Kaori Makimura
The other half of City Hunter, and Ryo Saeba’s partner. She is primarily responsible for getting clients, and other managerial tasks. She also cooks and defends Ryo’s female clients from his less honorable intentions. Though Kaori’s combat skills don’t even come close to her partner’s, she can stop Ryo cold with one of her hammerspace weapons. Primarily she uses a hammer (usually weighing at least 100 tons), but she uses other objects as well. She also learned how to set traps and plant explosives from Umibozu. Her shooting skills are affected somewhat by Ryo’s tampering wiith her gun, meant to ensure that she would always miss and therefore not be able to bloody her hands as Ryo has had to do.
Like Ryo, she has a dual personality. Sometimes she acts (and looks!) like a tomboy, while other times she’s displays a very feminine compassion. She is very empathetic, and sometimes feels other’s pain so acutely that she herself breaks into tears. Another thing that saddens her is her secret love for Ryo, which is unrealized on Ryo’s part as he wishes not to jeopardize her life by her association to him. This extended to Ryo’s unwillingness to completely honor the final request made him by his partner and her brother, Hideyuki Makimura, after Maki was fatally wounded by a drug syndicate — that Ryo tell Kaori about her true parentage.In the manga Kaori drives a Honda Civic, but in the anime she has a green Fiat Panda.
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