Start Date: October 11, 2015... Sundays at 10:00 pm.... Episode two rating: 10.0%
Main Cast:
Takaya Kamikawa as Ryo Saeba
Saki Aibu as Kaori Makimura
Ayaka Miyoshi as Glass Heart/Xiang Ying
Shohei Miura as Liu Xin-Hing
Brother Tom as Falcon
Reika Takashima as Saeko Nogami
Soji Izumi as Karito
Have to admit that the first episode was a bit better, so much more action and excitement. But this episode was still okay even though it was much slower, many questions that I had after watching the first show were answered so in the long run think this episode will help. The questions that were mostly answered were how did Ryo become a 'City Hunter' and did he get together with Kaori.
Well if you read the first recap you'll know that Kaori was killed in a traffic accident, she was an organ donor but when they were transporting her organs to a special warehouse to store them the truck was hijacked. The hijackers really just wanted Kaori's heart to give to Glass Heart, an assassin who works for an evil organization called Legion. She had bungled an assignment was severely injured and needed a new heart to survive. The operation was a success but somehow Glass Heart now has some of Kaori's feelings and flees Legion who are now after her to kill her, more than once in the first show she was saved by Ryo.
Most of this episode dealt with flashbacks of Ryo and Kaori, how he got the name of City Hunter and how they teamed up. Ryo had been a criminal working for an unknown organization, his current assignment was to kill a police officer named Makimura who just happened to be a City Hunter and also the brother of Kaori. Ryo had trapped Makimura and could have killed him easily but became intrigued by what a City Hunter does so he decided against killing Makimura.
Instead Ryo teams up with Makimura to help him rid the the world of underground criminals, the police for certain reasons can't get involved with some cases thus City Hunter comes to the rescue. Their description is of 'Underground Sweepers', the duo hasn't been together long but have become very successful. Too successful as the pair has been targeted for execution, Makimura was eventually gunned down but Ryo is one tough customer, it'd take more than a small army to bring him down.
Kaori had been working as a nurse in sort of an 'underground hospital', they don't treat criminals but honest citizens who need some immediate help. After the death of her brother Kaori has decided to become a City Hunter too and teams up with Ryo, actually more of them joining forces needs to be explained as they went over it too quickly just before the episode ended.
Think we'll be seeing many more flashbacks in the next few episodes as a few more things about Ryo and Kaori's past haven't been explained. However now it's back to current times and once again Legion has tried to kill Glass Heart, once again Ryo came to her rescue. Actually very little happened in the present in this episode, bet 3/4 of the show were flashbacks.
Since Kaori's death Ryo has been unofficially retired as a City Hunter, however at the end of the show he's wondering if it's time to revive the name. Mainly because to bring Legion down but there's also been much underworld activity going on which only City Hinter can stop so looks like we'll be seeing him in action very soon. It also looks like Glass Heart will be his new partner along with Liu Xin-Hong, like Glass Heart he also defected from Legion and is now helping out in Falcon's cafe. Falcon and the police superintendent Nogami we didn't see too much of in this episode but sure we will soon, we really need to find out the working relationship of Nogami and Ryo, did they perhaps work together at one time?
Though slower than the first show it was good to see more questions being answered, in the long run this may make this a better show. So far, so good though for this drama which just aired it's fourth episode this Sunday, the third episode has been subbed so will try to to the recap of that show very soon. As is the norm here the following post has many more screenshots from this episode.
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