Audience reviews
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Dogsmic
This one is really weird. For an anime trying to cram a 185-chapter manga into 24 episodes, it spends a lot of its time just making up random filler episodes and doing its own thing (the last 4 episodes are entirely just fanfiction that takes place after what they adapted of the manga ending), and the manga had already ended by the time this show started, so it's not like they had an excuse. For what it is, it's honestly quite good, and actually does a small handful of things better than the manga, but it misses so much of what made the manga great I find it hard to recommend.
My recommendation would be, read the manga, then if you end up loving it as much as I did, watch this one after, it's at least a fun curiosity and for the most part they're entirely different stories that happen to…
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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,…
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Black cat is a 7/10 with a stronger score hidden behind its rushed and jumbled pacing/writing. Theres a great setup and potential. You got two cool factions behind the scenes here with the Chronos and the Apostles that Train and the gang is up against. Liked the cast of characters. Especially Creed. Then theres the seperate plot with Eve and nanomachines which is related to it. But for some reason the anime focuses on a bunch of other stuff way to much of the time and with 23 episodes it never really gets going. And finally when it does focus on it its rushed and over so fast. Things dont get fleshed out enough and certain plot points never gets covered or is not explained. New elements and reveals just show up out of nowhere and then its over.
Itssuch a shame. Havent read the manga but…
Read at the sourcecraffydolsel
I will just say one thing this shit was so bad I was considering suicide because of this piece of shit show, at the first few episodes when Train was wearing black I was interested and I was like "Maybe this show isn't that bad" and I finished watching it and I was just like finally it's done and I don't have to kill myself, and if you think I'm exaggerating on how bad this show is I dropped it more than 8 times, but some of the fights were amazingly animated like the fight between train and zoolander or whatever his name is, and the only reason I watched this, because this anime was by the same studio that did full metal panic which is one of my favorite mecha anime and I was like oh maybe I should watch whatever this studio that did full metal panic and maybe I should watch their other w…
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Black Cat has really good music, character designs, and has a good artistic style. Unfortunately there is more style than substance. The poor pacing, inconsistent animation, and uninteresting plot make the series painfully average. The music really elevates what it accompanies and makes scenes feel much more impactful. The characters are all unique and it is a shame that their backgrounds and motivations are not explored further. The animation is extremely inconsistent, there are some scenes where it was obvious where the budget went, and others that are lacking. The pacing is also a huge detriment especially later in the series where there are large exposition dumps overshadowing the rest of the episode. The main narrative is rather boring and messy especially at the end of the series. Bl…
Read at the sourceAatihoNora
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 explan…
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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.
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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 e…
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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 Sw…
Read at the sourceLeachieGekuu
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 be…
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I remember liking this series when i was a kid, but i stopped halfway through, now i know why. the show has a lot of potential it threw out the window.
STORY: train hearnet is an assassin to chronos, but when he meet up with this random girl and some other sweeper, he decided to abruptly stop being the cold and hardened killer he was, throughout the show it was enforced that he wouldn't even of cared about killing children etc.
but then cause of a couple of words from some sweepers decided to quit the organization and thought he didn't even have to protect himself anymore and even got rid of his gun, by handing to the girl sweeper....
thats when the plot becomes really stupid, some guys with super powers saying he wants a free world but was actually just trying to get rid of chronos, is…
Read at the sourceYung_Warrior
A series that has retained some popularity past its heyday, Black Cat is essentially a kiddie version of Cowboy Bebop with more traditional anime elements incorporated into the work as opposed to Bebop's more avant-garde (by the standards of the industry) western style. This is no surprise, as most anime/manga tend to be fairly derivative of the industry's titans. There are certainly worse examples to riff off than Bebop, and it's an interesting choice since Bebop was a flop in Japan. Black Cat is nowhere near as interesting, nuanced, or artistic as that series, but there is fun to be had here and what cliches do exist are well-executed.
The anachronistic setting is split into three factions, rather like Outlaw Star now that I think of it. There is Chronos, which is a secret society of as…
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this anime is a side story of "To love Ru"
main character (black cat / train Heartnet) is not important/useless in this story.
