Kaori Makimura

Kaori Makimura is Ryo Saeba's partner and business manager in City Hunter. She helps accept cases, protects clients, and keeps the reckless private detective focused on their work.

Kaori Makimura's place in City Hunter

Kaori is compassionate, courageous, jealous, and quick-tempered, especially when Ryo behaves irresponsibly toward women. Although less experienced than Ryo, she becomes capable with firearms, traps, disguises, and her famously oversized hammers.

Kaori Makimura's relationships and major turning points

She is the sister of Ryo's murdered partner Hideyuki Makimura, whose death brings Kaori into City Hunter. Her partnership with Ryo gradually develops into deep mutual love that both struggle to express directly.