Cat’s Eye 01 (2025)
Cat’s♥Eye (ONA 2025)
キャッツ❤︎アイ Episode 01
Spoiler Abstract/Synopsis:
Police Inspector Toshio seems to be on the Cat’s Eye calling card, saying they are going to steal the Roman Girl portray from a gallery. Whereas he has a number of plain garments police readily available, the three ladies of Cat’s Eye simply swoop in and steal it. Toshio goes to the Cat’s Eye Espresso Store to go to his girlfriend, Hitomi. Her two sisters encourage her to go on a date, in order that they go to an indoor climbing wall place.
Someday later, Cat’s Eye they intend to steal one other portray from one other gallery. On the appointed time, nothing occurs. Simply as everybody begins to loosen up, explosions go off. Within the confusion, the paining goes lacking. Upon studying of a zipper line to a different constructing, he figures Cat’s Eye is on the roof. They aren’t there as two of the Cat’s Eye ladies, disguised as staff, depart with it.
A dejected Toshio visits Cat’s Eye to say that he’s near getting transferred for his failures and should stop the drive. After he leaves, Ai reveals her older sisters the advert for the exhibit of the 100-plus-carat star ruby, the Queen Tear. Oldest sister Rui makes use of quietly makes use of her sexuality to steal a guard’s ID on the exhibit location. In the meantime, Toshio learns he must report back to the top of the contracted safety for this job.
On the evening of the heist, Cat’s Eye has sleeping fuel pumped into the room with the ruby. The cops go to sleep as Hitomi steals it. Nonetheless, Toshio had a fuel masks and manages to snag her. When he realizes he has her breast, Hitomi slaps him and will get away earlier than he can ID her. On the identical time, Ai and Rui steal an Indian crown. Nonetheless, Toshio will get the ruby and a reprieve.
Ideas/Assessment:
Having largely loved the Lupin the Third vs. Cat’s Eye ONA film, I made a decision I’d give the 2025 Cat’s Eye adaptation a attempt. Loosely primarily based on the primary chapter of the supply manga, Cat’s Eye 01 appears to undergo from American (Disney) affect in a number of areas.
Sisters Are Doing It For Themselves
Though I settle for Lupin III‘s over-the-top nature, I nonetheless name out sheer stupidity executed for the sake of the plot. For Cat’s Eye 01, the writers took this to a brand new degree. And I couldn’t assist however see the hand of Disney at play right here. For a begin, Toshio and his workforce are about as dumb as they arrive. Significantly, regardless of the laser grid on the partitions of the roof atrium, no police presence is to be discovered. Additional, there was NO police presence on the portray. What the precise heck is occurring?
Then as the women escape, they leap from a minimal of a third flooring gallery (could have been forth flooring) and land ON THEIR FEET with out difficulty or harm within the atrium beneath. How? Not less than in Lupin III episodes or titles, the writers provide you with some (typically garbage) factor that Lupin makes use of. Right here, the writers don’t trouble ’trigger “lady bosses”. I odor Disney.
Not solely that, however no appears to note that Cat’s Eye are three ladies. Additional, Toshio can’t sq. this with the truth that the Cat’s Eye sisters work at a espresso store. He’s so bloody dumb right here. As such, it’s clear that for this anime adaptation, Toshio is simply Hitomi’s beta simp whom she makes use of to assist her and her sisters steal at whim. That’s the one purpose she dates him and the one purpose she provides him a win in order that he doesn’t stop.
Principally, all three heists have the women elevated at the price of each man (and there have been no feminine police) having the IQ of a rotten, squashed banana. Toshio has one second of foresight, however that’s nullified with a Cat’s Eye win. Sheer nonsense.
Modifications to the Supply Materials
After watching this drivel, I made a decision to hunt out the supply manga that made up Cat’s Eye 01. It shockingly covers the primary two chapters. There have been 48 pages within the first chapter and and 30 pages for chapter two . The anime writers inserted chapter two in the course of chapter one, however with some superb modifications.
- Within the manga, the Roman Girl portray is effectively guarded. Cat’s Eye disguise themselves as cops and slip sleeping capsules into the opposite cop’s espresso. Thus they make off with the portray with out fuss.
- Hitomi’s date within the manga wasn’t to some rock wall to indicate off her awesomeness. It was a traditional date to a film with Toshio. Whereas she says she’s solely utilizing him, in actuality, she has to cope with the truth that she has some emotions for him.
- The second heist within the manga is the Queen Tear. Nonetheless, to save lots of Toshio’s job, Hitomi doesn’t inform her sisters that he’s substituted the ruby with a pretend. As such, she “fails” by stealing the pretend. That retains Toshio round, however it additionally lets Ai and Rui know that Hitomi has emotions for Toshio.
- The third heist within the manga is the second within the anime. Hitomi has to cope with her concern of heights. It’s in any other case largely the identical because the anime story-wise. What’s eliminated is the romantic angle, the place Toshio desires to marry Hitomi, however she refuses as a result of he’s a cop (and she or he’s a thief). He vows by no means to stop till he catches Cat’s Eye.
So within the manga story, the women are naturally clever, don’t do something like a lady boss, and don’t present disdain for males. Additional, Toshio is way more competent within the manga. That is going to be a LONG anime collection.
Remaining Ideas and Conclusion
Let me wrap up my overview of Cat’s Eye 01 with some last ideas.
- Along with the lady boss story modifications in addition to the stupefying of males story modifications, I felt the hand of Disney in a single different space. This anime is meant to be set in Tokyo. However for a lot of the anime, it felt like some U.S. metropolis. The Cat’s Eye signal misplaced its Japanese, although the chalkboard menu nonetheless had Japanese on it. They did drive down the left facet of the street, in a single scene. Nonetheless, the characters misplaced many of the conventional tells that they’re Japanese. Should you didn’t watch this in Japanese, you wouldn’t know.
- Talking of the Japanese, neglect honorifics. Disney despises these. Hilariously although, it’s clear that the “localizer” wasn’t going to be bothered coping with arising with options for the Japanese honorifics. Thus to provide it a extra western really feel, all honorifics have been ignored. In a single case, a “Mr.” was added to a subtitle as a part of a rewrite the place no honorific was used within the Japanese. Nonetheless, in contrast to different official subtitles of late, this one wasn’t as blatant about getting the final textual content fallacious.
Ultimately, Cat’s Eye 01 suffers from heavy lady boss components the place the women do the unimaginable. In the meantime not one of the males have extra that two mind cells. And the removing of any precise romance between Hitomi and Toshio removes a personality battle for Hitomi. Not signal of issues to return.
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