Audience reviews
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bmoore07
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’m gonna be straight here – Black Cat is one of the most disappointing anime I’ve ever watched. It’s been two years since I watched this anime and I’m still a little bitter at how much potential remained unrealized at its end.
Black Cat is about this assassin named Train Heartnet (hey, at least he escaped whoever named all the characters in Geass). Or wait, it’s about this secret bio-weapon disguised as a loli named Eve. Actually no, it’s about this bounty hunter dude named Sven. Oh, wait, never mind, I remember, it’s actually about the villain, Creed, who has a hard-on for Train. No hang on, it might’ve been about the organization that Train worked for, Chronos…
See, I’m writing all of this as if the abundance of disparate elements in the plot is a bad thing, but the thing is, the stor…
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Ok, so before I have told you that I’m not crazy about girls and guns genre, but I guess this could be considered guys and guns. Now in this, it’s a bit different except the concept was the same, guy gets into a organization as pretty much a hired gun and goes around assassinating who the organization doesn’t like. The thing I like about this show is that it doesn’t start there, and most of that is actually back story. This is about him getting out of the group and learning what he himself wanted. The character that actually helps him figure this out is ‘new’ code was Saya but it really annoyed me they killed her off so quickly.
Now I do wonder a lot about why Saya is a big part of Train’s life and why he goes out for revenge. He only knows her for about 2 or three days so why does he go…
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Well, I could have been a great anime but because of some things, it lessen some good points.
The story is not that unique but still manageable. You will still enjoy the twist and turns of how the plot was played. But I am totally disappointed on how "fast" the stories were. It's like it was rushed. It could have been better if they would have at least 40 or more episodes just to stretch out the details. It's like I just watched a long movie, not a series.
The art and sounds are good enough.
When it comes to character, since the story, in my opinion, was rushed, they weren't able to give the characters depth on why they were like that.
Everything was compressed in an episode and all willing to do everything after meeting them once. The shifting of black cat's character was not smoothl…
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Black Cat is a typical anime whereby the protagonist is usually someone who starts off being part of an organization, is the best at what he is or does and usually is a loner partly because childhood experiences helped to shape the nature of his character and what drives his goals and ambitions. The anime comprises of twenty three (23) episodes and it was not particularly a striking anime. In the opening episode, the anime displayed lots of promise and potential but as the series progressed, it started to fall apart based on storyline, plot and the development of the characters in the series.
STORY 7/10
The story focuses on the life of Train Hartnett, a former assassin of Chronos and the manner in which he transforms from a cold blooded assassin into someone living with a purpose. The…
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DO you know Black Cat? OH im not talking to just a simple cute/cool looking cat`s out there.
Whom I was talking about is Mr.#13/Black Cat/Train Heartnet.
Story :
Black Cat is about a former assassin, Train, and a former investigator, Sven. While Train was an assassin, he was known as Black Cat. He used to work for an organization known as Chronos. Chronos controls the world and maintains the peace. It has 13 of its own assassins. Train was the 13th. Train and Sven are now bounty hunters, known as Sweepers. Train bears the number 13, in roman numerals, on his left chest and on his gun. Sven wears an eye patch over his right eye. They make their living going from place to place and catching bounties. Another former member of Chronos, Creed, plots to destroy Chronos. Creed wants to make a ne…
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WARRING - Can have a little spoiling
--14 Episodes Watched--
BlackCat or 'kuroneko' in romaji is a great anime with a lot of action and funny moments. Train Heartnet, codename BrakoKato, is a boy around 20 years old, whose family were killed by his after-teacher. When his teacher murdered, he became an assassin whose bullets were faster than his mind. In the short begin of the story, he met a girl called Saya, from who his transformation came to effect. He resigned in assassination and became sweeper on his own will.
BlackCat is anime mostly based on action. There's a lot of cool-posing BlackCat situations, and a lot of fights, evasions, fun and indeed a lot of ... really big individualities: from a little childish and shy Train, to a very obsession Creed ... in midsts there's one head…
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Well, first of all, thank you for reading my review. Let's get on with it, shall we?
Animation:
The animation is okay, but it gets better during the action scenes. But during a few battle scenes, there aren't backgrounds, it just shows the characters brawling it out.
Music:
The music is quite good, it usually fits the mood and all. The opening is pretty awesome if you ask me, it's one of my favorites. The first ending theme is quite funny, and I always find myself thinking "This is pretty funny" and start laughing just a little bit. The second ending took me a little while to get used to, but the scene with all the characters is quite well done, in my opinion.
Story:
I find the story quite interesting. I really like both Sven's and Train's side of the story, and it's also enjoyable to…
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about Black Cat, i like it.....
it's all about friendship, comedy, and also it makes me cry in episode 1X......
but overall, i like Black Cat because Train is cool, Cute, and his golden eyes is cute!!
you should watch this anime!! even though in some episodes the artwork is kinda lame, but you still can stick with the manga.....
overall,
it's a worth-watching-anime!!
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Well, after 5 episodes I thought this anime is a masterpiece, and that it would be my next obsession. After episode 7...all the greatness died. Don't know how. It's like a totally different anime after that. The producer might have hit his head or something. The beginning was very dark and cool, the main character, Train, was brilliant. A cold-blooded assassin who was starting to get a softer side, because of a girl he met. He was so serious compared to the other crazy characters. Even if I dislike this kind of psycho acting in an anime, I thought the jokes were very funny. All these were a sign of an extremely good anime. Bad impression. It gets so stupid and Train's character is RUINED. The mysterious, cool and serious guy is starting to act like a retard. They want to show us that he to…
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The purpose of this review is to express my disappointment as someone who read the manga first and enjoyed it a lot, and I will actually put my conclusion as an introduction so that at least some people will not summarily dismiss this (although I do not know how effective that will be; people tend to rate based on if the scores agree with them).