(the story will still can run without the main character)
i think they sould change title for this anime
"Sven Vollfied" not "black cat"
if you watch this anime from eps 1 to 23 you will understand what i mean. the nature of the main character suddenly changes unclearly
from cold and heartless.
changed to be weird man only for jokes that are not funny
so many time skip
i hate no kill rule , the enemy kill many people and his friend but he let them alive ~
at the first episode of Chronos and black cat looks strong.
but when the episode continues until it's finished.
suddenly Chronos number 1 became very, very weak
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A história e ideia são boas, além disso possuem bons personagens, mas o ponto fraco na minha opinião são as lutas que se tornam meio confusas as vezes e alguma coisa ou outra fica sem resposta ou podia ser mais exploradas, mas no final o anime é divertido e meu sonho seria ter um remake da história melhorando a animação e alguns erros para ficar perfeito!
Outra coisa, a arma do Blackcat é multo legal!
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The story and idea are good, in addition they have good characters, but the weak point in my opinion are the struggles that become a little confused at times and something or other is left unanswered or could be further explored, but in the end the anime is fun and my dream would be to have a remake of the story improving the animation and some mistakes to b…
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Black Cat is one of the first short anime series I ever watched. Hence I saw it about eight years ago. I had heard people raving about it, such as ten out of ten etc. I feel they're partially justified; it's worth watching, but lacks in the relevance department.
I'm Here To Deliver Some Bad Luck (Train Heartnet #13). Train (Black Cat:) has nine lives, but is it enough to defeat his master. This is an anime that will resonate in your mind, as the characters are interesting and the conspiracy of Chronos. The story is fairly deep for a short anime, Erasers vs. Sweepers meaning assassins vs. police basically. You'll find yourself questioning what are they fighting against, and the answer is corruption. The music is very good with a cute closing song. The main idea I got from this anime, is to…
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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 ani…
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Not a perfect anime by any stretch, and should know going into it, it's different from the manga, though follows some plot points I hear, but the ending came out before the anime so is unique. And feels a little rushed especially near the end, but I still enjoyed it.
I loved the sound especially, very opera type songs during big action scenes that I think really helped to set the emotions and the situations.
The main chars were rather nice, though I kept feeling like we were missing some plot that happened with them, but not enough ruin it I plan to read the manga at some point when I'm free see how it compares.
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Let me be frank. Black Cat is one of my all time favorite manga's. I love the three main character, I love the artwork, and I'm a sucker for "guy saves a young powerful girl" story trope. It's just pure adventure and fun.
The anime on the other hand is a grave injustice to it's source material. Lots of things were cut out of the original manga and a lot of characters/villians/story arcs were either removed or changed. The ending was extremely rushed where as the manga had a cool buildup and showdown at the very end with a decent emotional payoff.
Stick to the manga folks. Please.
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Ka-boom! Ka-boom! Ka-boom!
A plethora of evocative, vibrant fireworks erupt in the gloomy skies of a particularly somber city. In the streets of said city, two forces empathetically collide together and immediately disconnect again and again, like two pendulums swinging in different directions, as brilliant, multicolored sparks soar all over the place. The conflict is one between two fighters that appear to be engaged in a fierce duel to the death, the animosity for each other intoxicating. One fighter possesses the look of a weathered wanderer with his tattered black jacket in tow, and he holds a gun in his hand while the other fighter, donning a polished white jacket, grips a glowing sword, akin to a lightsaber. While slabs of concrete are torn to shreds, while entire houses are reduced…
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Black Cat! What an awesome synopsis with a great story! These were my first thoughts on the series. In the beginning, I was very impressed. The first few episodes were great, entertaining. Unfortunately, it all just fell apart into a giant mush of boring side stories, awful character morals, and poorly designed villains.
I like to start my reviews off with the good aspects of a series, so let's go over a few. The opening song wasn't too bad. The animation was average. I did find myself enjoying a few of the characters. Sven had excellent voice acting. Saiya and Kyouko were enjoyable characters. There was so much potential!
Let's skip the point... I just, wow. I was enjoying Black Cat a lot, but it was just written so poorly. It was about cool assassins and bounty hunters, then they beca…
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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…
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