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In other words, [[What If]] [[Ranma One Half|Happousai]] [[X Meets Y|was]] [[James Bond]] - right down to '''''being the hero of his own series!'''''
Early in the manga, Hideyuki dies on a case, asking Ryo to look after his much younger adoptive sister, Kaori. Kaori, a tomboyish [[Tsundere]] (who is of course [[Beautiful All Along]]) quickly takes her brother's place as Ryo's partner and business manager. She is decidedly unimpressed by Ryo's lecherous ways and often interrupts his seduction attempts. Despite this, the two quickly form a strong emotional bond - though Kaori is never sure whether Ryo's excuse for not acting on their easily noticed [[UST]] is really because [[
Important recurring characters include "Umibozu", a [[Worthy Opponent|rival sweeper]] who has ties to Ryo going back to Central America, and Saeko Nogami, the daughter of the police chief and a police detective in her own right. Saeko often hires the City Hunter team to look into affairs the police can't publicly investigate or cannot prove that an actual crime has occurred.
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* [[Serious Business]]: Some of the villains-of-the-week are willing to rob, maim, kidnap, and murder to get to the top of the bloodthirsty, cutthroat professional worlds of... bikini design, children's book illustration, and wine tasting.
* [[She's Not My Girlfriend]]: The usual Ryo/Kaori dynamic.
* [[Shout
** The original manga version of the same story has Ryo putting seaweed on his forehead to emulate Kenshiro's eyebrows and doing an impression of "''[[You Are Already Dead]]''".
** [[Dragonball Z|Goku's]] rather erm, forceful method of differentiating male from female is brought up when Ryo wonders how they're going to determine their future clients' gender after a previous client is revealed to be [[Dropped a Bridget On Him|not what they expected]].
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