Reviews Manga / Black Cat

A good series to look into.

I'd say this is a nice one for newcomers to anime and manga, due to the fun and interesting plotline, vivid characters, good action sequences, and quality art. The plotline isn't hard to follow or mind-numbing.

Black Cat is the story of an expert assassin, Train Heartnet/Hartnett, who turns to a different sort of life and undergoes epiphanies. The antagonist, Creed Diskenth/Diskence, is his old accomplice who desires to have things his way, no matter what the cost. Along the way Train forges strong friendships and overcomes adversaries and obstacles with them. Overall, fairly standard storyline. I would reccomend the manga over the anime, since I don't like the changes made to some of the characters in the anime— although it's really up to the viewer's preference, since the anime follows the manga closely.

The art catches the eye and isn't sloppily done, and the characters are all different from each other and are well developed, particularly people such as Train and Eve. Nothing in the series is totally original or unique though, so if you are tired of the old "cold, bad guy becomes a good hearted person, and then saves the world" type of story, you won't find Black Cat as entertaining.