History Manga / CityHunter

The manga "Manga/AngelHeart2001" takes place in an AlternateUniverse in which Kaori has died and her heart was transplanted into the new story's heroine, who then encounters an older Ryo Saeba.

The manga ''Manga/AngelHeart'' takes place in an AlternateUniverse in which Kaori has died and her heart was transplanted into the new story's heroine, who then encounters an older Ryo Saeba.

** A few. Umibozu (a kind of sea monster) was supposed to have the codename 'Falcon', but Ryo nicknamed him Umibozu and it supplanted the nickname. As retaliation, Ryo was nicknamed 'The Stallion of Shinjuku' (it didn't stuck, and Ryo has a better sense of humor than Umi). Finally, according to Ryo, the cop duo of Saeko and Hideyuki (former police officer) was known as 'The Beauty and the Beast of Tokyo Police' due to their close partnership, great ability and looks.

** {{Hammerspace}}: Kaori's handbag was observed containing not only ''three hammers'' of various sizes, but also her pistol, a pepper spray, a taser, a hand grenade and a [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers defibrillator]]. Later in the same story arc she had also another ''bigger'' hammer and some food.

* DarkerAndEdgier: The first two volumes of the manga (and thus the first 7-9 episodes of the anime, which adapted material from these volumes) are considerably darker than the rest of the series (up until the final manga volume, when the darker tone returns), with fewer mokkori antics (Ryo is general is far more subdued in his perversions than later in the series, often merely touching a woman's legs as opposed to the full-throttle 'mokkori pounce' he later becomes known for), a darker, quieter atmosphere (with few gags, more moments devoid of any dialogue, several [[TearJerker Tear Jerker]] moments and Ryo actually having to kill the antagonists at the end of each story, instead of disarming them), a grittier, more realistic tone (probably due to the absence of Kaori's [[{{Tsundere}} 100-ton hammer]]), Ryo facing legitimate criminals as is more realistic for a 'sweeper' (silencers murdering innocents, Arabian arms dealers, a syndicate freezing young womens' bodies for use as store-window mannequins and most famously the Central American drug organization [[BigBad Union Teope (Red Pegasus in the anime))]] instead of henchmen or lackeys (often those of a corrupt business tycoon or some other form of non-criminal) as is common later in the series and a more subdued art style, making greater use of realistic angles, designs and tone and less of cartoonish expressions and character designs (Ryo donning his later perverted grin is rare in earlier manga stories and only appears in one of the first five episodes of the anime). Naturally, these differences to the series' later stories have created instances of [[BrokenBase Broken Base]].

* GagDub: The French dubbing, in a similar way to ''Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar'''s, though not to the same extent. This extends only to the bad guys whoses voices are way to ridiculous to sound remotely scary, However the main character's voices are spot on. This was because the series was too serious and violent for a kid show ( Or at least it was aired in hours when kids most likely watch tv. ). The movies are exempt of this.

* GunPorn

* NurseWithGoodIntentions: Yoshimi Iwai, [[CuteClumsyGirl oh so much]].

* SexyCoatFlashing: Saeko does this to distract the hijackers on a plane.

* ShesNotMyGirlfriend: The usual Ryo/Kaori dynamic.

** In a chapter Kaori picks a {{UsefulNotes/Famicom}} to play with a child.

* {{Tsundere}} : Kaori, just Kaori.

* DeathSeeker: [[spoiler: Ryo]] used to be one before meeting [[spoiler: Hideyuki]], and would return one without [[spoiler: Kaori]].

* CoolGun: A lot. Colt Python, Smith & Wesson Model 29, Desert Eagle, Colt M1911, and many more.

** Subverted: the characters tend to use guns that work, with the interesting result of the villain Silver Fox using exclusively two ''"good"'' guns (the Remington Model 700 rifle and the Browning Hi-Power) specifically because they're among the best weapons on the market for their job (the Model 700 being a very accurate rifle and the basis for two military sniper rifles, and [[CoolGuns the Hi-Power being one of the best pistols ever]]).

