Black Cat: Short Review
Unlike the recently reviewed Da Capo Second Season, I had barely any expectations for Black Cat. While the premise initially seemed pretty interesting, especially after Train Heartnet’s first real friend – Saya – dies, the plot seemed to be moving towards the standard action-based anime series. A super-powered protagonist, super-powered enemies, and of course, a battle royale at the very end.
But given the relatively large amount of spare time at my disposal, I finished the series, only to find that I had to revise my opinion of the series mid-way into the series. Well, I can’t say that Black Cat was very good (just me I think, since a few other anime bloggers have made it a must watch), but it was much better than I expected. It had an involving plot that continued to introduce new surprises throughout the series (something like Kiddy Grade IMO). The various characters were interesting, music was pretty good, and animation quality was pretty high.
The ending still ended up being rather predictable, with a standard battle royale between the good (sweeper alliance) and the bad (nano-tech-empowered Taoists), but I guess you can’t expect a dramatic about-turn for a predominantly happy series like this. But… I really, really wanted to see Saya reintroduced into the series, somewhere around the end perhaps. Guess she was only meant to push Train towards the side of “good” (that is, if you consider Chronos to be bad).
So, overall, I’d recommend Black Cat as a should watch, but I’d stay away from the R1s.
P.S.: Just like my DCSS review, I’ll attach the screenies later.
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April 15th, 2006 07:45
Yeah im really confused with black cat. Two reaons. Id heard that there werea atleast 52 episodes. So when i got to 23..I thought this was trully just the beginning of the series.
And then it just seemed like they got lazy, you have some really cool scenes, and then some odd out of place scenes. Soemthings that to me just didnt even make sense.
Id have to agree I thought Black Cat started slow, then had potential, then dropped to a predictable anime.
April 16th, 2006 06:14
Yeah, I forgot to add that there were a few unnecessary filler episodes that really didn’t serve to advance the plot, but then, few series can go without them. However, there really wasn’t need to put those so near the end of the series, e.g. mini-Train (uber-cute though), Saya lookalike (not the one at the last episode), etc.