Underplayed Gems

Cat's Eye (1983)

Cat's Eye poster
Original title
キャッツ♥アイ
Directed by
Kaizō Hayashi
Genre
drama television series, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Mystery, Romance
Country
Japan
Length
2 seasons, 73 episodes
Rated
TV-14
Rating
7.0 of 10 from 63 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
The 3D catalogue: film cases on wooden shelves, with the cat sitting at the counter next to its greeting.

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this series is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

The three Kisugi sisters are professional art thieves who steal to find their missing father's artwork. A detective tries to catch them while one sister dates him unaware of her secret.

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What happens

Cat's Eye (Japanese: キャッツ♥アイ, Hepburn: Kyattsu Ai; stylized as CAT'S♥EYE) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Tsukasa Hojo. It was serialized in Shueisha's shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Jump from 1981 to 1985, with its chapters collected in 18 tankōbon volumes. The story follows the adventures of the three Kisugi sisters—Hitomi, Rui, and Ai, who are formidable art thieves trying to collect all the works belonging to their missing father. The manga was made into a televised anime series of the same name originally broadcast in 1983 to 1984 on Nippon Television, with a second season in 1985. It has also received three live-action adaptations; a TV film in 1988, a theatrical film in 1997, and a French TV series in 2024. A crossover original net animation (ONA) with Lupin III produced by TMS Entertainment, titled Lupin the 3rd vs. Cat's Eye, premiered on Amazon Prime Video in 2023. A new ONA adaptation produced by Liden Films premiered on Disney+ and Hulu in 2025. Cat's Eye is one of Weekly Shōnen Jump's best-selling manga series of all time, with over 20 million copies sold. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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