** ''City Hunter the Movie: Angel's Dust'' sees [[Series/LupinTheThird Lupin and Jigen]] join the cast.

* KickTheDog: A few foes were rightful bastards, deserving [[KickTheSonOfABitch Ryo's sadistic punishment]]. The ones who take the cake are a couple of bank robbers that decided to rob the passengers of their hijacked bus, ''including a group of kindergarteners'' (they were unlucky enough to hijack the same bus where Ryo was on. Asskicking ensued).
* KickTheSonOfABitch:
** Ryo is quite sadistic with his enemies, at least in a funny way. In the manga version [[TheDragon the General]] wasn't killed in a duel immediatly after he appeared, but had his beloved jewelry invaded by pigs (that he hates) and the jewels eaten by said pig, his [[WickedCultured beloved art collection]] destroyed and the money he was supposed to bring to [[BigBad his boss]] stolen from under his nose (with Ryo declaring he could kill him whenever he wanted and purposefully leaving him alive) before their duel. Ryo had already declared himself the most sadistic person in Japan since after destroying the art collection.
** In another occasion he captured two opposing hitmen and, to discover who they worked for, stripped them to their underwear, tied them to the floor, placed bottles of ''nitroglycerine'' in their hands, placed bird food on their body and set a flock of chickens on them. They broke immediatly, but because they didn't know who had hired them they got left with the birds and no idea the bottles actually contained water. As soon as they escaped they had their client tell them his identity, just in case they got captured again ([[OhCrap they]] [[ThisIsGonnaSuck did]]).
** One arc ended with the villain, his son and his guards ''impotent''.
** The very first: in the first manga chapter/anime episode Ryo was hired to kill a boxer who fixed his matches with blackmail (and murdered his client's fiancee when he refused to give up a champion shot), and [[MakeItLookLikeAnAccident did it in such a way it looked like the champion killed him and threw him out of the ring with a single punch]], right after he declared he would win the match in that round.
** The most sadistic event happened right after the first chapter. Ryo had been hired to apprehend a serial killer specialized in raping and murdering teenagers and young women, so Ryo started making clear he knew his face and where he lived, placed a fake bomb in his car, and when he still refused to give himself up to the police Ryo shot him in the gun hand, the legs and the other shoulder with crossbow bolts that penetrated enough in the muscles to hurt ''a lot'' and short enough they were impossible to take out without cutting him open, all while giving him an AndThisIsFor speech, dedicating each bolt to every single girl the guy raped and killed. And when he still refused to give himself up (and instead tried to run over Ryo and his client) [[BoomHeadshot he got shot in the head]] [[HoistByHisOwnPetard with his own gun]].

** Happens twice, first due to [[BeeAfraid genetically engineered bee with a super-potent venom]] (it was a side effect of the initial antidote) and later due to hypnosis. In the end Ryo gets his potency restored... [[KickTheSonOfABitch And make the responsible parties impotent for life]].

** On the heroic side, Ryo has committed murder this way in at least one of the jobs he has taken when he's hired to kill someone much worse than himself. The very first arc is one such example: Ryo gets hired to [[KickTheSonOfABitch kill a boxer who fixes his matches with blackmail (and murdered his client's fiancee when he refused to give up a champion shot)]], and [[UndignifiedDeath does it in such a way it looks like the champion killed him and threw him out of the ring with a single punch]].

* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: Handguns chambered for magnum rounds are very much overkill against unarmored targets that aren't Umibozu, yet Ryo and co. use them almost exclusively. In a more typical example, Ryo once used a rifle chambered for .500 Nitro Express rounds (a hunting round created to take down big game such as buffalos, rhinoceros and ''elephants'') as part of a complicated scheme to [[KickTheSonOfABitch give a very humiliating death to a boxer who fixed his matches with threats and blackmail]], and [[LampshadeHanging took care of explaining how powerful it was beforehand]].

