Angel Heart (manga)

Angel Heart
The first volume of the Bunch Comics edition, published on October 9, 2001
エンジェル・ハート (Enjeru Hāto)
Genre	Crime fiction
Manga
Written by	Tsukasa Hojo
Published by	Shinchosha
Demographic	Seinen
Magazine	Weekly Comic Bunch
Original run	May 15, 2001 – August 27, 2010
Volumes	33
Anime television series
Directed by	Toshiki Hirano
Written by	Sumio Uetake
Music by	Taku Iwasaki
Studio	TMS
Original network	NTV
Original run	October 3, 2005 – September 25, 2006
Episodes	50
Manga
Angel Heart: 2nd Season
Written by	Tsukasa Hojo
Published by	Tokuma Shoten
Demographic	Seinen
Magazine	Monthly Comic Zenon
Original run	October 25, 2010 – present
Volumes	15

Angel Heart (Japanese: エンジェル・ハート, Hepburn: Enjeru Hāto^?) is a manga series written and illustrated by Tsukasa Hojo published in the Weekly Comic Bunch from 2001 throughout 2010. After the cancellation of Bunch, the manga was renewed in Monthly Comic Zenon under the title of Angel Heart: 2nd Season. An animated television series based on the manga aired in Japan from October 3, 2005 to September 25, 2006.

The author mentioned in the first tankōbon volume that Angel Heart only shares the same characters as City Hunter but is not its continuation. Therefore, the events take place in a parallel universe.

A young woman stands on top of a building in Shinjuku as she receives a call from her handler. The handler, who calls her "Glass Heart", congratulates her with a job well done regarding her latest kill, which he refers to as her 50th. Glass Heart recounts the day's events. She had just killed a man sitting on a park bench with a silenced gun. As she was leaving the park, a small girl runs in with some ice cream and Glass Heart realizes that she has just killed the father of a little girl. With that she jumps off the building, impaling her chest on the iron spiked fence below.

At the same time, Kaori Makimura is running late for an appointment to take wedding photos with her husband, the "City Hunter" Ryo Saeba. When she sees a girl about to be run over by a truck, she jumps and pushes the girl out of the way before the truck hits her. A short while later, she is declared brain dead and her heart is harvested for organ donation, as she had a donor card on her when she died. However, the Organization, needing a heart for their assassin, steals Kaori's heart while it is in transit and implants it into Glass Heart's body.