"City Hunter" by trade
"Stud of Shinjuku" by night
"#1 Pervert in Japan" by self declaration...


FACTS:

Full name: Ryo Saeba
Occupation: Bodyguard, Private Investigation, Sexual Harassment...
Birthday: Unknown / March 26th by the decree of Kaori (The first day when Ryo met Kaori)
Birth Place: Unknown
Nationality: Unknown
Sex: Male (in case you didn't noticed...)
Height: 6'38
Weight: 154'6
Measurements: Bust: 42', Waist: 32'2, Hips: 36'4... WOW!
Blood type: AB
Relations: He shares his flat with Kaori Makimura, his job partner.
Current Address: Shinjuku, Tokyo
Special Skills: They're sooo many... So so: amazingly accurate shot, martial art expert, known and respected in the underworld and, last but not least, PERMANENTLY excited...
Personal Goal: Get a hold of every beautiful women in the world!
Fave Food: Charming chicks...
Sport: Shooting (He owns a shooting range in the basement)
How to hire him: Leaving the following message at Shinjuku Eastgate terminal bulletin board: "XYZ"... The last three letters of the alphabet: means you're desperate and have no other ways to solve your problems...
Most famous quote: "Woman can fall in love for the rest of her life, I can only fall in love once a while."


DESCRIPTION:

Ryo is unlike the generic, blend, featureless leading male you find in most other anime shows. He is definitely one with a character. As a 3 years old child he alone survived an airplane crash in Central America, which probably killed both of his parents. Because of this he himself does not know of his own birthday and nationality, or even his full name. To survive he joined a village which belonged to the rebels in a country in the midst of a civil war. He was trained to be a guerilla from the youth and he became one of the best. After the civil war, which the rebels lost, he and others were kicked out of the country to America. There he started to work as a gun for hire. After a while he came back to Japan. While pretend to be an apartment controller in Shinjuku, Tokyo, he started his career as the "Sweeper" (From the original Japanese translation, or literally means "the one who cleans up the street", or "Street Cleaner". I prefer to call him a "Trouble Shooter".) Ryo likes to work for beautiful women, mostly as bodyguard and/or finding missing people, etc, while taking out a drug ring or gangster or two on the side.
Ryo is VERY GOOD at what he is doing. He is able to handle just about any weapons he can get his hands on. His favor and trademark weapon is a custom adjusted Colt Python 357 Magnum with a 4" barrel, which he is able to do just about anything he wants to. (like, shot 6 bullets through one hole inside 15 meters/@50 feet)

What makes Ryo special is that he is more lecherous than Ataru Moroboshi of Urusei Yatsura. The difference is Ryo has the "tool" to back up what he wants to do. That is why he got the nickname of "Stud of Shinjuku" and he likes to call himself "the #1 pervert in Japan". He certainly prefers a night with his beautiful client rather than money payment. Night raid (or shower raid) on the client who lives in his apartment is to be expected. His unbelievable sexual energy and wildness are probably what makes him so good at doing his job. His "greatness" had been known to crack wall, penetrate bullet proof window, and broke the roof beam of a house. Once he even left up a block weighted 100 kg (around 225 lbs) with his "tool"! You probably would not find all those on the TV screen as they would be censored out from the drawing board. (The screen tended not to let Ryo to "express" himself) That is one big reason to check out the manga, which IMHO, is much funnier than the TV series.

Ryo's lecherous is not his only weakness. He is also afraid of flying, probably because of his childhood airplane crash he was in (In the TV series, there were some earlier episodes which Ryo did some flying. That was before the manga came out with Ryo's phobia. The TV series also rewrote the story of Ryo's phobia in Season IV so it doesn't exist on screen.) He is also a good cook. He has a photographic memory for anything happen in the last ten years. His memory is especially good when it is about beautiful woman's face. (his memory only fails to serve the occasional comedy situation) Like all handsome young men in the Japanese manga, he has a tremendous facial recovery power from injury. (for example, check out Mendo Surtaro of Urusei Yatsura) He can imitate just about anyone's voice once he hears it over. He drives around in a red Austin Mini that is deceivingly quick for a little car.

Ryo LOVES Kaori Makimura, but he refrains from express his love for her simply because it will put her (or any other woman) under danger in the line of work he is doing. Instead he covers it up and Kaori becomes the only woman who can not get Ryo excited (on the appearance). Once he said "Woman can fall in love for the rest of her life, I can only fall in love once a while".

Some comments on Ryo: He is probably the ideal man in Japanese standard. Tall, handsome (but not to the point of sissy), strong, (but not to the point of grossness) One with great sexual prowess and a soft heart. Sensitive to others and sometime act really out of character (say, part of the lecherous) so he won't hurt their feeling. Just about all the women on the show were repelled by his lecherous in the beginning, but after knowing him better, turn to love him by the end. Most of the Japanese females would probably describe him as a man's man, and that would probably be the highest complement any Japanese male would want.
-- Chih-Ping Kuo
[Description "borrowed" from http://www.serpent.org/info-ch-ryo.shtml]




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