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14 year old assassin code named Glass Heart from the Suzacu unit doesn't want to kill anymore. Every time she kills her heart breaks and all she wants is to break free. Meanwhile somewhere else another broken heart wonders the streets.
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Given a new chance to live Glass Heart escapes from the surgery and decides to seek the meanings of her visions. She must find Saeba Ryo, the City Hunter.
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Falcon meets the Girl of Happiness and she reads him a picture book at the park.
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Ryo starts up as City Hunter again and his first assignment is for a man named Takahata, who is searching for the family of his transplant heart donor.
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Bai-Lan realizes that Xin-Hong leads a better life at Cat's Eye and as they chat, they find they are being stalked by spies.
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Saeko receives an email from her boyfriends murderer ten years after the incident.
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Xiang Ying meets the daughter of the man she last assassinated.
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When Xiang Ying is kidnapped by Legion, hopes for a Christmas party with the Cat's Eye gang is threatened.
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The terrible past of Legion president Li is uncovered.
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Master Li is reunited with his unconscious daughter Xiang Ying, now known as Glass Heart. Li decides to liquidate Cho, one of his ambitious lieutenants, who was behind the assassination attempt and who ordered the kill of Glass Heart.
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Xin Hong loses his confidence at the last second and decides not to tell Glass Heart her real name, but he accidentally says "Xiang Ying". Embarrassed, he tells her that Ryo made up the name and she accepts it.
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Ryo and Xiang Ying attended the funeral of Qian De, who was her uncle.
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Ryo and Xiang Ying adjust to life together and she insists that Ryo undergo a medical exam and he is pronounced healthy.
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Xiang Ying has trouble adapting to normal life away from the battlefield while Ryo accepts his first City Hunter job since coming out of retirement. His first client is Nagisa, a high school drop-out.
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A little girl, Tanya, leaves a message for City Hunter and Xiang Ying decides to take the job herself without telling Ryo. Tanya wants to find her father "One-Shot Wolf" and her description matches Ryo.
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Xiang Ying prepares to snipe Kishimoto, the man responsible for framing Tanya's father, Kurahashi. Meanwhile, Ryo finds that Kurahashi is working as Mr. Bear, a mascot handing out balloons to children in a playground were Tanya plays.
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Xiang Ying has a recurring dream in which she is a child and cannot find Ryo. Ryo suggests that she tells Doc about it when she goes for her periodic physical check-up.
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Xiang Ying continues seeing visions from Kaori's past and hears Kaori tell the semi-conscious Ryo that she also sees herself as a "stray dog", having been adopted by the Makimura family, and Ryo refrains from killing her.
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Chen opens a Chinese restaurant called Genbumon, a reference to his former, Genbu unit of Zeng Dao Hui. Ryo volunteers Xiang Ying and Xin Hong to be his waiters since there aren't any requests on the message board.
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Xiang Ying sees a newspaper article about the young violinist, Yume Kayano, and realizes she is the daughter of her last assassination target for Zheng Dao Hui. Xiang Ying meets Yume.
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Yume invites Xiang Ying to one of her violin concerts. Chen reveals that Mad Dog killed a family nine years ago, but the 2-year-old daughter was never found and he suspects that the girl is Yume
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Yume points the gun provide by Dog Walker at Xiang Ying, but she cannot not pull the trigger. She leaves the clinic with her teacher, Haruka, and Walker's gun.
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Yume cannot bring herself to shoot Ryo or Xiang Ying, and the Genbu unit disposes of Walker. Haruka decides to adopt Yume and they prepare to leave for Vienna to continue her violin lessons.
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A recap of the story so far.
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Yusuke Fukutome wants City Hunter to kill him and his twin brother Yuji. Yusuke tells Ryo and Xiang Ying that they were abandoned, but then adopted by the couple who run the restaurant.
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Xiang Ying discovers that, despite Yuji's rebellious ways, he was just trying to help his family and she encourages him to patch things up with Yusuke. However, Yuji's yakuza organization plan to use Yuji as a scapegoat.
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Xin Hong takes Xiang Ying to see a romantic movie hoping for some romance himself, but Xiang Ying complains that it needs more action.
