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City Hunter

Studio: Sunrise , Discotek
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Mystery

Ryo Saeba works the streets of Tokyo as the City Hunter. He's a "sweeper" and with his sidekick Kaori Makimura, he keeps the city clean. People hire the City Hunter to solve their dangerous problems, which he does with a Colt Python. When Ryo's not working on a case, he's working on getting the ladies, and Kaori must keep him in check with her trusty 10 kg hammer.



Tags: Crime , Episodic , Guns , Primarily Adult Cast , Slapstick , Urban , Male Protagonist , Detective , Assassins , Shounen , Yakuza , Mafia , Cars , Nudity , Boxing , Gambling

Lupin III

Also known as Lupin the 3rd.

Studio: Tokyo Movie Shinsha , Discotek
Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Comedy

Hard-boiled, cocky, classy and silly. These words only begin to describe the amazing master thief Lupin the Third. With the help of some quick gunplay by his partner Jigen, Lupin takes on the world in elaborate heists, classic car chases, and nasty explosions. Fujiko, a buxom redhead with a penchant for betrayal, always gets tangled up in Lupin's capers. The stoic but swift swordsman Goemon is just as inclined to kill Lupin as he is to help him. And Lupin can never seem to lose the relentless Tokyo Police Inspector Zenigata. What sort of trouble will this band of misfits get into next?



Tags: Seinen , Anti-Hero , Fugitive , Episodic , Crime , Male Protagonist , Guns , Primarily Adult Cast , Mafia , Detective , Cars , Police , Samurai , Travel , Crossdressing , Football , Yakuza , Prison

City Hunter 2

Also known as City Hunter 2.

Studio: Sunrise , Discotek
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Mystery

Ryo Saeba is a "sweeper" know as the City Hunter. He and his sidekick Kaori Makimura are hired to solve problems that the police can't (or won't) handle. When he's not keeping the streets of Tokyo clean, Ryo is chasing the ladies, and Kaori chases after him with a giant anti-ecchi hammer.



Tags: Guns , Episodic , Crime , Mafia , Slapstick , Shounen , Primarily Adult Cast , Urban , Detective , Assassins , Cars , Police , Male Protagonist , Military , Ninja , Adoption , Crossdressing , Yakuza , Politics , Delinquents , Wrestling , Super Power , Swimming , Age Gap , Terrorism , Memory Manipulation , Royal Affairs

Lupin III: Part III

Also known as Lupin the Third Part 3.

Studio: Tokyo Movie Shinsha , Discotek
Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Comedy

Lupin III chronicles the adventures of Arsene Lupin III, the world's greatest thief, and his partners in crime: master marksman Daisuke Jigen, beautiful and scheming Fujiko Mine and stoic samurai Goemon Ishikawa XIII. Lupin and his gang travel around the globe in search of the world's greatest treasures and riches and always keeping one step ahead of the tireless Inspector Zenigata, who has vowed to bring Lupin to justice.



Tags: Anti-Hero , Fugitive , Episodic , Seinen , Primarily Adult Cast , Male Protagonist , Crime , Detective , Police , Travel , Samurai , Nudity

Angel Heart

Studio: Aniplex , TMS Entertainment
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Romance

A young Taiwanese assassin codenamed "Glass Heart" committed suicide by jumping off a building, and her heart was pierced by metal fence. Miraculously, her life was saved by heart transplantation. During her recovery she began to experience strange dreams, which lead her to Japan looking for the donor of her heart, who happens to be Kaori Makimura, former partner of City Hunter Ryo Saeba.

The author mentioned in the first tankoubon volume that Angel Heart only shares the same characters of City Hunter but not it's continuation. The events are all parallel universe, therefore it has nothing to do with City Hunter.

Tags: Police , Alternate Universe , Guns , Shounen , Age Gap , Assassins , Primarily Adult Cast , Ensemble Cast , Gangs , Female Protagonist

Dirty Pair

Also known as Dirty Pair.

