[in the TV-series she'll be "Clara" in the 11th episode and then "Carmen" in the 94th / 95th episodes]
Birth Date: January 15th 1969.
Kasumi is a beautiful master thief who came from a clan with a long tradition in the trade of steal for hire. Kasumi is one of the best. She was given the nickname "Thief 305" by the unknown public while she was still in high school. A very agile, nimble person, Kasumi usually wears a leotard when she is "working" and carries no weapons except the tools a thief usually uses. She is able to jump from building to building, and that is
why she got the nickname "The Flying Buttock" from Ryo in their initial encounter.
Kasumi had asked Ryo to help her in two cases. The first one was to fulfill the last wish of a dying gardener. In the second case Ryo helped Kasumi to avoid an undesired marriage within the clan. (Kasumi's family had the tradition to marry at the age of 20 within the clan, or marry one with good thief understudy that is worthy of the clan.) Afterward it was obvious to the old grandma of the house (and the leader of the Asoh clan) that Kasumi's heart had been stolen by Ryo. She forbade Kasumi from coming back to the family until she has stolen her heart back together with Ryo's. Kasumi thus starts working as a waitress for the coffee house Cat's Eye and becomes one of the regular cast of the story.
Kasumi LOVES Ryo.
-- Chih-Ping Kuo [Description "borrowed" from http://www.serpent.org/info-ch-kasumi.shtml]
ROSEMARY MOON
["Mary" in the TV-series: episode n° 112-113-114]
Nickname: Bloody Mary.
Ryo's second partner in America. She is a very good operator and also a very beautiful fashion model. Ryo had helped her to save her lover Eric from an old enemy of theirs.
Mary knew quite a bit of Ryo's early history because Ryo's first partner is her father. Her father knew Ryo since the days of the Central America civil war, and withdrawn to U.S. with Ryo to set up their first business.
She got her nickname from, of course, always orders Bloody Mary for her drink. The name of the drink does justice for the kind of operator she is.
-- Chih-Ping Kuo [Description "borrowed" from http://www.serpent.org/info-ch-rosemary.shtml]
DOC
[only in the manga]
This mystery old man who Ryo stated as the master of the world in information gathering is also the one who get Ryo started in the line of work he is doing now. He is also the teacher of lecherous for Ryo and still "active" at his age. In his house one can find a large weapon cache, a fine laboratory, and many computer terminals which are linked to other main frames all over the world. Doc in the series acts as the missing father to many characters on the show, not the less Ryo and Kaori.
Doc also knows quite a bit of Ryo's past history, since he was the medical doctor for the rebels during the civil war.
-- Chih-Ping Kuo [Description "borrowed" from http://www.serpent.org/info-ch-doc.shtml]
KAZUE NATORI
["Katia" in the TV-series: episode n°23]
Kazue is a beautiful lab researcher who was a former research professor of Tokyo University. Kazue throw all of her life away for revenge when her lover was killed over an objection for a poison he developed. A poison which is to be transmitted by bees and so deadly one will die after ten minutes from the initial sting. Her lover was killed while trying to develop an antidote for it. Kazue was willing to risk a fake marriage to get her hands on the bees in order to develop the complete antidote. With Ryo's help (which he is more than willing to lend for some particular side effect the half completed antidote has....:) she was able to develop the complete antidote and destroyed the labs. Thus she prevented the bees from reaching the international biological weapon market. Afterward she stays on as the assistant to Doc and appears sparingly over the episodes.
Kazue LOVES Ryo, but later on she starts to fall in love with.....
-- Chih-Ping Kuo [Description "borrowed" from http://www.serpent.org/info-ch-kazue.shtml]
MICK ANGEL
[only in the manga]
Ryo's American best-friend. He's perfectly equal to Ryo, from the shooting ability to his unbelievable sexual energy...
Mick is a quite original hunter: before killing a man he does his best to walk of with his girlfriend, so she'll not suffer too much loosing her ex-partner.
His favorite gun is a Desert Eagle 44 Magnum.
One day he'll fly to Japan to face Ryo...
SHIN KAIBARA
[only in the manga]
The central American rebels' leader. He has taught to Ryo eveything about fighting and self-defence. He acts as Ryo was his son just and Ryo considers him as a father.
Shin is the PCP drug (also called "angel dust") creator: he wanted use it to gather an invicible army which should be able to finally win the civil war. He successfully tested PCP on Ryo, but soon they all understood how dangerous and noxious this drug was and Ryo and Shin were driven away.
In Japan, Shin became the leader of the "Union Teope" (a powerful drug traffick organisation), thanks to some invicible (PCP addict of course) and merciless killers. Maki, Kaori's brother, was shot dead by one of them.
Five year later, he comes back again...
Shin owns an Anaconda Colt 44 Magnum with a 4" barrel.
[This character even appears in "Cat's Eye" 's manga]
SONIA FIELD
[only in the manga and in City Hunter '91]
Sonia is Ryo's deceased American partner's daughter. She'll come to Japan to get a revenge on Ryo who has killed his father in a duel.
To save Kaori Ryo will have to fight against Umi....
ROBERT HARRISON
[only in the TV-series: episode n°82 and n°83]
The counter part of Mick Angel in the TV series. Roberto is Ryo's best friend and partner in America. He saved Ryo's life once. He uses a Walther P-38 9mm. Like Mick, he comes to Japan to face Ryo in City Hunter II (episodes 82 and 83). Ryo suffers great grief when he kills Roberto in the duel.
-- Chih-Ping Kuo [Description "borrowed" from http://www.serpent.org/info-ch-roberto.shtml]
SOPHIA SILVERMAN
[only in the TV-series: episode n°126 and n°127]
Nickname: Silver Leopard.
Robert's girlfriend. She comes to Japan to get a revenge on Ryo who has killed Robert in a duel. We'll see her in the two last episodes of the 3rd series.
Birth Date: January 15th 1969.
why she got the nickname "The Flying Buttock" from Ryo in their initial encounter.
