Black Cat

Black Cat was a fine anime, but unfortunatly didn't hit it's peek. The characters are fun and friendly and the humor is great. The only sad thing about black Cat is that it was too short, and was a bit choppy; also, the story would include flash backs, but unfortunatly, did not explain them. Even so, the humor was outstanding, and the action "renowned"

Black Cat started as an edgy and serious anime with a mediocre plot that soon turned into a happy-to-go all after a time jump showing how amateur the writer was. The anime never had anything good to keep it going so they just start to randomly throw characters to forcefully keep the plot going. The original story was about 12 episodes long; all other episodes were just sidetracking from the main story. The characters were lacking many things from writing to development; everything was in a mess. The main protagonist and antagonist were written so horribly that the series got so hard to keep watching the development was based on the death of a character that had no point being in the anime except for that. The powers that are shown in the anime have a lot of inconsistencies and poor explanations. Eve's character that was supposed to be important was butchered so horrendously that one loses all interest in it. The random jumps in the story, all over the place plot, amateurish writing, and force character building this anime has all of it. The art was alright and the animation was pretty nice but these were the only positive things about the anime There were hints of intriguing things in the few last episodes but once again the horrific writing skills destroyed all the momentum. At times it seems the writer tries to put everything that came into their mind without thinking about how it will affect the plot. Many things that happen in anime are either rushed or left unexplained. All and all the anime had barely minimum potential; it was wasted by the amateurish writing and forced moments. I would not recommend the Forced Cat to anyone.

Black Cat Edit: I have now read the manga as a comparison. Actually has to say that the manga was better than the anime for the first 50%, but actually got worse than the anime adaptation from the halfway point onwards. The manga starts and runs fundamentally different, even if the main events at the beginning, are initially the same. - - I used to be a fan of this work as a child and wanted to rewatch it. Of course, it is much more negative to me now than before. But for a shounen, still positive. The action of the Black Cat adaptation is quite simple and one will understand in some episodes what the Shounen typical action amounts to. The implementation is also just average. However, the style of implementation was quite personable. The characters also had their own traits and were entertaining. Only her actual character received much less attention than he should. This made the characters no less likeable, but they lacked depth of character. For my part, the anime was entertaining to some extent. Story The Plot was a simple one, and as I said, it differentiated it from the manga, at least the process. The story is about Train, his change of heart, the consequences and just his adventure. A story that moves linearly from A - to -> B, with a few minor scenes. However, the episodes remained mostly important and it didn't drift into the filler area. Unfortunately, the episodes from c. 17 or 18 were really disappointing. It was recognized that the adaptation should clearly take a different path than the manga. However, towards the end everything was quickly thrown into a pot. The finale, the later events and the end were simply processed somehow. Many scenes were skipped completely, which created gaps that made less sense. Everything has been thrown over the table just so that the work can quickly come to an end in the last few episodes. They originally took their time, but apparently they drastically reduced the number of episodes, which led to such a terrible theater. Couldn't look at the end because it was really, just sad. Animation / pictures: The animations, dynamics, lighting effects and co. were hit very well here. In particular, this fluid combat animation, along with the dynamics, has been a good approach to dominant combat. Characters: The characters were neat, but only in terms of sympathy. The only character that was really addressed was Train. The rest just stayed the way they were and they just lacked depth of character. Sven was a simple womanizer as he is in the book and, as I said, just personable. Before his change of heart, Train was quite interesting, after that he only became a gobble, which is not surprising. Eve was also .. just a girl who didn't really understand her emotions and yes, like the rest of her, she was just there and done. The only thing Creed did was really positive. Never seen a character exude such an obsession. I'm not saying that it was well written. But he was all a charismatic chunk. Music: Black Cat's first intro was nothing too special musically, but was a good intro to the work. The outro was ... let's say it was very strange. Still there was something nice about it. The Osts in this plant were really noteworthy. Professionally designed Osts, who could beautifully underline every scene, something like that is a pleasure to see. My conclusion A decent shounen for in between, which you can definitely look at. The characters were personable enough, the music was fine, the animations dynamic and smooth and the representation of the genre was impressive enough. Only the end was a disaster

