Lily C.A.T.

You've heard already, Lily C.A.T. is a mashup of Alien and The Thing with a few twists of its own. We get the opening 5 minutes that introduce all the people we're about to see get got and then we're off to the races. The characters are pretty basic and story is not incredible but they do motion at some interesting ideas about long-term space travel. For the most part the animation is your run of the mill late 80s and early 90s styling but it looks great when the alien decides it wants to do its thing. Watching Lily C.A.T. is ... like eating ice cream: it's just a little treat not a hearty meal and, honestly, not a bad way to kill an hour.

Good premise but not well executed

This anime was heavily inspired by The 70s movie Alien and The 1982 version of the Thing. Which should make it an awesome anime as those movies are really great. Sadly It misses the mark. While it borrows those cool ideas and even art style. Its heavily lacking in what makes those movies good.

The anime does well in its pacing and quickly sets things up and gets going. Its only a little over an hour long so it moves pretty swiftly. To swiftly in fact. We dont get much for alien interaction or even much horror or ... much action.

The show spends a lot of time on a boring subplot of 2 people on the ship who aren't suppose to be there which might have been interesting if it effected the plot in any way but it doesn't and its just a useless add on .

We get very brief moments with the creatures and quickly move on. The story is pretty basic and much like I said is pretty much Alien in Anime form.

Music is ok and the VA is actually not to bad considering how bad it usually is from anime from the 80s and 90s.

The art style is pretty good but its borrowing its style from another movie.

Characters are ok i guess.

Overall not really worth your time. Its basically some one in Japan Loved Alien and The Thing and wanted to make an anime inspired by the two but really didn't know about how to go about doing it very well.

You remember the late 80s-early 90s era of anime- it was first catching hold over here in the States, and they were putting everything they could get the rights to on tape and sold for $30 a shot. This, well... is one of those titles that should have been skipped.

It's just... terrible bad. You can tell it's early anime- the voicework is crap, the animation isn't really worth anything, and the music just seems to fade in and out.

It's pretty much just your bog-standard space-monster story- alien bacteria infiltrate a colony ship and end up eating 90% of the crew, starting with a pet ... cat that was brought onboard. In a fairly cringeworthy moment, you get to see the cat ripped apart and dragged through a hole in the wall while its owner watches and shrieks.

I'm not going to lie-after this crapfest was over, I spent some good quality time with my cat- and lamented the hour I just spent watching this horrible piece of trash and cleansed my palate with loads of funny cat videos to get the thought of this movie out of my head.

Lots of your characters are national stereotypes- the obviously American member of the crew is a musclebound jerk who carries a gun everywhere, for example.

If you absolutely have to watch this, at least it's only an hour, and then you can move on with your life and watch something else more worth your time.