None of this is to say that the anime is not worth watching if you have not read the manga, or even if you have, everyone is different and you might wildly enjoy it. It has a genuine plot that has a clear goal and approaches it with a fairly consistent pace; it is rather all the little details which detract from this anime for me. The manga's art is more enjoyable since it is not poorly animated, its plot is executed more grandiosely, which is the…
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well lets see...its about an infamous assassin
from the underworld called Chronos.
then he changed...to the better(thats good)
i liked it because i was fun while serious.
but sometimes is was too much of the good,
^^ but one of my fav.
if you like this kind of stories you can try it^.^
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Really a lot of peope think this anime is worse than it is. A lot of people also thought Trains personality change was odd. I noticed only the people who rated this about and 8 or up knows why. When its completely obvious why he changed. Also the anime has a plot, then another two plots in one. They did it all how i wanted them too. Maybe they did rush it a little at the end, but it still made sense. The animation was really good. I loved all the characters. To me they are the best part. I really dont remember any characters that didnt contribute anything. Some of the chronos numbers really didnt but thats all. EVERYone did something. The reason this anime sparked in my book, was that it was Shounen yet it wasnt anything like Bleach and all those other ones, that are pure fighting. The cha…
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I almost never watched this show because I was told the show sucked....which I guess only goes to show that not matter what people say or how many people say it, it's really up to the individual and that person's preferences. Needless to say my review will probably be taken as a dissenting opinion from the majority who have given this show a medium to low score. Black Cat is not a bad show and it's not really a disappointing show either....only to those who selected this series with the expectation of finding the next Holy Grail of an anime, i.e., Cowboy Bebop or Trigun.
If you decide to pick this series to watch, then judge it on it's own merit and you will enjoy it a lot better. There's a nice mixture of funny and sad moments [expect some characters being killed off], there is some…
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Black Cat appeals to viewers who enjoy action and adventure animes with a touch of humour and humanity. It gives you the pleasure of a good laugh at its gags, moderately suspenseful as the story unfolds and with certain scenes, maybe a tear or two may shed. I found this thoroughly enjoyable.
The story revolves around Train Heartnet, a.k.a Black Cat. Chained down as a professional assassin, Black Cat is expected to adhere strictly to the orders of Chronos Organization. Betrayal to the groups ideals is unforgivable and leads only to death. Train lived his life, killing professionally without a second thought until he meets a 'Sweeper', Minatsuki Saya.
Being completely free and independent Saya believes strongly in choice, whether in taking charge of ones own life or choosing to take other…
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First of all, to be honest with you all. I did not enjoy this series as much as i thought i would like it mainly because of the plot and how it got fairly rushed in the end.
Story - The beginning part of the story i thought was very well made, it was very dark, mysterious but not scary at all for those who dislike scary storylines. But after a while the plot just seem dull and unoriginal. Typical protagonist trying to save the world, trying to protect his friends and trying to get revenge, all these types of storylines has been overused, if Black Cat had a better storyline, i believe it would have been better.
Art - I liked the design of the characters, especially Train during the beginning of the series. So i have nothing to complain about the art category.
Sound- Not much to review ab…
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Genre:Superpower, Action
Episodes:23
OP-Hikari
ED-Namidaboshi
Story-6/10-The story maintains a freestyle mood, where there are a lot of miniture conflicts that don't seem to have anything to do with each other. The series seem to really like to jump around with plots, which does keep the series "fast paced", but it also makes the storyline seem annoyingly choppy. The series was intended for 50 episodes, but was cut short at 23, which is really odd considering how series are usually 26. There is a noticeable jump in the series where its obvious that there could of dragged on.
Music-8/10-The OP is pretty good, the happyish ED really gives away the fact that the series is always gonna have happy ending. The soundtrack is very similar to Getbackers, and is almost as good.
Animation-6/10-The…
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At first I didn’t like it, but it grew on me after a while. I didn’t like it at first probably because it was a bit serious, and its first impression on me wasn’t that good. The storyline for the first few episodes didn’t grab me, and I found myself always distracted by something else.
The storyline was promising, but I felt like the creators tried to fit as much as they can in only 26 episodes. Only the last three episodes were dedicated to Eve’s true nature, which was almost forgotten.
Character design was average. The Numbers and the other villains who had the power of the Tao looked impressive (Specially Leon), but Sven was just weird, Eve had a big head (although she was adorable when she became a bit human) and Rins tried to pull of some fan service b…
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Gah~ Ceray's Review Time (procrastination in disguise)! Anyway, this is the review for the anime Black Cat. The anime is about Black Cat, also known as Train Heartnet, who once was an assassin for the organization Chronos. Due to events that happen in the story, Train quits being an assassin to becoming a sweeper/bounty hunter.
Plot: Since I haven't read the manga (yet) I can't compare the plots, I do know, however, that the storyline has changed a bit, however that doesn't really affect the story. The main part of the story consists of Train more or less wanting to confront a ghost from his past and this takes up roughly a little less than half the series. Though it's good that Black Cat had other small subplots, it felt rushed at times, as if they wanted to get straight to the action, w…
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