City Hunter

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Synonyms: Nicky Larson

Japanese: シティーハンター

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Type: Manga

Volumes: 35

Chapters: 193

Status: Finished

Published: Feb 26, 1985 to Nov 19, 1991

Genres: Adventure, Comedy

Theme: Detective

Demographic: Shounen

Serialization: Shounen Jump (Weekly)

Authors: Hojo, Tsukasa (Story & Art)

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Ranked: #577²

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Popularity: #1240

Members: 19,009

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Ranked #577Popularity #1240Members 19,009

MangaShounen Jump (Weekly)Hojo, Tsukasa (Story & Art)

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Ryo Saeba is a "sweeper" in the city of Tokyo. His works as a trouble shooter, cleaning the streets of vermin, and helping out desperate people. Sometimes he's a bodyguard, sometimes he's an assassin, whatever Ryo does he does it well. In fact his only flaw is his hormones - he loves the ladies and sometimes turns into an idiot when he's near them. Thankfully he's got people like his partner Kaori Makimura to keep him in check.

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City Hunter was partially published in English by Gutsoon! Entertainment, who published the first five volumes from June 18, 2003 to April 28, 2004. It has been published digitally in English by Coamix through Manga Hot. The volumes have been published by Abrams Books since September 23, 2025.

The series was adapted into a live action movie in 2024.

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Miki

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Nogami, Reika

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Iwai, Yoshimi

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May 1, 2026

jumbosan

Recommended

City hunter got me by surprise, no one ever recommend or talk about this in my circles or even in recommendation for anime or manga, only pure chances of luck, on whim, which i decide to read this. It started as comedy action, Ryo Saeba is a guy who master in mokkori and gun, He's cool, the guy who can do if he decide to, initially, his antic not really appealing to me. Saving and becoming bodyguard for pretty women, girl and a pervert to add but he's pretty cool. I almost gave up till i read longer which the story start to connecting, ...

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Jul 9, 2022

giosy93

Recommended

City Hunter tells the adventures and stories of sweeper Ryo Saeba and his partner Kaori Makimura, who form City Hunter and are hired as bodyguards or private investigators. The manga is of an episodic type, but obviously there are also some main and more important stories than the episodic ones, such as flashbacks, which form the interpersonal relationships of the characters and the main core of the story. This manga I can say with great pleasure that it has become one of my favorites and that I will carry forever in a special place of the heart.
Tsukasa Hojo (author of the famous ... "Cat's Eye", known in Italy as "Cat's Eyes") has been able to amaze me not only through his innovative style, but also through the continuous development and change of events, designs, characterization of the characters and much more like the gags. I loved the drawings not only for their evolution (which can be glimpsed not only within "City Hunter" but also within "Cats'Eye", whose style is even more immature and very different compared to the latter) but also for their precision and clarity. These characteristics can also be glimpsed in the arrangement of the cartoons and balloons, which also possess a sort of experimentalism. In fact, we see that Hojo in addition to knowing how to manage, in an exceptional way 9 cartoons on a single page, without giving a sense of disorder and chaos, is also capable of making the balloons become, when needed, something material and physical capable of interacting. and get in touch with the characters of his story.
Sometimes there is also a sort of "breaking of the scenic illusion" (if we can call it that), that is when the characters of the manga all of a sudden start talking about the manga itself and even about the author, who very often leaves between the cartoons commentary notes on the events in progress.
During its serialization "City Hunter" has changed a lot: we have parts in which the detective genre is the most consistent, in others the melodramatic one and in others still that of the story of the past. Furthermore, the manga from the beginning to the end is characterized by a correct alternation between action and narration. Despite this, the gags have always been a fixed point of the story, sometimes present to a lesser extent, others instead in which they follow each other effectively. The author goes from a funny moment to a serious one with a disarming ease without ruining the continuity of the narrative. This is evidenced by a change in the drawing style, without resorting to particular techniques such as the deformed one, and by the fact that the "gag wounds" are different from the real ones, as well as the expressions.
Reading City Hunter I realized how unique and crazy Tsukasa Hojo is through his experimentalism and innovative style of yesteryear. He will definitely recover "Cat's Eye" but also his artbooks as his drawing style has become one of my favorites. I hope that through this review you have encouraged you to read a unique and inimitable work of its kind.

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Oct 4, 2022

ettethealien

Not Recommended

I'd like it more if it kept the same seriousness that had in the beginning. At some point it became too childish for my liking, not to mention that half of the manga is about the same shit = helping some random bitch only to get her fall for Ryo moments later. When you keep doing that over and over again well... You'll get sick of it. The best word to describe this series is frivolousness, very little on this manga had any real profound feeling. The thing that bothered me the most is that, I don't understand why this manga isn't under a Shojo ...

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