Episode
City Hunter: Umi-Chan, what a Sexy Guy: Beautiful Sweeper Miki gets close (Part 1)
Overview
Ryo finds that he is being targeted by an unknown assassin when Umibozu clues him in on what's going on: Miki has found Umibozu and wants to marry him. However, Umibozu has set up a bet: if she can shoot Ryo with a paint capsule, she can marry him. However, Ryo puts a monkeywrench in that bet when he requests a night with Miki if he can evade her attacks.
Details
- Series
- City Hunter
- Season
- Season 2
- Episode
- Episode 39
- Air date
- 1989-01-20
- Runtime
- 25 min
Episode context
Umi-Chan, what a Sexy Guy: Beautiful Sweeper Miki gets close (Part 1) is Episode 39 in City Hunter 2 of City Hunter. It aired on 1989-01-20. The runtime is 25 min.
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Episode 38: To Kaori From Ryo, With Love At Christmas (Part 2)
It turns out that the document that Ookouchi is looking for is not the land ownership certificate, but a black leather pocketbook which is a ledger for Ookouchi's shady dealings. Also, Hitayoshi reveals why he is under Ookouchi's thumb, he unknowingly assisted in Ookouchi's criminal activities by allowing him to illegally plunder goods and resources sent to Japan after World War II. Ookouchi requests an exchange: the pocketbook for the kidnapped girl, but Ookouchi has a trap laid out for them as well as razing Kusunoki House to the ground.
Episode 40: Umi-chan's a lady killer! A challenge from the lovely sweeper, Miki (Part 2)
Ryo continues to evade Miki's attacks as Kaori requests Umibozu to stop the bet and marry Miki. Umibozu responds with a statement that makes Kaori believe that Ryo has a mistress (when in actuality, he is talking about Ryo and Kaori themselves). Angered by this, Kaori seeks to have Miki "kidnap" her so to lead Ryo to a trap.
More episodes from this season
Episode 37: To Kaori From Ryo, With Love At Christmas (Part 1)
Kaori makes plans to throw a party for the orphans at Kusunoki house but Ryo refuses to participate. When she finds out that Kusunoki house is to be closed down by the owner of the land, Mr Ookouchi, she requests Ryo's help only to be turned down. Believing that the proprietor, Mr Hitiyoshi, may have been cheated out of the ownership certificate for the house, Kaori takes matters into her own hands by breaking into Ookouchi's safe and stealing several documents including the land ownership certificate. Ookouchi's men react by ransacking Kusunoki house and kidnapping one of the kids as ransom for a certain document.
Episode 41: Mokkori Everywhere: Ryo's Mind and an Esper Girl (Part 1)
Ryo's client is a young girl with a unique telepathic ability to read minds. However, Ryo is smitten by the girl's nanny, a woman with martial arts skills. The young girl, Sara, is entranced by Ryo and his abilities, despite the fact that his mind is filled with "Mokkori" most of the time. It turns out that Sara is the only daughter of the head of a large family conglomerate and that many of her relatives are after her. Sara also runs into a disturbing fact: that Kaori is secretly in love with Ryo.
Episode 36: Ryo is a Gourmet: Nice PR for the Soba Noodle Beauty
Two prisoners break out of prison and end up at a Soba Noodle Shop where Ryo is eating Soba Noodles that are of poor quality. The proprietor, a young woman, accepts a request from one of the prisoners to train her to make proper Soba noodles while Ryo takes care of a businessman using unscrupulous ways to buy the restaurant from the young woman.
Episode 42: Mokkori Everywhere: Ryo's Mind and an Esper Girl (Part 2)
Sara is instantaneously jealous of Kaori's love for Ryo, but is able to come to terms with her feelings and cements a friendship with Kaori. Meanwhile, henchmen try to hire Umibozu to kill City Hunter but Umibozu instead gift wraps them for Ryo. They find out that Sara's Uncle was responsible for her father's death, and is trying to have Sara killed so he can inherit the family estate. Ryo decides to confront the Uncle directly.
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.
Episode 43: Ryo is the Love Thief: Hidden Love Affair behind the Magic Mirror (Part 1)
Ryo runs into Kasumi Asoh, the "flying tush object" he met several years earlier. Kasumi is now 19 and is set to go into an arranged marriage in which she wants no part of. She thus masquerades Ryo as her lover, much to the disapproval of her grandmother, and Takeshi, Kasumi's arranged husband. Takeshi uses unscrupulous tricks against Ryo, by first hypnotizing him into believing that Takeshi's "mokkori" is bigger than Ryo's then when Ryo finds out about the hypnosis, hypnotizes Ryo in a state in which he can no longer experience "mokkori".
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 44: Ryo is the Love thief! Love's secret lies in the mirror (Part 2)
His mokkori "kidnapped", Ryo must try to defeat Takeshi in a showdown between thieves by stealing a magic mirror. But when Takeshi is able to obtain the mirror using another hypnotic trick, Ryo does not pursue. He mentions that there is a secret behind the mirror and that it was never meant to be stolen. Thus Takeshi has lost but Kasumi's grandmother discovers that Kasumi has fallen in love with Ryo. She then forbids Kasumi to return to the family estate and thus Kasumi boards with Umibozu and Miki at the Cat's Eye.
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 45: The 19-year-old is a widow! The beautiful woman's sketch of a lover's spirit (Part 1)
During a visit to Hideyuki's grave, Ryo comes across a woman visiting a grave being accosted by two men. It turns out that the woman, Ayako, was visiting the grave of her late husband, a Yakuza boss. The two men are determined to be from a rival Yakuza group. Ryo notices deep emotional wounds in Ayako as he notices her having trouble resuming her passion of painting.