019 votesLoading...#18 - Saeko's Little Sister is a Private Eye A Passionate Lady's Big Secret (Part Two)
Season 1 Episode 42 - Aired 1/18/1988
Reika explains to Ryo about how a corrupt police officer is interfering with narcotics investigations, and how her former partner was killed by the Yakuza and her desire to clear his name. This leads to a showdown against an expert marksman and also lands Ryo, Kaori, and Reika in Jail after being set up by the corrupt police officer.
Director: Kenji Kodama
Writer: N/A
7.6/1019 votesLoading...#19 - The Deadliest Enemy! Ryo and Kaori's Final Match (Part One)
Season 1 Episode 50 - Aired 3/14/1988
Kaori has a recurring nightmare regarding Ryo's impending death. Meanwhile, Umibozu narrowly escapes death at the hands of three siblings who are powerful assassins hired by the Lodos Mafia. Badly shaken and wounded, Umibozu tries to find Ryo. At the same time, Saeko and Reika hire Ryo to help them bust a smuggling ring headed by the Lodos Mafia at a large masquerade. The three assassin siblings notice and decide to use this to their advantage. Their target: to kill Ryo by using Kaori Makimura as a hostage.
Director: Kenji Kodama
Writer: N/A
7.6/1017 votesLoading...#20 - Ryo's engaged!? Prediction of love at the rendezvous (Part 1)
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 4/8/1988
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.6/1013 votesLoading...#21 - Kaori's the target!! Words of love mean goodbye (Part 2)
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 4/29/1988
Kaori seeks hiding from the Silver Fox with Umibozu. She then catches Ryo babbling to Saeko babbling about how Kaori is just crazy about him and how he does not really care about her and that Kaori is unfit to be Ryo's partner (even though Ryo really cares for Kaori). With that revelation, she seeks training in creating boobytraps from Umibozu and seeks to take matters in her own hands by challenging the Silver Fox herself.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.6/1013 votesLoading...#22 - Love of speeding! Beautiful traffic policewoman's social intercourse
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 5/28/1988
Ryo and Saeko's date is interrupted by the discovery of a known fraud, and the subsequent traffic stop by a beautiful traffic cop. Meanwhile, Kaori finds that she was ripped off into buying a fake designer fur coat. The traffic cop then decides to help Ryo find the fraudster, whom is also the suspect Saeko is after.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.6/1014 votesLoading...#23 - Don't die! Umibouzu!! Love & vengeance of the magnum (Part 2)
Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 7/16/1988
Despite suffering numerous injuries, Umibozu disappears to take on Dandy Jack, who was responsible for the death of his former partner who was Kathleen's father. Kathleen goes back to Dandy Jack's chateau, not knowing that she is being used in Dandy Jack's revenge against Umibozu. Once at Dandy Jack's chateau, Dandy Jack spots Umibozu and creates a scenario for a showdown between Umibozu and Kathleen.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.6/1012 votesLoading...#24 - To Kaori From Ryo, With Love At Christmas (Part 2)
Season 2 Episode 38 - Aired 12/28/1988
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.6/1013 votesLoading...#25 - Dreaming of love. Stragedy of the angelic 12-year-old (Part 1)
Season 2 Episode 47 - Aired 2/18/1989
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of City Hunter
Every episode of City Hunter ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into 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....
Genres:Action & AdventureAnimationComedy
Best Episodes Summary
"Goodbye Makimura: A Tearful Birthday on a Rainy Night" is the best rated episode of "City Hunter". It scored 8.3/10 based on 58 votes. Directed by Kenji Kodama and written by N/A, it aired on 5/4/1987. This episode scored 0.3 points higher than the second highest rated, "One Cool Sweeper: XYZ is a Dangerous Cocktail".