Have you ever heard or read about this anime? No? Well, me neither until I randomly found it in the recommended videos section on YouTube. It's a very obscure OVA from 1996 based on a possibly even more obscure manga by the same author of the more known Riki-Oh. Oddly enough, I found it dubbed and the dubbing was good quality with well known and top notch voice actors. It's made by the famous J.C. Staff, a very renowned animation studio with plenty of resources, so the art and animation (which are in full 1990s style) are good. Character design is cool and the sketchesof New York City, where the story is set, are realistic and detailed.

The plot is quite simple but it works just fine for a 45 minutes OVA: it's a crime story. The main character, Kenji Hado, is a Japanese bounty hunter living in NYC who struggles every day to earn some money and get by. One day he steps into an apparently easy case that will lead him into serious trubles.

There isn't much character development but you can't expect it anyway from a short anime. By the way "not much" is still better than nothing.

Bounty Hunter: The Hard is an enjoyable, easy to watch anime which can still entertain you even if you don't have great expectations, and this made me think it deserved a solid 7 out of 10 overall.