Catman

Catman follows the life of a very interesting cat who get's himself into trouble often and hangs out with his enemies. (birds, mice, etc)

Story-
There really isn't a main plot, each episode is it's own little short story and most of them are quite funny, even though they have no voice acting, just music and text of what the characters are supposed to be saying.... Most of it's curse words....

Art-
Catman has a unique look comprised of the use of real photographs for much of the background and vectored art for anything moving, it's eye catching looks great though it may not be in everyone's taste. ...

Music-
The music is just frickin amazing, I think the music in this anime definitely goes up into my favorites of all time. I'm not sure what you'd call it but I suppose some of it might fall into the category of Jazz. It fits very well in with the events taking place throughout each episode.

Catman-
The man of cats himself....is an idiot, in the best way possible. Let's just say anyone that can shoot down THE SUN is pretty awesome, or just pretty insane.

Overall-
Overall I really enjoyed this series, it's just a short, interesting ride. I think it's worth anyone's time. (especially considering you can finish it in like under 30 minutes) Sorry I'm not more descriptive but it's such a short series that it's better to just watch it yourself.

Catman is a pretty entertaining and quick watch since all of the episodes are less than 3 minutes, counting the credits.

The whole series is kind of presented like its shown from a very old movie reel: the picture is very flashy and there are dark blotches that show up in random spots. So people who get headaches easily from flashing images might want to avoid the show.

The thing that stood out for me was the soundtrack. It's very lively and upbeat, and sound effects and animation are chosen to entwine into the music, which sounds really great.

The animation itself is pretty unique. The ... actual characters (all of them cat people) have minimal animation and coloring, not very many features and simple shading. The backgrounds are pretty simple too. What stands out is the mundane objects the main character interacts with are so much more detailed and animated them he himself. What comes to mind is the glass of alcohol, the slots machine and the cigarettes from the second episode. They all have much more detail and depth to them.

I think its a style that really works but others might be irritated by how the characters move.

The entire series, all 7 episodes, is just barely over 20 minutes long. If you have the time its worth watching at least a few episodes.

Rate a 4
No spoken audio aside from background audio which was in English. In other words English dubbed with English subtitles.

Story
- was in snip clip form. You start out in some random place doing some random action. Although the action is not that random seeing how it stays complete true to episode title. Which kills the mystery of most of the episode.

-Introduction was action based but poorly documented what this show was about. One might see this a spy show? Hahaha... nope. One might see this as a parkour show. hahahaha... try again. The show is more of an everyday catracher in a semi action ... lens.(I am aware i misspelt the word. This misspelling of character represents an inside joke)

-Conclusion was better. Did a good job summing up all the preceding events and making an appropriate call based on it.

Art
There are two different character styles used. First is more of averagely drawn character format. By which i mean you have something that looks and represents what you want it to but detail is not there. Since, it is not there it fails to make the art realistic. The other feature of art is the backdrop. A clear hack and paste fix. Budget must have been cheap for they took what looked like to be actual real life pictures and footage and added some buffing effects to make it a tad cartoonish. If you ask me it reassembles more of a picture taken at high speed. The ones where you tried last second to catch the license of the car that smashed into you as it sped off. Those kind of shots. Real lousy idea to work with.

Character
Season one shows the main character's functions but fails to provide proper background. Such as why does he do what he does? Did something happen that changed his perspective?