Audience reviews
15 · Sample from the first available page, separate from the total number of ratings.
Nebz_Shady_2001
I hate this dreck. The animation is poor, and the production company clearly wanted the anime to be mega evil hentai or some crap like that. The manga was not like that originally. Also HOW DID TOSHIKI INOUE MAKE ONE OF THE MOST BORING SCRIPTS I'VE EVER HAD THE DISPLEASURE OF WATCHING?!
The story is a bore, the artstyle doesn't work, the characters are boring, and the dub is so horrendus it makes what should be a horror OVA into something to point and laugh at. Like Ratatoing.
Yeesh, what a shame.
It just feels like a production made for a quick buck and for the production company's goon cave. I would never reccommend someone anything like this. Not only is it boring, but not even the gross bits are executed properly.
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Okay look: is this a good OVA that i think most people would come away from feeling good about what they saw?
Yes.
Do I think that it is a hugely entertaining watch that has stuck with me for ages?
Yes.
Does it have iconic visuals that stick with me enough that I find myself often trying to recall the name of the anime they're from? Yes.
The thing is, this feels like a bad anime OVA. It feels unfinished, half-considered, and at times looks like a show that would be playing in the background of another, better anime. However, I just have such a fondness for its dreamy, bordering-nonsensical vibes that I can't bring myself to rate it lower.
If you have the chance to sit down with friends on a cramped couch with drinks, Dark Cat is a great addition to your viewing.
Read at the sourceDigiCat
I really don't understand why this OVA is so hated
This is one of the few pre 2000s OVAs i've watched which has a decent script and pacing, and most inportantly, a captivating story
It's only downfall is time, trying to fit many layers and different tones in just 50 minutes made some scenes feel a bit rushed and shifts in tone were quite abrupt
This story i think would've fit very well as a one cour show, the already interesting concept and power system would've only benefitted from having more time to smooth out the different tones and explore and develope the characters
Read at the sourcePlk_Lesiak
Have you ever wondered what would happen if hentai-worthy, eldritch dick monsters invaded a Saturday morning cartoon? Well, Dark Cat of course!
It's near impossible to explain in text how messed up and inconsistent the tone of this anime is, combining pure cheese typical for kids cartoons with absolutely obscene, Lovecraftian scenes of demon possession and disturbing fanservice. Also, as a cherry on top, the English dubbing for this was done by a hentai localisation company with no experience with proper anime.
Honestly, the end effect is kind of hilarious, particularly when the story becomes more dramatic or during fight scenes. Combining an anime that has no idea what it tries to be with voice actors that have no idea what they're doing is more or less a match made in heaven. If you're…
Read at the sourceMillennialDemon
I've been watching a lot of truly awful anime lately, and coming off of OVAs like Mars of Destruction and Skelter Heaven, I actually came out of Dark Cat with a sense of respect and gratitude for its competence.
It had a narrative, and was – mostly – comprehensible in its storytelling, as rushed as it may have been. There was an undeniable presence of an art director, something I’m not convinced was present in a few of the other similarly rated titles I have seen. Some of the shots were noticeably well composed and even clever, and required an artistic vision and some decent effort to create. The animation wasn’t awful, the designs ranged from serviceable to genuinely charming (I like the subtlety of Hyoi and Rui’s cat-like features!), and I liked that the characters actually emoted. It…
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Dark Cat is an OVA from the early 90s and it's regarded as one of the worst anime ever made. Like Mars of Destruction or Shuranosuke Zanmaken: Shikamamon no Otoko. But, it's like I always say. If I could sit through Evangelion in its entirety, I can sit through literally any anime. So, let's take a peek.
Story:
We open with women vanishing in puffs of smoke, leaving only small craters and shoes behind. They were all, coincidentally, named Yamcha. We cut to a young man with pointed ears talking to a teal coloured girl. Turns out she's a ghost and responsible for all those people who have been unceremoniously Yamcha'd. He helps her find peace so she can pass on to a place where she can have a real colour pallete. He and his little brother then move on to a school where there's some kind o…
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I’m tackling this one again? Yes, yes I am. Honestly, my review of Dark Cat is a bit of a mess, you could tell I didn’t care while writing it. I won’t delete that review, rather, I’m going to give an honest review ripping Dark Cat to shreds. Without further stalling lets begin. May contain spoilers, like it matters, I don’t want you to watch this OVA anyway.
Introduction:
Dark Cat is an infamously abysmal OVA well known amongst anime historians for being a load of hot garbage. I mean, you don’t just get a MAL score of (at the time of writing anyway) 3.58 by doing nothing, so this has to be something special. Well, for better or worse, it is.