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Xin Hong become jealous of Xiang Ying's affections for Yoshiki and Xiang Ying becomes confused about her own affections. Yoshiki tells Xiang Ying about his time with Kaori and how he left for Paris
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Sayuri Tachiki, editor-in-chief of a famous magazine in New York and Kaori's blood sister, travels to Japan and asks City Hunter to find her sister. However, Ryo sadly tells her that Kaori is dead.
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Sayuri is unhappy about Xiang Ying's circumstances living with Ryo and their City Hunter business and threatens to take her to New York.
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Sayuri's dream continues, to the time when Kaori discovers that Hideyuki and Ryo are collectively the City Hunter and Kaori joins them. She sees the time when Ryo awkwardly proposes to Kaori and the fact that he was always there for her.
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A young woman named Bai Lan sees Liu Xin Hong in the street and follows him to Cat's Eye cafe. Bai Lan was Xing Hong's former team-mate and friend in his days in the Qing Long unit of Zeng Dao Hui.
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Xiang Ying decides to visit Hayakawa, and he tells her that he treats Bai Lan as his own daughter. After finding Bai Lan wounded in the street, he cared for her because of her resemblance to his late daughter.
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Bai Lan plans to stay with Hayakawa and protect him, regretting her former life as a god of death. Xin Hong offers to help her but she declines his offer.
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Hayakawa threatens to kill Bai Lan, but she convinces him that she did not betray him. He then reveals that he is dying from leukemia. They confess their devotion to each other, and he gives her a ring meant for his daughter.
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Superintendent Saeko Nogami has a hard time dealing with her loneliness, and after a late night out drinking, she is followed into her apartment by a little girl who gives her a flower.
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Miki appears in front of Umibozu and starts reading for him. Meanwhile, Xiang Ying tracks Miki to her living quarters in an abandoned underground arcade.
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Kaori explains to Miki that her mother's body no longer exists, but that she still lives on within Miki's heart. The next morning, Xiang Ying returns Miki to the clinic with a high fever.
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Xiang Ying doubles as the famous action film actress Joy law, but after she is almost assassinated at a press conference, she demands the truth.
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Saeko Nogami prepares to arrest Joy Law's movie producer Zhang Yi for staging dangerous promotional stunts when they a shot at by a group of assassins. Joy moves into the Cat's Eye cafe for safety and to be close to Miki.
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Joy and Xiang Ying go to a bar, and when Xiang Ying passes out, Kaori takes over and tells Joy that if she really want to live on, she could ask Ryo to protect her and she would not be against the relationship
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Ryo loses the mobile phone which he uses to call women, and it is found by Tomomi Asakura, anchor woman on the evening TV news. She returns the phone, assuming that he is a host because of the number of women's numbers listed.
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Tomomi's boss Sanemichi Bando reveals that Ryo is City Hunter but Tomomi refuses to believe it. She is abducted in the street by Yang Fang Yu, leader of the Black Panther group.
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Yang Fang Yu, Ryo's former mercenary teammate, now runs an orphanage for children whose parents were killed in war zones.
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Yang Fang Yu abducts mercenary Max Neumann thinking that he kidnapped the researchers, but he denies that it was him.
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Fang Yu boards the ship and prepares to kill Cheng, but Xiang Ying stops her and offers a better plan after knocking Cheng unconscious.
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Xiang Ying encounters a woman in the street that says an accident is about to happen which proves to be true. Later, Xin Hong takes Xiang Ying to visit Pure Reisen, a future-teller.
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Xin Hong and Xiang Ying decide to protect the police officer, Shougo Shimazu from his impending death and take Ryo and with them to his village so Reiko can more accurately predict Shougo's end.
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Xin Hong waits at the place where Reiko predicted Shougo would be killed, and Reiko staggers towards him, very drunk. Suddenly the gunman being chased by Xiang Ying arrives and takes Reiko hostage.
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At Christmas time, Yang Fang Yu invites Xiang Ying and Ryo to the wedding of Su Qing, one of her orphans who was adopted by a Japanese couple, Mr. and Mrs. Hotta.
Hideyuki Makimura
Umibozu
Ryo Saeba
Kaori Makimura
Hideo Mochiyama
Doc
Master Li
Xin Hong Liu
Saeko Nogami
Shan-In 'Glass Heart' Lee