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Discotek Licenses Entire City Hunter Anime Franchise Including City Hunter: Shinjuku Private Eyes Film (Updated)

posted on by Crystalyn Hodgkins
New film opened in Japan on February 8

City Hunter: Shinjuku Private Eyes anime film.

ANN confirmed with Discotek Media that the company has the license to the following installments in the franchise:

green-lit in China.

The original manga follows Ryō Saeba, a sniper and a private eye ("sweeper") based in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward with unrivaled marksmanship and an over-the-top obsession for the opposite sex. He serves as a bodyguard and other duties for his clients.

City Hunter: Shinjuku Private Eyes (pictured at left) earned more than 1.5 billion yen ($13.4 million) as of April 14.

Director TM Network's song "Get Wild," the ending theme song for the first City Hunter television anime, was also the ending song for the film.

The new film moves the setting to present-day Shinjuku.

Update: Confirmed news with Discotek and confirmed which anime the company has licensed.

Update 2: Discotek Twitter it will screen the City Hunter: Shinjuku Private Eyes film in U.S. theaters.

Source: Sunrise at Sakura-Con

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