Story:
The “plot” (if you can call it that) revolves around our two main leads who have the power to transform into house cats. Evil shit is going…
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Absolute master piece, honestly I have never seen something so epic. It was more epic than watching Tyler Fortnite Blevins Ninja for the first time. So amazing. One problem i have is that there is no sequal, like you could've got Graham Higley to voice the dark, or possibly GIJoeshow to voice that cat (He does an excelent impression). A seriously missed opertunity Bandinamco/Epic games. Finally, I would like to mention how good the animation is, like it must have taken them at least 3000 top animators who worked for a couple months to complete on scene, simply amazing! Cat in the Hat doesn't even hold a candle to this master piece and i am honestly suprrised Dr. Zoos came back to make this one
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I **wanted** to like this show, I really did! But Dark Cat seems to try to do everything it could to make this show as unpalatable as possible.
Thing is, the premise is not that bad. It's everything else that just messes up. The characters range from the ultra-annoying to the uninteresting. You have Mr. Emo Boy who is the mopiest little sad sack of guano you will ever find. And you have the unrequited love of his childhood friend, even though he basically ignores or craps all over her at every single turn. The two transfer students (spoiler NOT spoiler, they're CATS!) are not exactly the most interesting duo.
Oh, and the Big Bad of this little story? Essentially an exploding, expanding tentacle monster of pink, pulsating, throbbing flesh. Just an awful thing to experience on the screen…
Read at the sourcevigorousjammer
Dark Cat is an early 90s OVA that has two main focuses in it's story. The first follows Aimi Koenji, who is hopelessly in love with a boy in her school, Hiroki Koizumi. However, Hiroki is in love with somebody else, who ended up rejecting him. The other is a tale of two brothers, Hyoi and Hiroki Koizumi, who have the power to transform into creatures known as "Dark Cats", and who are busy fending off evil monsters that are being awoken in humans by the main villain, an ogre named Jukokubo.
Either story on it's own would be somewhat generic, and combining the two makes the anime seem a bit unfocused. However, the two tales intertwine at the end. I can't say the story was super unique, but it was at least entertaining for the duration, even if it's somewhat poorly executed with some plot ho…
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10/10 creative plot idea, amazing visuals, there's nothing more I could've asked for (just kidding but not really)
i think the cat guys were strange and jukokubo was an aamzing villain. so good i literally wrote a german fanfiction for it yay
im so proud of the creators for embracing their inner desires to make this and i hope there will be more in the future
who else wants a sequel guys??? i sure do i could do with some more snazzy character development
the ending really made my eyes water it was very emotional (no spoilers though)
jk even bamboo blade was better than this
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Dark Cat is the lowest point on the trash scale as you can possibly get sitting rather comfortably on the same scale in which Mars of Destruction, Helter + Skeleton and Black Bullet reside in. It's THAT fucking bad! While I shall try and do justice the horror and terribleness of this OVA in this review, the only true way to believe this vile crap exists is to watch it for yourself...something that I would never recommend unless you're one of those sick twats who enjoy getting a kick out of terrible anime.
The plot for this short OVA, if you could even call it that, focuses on two brothers who have the ability to turn into cats. Now they don't turn into awesome Black Panthers or bad-ass Lions or anything, no, don't be silly. They turn into common household cats. Very intimidating, right? A…
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I am still in shock. I understood that this was bad but... the real gravity of suck is still taking full effect. I can not, in good conscience, recommend this to anyone without the assistance of alcohol.
The story is horrendous. It begins in medias res and explains nothing. I even had to double check that this was not a sequel. Two story-lines are told simultaneously, and the overlap makes no sense. In all honesty, not much can be said because there isn't anything to talk about.
The art is what's expected of early 90's, but lazy. The designs were generic, and there were multiple times it seemed the art was trying to be sexual without any of the enjoyment of hentai or ecchi. The show almost encouraged the random yelling of "That's a penis" or "I've seen enough hentai to know where this is…
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Overview:
It is time again my friends to dive into the depths of obscurity and uncover an ancient evil that has long since been buried. Dark Cats UNITE!
Anime has gone through many trends over time and although I often complain about cheap cash ins and cliches that plague modern anime, it is important to remember that the grass wasn't always greener back in the good old days! In fact, even the most incompetent anime in 2014-2015 generally don't compare in terms of technical ineptitude to some of the OVAs from the late 80s and early 90s. Dark Cat is one of those legendarily bad titles. It was basically the Mars of Destruction of the early 1990s! After all, you don't simply get a 4.48 MAL rating on accident. This is a site so generous with its ratings that even Valvrave the fucking Liberat…
Read at the sourceShidira
Story: This was an interesting anime, to say the least. This story had about three different plots going on at the same time, making it hard to follow which story is being told when, and for what purpose. The "main" story that is trying to be told is of two brothers, Hyoi and Ryoi, who infiltrate a school in order to find a source of evil behind the disappearances of random people. Very quickly these brothers find the mastermind behind the disappearances, a man named Jukokubo. Hyoi and Ryoi also encounter some monsters that look like blobs with tentacles, but later find out it is the evil emotions within a human that bring about the form, so the story also contains a bit of gore. What is funny about these three is they can all switch between a cat and human form. Hyoi and Jukokubo are from…
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