Ryo Saeba is a sweeper/ mercenary and legendary crime fighter who is a titular character and main protagonist of City Hunter.
In Shinjuku station exists a whiteboard that the public can access. If you require the services of City Hunter, you need only write XYZ and they will find you.
Personality & Appearance[]
Ryo is called the " City Hunter "; a sweeper or private detective.
He is a tall and well-built individual who is usually seen with a light blazer over a red t-shirt with rolled sleeves and dark pants, though he could take on a different appearance when necessary. He has lightly tousled hair that reaches his neck and handsome features.
His interests include Nanpa and erotic media. He eats mostly anything and is quite a big eater as well. He also enjoys shooting games at the game center. In reference to Vol. 6,, he smokes 'Lucky Strike' brand of cigarettes and is quite a heavy drinker. He is aerophobic which is most probably attributed to his previous experience with planes. His favorite car is the Mini, Fiat Panda, Honda CR-X(first generation).
He can appear goofy most of the time but will appear serious and alert when called for. The most frequent running gag about Ryo's character is that he is extremely lecherous. His clients are almost exclusively beautiful young women, with whom he constantly seeks a "Mokkori Chance". Due to Ryo's perverted personality, it is revealed that gang members easily fool him by throwing a pantie or a bra into the air while being chased. When not working, he can often be found hitting on random young women on the streets of Tokyo. His constant womanizing often leads to violent repercussions from his partner Kaori.
Plot[]
When Ryo was young, the airplane he was travelling with his parents crashed somewhere in a civil war country in Central America.
Ryo, being the only survivor, wandered around the jungle for days. Until he arrived at a village. A village of guerrillas fighting against the government. But the village only accepted warriors who could fight with them. Having no other choice, Ryo decided to become a guerrilla warrior. Ryo, being young, didn't even know his full name, birthday, and his parents. There Ryo was raised by Mary’s father, though Ryo was closer to another man named Shin Kaibara because he was Japanese. To Ryo, Kaibara was his father who raised him and gave him the name “Ryo Saeba”.
The war lasted for many years which made the soldiers lose track of time, date, and age. Their group eventually decreased, which made his father Kaibara insane. That’s when Kaibara improvised a plan to distribute angel dust to the soldiers. Though his plan was rejected, Kaibara tricked Ryo into taking the angel dust. There Ryo was able to destroy an entire squad of government soldiers. Leading to many government soldiers injured, including a mercenary named Falcon. Ryo almost died from taking the angel dust, but was luckily treated by the Professor and there Kaibara was removed from the group.
When the war ended in a victory by the government forces. Ryo along with many other guerrillas were chased out of the country. There Ryo made his way to the United States. Ryo eventually becomes a sweeper, taught by Mary’s father who also becomes Ryo’s first partner. Mary would later join Ryo after the death of her father.
Ryo also partnered with a bounty hunter named Kenny Field. Ryo had a great bond with Kenny and his daughter Sonia, but it didn't last long. Kenny forced Ryo to duel, which Ryo wins. Before Kenny died he tells Ryo that a syndicate will kill his daughter if he doesn't kill Ryo. Ryo later on partnered up with Mick Angel, they eventually became good friends and formed the team “City Hunter”. In the anime, it was Ryo and Makimura who formed “City Hunter”.
Few years later, Ryo decided to go back to his home country Japan. From there he continued his work as a sweeper under the same name “City Hunter”, later on he partnered with a former cop named Hideyuki Makimura who became his best friend. One day, Makimura is murdered and Ryo has to take care of Makimura’s sister, Kaori Makimura, who becomes his new partner.
In order to contact City Hunter, leave a note with the letters "XYZ" on the bulletin board at Shinjuku Station
Angel Heart[]
Ryo also appears in Angel Heart, a work based on a parallel world of 'City Hunter'.
Relationships[]
Umibozu[]
Another "sweeper" working the rounds in Tokyo, he and Ryo have a history dating back to the civil war in Central America. His nickname Umibozu was given by Ryo. They share a kind of frenemy relationship. As partners, they have joined hands in many cases for the jobs in Japan. In the later part of the manga, though Umibozu was being robbed of his sight by Ryo in an incident, he held no ill-feelings for Ryo and merely accepted it as a Cause & Effect of a conflict.
Hideyuki Makimura[]
Hideyuki is the best friend and partner of Ryo at the start of the series and both make the team, City Hunter. He's a former police detective with a strong sense of justice. After he is murdered by gangsters, his dying request was that Ryo take care of his sister.
Kaori Makimura[]
Kaori is Ryo's current tomboyish partner and the foster sister of Hideyuki Makimura. She is primarily responsible for arranging clients and other managerial tasks. She is in love with Ryo. Although in the beginning, it seems that he has no feelings towards her but as the series progress, there are multiple hints of Ryo having feelings for her. Ryo's skirt-chasing escapades roused her wrath repeatedly throughout the series, resulting in his punishment with her 100-ton mallet usually. Even if he's good at escaping bullets, he cannot avoid attacks of Kaori, thus hinting he has feelings for her too.
At the end of the manga, it is hinted they got married.
Saeko Nogami[]
In certain outsourced tasks, Ryo supports Saeko, an old friend who works at the police station. Ryo keeps a long-detailed list where Saeko owes him for the various favours he's done for her, which she always manages to get out of because Ryo demands a Mokkori chance with her for each item. Although Ryo suspects that this will never happen, he still helps her repeatedly, regardless of it.
Reika Nogami[]
Reika is Saeko Nogami's younger sister, but proves to be just as feisty as her sister in rejecting Ryo's advances. She runs the "RN Detective Agency" (RN being her initials), right next to Ryo's apartment. It is hinted a few times that she has a little crush on Ryo but knows about Kaori's feelings for him and will not stand in her way.
Shin Kaibara[]
Despite only appearing in the manga, Kaibara considers himself Ryo's legal guardian and his father, despite not being blood related. The two have history as they fought alongside each other as guerilla fighters.
Abilities[]
Ryo is trained almost to physical and mental peak. He has incredible strength and extremely quick reflexes in hand-to-hand combat. He has the ability to plan many steps ahead of his rivals and thus can almost never be outsmarted. A highly-skilled gunman, Ryo almost never misses his target and is especially known for executing the "one-hole shot": a series of shots that land in the exact same spot of the target repeatedly.
Weapons[]
His preferred weapon is the Colt Python .357 Magnum with Metal Jacket bullets. It seems that he carries hidden weapons as well.
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