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* UnclePennybags: Nagaishi, an old friend of the girls' father, is very rich, and willing to spend enormous sums of money to help them in their heists (for a heist he procured a plane and a ''golf club'' to land it), or even to spoil them rotten (he once bought all the tickets to a concert so that nobody would disturb the girls and their still alive parents. And did it again for a date between Toshio and Hitomi).

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* HeyItsThatVoice: KeikoToda best known as [[Anime/MobileSuitGundam Matilda Ajan]] voices Hitomi, ToshikoFujita arguably best known as [[Anime/DigimonAdventure Taichi Yagami]] voices Rui, and ChikaSakamoto best known to some as [[Anime/DigimonAdventure Agumon]] voices Ai Kisugi

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* HeyItsThatVoice: KeikoToda best known as [[Anime/MobileSuitGundam Matilda Ajan]] voices Hitomi, ToshikoFujita arguably best known as [[Anime/DigimonAdventure Taichi Yagami]] voices Rui, and ChikaSakamoto best known to some as [[Anime/DigimonAdventure Agumon]] voices Ai KisugiKisugi.
* HiddenDepths: Ai can recognize a painting from a perfect copy at first sight.


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* SeriousBusiness: Paintings for Cat's Eye. Smuggle, damage, steal or counterfait any painting without a good excuse and the girls will have you exposed, humiliated and arrested, usually with a crapton of property damage to ruin you financially in the process.
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* ChristmasCake: Rui fits the age part, but doesn't care in the slightest. On the other hand, Toshio and Hitomi have tried multiple times to find her a boyfriend...
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* DoesNotLikeGuns: Toshio. Unusually for this trope, he's a crack shot even with a {{BFG}} he never used before.

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** Also, according to WordOfGod the manga's BigBad Kaibara is not the Shin Kaibara from ''Manga/CityHunter''.



* StuffBlowingUp: The girls are surprisingly prone to use dangerous amounts of explosive when they can get away with it without harming anyone. It started with the girls blowing up all the windows in the target museum to ''distract the police'', and continued with the likes of a pissed Ai using well-directed low-powered explosions [[ItMakesSenseInContext to toss around armored dogs]] or the girls using copious amounts of plastic explosive to penetrate a bank vault (Kamiya, who was helping, called them maniacs halfway during the job. Then Ai pulled out the ''bazooka''...).

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* StuffBlowingUp: The girls are surprisingly prone to use dangerous amounts of explosive when they can get away with it without harming anyone. It started with the girls blowing up all the windows in the target museum to ''distract the police'', and continued with the likes of a pissed Ai using well-directed low-powered explosions [[ItMakesSenseInContext to toss around armored dogs]] or the girls using copious amounts of plastic explosive to penetrate a bank vault (Kamiya, who was helping, called them maniacs halfway during the job. Then Ai pulled out the ''bazooka''...''[[UpToEleven bazooka]]''...).

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* HiddenInPlainSight: The sisters' cafe is called the Cat's Eye. Only Mitsuko ever makes the connection, but is unable to prove it.

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* HiddenInPlainSight: The sisters' cafe is called the Cat's Eye.Eye and is placed into sight distance from a police station. Only Mitsuko ever makes the connection, but is unable to prove it.



* OnlySaneWoman: Mitsuko Asatani is the only member of the squad assigned to arrest Cat's Eye to understand the inherent wrongness of discussing security measures ''in a cafe''. The average level of craziness only increased with the arrival of inspectors Hirano (a good shot carrying a {{BFG}}, and using it in all the most inappropriate situations) and Takeuchi (very short, but a capable martial artist. Also spends one third of his free time lecturing people on the True Japanese Spirit, another third [[StalkerWithACrush trying to impress Ai]], and the final third protesting he's not an {{Ephebophile}}).