It seems I only end up writing reviews for shows I have a lot of negative things to say about. Black Cat is by far the least inspired Shonen (This was originally in shonen jump btw, for 4 years;; ) I have ever seen. Take this review with a grain of salt. I was paying minimal attention through out the show, because it really failed to capture my attention. STORY: The setting and world building is AWFUL, I seriously don't know what they were going for... The setting feels like what a Japanese man would imagine the west in the 2000's to be like, but it makes 0 world building sense. (apart from it being WILDLY inaccurate in my European eyes) I JUST finished this show and I can't remember a single location accurately. (I feel like they fought at castles and mansions a lot?) There are the Sweepers, Chronos and the Apostle’s, but you don't get the impression that any of these organisations influence the world around them, or that this world would warrent the existence of these types of organisations in the first place. The setting is so bland, that at one point I forgot that it was supposed to take place in a world with computers. (which is dumb because nano technology is a big part of the show) So this world has Taoists and nanomachines, which enable the users grand powers. It reminds me of a certain magical index, where there is an opposition of magic and technology, but this story does nothing with these sources of power, they just exist as an excuse to have cool powers. But then you have Train who just has protagonist powers, which really cheapens the impact of any imbalance that nano technology or tao could have brought into the story. Don't really care about the story, it's super tropey and cliche, which it no doubt feels that way to me as a modern viewer, but I doubt this was such an innovator even back then. This show has a tendency to undercut serious moments with stupid bullshit that's just really fillery and boring. Like, something serious can happen, but the show turns it into a joke and all tension is lost. Train turning into a kid is a good example; it leads NOWHERE. ART: Not awful, but not good, certainly not for todays standards. SOUND: God, I hated the sountrack. Those arias in the fights were so annoying. CHARACTER: There aren't necessarily any characters that infuriated me or anything, but I didn't really love the dynamics between the characters either. Rinslet was absolutely useless, and it felt as if she was only there to have more female characters. Train was just an angsty protagonist, with the blandest personality imaginable. I liked Eve, but the show was mostly about Creed. Although I think the show didn't do him any favours, it was extremely pleasing for me to watch a male yandere character. It was the reason I started this show, if I'm honest. I don't think his development is the best, but he is the most memorable thing about this show. ENJOYMENT: I skipped through some parts honestly, it was so boring. OVERALL: I think in general, this is just a product of its time. It's not something that would be made today. I enjoy anime from this time period occasionally, despite it's common trappings, but this one really wasn't for me. I doubt many modern viewers can enjoy this show like people did when it aired. Even then I think something like Soul Eater or maybe even Fairy Tail (forgive me) that have somewhat stronger settings despite their faults. This show doesn't have a good setting, lots of cliches, boring characters, bad art so yeah, nothing for me to love. Not the most incompetent thing in the world, but so not worth your time.

