Black Cat is somewhat strange, it tries to do a mix of several situations from other animes in one show but it fails to impress with what it tries to acheive.
Case in point, the show is a mixture of Getbackers, Cowboy Bebop and Trigun. What with the unique powers of different characters, the 2-buddy cop system, and the 'i dont want to kill attitude because a girl convinced me' kind of character that Train shows. From this, Black Cat still manages to create a show for itself despite being a 'copy cat' on other action shows. From this, i mean the villain, Creed, who just oozes of badass evilness , one which i havent seen before since i watched Shaman King last year, aside from being somewhat truly evil (til the very end), he is also gay for Train, which makes the show even more entertaining as the show goes onto a somewhat wacky trip on making Creed and Train love each other... sort of.. :P
Anyways, connected the characters, the main characters like Train and Sven are almost too generic to take into consideration, Eve on the other hand is a beauty with a nice nanotech ability which makes her a killer weapon and shows great usage in her battle against Leon, who is part of a super band of special-move elitists.. and with this group, in comes failure, their unique abilities aren't superb or totally unique but at least fun to watch and a few of the characters are suppose to have developed backgrounds (Leon, Echidna, Charden etc) but were never given any.
I guess far too many characters and not enough episodes, with only 23 episodes, is this show's achile's heel, this show is very fast-paced.. and when i meant fast.. i mean really fast. At the last twist towards the end, the anime had only 2 episodes to tie it all together, compared with say the many episodes required for the main story of the anime. Not enough budget? Maybe, but the point still stands. The anime moves at tremendous pace, which kind of suits the character abit but totally leaves the viewer wanting more and expecting alot more... especially with 23 episodes.
Despite the negativity i've just given, there's no doubt that Black Cat is a very interesting show, the cliches of 'Peace-loving, criminal-catching' symbolisms and attitudes are not new but definetely not something to turn a blind eye away from. Black Cat has a fair show of action scenes, sometimes well directed, very fast and furious but also happens (in one part) to be too confusing. The special powers of each character makes this an interesting show despite showing powers you havent seen before, the whole premise of the show is well suited for action and it delivers to an extent, and with that, alot of my reasons for giving it a good mark is based on its entertainment and action value.
Overall, Black Cat is a good show which happens to fail because of its length, far too many characters and bad story direction.
7.5/10
Grade: B
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