I haven't missed those old anime for a long time, so today I will continue to chat about the old anime of that year - City Hunter.
It is said that hojo's original inspiration for creating a city hunter came from the gentleman strange thief nicknamed Gray Mouse in his previous work "The Three Sisters of Cat's Eye", who thought that he could dig it well, so he created such a witty and funny city hunter with a little color. I think many of the current urban warrior king stream novels are a little influenced by urban hunters.
Hojo's painter is recognized as first-class, and he himself is an avid gun lover, and likes to take real scenes, so the painting style feels very real, the only thing that can be picky and estimated is the thousand-person side of the beauty, but I think it may be the aesthetic problem of Hojoji, only think that this is a beautiful woman, so intentionally or unintentionally all painted almost, can only be distinguished by hairstyles. Of course, this also scores compared with who, compared to many manga artists, Hojoji's beauty is already very good.
The plot of the city hunter is even more unspeakable, it can be said that every small story can make a Hollywood blockbuster. And win in no protracted and lengthy garbage plot, at that time also did not popular any memory killing, every link is very crisp and clean, let people look very smooth and enjoyable. After watching more Dragon Ball-like hot-blooded fights, it is also a different taste to see the fiery gunfights of the urban type.
The personalities of the characters are also portrayed very deeply. The silent sadness of Han Yuliang when he was alone, the feeling of love for Ah Xiang and not daring to get too close to it, made people feel a faint sadness in addition to laughing.
At that time, the only regret was that there were too many adult elements in the original book of City Hunter (I always had a hard time understanding how such an adult-flavored comic could be published on Shonen JUMP), and the version of Hainan Publishing House deleted at least half of the content, which I had waited for many years before I had the opportunity to complete it.
City Hunter has been remade in Hong Kong and France(Please ignore the Korean version), because it is not the same era, so it is not easy to compare which is better, but I personally prefer the Jackie Chan version, after all, the Jackie Chan version of Chunli is rare to see is not.
City hunter toys are not easy to find, let's talk about comic books, I remember there was once a self-made set, very well-made, the content is completely uncut, but also in accordance with the translation habits published in Hainan that year, the price is not cheap, a book will be dozens, a set down to more than a thousand, but unfortunately now it is not easy to find.