Cat's Eye Episode 51 Discussion

The toughest thing about this episode's write-up is gonna be picking which of the dozen images I screencapped to use. :D Well it's a wintry episode, which is nice, and Toshi decides to hold a fake wedding to lure out Cat's Eye, who are after a Church's Mary statue and golden crucifix. Hitomi is...understandably less than thrilled with the idea:

But, after some more bad 80s dancing:

And the threat that Miss Asatani will play the part, and kiss Toshi, if she refuses, she agrees. I love that Hitomi's jealousy has gotten to her in two straight episodes now. :D It's sweet to see her dumbfounded by her unwillingness to let Toshi kiss another no matter the reason:

And I gotta admit, Toshi cleans up nicely in his tux, the goof. :D

Hitomi, of course, looks stunningly beautiful:

My god, this blush:

Toshi you lucky bastard! :D
As it turns out, Rui's plan to steal the statue interrupts their kiss anyway. Dunno why the show enjoys kiss fakeouts so much, they've already shown them actually kissing several times. Ah well. :D Rui's ruse of pretending she and Ai are Cat's Eye pretending to be Rui and Ai is uh...circuitous? Well at least we get a fun ski/snowmobile chase out of it! Love that visual of Hitomi and Toshi all dressed up chasing them down. :D

I can't imagine Rui and Ai skiing in those skimpy outfits, but I dunno, maybe they're form fitting. :D All I'm saying is this:

Seems a bit cold. :D Bit of a strange swerve that probably wasn't necessary 18 minutes in with the counterfeit statue. They probably coulda just padded out the wedding plot more with the chase as the climax instead. Oh well, at least we got Rui showing an enormous amount of cleavage out of it:

Practically side-boob! :D Well they recover the statue/cross and leave the criminal to be brutally murdered. :D All's well that ends well. This'll probably be the closest we get to seeing Hitomi and Toshi's real wedding so I enjoyed it. :)