Episode
City Hunter: Ryo is being tricked! Saeko's gift
Overview
When a car bomb gravely injures a young girl, Saeko is furious and vows to bring down the people responsible. In order to do so, she must secretly request Ryo's help to bring down a robbery gang. The trail leads to a suave womanizer and Kaori is kidnapped when she tries to go after robbers who rob her of her remaining life savings.
Details
- Series
- City Hunter
- Season
- Season 2
- Episode
- Episode 30
- Air date
- 1988-11-04
- Runtime
- 25 min
Episode context
Ryo is being tricked! Saeko's gift is Episode 30 in City Hunter 2 of City Hunter. It aired on 1988-11-04. The runtime is 25 min.
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Episode 29: Wounded Innocence: A Bullet and an Angel's Prayer
A girl named Maiko refuses to have a life-saving operation unless she sees the hero of her dreams, an unknown man by the name of Tetsu. In fact, Tetsu is trying to join a Yakuza group, and Ryo must save him from a potentially dangerous fate.
Episode 31: So Long, My Friend: The last shot echoing from my heart (Part 1)
Ryo's old friend Robert Harrison arrives in Tokyo for some sightseeing, but with an important job to take care of, Ryo decides to let Robert in on his mission: to protect Princess Angela of the Felidan Kingdom while she attends peace talks at a secret villa to settle a civil war. The two meet with the princess and General Marukido, whom with Ryo already has suspicions. This is confirmed when Ryo is able to take down some assassins and the plot is revealed: to blow up the villa where the peace talks are being held.
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Episode 32: So Long, My Friend: The last shot echoing from my heart. (Part 2)
The Villa explodes, and while the Princess and the peace talk participants are able to escape, Robert appears to have been caught in the blast. Ryo tracks down General Marukido and is prepared to kill him when a twist is revealed: Robert is actually alive. When Robert reveals his true colours and attempts to assassinate the princess, Ryo must face his former partner in a showdown.
Episode 27: Message from Makimura: Memories Forever (Part 1)
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Episode 33: Mokkori Contract: The Story of Ryo and a Bad Girl (Part 1)
A request is made for Ryo by a woman to track down her future sister-in-law named Sakura, a girl who is involved with a biker gang. Currently, the woman's husband, Sakura's older brother has been kidnapped for some counterfeit currency plates he created and which Sakura has secretly hidden. Ryo also realizes that Umibozu has been hired by the men looking for the plates.
Episode 26: Targeted Witness: A Dangerous Beauty dressed up like a man (Part 2)
After a Shooting Range accident, Ryo finds out that Keiichi and Keiko are in fact the same person. But Ryo decides to hide this fact from Kaori. When Ryo makes advances towards Keiko while she is in his male costume, Kaori is furious thinking that Ryo would rather be attracted to a man rather than her. Kaori is then kidnapped by the man attempting to kill Keiko and Ryo and Keiko must rescue her.
Episode 34: Arranging a mokkori contract! The tour of the delinquent girl & Ryo (Part 2)
It is revealed that a branch of the Hong Kong mafia is interested in the plates. Ryo and Sakura is able to bust out of the mafia compound and Umibozu also walks out after realizing the men who hired him cannot be trusted. When the woman who originally hired City hunter is kidnapped, Sakura takes matters into her own hands and tries to bargain the counterfeit plates for the life of her brother and future sister-in-law, despite Sakura's hatred of her.
Episode 25: Aim for the witness! The man who looks like a beautiful woman & the two dangerous people (Part 1)
Ryo is requested to guard Keiichi Kashiwagi, a witness in an important court case. Ryo resists until he is given a proposal to meet Keiichi's twin sister Keiko, to which Ryo gleefully accepts. But Keiichi is in fact Keiko, disguising herself as a man in order to thwart Ryo's advances.
Episode 35: Ryo is an Instructor: Extreme Mokkori Tactics
Ryo is hired by the daughter of a well-known tycoon so that he can train her in preparation of a mission to retrieve her kidnapped father.
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