A brand new City Hunter movie will soon be released in Japanese theaters, and it’ll have a different feel to it than Shinjuku Private Eyes according to original author Tsukasa Hojo.
Aniplex has announced on April 8, 2022, that a brand new City Hunter movie is in production. City Hunter is originally a manga by Tsukasa Hojo serialized starting 1985 in Shonen Jump, depicting Ryo Saeba, a sweeper and bodyguard, and his assistant Kaori Makimura. The series got its first anime back in 1987. This new movie celebrates the 35th anniversary of the anime and will be a sequel to the City Hunter Shinjuku Private Eyes movie released in 2019.
Everything we Know About the New City Hunter Movie
In the new City Hunter movie, protagonist Ryo Saeba will again be voiced by Akira Kamiya, a legendary seiyuu who was also the first voice actor for Kenshiro in Hokuto no Ken, and for Ryoma Nagare in Getter Robo. At 74 years old, Akira Kamiya doesn’t do much voice acting anymore but always comes back to voice Ryohimself since the original anime. Moreover, the ending theme song of the movie is again Get Wild, the most iconic ED theme song of the original anime, by Tetsuya Komuro and TM Network.
The Japanese press release also included comments from Tsukasa Hojo, Akira Kamiya and Tetsuya Komuro. Most notably, Tsukasa Hojo mentioned that this new movie will have a different feel to it when compared to Shinjuku Private Eyes. You can check out the trailer below.
City Hunter New Movie Announcement Trailer
Tsukasa Hojo’s Manga was a Major Influence on Shonen
If not for the influence of manga like City Hunter or Golgo 13, there would have been no Black Cat, no Sakamoto Days, and no Spy x Family. City Hunter heavily contributed to popularizing gunfight shonen manga featuring cool assassins with supernatural skills and senses. You should definitely give the series a try if you never did.
Additionally, the City Hunter anime was also one of the series that popularized having the Ending theme fading in, with the first notes of the song playing over the final scenes of an episode. This is why Get Wild and all the Ending theme songs of City Hunter are so iconic. The same technique was later used in many different genres of anime from Kodomo no Omocha to Mobile Suit Gundam Seed, alongside the new JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure anime by David Production, with the Roundabout fade-in of Part 1 and 2 becoming an internet meme.
