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Street Fighter was a good short choice as a movie, going with something a bit longer this time...
City Hunter!
Violence and fanservice as you'd likely expect.
The show can be watched on the following officially:
Subbed on Crunchyroll
We'll do the first chunk of series, up to episode 13.
Also, general disclosure that I worked on this one quite a bit and the streaming version includes my work. The first half of the first series is on Blu-ray with more coming soon: (affiliate link)
City Hunter Season 1, Part 1 Blu-ray
City Hunter sort of feels like it captures 80s anime perfectly. Lots of action, quite a bit of humor, with fanservice mixed in, jumbling itself up into a show that's simply easy to watch and rewatch.
The manga and anime have proved popular enough that, even with extended breaks, it feels like it is something that always returns. After a 20 year break the anime returned last year with a movie that feels like it successfully modernized everything, while not changing anything really (disclosure that I worked on that also.)
The story of Ryo Saeba, the City Hunter, taking jobs as a 'sweeper' to protect beautiful woman while chasing after the one thing he wants more than anything else... mokkori. And also avoiding giant hammers.
The franchise has proved so popular (and fits 'just close enough' to reality) that it's had multiple live action adaptions from a number of different countries (France being added to the list last year), with the best known of those probably being the 1993 film starring Jackie Chan.
The show has a number of Digimon connections, but not really ones that are major to both City Hunter and Digimon (although lots of actors and crew did cross between them.) As for the one that had a big role in the original series 'and' Digimon...
Hideyuki Tanaka plays Makimura, Ryo's partner, and the older brother of Kaori in City Hunter. For Digimon he was Omegamon in X-Evolution, along with the voice of Apollomon in Xros Wars.
I've embedded the ending theme below as a preview. For most anime the OP becomes well known, but for City Hunter, the ending theme, Get Wild, has effectively taken on a nonstop life of it's own, being covered endlessly and taken as one of the great anime themes of all time. City Hunter integrated the ED into the very end of the episode, so each episode has the ED begin in a slightly unique way, and this is just one of them:
Feel free to post as you wish in this thread. You can post as you are watching, episode by episode, when you finish. Whatever you want. Try and give it a couple days for later spoilers so people have time to try and view stuff without spoilers, while still interacting in the thread (especially if you decide to keep watching past the episode listed as the last one for the leadup.) If you watch one episode and it isn't for you, pop in to explain why. Have fun with it!
A new show/movie will go up each Sunday night (or early on Monday), but feel free to keep talking about older shows in their threads, or even watching past the listed episode.
If you want to chat in the Discord you can.
Hopefully you enjoy. Feel free to make any suggestions or ask an questions regarding the threads or the shows also.
Week 1- NG Knight Lamune & 40
Week 2- Street Fighter 2 the Animated Movie
Prior Leadups
Second Leadup, To Kizuna (and Adventure:)
First Leadup, To tri.
City Hunter!

Violence and fanservice as you'd likely expect.
The show can be watched on the following officially:
Subbed on Crunchyroll
We'll do the first chunk of series, up to episode 13.
Also, general disclosure that I worked on this one quite a bit and the streaming version includes my work. The first half of the first series is on Blu-ray with more coming soon: (affiliate link)
City Hunter Season 1, Part 1 Blu-ray
City Hunter sort of feels like it captures 80s anime perfectly. Lots of action, quite a bit of humor, with fanservice mixed in, jumbling itself up into a show that's simply easy to watch and rewatch.
The manga and anime have proved popular enough that, even with extended breaks, it feels like it is something that always returns. After a 20 year break the anime returned last year with a movie that feels like it successfully modernized everything, while not changing anything really (disclosure that I worked on that also.)
The story of Ryo Saeba, the City Hunter, taking jobs as a 'sweeper' to protect beautiful woman while chasing after the one thing he wants more than anything else... mokkori. And also avoiding giant hammers.
The franchise has proved so popular (and fits 'just close enough' to reality) that it's had multiple live action adaptions from a number of different countries (France being added to the list last year), with the best known of those probably being the 1993 film starring Jackie Chan.
The show has a number of Digimon connections, but not really ones that are major to both City Hunter and Digimon (although lots of actors and crew did cross between them.) As for the one that had a big role in the original series 'and' Digimon...
Hideyuki Tanaka plays Makimura, Ryo's partner, and the older brother of Kaori in City Hunter. For Digimon he was Omegamon in X-Evolution, along with the voice of Apollomon in Xros Wars.
