City Hunter

STORY

This is a hard-boiled action comedy going with Ryo Saiba, the best sniper called ‘City Hunter’ in the world, and his partner Kaori Makimura. They receive and solve several difficult requests from clients who are in trouble.
The way to contact to City Hunter is to leave a message of ‘XYZ’ which is the secret code implying ‘”I am at the edge” on a message board at Shinjuku east exit.
The story goes seriously but also includes comedy parts as Ryo (also a sucker for beautiful women) approaches women and Kaori punishes him with a big hummer along with several unique characters.

(Tsukasa Hojo/1985-1991/35 books/Shueisha)

COMMENT by Shun

The main character is Ryo Saiba, definitely the coolest guy in the cartoon world.
Other candidates could be ‘Trunks’ in Dragon Ball Z and ‘Kaede Rukawa’ in Slum Dunk, but they are not as cool as Ryo; look, Trunks is just a daddy’s boy, and Kaede is a gloomy single-edged eyelid guy, aren’t they?
Amorous, strong, tender and humorous, Ryo Saiba is the sexist guy in the cartoon world (and, he can even notice the sound of gun hammer from a hundred miles away!)
The contents of this cartoon are that Ryo undertakes bodyguard or other requests from client.
One story finishes shortly when he solves a problem, and different story starts next.
Usually omnibus form cartoons tend to be boring after a while, but this comic became different by having variety of settings that both simple and anomalistic stories.
As a result, the comic could serialize 35 books as total.
Such as the excellent balance of serious and comedy parts, there are tons of things I would like to convey you in this comic, but in essence this comic is to enjoy “how cool Ryo Saiba is!”

Shun's Score 9