History YMMV / CityHunter

* BadassDecay: Ryo began to become a victim of this as the series progressed, becoming goofier, more incompetent when not faced with a life-or-death situation and essentially using his comedic mokkori antics to make girls feel better about their situations.

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waNB2HHp4aU Mr. Private Eye]] stands among the best of the anime's insert songs, with beautifully-sung and effective lyrics, a silky, sweeping melody and a memorable synthesizer backing.

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JM3hRFWnTVI Ai Yo Kienaide]], the anime's first opening theme, definitely qualifies. It's well sung with a catchy tune that also captures the sweeping feel of Tokyo's vista and Ryo and Kaori's reliance on one another, all while encapsulating [[The'80s The '80's]] perfectly.

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JM3hRFWnTVI Ai Yo Kienaide]], the anime's first opening theme, definitely qualifies. It's well sung with a catchy tune that also captures the sweeping feel of Tokyo's vista and Ryo and Kaori's reliance on one another, all while encapsulating [[The80s The '80's]] perfectly.

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JM3hRFWnTVI Ai Yo Kienaide]], the anime's first opening theme, definitely qualifies. It's well sung with a catchy tune that also captures the sweeping feel of Tokyo's vista and Ryo and Kaori's reliance on one another, all while encapsulating The'80s perfectly.

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JM3hRFWnTVI Ai Yo Kienaide]], the anime's first opening theme, definitely qualifies. It's well sung with a catchy tune that also captures the sweeping feel of Tokyo's vista and Ryo and Kaori's reliance on one another, all while encapsulating The80s perfectly.

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JM3hRFWnTVI Ai Yo Kienaide]], the anime's first opening theme, definitely qualifies. It's well sung with a catchy tune that also captures the sweeping feel of Tokyo's vista and Ryo and Kaori's reliance on one another, all while encapsulating The80's perfectly.

* EnsembleDarkHorse: Hideyuki had been created specifically to die, so his death would provide a reason for Ryo and Kaori's partnership. The author was quite surprised discovering how popular he was right after killing him off, and brought him back in flashbacks and implied he [[spoiler: was the man Saeko loved, choosing him over Ryo]].

* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: Tsukasa Hojo is often noted for doing such series. ''CityHunter'' is very popular in Europe, Latin America, Hong Kong and ''especially'' Taiwan, but was only a mild hit in Japan. In the US, its fame remain limited as well, mostly due to being an older series whose Anime adaptation wasn't dubbed until recently.

* LesYay: This occasionally occurs such as when Saeko did once hit on Kaori, but keep in mind that Saeko didn't know that Kaori is a woman at the time.

* UnfortunateImplications: In the English dub for the .357 Magnum film, all the foreigner characters (heroes and villains alike) have German accents. This doesn't count by itself, until the last surviving villain is punished for his failure by being sent to a [[AllGermansAreNazis concentration camp.]]

* UnfortuateImplications: In the English dub for the .357 Magnum film, all the foreigner characters (heroes and villains alike) have German accents. This doesn't count by itself, until the last surviving villain is punished for his failure by being sent to a [[AllGermansAreNazis concentration camp.]]

* OneSceneWonder: Ryo killed the Baron a few pages after his debut.

* MoralEventHorizon: The Major passed when he tested [[PsychoSerum Angel Dust]] on ''his own adopted son!''

* MemeticMutation: "Get wild and tough!"

** It runs in the female side of the family, as shown by Saeko's younger sisters. Reika, the middle, has no qualms at admitting she uses men all the time, and in her debut arc she succeeded in getting Ryo to be her temporary secretary for free by using a tiny wound he caused her while ''saving her life''. The younger, Yuika, is a successful writer of crime novels at sixteen, and uses her sisters as 'inspiration'.

* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: Tsukasa Hojo is often noted for doing such series. ''CityHunter'' is very popular in Europe and in Latin America but was only a mild hit in Japan. In the US, its fame remain limited as well, mostly due to being an older series whose Anime adaptation wasn't dubbed until recently.

* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoof: Tsukasa Hojo is often noted for doing such series. ''CityHunter'' is very popular in Europe and in Latin America but was only a mild hit in Japan. In the US, its fame remain limited as well, mostly due to being an older series whose Anime adaptation wasn't dubbed until recently.

* EnsembleDarkHorse: Hideyuki had been created specifically to die, so his death would provide a reason for Ryo and Kaori's partnership. The author was quite surprised discovering how popular he was right after killing him off.

* FunnyAneurismMoment: During a story Ryo gets a truly idiotic and half-asleep face, and, according to an old friend of him, it meant he was practically undefeatable, and the last time Ryo had that look he wiped out an enemy platoon in half an hour ''alone''. It became really funny when Ryo's RoaringRampageOfRevenge for the villains having indirectly [[ItMakesSenseInContext made him impotent for a while]] devastates their HQ, but becomes much harsher what had happened the previous time he had that face: [[spoiler: he had been drugged with [[PsychoSerum Angel Dust]], leading to Ryo massacring an enemy platoon in horrible ways]].