I've embedded the ending theme below as a preview. For most anime the OP becomes well known, but for City Hunter, the ending theme, Get Wild, has effectively taken on a nonstop life of it's own, being covered endlessly and taken as one of the great anime themes of all time. City Hunter integrated the ED into the very end of the episode, so each episode has the ED begin in a slightly unique way, and this is just one of them:
Feel free to post as you wish in this thread. You can post as you are watching, episode by episode, when you finish. Whatever you want. Try and give it a couple days for later spoilers so people have time to try and view stuff without spoilers, while still interacting in the thread (especially if you decide to keep watching past the episode listed as the last one for the leadup.) If you watch one episode and it isn't for you, pop in to explain why. Have fun with it!
A new show/movie will go up each Sunday night (or early on Monday), but feel free to keep talking about older shows in their threads, or even watching past the listed episode.
If you want to chat in the Discord you can.
Hopefully you enjoy. Feel free to make any suggestions or ask an questions regarding the threads or the shows also.
Week 1- NG Knight Lamune & 40
Week 2- Street Fighter 2 the Animated Movie
Prior Leadups
Second Leadup, To Kizuna (and Adventure:)
Week 1- Gundam Build Fighters
Week 2- Kimagure Orange Road
Week 3 (and 4)- Lupin the 3rd Part 4
Week 4 Movie- Redline
Week 5- Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions
Week 6- Voltron
Week 7 (Devkyu Guest Slot!)- That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime
Week 8- Laid-Back Camp
Week 9- Rascal Does Not Dream of Bunny Girl Senpai
Week 10- Yowamushi Pedal
Week 11- Demon King Daimao
Week 12 (onkei Guest Slot!)- Aggretsuko
Week 13- Kill la Kill
Week 14- Super Gals
Week 15 (and 16)- Yu Yu Hakusho
Week 16 Short Series- Please Tell Me! Galko-chan
Week 17 (Classic Leadup)- Tenchi Muyo
Week 18 (Devkyu Guest Slot 2!)- Dragon Pilot: Hisone & Masotan
Week 19- The Irresponsible Captain Tylor
Week 20 (Logan Guest Slot)- The Legend of Black Heaven
Week 21 (Classic Leadup)- Haganai
Week 22- Ultraman
Week 23- SSSS.Gridman
Week 24- Haruka Nogizaka's Secret
Week 25 (Classic Leadup)- Tenchi Universe
Week 26- Samurai Troopers/Ronin Warriors
Week 27- Gundam NT
Week 28- Interviews with Monster Girls
Week 29- Dragon Quest: Your Story & Ni no Kuni
Week 30 (Classic Leadup)- Soul Eater
Week 31- Kamen no Maid Guy
Week 32- Gundam Thunderbolt
Week 33- Heroman
Week 34 (Classic Leadup)- Toradora
Week 35 (Final)- Konosuba
First Leadup, To tri.
Week 1- Haganai
Weeks 2 and 3- A Certain Magical Index
Weekend Movie- Lupin The Third: Green Vs Red
Week 3(ish)- High School DxD
Week 4- Buso Renkin
Week 5- Tenchi Muyo!
Week 6- Ben-To
Week 7- Maken-Ki!
Week 8- Full Metal Panic!
Week 9- Engaged to the Unidentified
Week 10- Hellsing Ultimate
Week 11- Date A Live
Week 12- Ranma 1/2
Week 13- Please Teacher
Week 14- Please Twins
Week 15- Waiting in the Summer
Week 16- Infinite Stratos
Week 17- Dragon Ball
Week 18- D-Frag!
Week 19- Baka and Test
Week 20- Soul Eater
Week 21- Yuru Yuri
Week 22- Go-Lion
Week 23- Ah! My Goddess
Week 24- Afro Samurai
Week 25- Shin Chan
Week 26- Trigun
Week 27- Tenchi Universe
Week 28- Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?
Week 29- Shingu: Secret of the Stellar Wars
Week 30- Nyan Koi!
Week 31- The Disappearance of Nagato Yuki-Chan
Week 32- Ai Yori Aoshi
Week 33- Tokyo Ravens
Week 34- Reboot
Week 35- Star Driver
Week 36- FLCL
Week 37- My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU
Week 38- Serial Experiments Lain
Week 39- Tenchi Muyo! Ryo-Ohki
Week 40- Food Wars!
Week 41- Himouto! Umaru-chan
Week 42- Gundam Reconguista in G
Week 43- Naruto
Week 44- Tenchi in Tokyo
Week 45- Toradora
Week 46- Full Metal Panic? Fumoffu
Week 47- Fullmetal Alchemist
Week 48- A-Channel
Week 49 (Final)- Gundam Unicorn
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