Angel Heart 18
This episode continues where the last one left off: Kaori is sitting at Ryo’s bed. Ryo, who thinks she noticed he’s awake has the broken bottle ready to attack. Then Kaori starts to speak, telling Ryo not to die. If he thinks noone will grieve for him if he dies, she will. Hearing this, Ryo lowers his weapon and feels he can sleep safely for the first time in his life. Meanwhile, Xiang Ying sees Kaori’s brother, looking at a photo of him and Kaori when they were children. He tells Kaori not to worry about him, and then he worries: did she find out they aren’t real siblings? When Kaori enters the room the next day, Ryo is gone. When he wants to leave Kaori’s brother stops him and tells him to leave the city. Ryo in return tells him he knows there is a cop going around as City Hunter, and that there are people out to get him, so he’d better be careful. Later, Hideyuki gets indeed attacked by some men. Kaori is waiting at home, and somehow she feels something’s wrong. Then Ryo arrives with Hideyuki, who is bruised all over his body. Ryo tells Kaori that her brother fell off the stairs, but she doesn’t believe him. Kaori takes care of her bother’s wounds and thanks Ryo, but he makes her angry because he start’s touching her ^_^; so she throws him out of the house. Then Ryo tells her he was very happy to hear her say she would grieve for him. When Hideyuki regains consciousness, he gets angry with Ryo, but Ryo tells him to be quiet, because Kaori’s asleep. They go to the roof, where Ryo suggests Hideyuki to help him with his City Hunter job. Hideyuki gets angry first and points his gun at Ryo, but Ryo easily takes it from him. Hideyuki questions Ryo’s motive for wanting to become City Hunter, and Ryo tells him it’s because he doesn’t want to see Kaori cry. Then Xiang Ying sees Ryo talking to Kaori at a playground. Ryo has decided to stay in Shinjuku, and he asks about Kaori’s name. In return, she asks what his name is, but he doesn’t have one, so he lets Kaori choose one from all his fake identities. She picks out Saeba Ryo, because that name made the strongest impression on her. Xiang Ying is happy to learn that Ryo didn’t used to have a name either, and she wants to congratulate him with his new name, but… she still can’t touch them. She feels a little sad about it, but then Ryo and Kaori call out her name, and tell her to come with them ^_^ Then Xiang Ying wakes up. Ryo tells her she was saying "mama" in her dream and she tells him she had a dream about "Kaori-mama" ^_^
This episode was really ment for people who don’t know the original city Hunter story (I haven’t seen much of it either so it was nice to see how Kaori and Ryo met, and how Ryo became City Hunter.) It was just so cute when Xiang Ying said "Kaori-mama" ^_^ Next episode the real story continues, and Xiang Ying seems to go to work at old Chen’s restaurant.
