City Hunter: Shinjuku Private Eyes

As a City Hunter longtime fan, I loved this movie. Was it without flaws? No, but this was an attempt to pull the famous 80's manga/anime into current times, and I think it's a success. Nothing new plotwise, but again, it wasn't supposed to be something out of the box, just an adaptation where old and new fans can experience the essence of City Hunter. Ryo is a pervert and you betcha there's gonna be a lot of that. I personally find it hilarious but can understand if new fans don't like that. p.s. I'm gonna mention this cause my friends were confused when I introduced them to City Hunter (and this movie) having previously watched Angel Heart. Angel Heart is an alternative universe with the same characters and is not a continuation of City Hunter.

Not a fan of this manga series but watched it because of Sir Jackie Chan.

It's an animation movie with a little bit of story, action, comedy. So should be watched once.

Typically City Hunter <3 Don't care about the bad comments or else, if you were a fan of Ryo Saeba, if you were in love with the anime, just watch it.

Indeed, our new "world" doesn't correspond to the mentality of this anime but just forget our world and just be in the anime.

The City Hunter anime series from the late 1980s and early 1990s are a genre on their own. They were fun and silly, and for that time period the animation and storyline were perfectly fine.

Unfortunately, trying to make another series for the 21st century just doesn't work. Sure, the animation is modern and arguably better. But the characters and situations don't fit as well.

The Good: The main characters Saeba Ryo and Makimura Kaori have not changed. Their antics and relationship remain the same. While that is in a way good, this time it feels more like a lost opportunity.

The Bad: I think it can be argued that having an older Ryo with a bit more maturity, and Kaori's relationship with him advancing beyond simply bashing him in the head could have made for a better City Hunter.

The fans who watched City Hunger 30 years ago have grown up, and the series needs to do the same. Many aspects that made the series entertaining should be kept, of course; but others need to change.

In the end, I don't think we needed yet another City Hunger; I think we needed a believable progression of the main characters keeping with the times and the core audience.

Its the fifth film of this old Japanese anime (animated) series and its an attempt at rebooting it to our more modern times. With that said its a no go as, wonderful as it is, it exists in a different formula of film making and, is therefore too dated for the 21st century approach to anime.

Its a tale of a protector and his team, as bodyguards/detectives, in a case that was meant to be an easy job...BUT! The rest is the usual formula of most detective style story's; solve clue's, find the answers and solve the case. The City Hunter series has its own style (like any other character in any type of story/film) and thus, it has to remain faithful to the recognized formula. Some of the complaints from people of this film are obviously not aware of formula's attached to film/series characters! You would not change anything about DC/Marvel heroes or they would not be the same people we love! Its a strong and well weaved written story plot that makes a series successful and, although this films story was okay it was too weak to make it great!

If you are not a fan of Japanese Anime you will not like this. If you are the modern generation type who only watches violent, blood & gore animated films etc...you will not like it either. I still think its worth a watch if you want to know what the anime style is like.