In "Tokyo City"(talking place like most futuristic anime in Japan after not one-but-two earthquakes!), Goku is a former police detective turned private eye who learns most of his old partners are mysteriously committing suicide, leaving the only one left, his friend Officer Yoko. The department was investigating a nightclub owner who is really a criminal arms dealer, and uses a killer cyborg crew to thin out anyone poking into his business. Goku infiltrates the bad guys headquarters, but makes off with poking his left eye out to avoid being hypnotized. He awakens being giving a new bionic eye by a mysterious benefactor which allows him to use unlimited cyberpathy, meaning he can access any computer anywhere in the world, controlling machines, and getting any data available on the net. Goku uses his new powers to get revenge for the death of Yoko, and shutting down the criminal empire. The next episode challenges Goku's abilities as he has to hunt down a cyborg with the power to use a microwave forcefield which can fry anyone, and giving the determined terminator energy-projection which takes out a good part of the city. Goku has to assemble his own one-time use flying Batmobile to take the murder machine down.
The anime has had two separate dubs, once by Manga Entertainment for a British release, and a different one starring Steve Blum as Goku for the now defunct Urban Vision. The manga has been printed in English through the also out of print Comics One, so if you wanted to find out what Godlike entity gave Goku his magical eye, you might want to check out the full story as the anime only covered two story arcs from the original source material. The anime itself has been released on DVD in America, and is also available for streaming download.
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