Characters: This show was a mix of good compelling characters, and throwaway side characters. All the main characters were pretty decent. I liked Train even though his character development was very weird and nonsensical. I wish they had done a better job with his personality. At the start of the show, I thought he was going to be the edgy badass assassin type with maybe somewhat of a secret soft side. For the first like 7 episodes, it seems like that was what they were going for. But after a somewhat short time skip, his personality does a practical 180, becoming brash, fun-loving, and righteous. I understand that this was supposed to be his real personality behind his facade, but I wish they had built that up more, maybe showing that side of him here and there and over time having him become comfortable with showing his real attitude. I thought Sven was a much more consistent character with clear motivations and decent development. I liked Eve a lot, but I wish we could have seen her becoming closer to Sven and opening up more rather then her just immediately being fine after the skip. Creed was ok, I liked his motivations and character at the beginning but it just felt like he got worse and worse over time, until I barely cared what he was doing. other then that though, while there were a couple of gems, most of the side characters were just throwaway nameless guys with no backstory. I think the show suffered greatly from just the sheer volume of them. If they were going to have this many characters, then why did they make the series so short? Many of them barely had any screen time and felt like they were only there to provide minor assistance to make it easier for the protagonists to win fights. I feel like they should have tried to cut many of them. Like, at one point later in the show, this random wolf appears and I just have no idea who he is or why I should care. The show acts like I should know him, but I just don't? Did I miss something? Character designs/animation: it's a real shame that so many of the side characters are such trash because thought was clearly put into their designs. I liked Train in all his outfits, especially his cool trench coat and that little bell that's around his neck. I thought that was cute. Sven's all white suit and pants and little fedora were pretty stupid though ngl. Eve's berserk form was pretty awesome but her regular appearance was pretty mediocre, I don't really think it needed to be more though. A lot of the side characters looked really awesome, and I don't really understand why they gave them such cool looking designs if they we're going to be in a total of 3 episodes. On the other hand though, some of the side characters just looked like 'generic thug #4' and I will immediately forget about them after writing this. The animation had its ups and downs. It definitely wasn't bad, it actually had some cool psychedelic looking scenes with very interesting shots and very nice uses of colors. I also liked the way they animated Train using his gun, because it was pretty awesome and badass. My problem though, was that it felt like they were doing this not because it looked cool, but because they wanted to avoid animating straight up fights. When there were real fights, they were pretty chunky. I did think that the climax fight was pretty neat though and I enjoyed it. pacing: This show, like another one I reviewed recently had some weird pacing issues. My main issue though was the three month time skip after the group finally came together. It completely eliminated so much character development. After seeing it, I was convinced that I must have skipped an episode or something. It just goes from them being almost complete strangers to buddy buddy little family. I cannot fathom this choice because every scene that required one of them to save the other one or cheer them up it, I just had to ask myself why? Why do they care at all? I never saw them become close. It also disappointed me because I was looking forward to them becoming closer as a group. That's what the point of these 'road-trip characters are forced to stick together and slowly become family while beating up bad guys' kind of show is right? It also felt like the show moved a little too fast, with many characters barely getting any screen time in order to service the plot. Music/VA: The OP was nothing special, just serviceable. I liked the first ED a lot, both the song and the funny visuals, even though it felt somewhat out of place. The second ED was pretty generic and lame though. The background music was pretty decent, but at times I thought they were playing the wrong song at the wrong time. Like, there would be a moment that I thought was supposed to be heartwarming but it had this eerie music playing. I did like that if you listen, a lot of the music was based around Saya's song at the beginning. I thought that the VA was good, Train's voice was cute, if a little nasally. I think they did a decent job with the casting all around. I don't really have any more to add on this front. plot: This was easily the worst part of the show. It was all over the place. I couldn't tell if the show was going for a serious mafia assassin story, or a villain of the week magical road trip. I liked that there was a slight supernatural vibe to the world, like with Sven's eye (which he hardly uses for some reason) but after a while it got to be overwhelming. I think the tao powers were just way too much and it should have just stayed at like the slight magical elements that it had at the beginning. I also didn't really understand the choices made with Chronos, the organization Train was a part of. I don't feel like I understood their motivations for anything. What was the goal of their existence? It was apparently to 'keep peace' but I'm not really sure what that entailed. They also really fell to the wayside as the plot progressed. There were also many mechanics introduced that just stopped being used or mattering after a while. Like Sven's eye being seemingly forgotten for huge chunks of the story. And the juice that gives you tao power being completely abandoned and never mentioned again. The most egregious example was when something happens to Train that is supposedly supposed to effect him in a big way. I thought maybe he would gain new abilities or literally anything would change, but no it's over after one episode and never brought up again. I thought that this was really dumb. And it really ruined any expectations I had of the show after that point. When the climax finally came to a close, I was actually somewhat satisfied with the ending and final scenes, but then I realized that there were actually like 5 episodes left? The remaining scenes and true climax was an absolute mystery to me. It seemed like they were pushing a kind of mix of Evangelion and Code Geass with weird the christian imagery and a perfect paradise that isn't so perfect after all. It was pretty baffling that they did this, and it did not fit the show at all. Never when I starting watching this show did I think it would go this off the rails and not in a good way. All in all, I thought the beginning of the show was pretty good but as it continued it just went very downhill. I think the best experience with this show would be watching it up to three month time skip, but if you absolutely have to know how it ends, just end it with the first climax and pretend it's over.

Where should I start? It's the best anime ever, characters story drawing sounds? Everything in this anime is beautiful, i don't exaggerate when I say it captivated my heart 🖤Where should I start? It's the best anime ever, characters story drawing sounds? Everything in this anime is beautiful, i don't exaggerate when I say it captivated my heart🖤Where should I start? It's the best anime ever, characters story drawing sounds? Everything in this anime is beautiful, i don't exaggerate when I say it captivated my heart🖤Where should I start? It's the best anime ever, characters story drawing sounds? Everything in this anime is beautiful, i don't exaggerate when I say it captivated my heart🖤Where should I start? It's the best anime ever, characters story drawing sounds? Everything in this anime is beautiful, i don't exaggerate when I say it captivated my heart🖤

I really like this anime a lot and I've seen it about three times and when I finished I felt very sad because it finished and I loved every character and Especially (Eve) I felt madly in love with her. It's true that the end was different from the manga and not just the end some of the story too but it still a legendary anime. WHY my love for this anime......because each character which is an important lesson, for example, I find that Train expressed about the importance of change and Says expresses how a person can change another person's life only to act on the nature of either Eve are the embodiment of the suffering of children in a world of brutality and violence and Sven embodiment chow to rescue the lost childhood because of the brutality even creed is the embodiment of ego and selfishness.