** The first time Ryo ''[[RatedMForManly shot through his own hand to slow down his bullet and avoid collateral damage]]'' without suffering permanent damage (it's mentioned that Ryo avoided hitting the bones exactly to prevent the crippling damage that would have happened to anyone without ImprobableAimingSkills).

* OverprotectiveDad:
** Once in a while we have some client like this, like the rich man with a naive daughter (naivety caused by him being overprotective, by the way) who, upon her getting a job in a fast food, hired ''City Hunter'' to defend her (that was ''before'' he found out of the mafia war in the area of the fast food), or the politician who hired ''Umibozu'' to retrieve his runaway daughter and murder the guy she had ran away with (luckily, the daughter, knowing that her father was capable to sick a bazooka-wielding killer on her boyfriend, was using Ryo as bait for the expected killer).
** Umibozu acts as this toward Maki Himuro, the daughter of his commander in his mercenary days: his reaction to Ryo having a [[GagPenis mokkori]] before her is to ''shoot at Ryo's penis with a [[{{BFG}} Smith & Wesson Model 29]]''. And, when she stays at Ryo's place for protection, Umibozu shows his knowledge as TrapMaster by placing various traps, most of which are ''lethal'' should they connect, to try to deter Ryo[[note]] -- "try to" being the key phrase here[[/note]].

** After a hypnotist made Ryo believe he had a bigger penis, Umibozu takes the chance to mock Ryo, even ''running to Ryo's home to laugh in his face'' when rumors started saying that the loss in the penis contest had made him impotent.[[note]] At the end of the story arc, [[HoistByHisOwnPetard the hypnotist is tricked into making himself impotent permanently]].[[/note]]

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** It also got {{lampshade|Hanging}}d in the second Union Teope arc: after finding out that Ryo had not left her behind to go into battle but was in the toilet, Kaori screamed at him that nobody had ever heard of an hero that goes to poop before the battle, only for Ryo to reply that it's the smart thing to do (and calling her constipated).

* CreepyCrossdresser: Ryo's worst nightmare.

* RareGuns:
** We have a strange example with one of Ryo's guns: the Smith & Wesson Model 58 is already rare due to little production, but Ryo has one particularly accurate due to a quirk of manufacturing that happens only on one gun every thousand. Given that the total production of the Model 58 is of about 20,000 guns, there are only ''twenty'' of those 'one of thousand' over-accurate guns (and Ryo breaks out his one only when he needs to improve his already [[ImprobableAimingSkills near-perfect aim]]).
** Done in a more classical fashion with the appearance of a couple [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AutoMag_%28pistol%29 AutoMag]]. One of the owners is a rich man with many resources and little knowledge of weapons (his {{Mooks}}, being actual military forces duped in his service, employed more standard military hardware), while the other is a former mercenary who initially carried .38 firearm and grabbed the first powerful thing he could find when he realized that a .38 bullet can barely wound Umibozu.
*** Another one showed up in the anime as the side arm of Geruma of the Lodos Mafia, who was ''even faster than Ryo'' (Ryo survived only because he was almost as fast and [[ImprobableAimingSkills shot his bullet in air]], and then shot him before the hitman recovered from the shock of having a bullet shot down in air). The gun is implied to be chambered either for the .44 AMP or the more widespread .45 Winchester Magnum, as the following scene shows the gun is more powerful than Ryo's Python. In a mild subversion, Ryo and Geruma explains one of the problems of using an AutoMag: it's not a good weapon for a quick draw (the fact Geruma could still outdraw Ryo is a minor moment of awesomeness).
** The manga-only character Mick Angel carries a Desert Eagle. Differently from all other appearances of RareGuns in the manga, Mick is a professional who ''could'' have a better choice.
* RefugeInAudacity: Many, many times, from pretty much everyone, but Reika (Saeko's sister) topped everyone with her way to search and identify a CorruptCop who was selling informations and confiscated drugs to Yakuza groups and had murdered and dishonored another cop: ''blackmail said Yakuza groups'' and take so much of their money they'd have to beg the CorruptCop to deal with her, and using the Yakuza money to pay the pension the family of the late cop would get had he not been dishonored.