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Title (English) | Cat's Eye (series 1) |
Title (Japanese) | Cat's Eye | Advertising Fantasy Novel |
Notes | Ger. = " Ein Supertrio" |
Classification | - |
Synopsis | Cat's Eye chronicles the lives and
exploits of a three-woman team of art thieves. Many years ago, the
famous painter Heinz owned a large art collection. His partner,
Cranoff, stole the entire collection, sold off the pieces, and disappeared.
Heinz's daughters, Rui, Hitomi and Ai Kisugi, devote their lives to reassembling
their father's collection. Each recovered piece provides a new clue to
their missing father's whereabouts. Unfortunately the three sisters need
to steal the pieces back from the museums and unscrupulous criminals who
own them.
As a cover, the sisters run the "Cat's Eye" coffee shop, which serves as base of operations, home, livelihood and cover. The coffee shop is situated across from Police Headquarters. The title also alludes to the sisters' love affairs, "Eye" being a homonym for "ai" , the Japanese word for love. Toshio Utsume, a police detective, is Hitomi's sweetheart, and also assigned to track down the Cat's Eye gang! Characters: Hitomi: most athletic sister, Rui: oldest sister, Ai: youngest sister & inventor, Gosuke: Cat's Eye's mysterious informant and supplier. Police: Toshio: Hitomi's sweetheart, rather dim, Mitsuko Asatane: Toshio's partner (female), suspects the sisters are Cat's Eye, Captain: apoplectic head of the police Cat's Eye Special Unit. |
Review | Sisters | Toshie & Mitsuko | Man Though never released in the West (as far as I know) the series has been known in fan circles for a long time. This series seemed aimed at an older audience than much of the other TV anime. The character designs are quite good, and relatively lifelike (no huge eyes), but the settings are too often stock huge buildings, casinos etc and rather unrealistic, as are the episode stories. It's also very "talky" and in the German version at least, there seems very little to engage the viewer's interest. |
Credits | Production: Tokyo Movie Shinsha |
Episodes | 36 |
Release | Ger:TV |
TV Showing | See the whole series for free? This series may be syndicated to regional cable, satellite or terrestial TV stations. For Europe click here. |
Date | 1983 July 11 - 1984 March 26 |
Production | TMS, Nippon TV |
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References & Help | Look up the latest data on this title at: Richard Llewellyn's Animated Divots, or Anime News Network (see Encyclopedia section) , or in "The Anime Encyclopedia" (Clements & McCarthy, Stone Bridge Press, 2001). Help & further information. |
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