Train Heartnet trabaja para una corpocacion que se encarga de eliminar toda amenaza para la paz mundial, a Train le encagan matar a Eve que es una chica hecha de naotecnolgia que puede ser una a amenaza, y la tiene que matar pero ella no es mala, el conoce a una cazarecompenza llamda Saya que se enamora y se da cuenta que matar es malo y deja eso, pero su camarada mata a Saya y Train se vengara de su muerte y se unira con Eve y otro cazarecompenza para detenerlo de su gobernación del mundo.

I actually really like this anime! Well i mean i loved it in the begining, like i thought it was a 10 in the begining but i think it droppped to an 8 or 9 by the end. Story- So i only gave the story an 8 because I loved how train was like this amazing angent who had the most amazinfg skills! plus i am a big cat lover so i thought it was kinda cute. art- I love the was the art is in this anime!! like the older animes art looks different from the newer anime art (in my oppinion) and personally i like the newer. sound- i am not sure what to say other then good. character- as you can tell, i really like train but i think eve is super cute! shes like the ideal little sister! but to behonest sven kinda irritated me at times, i dont no why, he just did!and i wish rinslet had shown up a bit more. enjoyment- I actually really like this anime! Well i mean i loved it in the begining, like i thought it was a 10 in the begining but i think it droppped to an 8 or 9 by the end. overall-loved it!

Black Cat is one of my favorite animes ever. The story gets kind of weak half way through the series but everything else makes up for that. All of the cast of characters were excellent and the interactions between them brilliant. I find myself rewatching this anime and smiling all the time.

For me, Black Cat was a bittersweet anime. The story was pretty good but a bit on the predictable side if you've read a lot of manga/fiction or watched a lot of anime. Still, it was pretty good. I really liked the art, though I did have an issue with the hideous (in my very strong opinion) coat that Train ends of wearing. The characters were pretty good. I'd have to say I liked Train when he was the Black Cat in the beginning of the anime more than the laid-back, always-eating, guy he morphed into but he still possessed the kind of bad-ass characteristics I always liked so he was alright. The rest of the main characters were well developed and their pasts were explained without bringing the entire story to a halt. I only gave the "Enjoyment" factor a rating of 8 because it held my attention really well (hard to do when you're as easily distracted as me) but I didn't particularly like the ending. Black Cat was a good anime with a good storyline and I'd watch it again sometime if I get the chance.

This was the fourth anime I saw and I am very happy that I saw it.Characters are super nice painted and story is very good.Enjoyment to watch this anime was very great.I have not read the manga, but I think not even have time to do it ... *sigh* Тhe Opening is my favorite * inlove eyes * The best opening ever

This anime was an awesome anime. The story was fanominal and i love how Black's attitude changed from a killer to a happy go lucky person. It was the perfect anime as a sort of buffer between other series. I would really enjoy to rewatch this anime.

The show starts off very strong. Without giving away any plot you will get engrossed with the first couple of episodes. The theme is set after that and the story takes off doing rather well not meandering too much towards its plot goals. But after the first arch in what seems like a second haphazard season they threw an odd plot together and it just went off the deep end. I finished it for the sake of the first arch but I was gritting me teeth through the end of the second arch.

Black cat is a cheesy action, comedy and drama with a little bit of everything: superpowers, magic, nanotechnology, martial arts, bounty hunters, shadowy organizations, railguns and all sorts of super-weapons. We follow Train Heartnet, a powerful assassin working for the world leaders at Chronos, he decides to trail his own way, and separating himself from the organization won't be easy. The cast is overall likeable but not that deep. I love the "ragtag family" relationship the bounty hunter team has going, and it is such a breath of fresh air to see a child being treated with respect instead of her being sexualized. If you treat its story less seriously, try to take it for what it is and turn off your mind a bit, black cat is a comedic show with unserious action, focused on being showy, having monologues, lots of explosions, big showdowns and all types of eccentricities. The animation and sound are dated, the pacing is beyond bad, the characters have good personalities but lack depth, the villains are horribly written, there's too many characters to keep track of and without much screen time, we don't get enough world building, we don't get an explanation for the powers, technologies or organizations that we see clash, groups of people come out unscathed from direct machinegun fire, people survive without a scratch after having an entire building collapse on them from an explosion... But the first half was really enjoyable, the biggest issue with this anime is that, halfway through, it diverges through from the source manga, from there the drop in quality is noticeable. I wouldn't recommend this anime unless you want to get a glimpse into what was popular in the light novel/manga scene of the early 2000s, because this has a poorly executed mish mash of everything. It is also a window into something that happened all the time in the anime scene during those times: Stolen intellectual property! So many good stories taken over by studios to meet deadlines. The ending is infamous due to how rushed and undeveloped it was, it's even hard to keep track of what's happening, totally chaotic and hollow.