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Manga artist. Notable works. Cat's Eye. City Hunter. Tsukasa Hojo ( Japanese: 北条 司, Hepburn: Hōjō Tsukasa, born March 5, 1959, in Kokura, Kitakyushu, Japan) is a Japanese manga artist. [1] He studied technical design while still at Kyushu Sangyo University, where he began to draw manga.
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The series follows the exploits of Ryo Saeba, a "sweeper" who is always found chasing beautiful girls and a private detective who works to rid Tokyo of crime, along with his associate or partner, Hideyuki Makimura. Their "City Hunter" business is an underground jack-of-all-trades operation, contacted by writing the letters "XYZ" on a blackboard at ...
Ryo Saeba(冴羽 獠, Saeba Ryō)
1. Voiced by: Akira Kamiya (Japanese); Martin Blacker (ADV Films dub), Stephen Fu (Discotek Mediadub) (English) 2. Ryo is the main protagonist of the series. At the age of three, Ryo was the only survivor of a plane crash in Central America. He was raised as a guerilla fighterand has no knowledge of his prior identity. After the war, Ryo makes his way to the United States, before eventually moving to Tokyo. 3. While in Tokyo, he forms the "City Hunter" team with Hideyuki Makimura, but after H...
Kaori Makimura(槇村 香, Makimura Kaori)
1. Voiced by: Kazue Ikura (Japanese); Pamela Ribon (ADV Films dub), Morgan Garrett(Discotek Media dub) (English) 2. Kaori is Ryo Saeba's partner. She is primarily responsible for arranging clients and other managerial tasks. Ryo's skirt-chasing rouses her ire more than just once. Though the partners frequently pick on fights or arguments, they actually form a great team together. She might have been mistaken as a man sometimes due to her hairstyle. She is the adoptive Hideyuki's sister, her r...
Hideyuki Makimura(槇村 秀幸, Makimura Hideyuki)
1. Voiced by: Hideyuki Tanaka 2. Hideyuki is Kaori's adopted older brother and Ryo's partner at the beginning of the series. Kaori is not related to him by blood, his father had adopted her when she was a child. He is a former police detective with a strong sense of justice. Kaori become Ryo's partner and takes over her brother's role after he is murdered by gangsters. His last wish before he died was for Ryo to take care of his sister. His first name is not specified in the original manga, b...
Manga
Written and illustrated by Tsukasa Hojo, City Hunter started in Shueisha's shōnen manga anthology Weekly Shōnen Jump on February 26, 1985, and ran until the December 2, 1991, issue. Its chapters were collected by Shueisha in 35 volumes, under the Jump Comics imprint, between January 15, 1986, and April 15, 1992. In these volumes the series is grouped into 55 different stories or "episodes" instead of as their original individual chapters. Each story is centred on a different female character...
Anime
The series was adapted into an anime series produced by Sunrise, directed by Kanetsugu Kodama and broadcast by Yomiuri Television. City Hunter was broadcast for 51 episodes between April 6, 1987, and March 28, 1988, and released on 10 VHS cassettes between December 1987 and July 1988. City Hunter 2 was broadcast for 63 episodes between April 8 and July 14 and released on 10 VHS cassettes between August 1988 and March 1990. City Hunter 3 was broadcast for 13 episodes from October 15, 1989, to...
Musical
In 2021, the Takarazuka Revue produced a musical version titled City Hunter: Nusumareta XYZ(CITY HUNTER－盗まれたXYZ－). It was performed at the Takarazuka Grand Theater from August 7 to September 13, 2021 and then at the Tokyo Takarazuka Theater from October 2 to November 14. The musical starred Sakina Ayakaze as Ryo Saeba and Kiwa Asazuki as Kaori Makimura.
Manga
By 2016, the City Hunter manga series had sold over 50million tankōbon volumes worldwide. In addition, the series was circulated in an estimated 900million copies of Weekly Shōnen Jump manga magazine between 1985 and 1991, with those Jump issues generating an estimated $2 billion.[a] The series voted as the 19th "Most Powerful" series to have featured in Shonen Jump. On TV Asahi's Manga Sōsenkyo 2021 poll, in which 150.000 people voted for their top 100 manga series, City Hunterranked 57th. I...
Anime
In a 2005 poll held by TV Asahi, City Hunter was voted 66th out of the 100 most popular animated TV series, as voted by TV viewers. A TV Asahi web-poll voted City Hunter65th. The characters Ryo and Kaori proved popular with fans. In the reader voted Animage Anime Grand Prix Saeba Ryo was voted second in the "Best Male Character" section in 1988. In 1989, 1990 and 1991 he was voted first. In 1992, he was voted sixth. Kaori Makamura was voted fifteenth in the "Best Female Character" category in...
A replica of Kaori's "100-ton hammer" raised ¥1.832 million ($17,150) on Yahoo Auctionsin 2007. It was the biggest selling charity item of the year for the service. In 2012, the characters of Ryo, Kaori and Umibozu appeared in a video for the virtual musician Mana. Mana is a collaboration between Hojo and Tetsuya Komuro of TM Network. The cover for...
Official website for the City Hunter complete DVD box set (in Japanese)City Hunter (manga) at Anime News Network's encyclopediaJ-pop.com review of City Hunter: The Motion Picture at the Wayback Machine(archived June 16, 2002)City Hunter (2024 live-action film) on NetflixMember Favorites: 250. More: Hometown: Kitakyushu, Japan. Blood type: O. He studied technical design while still at Kyushu Sangyo University, where he began to draw manga. Tsukasa Hojo is also Takehiko Inoue's mentor (knowed as mangaka of Slam Dunk) and longtime friend of Fist of the North Star creator Tetsuo Hara.
Apr 25, 2024 · CULTURE / Film. A star turn isn’t quite enough to make ‘City Hunter’ soar. Private detective Ryo Saeba (Ryohei Suzuki) goes beyond the call of duty to protect a client at a cosplay convention in...
Dec 14, 2022 · Created by legendary artist Tsukasa Hojo, the manga was a staple of Japanese pop culture throughout the 1980s, selling over 50 million copies around the world. By Patrick Brzeski. December 14...
Mar 15, 2024 · Tsukasa Hojo's Iconic Marksman Steps into Live-Action in Netflix's 'City Hunter' Trailer. By Makuochi Echebiri. Published Mar 15, 2024. Netflix's adaptation of the popular manga premieres in...
Dec 14, 2022 · Tsukasa Hojo (Original Creator of the manga): “After about 10 years since the project came about, we’ve finally started rolling! I always hoped the lead would be played by someone who really liked ‘City Hunter’ and thanks to Ryohei’s unwavering passion, the time has finally come.
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