Aug 21, 2010
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.
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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 new world. Creed creates an organization known as The Messengers of The Stars, and gather other people who have gained unique powers through a special potion. And the ending, good god both the ending in the Anime and Manga were anticlimatic.
***So I read all of the manga and only watched some of the anime, and I must say after reading the full story from the manga everything was medicore. I always wondered how you can make a genuinely good fight scene in a shonen series with guns, and the answer is not very well. Sure in Seinen Anime's guns shoot and kill people, but in Black Cat that never happens. The plot almost never develops it has always been a one track goal main character Train Heartnet is a sweeper and must find Creed to defeat him. Heck even the character development seemed rushed at some points, and man do I hate the scenes when Train goes into immature child mode, theres a right and wrong way to do it, and everything is wrong about him.***
Characters :
Train Heartnet: Train is the main protagonist aka Himaru Kenshin except he uses a gun, besides that everything and I mean everything about him is an exact clone copy. His old girlfriend dies, so he swears to never use his weapon to kill again. Now Himaru Kenshin was able to pull this off, besides his immaturity scenes, because he had a strict moral code. Train however just seems to be goofing off every second he can get, it's like he almost never takes his enemies seriously if their not Creed. And I also never understand how his enemies never attack him when he is reloading his gun, I mean come on, really.
Saya Minatsuki : is an accomplished sweeper and close friend of Train. Her involvement with him leads to his more human outlook on life and his departure from Chronos. She is killed by Creed, who believes that Train's personality change is a curse due to her. Before dying, she tells Train to "forget about her", which causes him to struggle while deciding to get revenge on Creed or not. Her "spirit" lives on, often guiding Train and his friends and giving them strength. In the final scene of the anime, Train is seen walking past Saya's spirit.
Sven Vollfied : Sven now I knew was a good character from the start, it wasn't just his awesome suit and hat that he always wore, but it was his diligent all round gentleman personality. With Train literally a loose cannon running wild with his antics around town you need a more mature, more sophisticated type of person to keep him in check, and Sven is that man. He almost never had any action scenes because his main role was more of a support partner for Sven which is a good thing. However he has a briefcase gun so I don't care, that automatically beats Train in everything.
Eve : Every story needs a loli side kick if the main character is a young dude, and Eve is that girl, or maybe a better way to put it, biochemical weapon. She is one of those "damn I don't have any emotions and can't act like a girl my age" kind of girls and you get to watch her character development evolve throughout the course of the story, which is more then could be said for Train and Sven. Whats special about her is that she can turn her body into a living weapon, angel wings to fly? sure, molecular knifes to cut through steel? how about full body diamond defense? shes a pretty hax character.
Creed Diskenth : Wow this guy couldnt be anymore like Sephiroth even if he tried, except minus the mama's boy complex. He likes wearing long black overall's, long silver hair, killed Trains girlfriend because he was jealous, and torments Train every waking moment of his life. He is also a closet homesexual because he has an unearthly lust after Train good god. It's like he wakes up every morning thinking "I wonder what Train is doing right now? proberbly just getting out of bed just like me hehe" Seriously this villian has no character developemnt and is flat our boring.
Manga art/Quality :
The manga art/quality was okey I thought, nothing too special and nothing too bad, so it suprised me when the anime had at most, an above average quality of animation. It suprised me that they were doing quite well animating scenes at night time, using alot of random thunder and lightening for effect. The animation had a very crisp yet bold look to it that made the whole image of the show quite sharp. If it had the same animation quality as, oh lets say trigun, it would fail badly, even though their both gun slinging animes. The main reason being Trigun's desert setting matches quite well to the old classic animation style. Black Cat had to go about this in a more modern approach.
Closing :
*** So I always saw the Black Cat manga up and about and it seemed that quite a few number of people had read and watched it. Seeing as how I thought "heck I should have a go myself" I felt very unsatisfied with the whole story, it all seemed way too predictable. Everything was way too generic, I mean I thought the story would of been a whole lot better if they focused primarily on the Chronos Organisation. But no, they had to focus on Creeds unhealthy obsession on Train and the countdown until the fatal finale. Heck even the endings of both the anime and manga left a very disatisfied feeling in my mouth, it was way to rushed and you just knew "yeah thats pretty much how Train's gonna beat Creed" Been there, done that is all I can say about Black Cat.***
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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