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Total episodes: 23

Opening:
HIKARI / Daia no Hana - Yoriko

Ending:
Namidaboshi - PUPPYPET

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Cat which hunts Dragons

I guess what makes Black Cat so brilliant and keeps me entertained is the mixture of comedy and seriousness. Sven and Train exchange roles from episode to episode, none of them is only the clown...well, perhaps Sven is *just kidding*...nor the cool hero.

2006年04月03日

Chibi Cat

Train is like...instant noodles?

2006年03月30日

Love Cat

This was more or less some light fun episode, but the dark tone never vanishes completley. It's sztange. i started to watch this show because of Train alone, but now I watch it for the story, as he changed so much; all I loved about him is gone. I'd say it's easier to find series you watch because of a cute guy in it. It stands for the quality of Black Cat I'm watching it now for development and the other characters.

2006年03月06日

Fighting Cat

Actually it's the weired art of style, colours and angles that makes it so special. Not to speak of the dramatic developement. We are only at episode 12 and almost can't stand it anymore. How are the last eps going to be? Even more tragic and enthralling?
And there's always time for some humour...I looooooveee yoouuuuuu! *falling down*

2006年02月06日

Imitation Cat

This series is just perfect, from the beginning to the end; from characters over animation to music. Go and watch it yourself!

Or did you already see it...I'm a little bit behind due to some upcoming university tests.

2006年02月06日

Reckless Cat

Wow, I don't know what made me do such a long break in watching the show, this episode was the best so far concerning drama qualities, perhaps besides Saya's death. We are introduced to a whole bunch of very cool characters and also Creed shows his new self (I love it). He's no longer the little psycho boy that runs after Train but a serious enemy.

Sven showed evidence for his blooming friendship with the cat and I guess Train got a lesson. Perhaps he stops to throw away his life easily now.

2006年01月26日

Fascinating Cat

Actually I started knitting while watching it and I did not get a glimpse of it, always starring on my wool. No good basis for a review...

2005年12月19日

Travelling Cat

Oh my God, Train accompanies Sven only for some weeks and already eats like him, is drawn in the same ugly style, the atmosphere is gone...his coat is gone!!! *crying*

At least Eve smiled for the first time, I guess, she developes in a good way, NOT LIKE TRAIN!

I want my awesome, sexy, come to my bed Train back!

2005年12月07日

A Wounded Cat

I really can't imagine they will find 52 episodetitles with the word "cat" in it!
To say it in short way: Train - awesome, paring up with Sven and Eve???? Cute neko plushy, cute bell...and I SWEAR Saya is not dead!

2005年12月03日

A Targeted Cat

Nani? What? WAS? I did not expect that to happen...I mean, she's in the opening, in the ending, she's the woman he loves - I guess - and she's so damn important for the story and character developement concerning Train.

If you know she's coming back or something please don't spoiler me. I wanna enjoy this series to its emotional depths especially because I don't know the manga or the story yet. At the beginning I was very sceptic about the show but know it finds its way deeper and deeper into my anime heart, basically for the more and more interesting characters that pop up.
On the first line of course Train, followed by awesome psycho Creed and now No. 1! Man, she's cool, perhaps she remind's me of SKU's Juri too much. Also the chinese guy with the bugs (I hate insects) looks interesting.

Sorry, i did not mention Sven and his two woman so far. I still feel like Sven comes from another show and is totally wrong in "Black Cat". Perhaps he got the wrong studio?

2005年11月24日

Cat Has Decided

Now I found out Black Cat's supposed to run for 52 episodes. I can't imagine that for Blood+, how will it work for this show? I'm just so unsure because I'm impressed Train already decided to work against Chronos. I thaugh the story would be built on the progress to come to this decision, but now he already chose his path.

Again I enjoyed the heavy symbolic weight of the Train on the roof at daytime scene. At daytime!!! It's an outer reflection of his inner developement. Adorable, or not?
Creed starts to become a more and more interesting character. It often happens the admiration for someone grows so big you can't distinguish between love, hate, admiration and grudge anymore.

After a while I remebered the fight between him and Black Cat was the one we saw in the first episode before the OP. So it may be very important what happened between them. Again I was struck by the weired colors and I really started to think that might have sense, so I looked up what green means but it does not fit: Harmony, regeneration, life. In asian culture it's said to belong to Yang, the more passive side. Perhaps I should have more comprehension what green means in the eastern countries. Perhaps anyone knows?

2005年11月09日

Grinning Cat

WOW...I'm just..wow!This episode was unbelievable!!! Cool characters (Eve transforming into a pseudo-Yugi-hairstyle superweapon, Sven risking his life), very good action with fitting bgm...I sat there with heebie-jeebies till a minute ago.

What I like the most was the use of symbolics. Torneo had this jacket which was coloured like everything in Gankoutsou. It's abit out of place but the fact Eve's flower on her rbeast had the same colours made it likeable again.
Or look at this example:

When he talks to her about the prey = black cat there was a cat on the picasso-like painting on the wall. When he tells her she's a demon...well, there's demon.
I love such detailed work!

2005年11月01日

Cat in the Dark

There are quite some things I like about the show:

- Train
- it's not episodic
- Train
- the strange colours
- Sven and Train come to be enemies without a reason, but sometimes things liek that just happen
- well, did I mention Train

But still it feels strange. At the moment there are so many shows on my watch list I have to overthink it, and Black Cat isn't one of the shoo-ins ^^° I love everything concerning Train and his organisation but most of the time the show arbitrates a strange atmosphere.

2005年10月27日

A Bewildered Cat

Sven did a good job this time. He's naive...or a gentlemen, like he says, but it's obviuos that girl tricks him.
So now Kimono on the roof girl got on my nerves. Did Train really get a crush on her? Nande?

I felt like the animation was not as good as last time and we saw again some really weird colours *lol* But that's okay. It fits the strangeness of the show. It's still like Sven and Train aren't part of the same series. The atmosphere around XIII is mysterious and cool, Sven provides the bad jokes (btw those make me laugh my ass off). Unlike in Canvas you exactly know there'S a joke to come, but that doesn't debase the quality of the joke.

Could it be the writers, producers and so on watched a bit too much Cowboy Bebop!????????!!!??! Sweepers...Kimono on the roof-Faye Valentine girl...the MUSIC???

For now I'm pleased and "Black Cat" is another show on my fall 2005 watch list *sigh*

2005年10月17日

A Lonley Cat

Black Cat is an action-packed, mystery pierced show. The character design is standard but the animation with weird colours and angles is pretty cool and some may know I'm alittle GONZO fangirl.
Sven, one of the mein charcters so far was rather boring in my eyes, I'm not the one for starving losers.

On the other hand we are introduced to XIII of Chronos: Train Heartnet aka Black Cat! He had only some sentences, but the atmosphere created around him trough animation and especially soundtrack is sugoi! It's like I can't really understand Sven and Train are part of one and the same show.

At the end we saw some memories or rather nightmares of Train that were even more a reason to watch next episode. I'm really not convinced I will keep watching it, as I'm not too big fan of action and Sven, you know, but if it goes more into a mystery direction it might hook me!

2005年10月10日