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The author is more preoccupied about making them look gorgeous and handsome in every damn panel than giving them actual personalities or character. Is sad since this mangaka made hironaka no ryuusei, my favorite shojo manga. Also even tho her style now is more bishi than ever it seems less unique, her previous style was more recognizable. I found myself cringing almost in every chapter, the MC is plain and boring, she indeed, has only her good looks and almost nothing else. Same with the boyfriend, he's always making faces like trying to hard to look edgy all the time. So tired of this basic ... plot about a super super super unreachable guy who's a fuckboy that magically falls in love with the most unique and pure girl in the whole existence. Overall is plain and boring, everything is so half-assed (and "wannabe") except for the art aspect.

I'mma rate the series as whole, with a 6. When I watched the anime, I already had read the manga, and turned out to be a bad idea, since the anime adaptation is A FREAKING DISASTER. Most of its episodes are all fillers, and the episodes that are canon were adapted so wrong, not to mention the amount of censorship it has, which doesn't make sense since the original story isn't that violent or graphic (I came to miss Roy's mokkoris, much of the jokes lost their charm because the lack of erectios lol) , even tho the overall feeling the anime tries to transmit ... is more like "cool and badass gunman" the series portraits the complete opposite, most of the episodes are so silly I can't take seriously a story like that (the manga share the same problem but not as much) I tried watching this anime expecting something different like "well maybe it'll be less repetitive and I'll get more RyoxKaori moments" which, in the first place, yeah is not as repetitive, but that didn't make those episodes better or interesting, and two, Ryo and Kaori relationship was done so dirty in this adaptation, the anime ignores vital events in their relationship (and for the plot itself) like in the episode where they helping the ghost of a murdered woman (Mami-san I believe) and the part where Kaori and Ryo end up drugging each other, it was supposed that they slept in the couch together and in the next morning Kaori wakes up with Ryo above her, resting his head over her chest, but they cut that out in the anime, which I can't understand since at that point it was stated they had feelings for each other, this is only one example but the anime had many moments like that cut off. The fact that it didn't even tried to give the anime a proper ending, when the last season aired the manga was already finished, Okay I get it, you fucked it up with that random Robert when the manga had Mick, but if the plot has some many things chopped up, manage to make the final arc without the bestie that died (in a very lame episode) in your crappy adaptation. Anyway, this anime is a mess, but like with the manga the episodes that I truly enjoyed were the ones that were Kaori focused or RyoxKaori focused (like the Christmas episode and ep 50 from season 2)


Plot and adaptation aside, the animation is pretty nice, not amazing tho (the movies did a lot better in that regard) but definitely the best thing about this anime (above anything else) is the music. The OST is so freaking good, I even think it was kinda a waste making so good music for for such a lame anime adaptation, wish I had the same excitement watching the anime as I felt listening to Get Wild everytime one episode ended.


If I couldn't recommend the manga, much less can I recommend the anime, the terrible adaptation ruined it for me, and if not only that much of the original episodes the anime had, were a disaster, with little proper execution, seriously city hunter need a readaptation ASAP

I'd like it more if it kept the same seriousness that had in the beginning. At some point it became too childish for my liking, not to mention that half of the manga is about the same shit = helping some random bitch only to get her fall for Ryo moments later. When you keep doing that over and over again well... You'll get sick of it. The best word to describe this series is frivolousness, very little on this manga had any real profound feeling. The thing that bothered me the most is that, I don't understand why this manga isn't under a Shojo ... demography, cause the only thing that I truly enjoyed was Ryo and Kaori relationship (except for the fact that it seems the author tried to push the indecisive attitude of Ryo way too much, poor Kaori wasted so many years of her youth being virgin for a man that wouldn't touch her) Those chapters that were focused on some aspect of their relationship were the ones that I felt had something real to bring, even tho their romance was pretty much half-assed, the bond they share felt authentic, what I'm tryna say is, basically, the best thing about this manga, is the main shipp. If we cut all those chapters that felt like absolute filler, the aftertaste that this manga left on me would've be better. Also the final boss as well as the final arc, felt pretty rushed to me, Kaibara (as well as the whole manga) needed more development.

Plot aside, the art is top notch since the beginning, Tsukasa Hojo is a fucking genius in that aspect.

To finish... I can't recommend this manga, there are so many things that left me with a feeling of disappointment and frustration (like how the fuck didn't I get a kiss scene from the main couple??) I'd love to read a reboot from this manga, but with a more serious and realistic tone with it (but without killing Kaori, for God sake )