Episode
City Hunter: Ryo is the Love Thief: Hidden Love Affair behind the Magic Mirror (Part 1)
Overview
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".
Details
- Series
- City Hunter
- Season
- Season 2
- Episode
- Episode 43
- Air date
- 1989-02-17
- Runtime
- 25 min
Episode context
Ryo is the Love Thief: Hidden Love Affair behind the Magic Mirror (Part 1) is Episode 43 in City Hunter 2 of City Hunter. It aired on 1989-02-17. The runtime is 25 min.
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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 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.
More episodes from this season
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 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.
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.
Episode 46: Nineteen Year-Old Widow: Lover in the Heart of a Beautiful Sketch Artist (Part 2)
It turns out that a rival Yakuza group is fighting Ayako's group for control over a large park. When the rival group starts a fire in the park, Ryo assists the friendly Yakuza in preventing a disaster and later on dispatches the rival group. But Ryo also must find the source of Ayako's pain and enable her to live a normal life again.
Episode 39: Umi-Chan, what a Sexy Guy: Beautiful Sweeper Miki gets close (Part 1)
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.
Episode 47: Dreaming of love. Stragedy of the angelic 12-year-old (Part 1)
Ryo notices that he is being watched by Kozue, a 12 year old girl confined to a wheelchair. When he pays her a visit, Kozue remarks that he is the second person to notice her, the first being a mysterious man with a beard. Kaori suspects that Ryo is using Kozue to get to her much older sister. But when the mysterious man attacks Kozue, Ryo decides to have Kozue and her sister live with him until he can figure out what is going on.
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 48: Wanting to fall in love like a Dream: The Strategy of a 12 year old Angel (Part 2)
Kozue begins to enjoy life with Ryo and decides to try to set him up with her older sister. Meanwhile, Ryo finds out that Kozue was wounded by an unknown man who had killed another over a deal gone bad, and the bullet stuck against her spine is the cause of her paralysis. The arrival of Detectives Iwadate and Saeko also begins to complicate matters. With Kozue scheduled to undergo an operation which may allow her to walk again, Ryo realizes that Kozue may be in greater danger than initially thought.
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 49: Goodbye Hard-Boiled City (Part 1)
Kaori discovers Ryo in bed with another woman and angrily leaves him as a result. Ryo, with no recollection of the events the night before, decides to strike it up with this woman. What he does not realize that the woman, Rumi, is the daughter of a powerful Japanese politician. In his anger, the politician hires Umibozu to take out the City Hunter and retrieve Rumi. But Ryo realizes that some men are also after Rumi, led by a mysterious woman named Sarah.