Cat's Eye follows the three sisters Hitomi, Rui and Ai Kisugi. During the day they work in a cafe called Cat's Eye, and by night they become the notorious theives Cat's Eye. They rob museums and take paintings and other artifacts that belong to a German artist called Michael Heinz. Heinz is actually the three sisters father, who has disappeared and they hope that by reclaiming their fathers collection they can figure out where Heinz is hiding.
Cat's Eye quite clearly takes a lot of inspiration from the novels of Arsene Lupin and series such as Lupin III. Just like Lupin III, Cat's Eye is a completely episodic show. Unlike Lupin though, Cat's Eye tends to stick to it's formula of them figuring out where the next piece in Heinz's collection is and goes to steal it. Very rarely does it do something other than that. But that is not to say that the heists are the only thing that happens in an episode. Apart from the heists you also get to see Hitomi's struggles trying to keep her relationship with detective Toshio Utsumi going. Toshio is one of the detectives who is trying to catch Cat's Eye, yet he has no clue how close she actually is. There is also quite a lot of comedy sprinkled in as well as some fanservice. Now, the fanservice in this show is just some light teasing, so it never gets too bad.
The animation in this show was actually a little better than I thought it was gonna be. It was not great, and the first half I thought the animation was slightly worse than in the second half. In the second half, with the change of director they also slightly changed the character designs. I am still not sure if I think the new designs were better than the old ones, but it wasn't worse either, just slightly different.
The music in the show was ok for what it was. It worked well during the heists and I also liked the music played when they were in the cafe, but ultimately, those two pieces were the only music that stood out to me. They also play them quite often, so if you don't like them you are definitely going to get sick of listening to them,
Overall I thought Cat's Eye was a fun show. Me being someone who really like Lupin III, I was looking forward to see how this show would play with that formula. Ultimately I thought the show played very safe and simply stuck to what it knew how to do, and with this being 73 episodes it can make for a bit of a boring watch in the long run, but it never became too much of a problem for me. I did however appreciate how the show portrayed the relationship between Hitomi and Toshio and how hard it was for Hitomi that she had to deceieve the man she loved. At least I enjoyed that when they were taking it seriously. One thing that I did not like about the show though was that despite having this underlying plot of Cat's Eye trying to find out where their father is hiding, that never really got explored and they simply decided to focus on Cat's Eye stealing back Heinz's collection. I would have liked to see them do more with that. Overall I thought Cat's Eye is just a slightly above average show. It had potential to do so much more than what it did, but ultimately it decided to just play it safe. So even though it was an enjoyable ride I can not say that I would recommend people to watch this show. I would rather just tell you to go watch Lupin III.