Studio: Sunrise , Studio Nue , The Right Stuf International
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Comedy , Ecchi , Sci-Fi

If you're in big trouble, call the World Welfare Work Association or WWWA for short. They will send out a team of highly trained and capable agents called Trouble Consultants who can solve your problems. But if the team they send you is the Dirty Pair, solving your problems could come at the cost of a lot of collateral damage.



Tags: Space , Episodic , Female Protagonist , Police , Tomboy , Work , Primarily Adult Cast , Crime , Guns , Cyberpunk , Transgender , Nudity , Pirates , Animals

Kaitou Saint Tail

Also known as Mysterious Thief Saint Tail.

Studio: Tokyo Movie Shinsha , Dentsu , Discotek
Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Fantasy , Mahou Shoujo , Romance

Meimi Haneoka, 14, is a normal girl during the daytime, but during the night, she assumes the "position" of Saint Tail, a modern-day Robin Hood who steals from thieves and gives items back to their original owners. She is aided by her friend, Seira Mimori, a nun-in-training, and she is chased by her classmate (and soon-to-be love interest), Daiki Asuka (often called "Asuka Jr.").



Tags: Crime , Shoujo , Female Protagonist , Detective , Nun , Episodic , Urban Fantasy , Animals , Henshin , School , Love Triangle , Primarily Child Cast

Lupin III: Nusumareta Lupin - Copycat wa Manatsu no Chou

Also known as Lupin the 3rd: Swallowtail Tattoo.

Studio: TMS Entertainment , Discotek
Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Comedy

In the middle of an airborne heist, Lupin goes from stealing to stolen as he's carted off and forced to do a job for a mysterious man identifiable only by the brand of cigarette he smokes. Lupin's mission: to steal the infamous "Bull's Eye", a small green jewel best-known for the fact that everyone who's ever stolen it has ended up dead. Along with the challenge of alternately evading and pursuing a young thief with a competitive streak, Lupin and the gang must unravel the mystery of the Bull's Eye before its curse - or their mysterious taskmaster - gets the better of them.



Tags: Anti-Hero , Shounen , Male Protagonist , Foreign , Samurai , Crime , Primarily Adult Cast , Guns

Magic Kaito 1412

Also known as Magic Kaito 1412.

Studio: A-1 Pictures
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Comedy , Mystery

Kaito Kuroba, a normal teenage student whose father is often absent. When his father dies under mysterious circumstances, he is made aware of his father's secret identity; a famous international criminal known as International Criminal 1412: the Phantom Thief, and that he was murdered by a mysterious organization for refusing to aid them in retrieving the "Pandora Gem"; a mystical stone said to shed a "tear" during the passing of a particular comet (often called the 'Volley Comet'), the consumption of which bestows immortality.

He vows to prevent the organization from gaining immortality, and assumes his father's identity as he begins his quest for the gem. His only clues as to the gem's location are that it glows red under the full moon and that it is a doublet: a gem hidden within a larger gem. Thus, it would have to be a relatively large one with a bizarre history, and always stored in a place that never receives moonlight. He thus researches and steals famous priceless gems with odd histories from incredibly well-defended areas, and always returns them after the very next full moon.


Tags: Episodic , Magic , Crossover , Heterosexual , Shounen , Male Protagonist , Anti-Hero , Detective , School , Urban , Mafia , Female Protagonist

City Hunter 3

Also known as City Hunter 3.

Studio: Sunrise , Discotek
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Mystery

Ryou Saeba and his long-suffering partner Kaori are out to make the streets of Shinjuku safe for the weak, the poor, the down- trodden, the... Well, actually, Ryou’s just hoping for a little mokkori from a grateful client. And Kaori’s just hoping her 100-ton hammer is big enough to get Ryou’s mind off the girls and on his job. With a bevy of beautiful women and a host of dastardly villains hanging around, City Hunter’s got to be ready for any kind of action!



Tags: Episodic , Police , Slapstick , Crime , Primarily Adult Cast , Urban , Guns , Male Protagonist , Meta , Detective , Cars , Shounen , Bar , Swimming , Scuba Diving