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* OnlySaneWoman: Mitsuko Asatani is the only member of the squad assigned to arrest Cat's Eye to understand the inherent wrongness of discussing security measures ''in a cafe''. The average level of craziness only increased with the arrival of inspectors Hirano (a good shot carrying a {{BFG}}, and using it in all the most inappropriate situations) and Takeuchi (very short, but a capable martial artist. Also spends one third of his free time lecturing people on the True Japanese Spirit, another third [[StalkerWithACrush trying to impress Ai]], and the final third protesting he's not an {{Ephebophile}}).{{Ephebophile}}), and they were only the first two madmen to join the squad...
* OvershadowedByAwesome: Apart a few stupid habits, the officers assigned to the Cat's Eye case are very competent and easily capable of dealing with most crooks, and their plans to catch Cat's Eye are very sound. It's just that the girls are even better...
** A good example comes from a heist in a museum with homing cameras, with Toshio sure he'll finally discover Cat's Eye face but still making sure the room with the painting would seal itself as soon as anyone touched the painting, and didn't tell Hitomi about the latter. Hitomi snuck through the homing cameras thanks to a gadget from Ai temporarily neutralizing them, and took care of jamming the lock of the painting's room just in case, thus preventing the room from sealing itself when she grabbed the painting.
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** Said confidence stems from their ability to get the police to spill the beans on how they plan to thwart them and lip-read what plans Mitsuko manage to not have spilled (she has the habit of discussing them on the roof of the police station, and Rui has a pair of binoculars).

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* RefugeInAudacity: The girls of the Cat's Eye gang own a cafe called Cat's Eye, and some of their regular patrons are cops (including the one trying to arrest them).

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* RefugeInAudacity: The girls of the Cat's Eye gang own a cafe called Cat's Eye, Eye placed near the police station assigned to catch them, and some of their regular patrons are cops (including the one trying to arrest them).them).
** Another time they [[ItMakesSenseInContext had the police call them to open the bank vault containing the painting they were trying to steal]].



** And also, in an early episode of Cat's Eye, we see another mysterious thief, known as [[LupinTheThird Lupin's Bride]].

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** And also, in an early episode of Cat's Eye, we see another mysterious thief, known as [[LupinTheThird Lupin's Bride]]. Much more blatant for Italian viewers, as Lupin's Bride voice actress in the dub was the same as Fujiko.
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* LethalChef: Mitsuko can't cook.


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** BlindWithoutEm: Not fully blind, but without glasses she can't tell Toshio from Hitomi in her Cat's Eye outfit and needs to be into kissing distance to see a face.

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* KeikoToda: Hitomi's Japanese seiyuu
* {{Meganekko}}: Mistuko.

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* KeikoToda: Hitomi's Japanese seiyuu
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* LatexPerfection: The girls employ it, both in the traditional way and in the rarer use as gloves with fake fingerprints (Mitsuko waiting for her to touch something to get her fingerprints failed to notice it was a glove).
* {{Meganekko}}: Mistuko.Mitsuko.
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* AnimalMotifs: Cats, [[CaptainObvious of course]].
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Not to be confused with the [[Film/CatsEye film of the same name]].

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* FrameUp: One of their enemies once framed Cat's Eye for murder. The police saw through this easily (he had described Cat's Eye as tall men, while the police already knew they were women), but played along to both gather more evidence against him (they had already arrested him once for theft of some of Heintz's paintings and arson, but the evidence disappeared and the higher ups had ordered him free) and to try to get the girls careless, only moving for the arrest when they had enough evidence to pin him with murder, perjury and attempted murder of the Cats and after Ai decided she had enough of his shit and [[ItMakesSenseInContext started tossing armored dogs around]].


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* StuffBlowingUp: The girls are surprisingly prone to use dangerous amounts of explosive when they can get away with it without harming anyone. It started with the girls blowing up all the windows in the target museum to ''distract the police'', and continued with the likes of a pissed Ai using well-directed low-powered explosions [[ItMakesSenseInContext to toss around armored dogs]] or the girls using copious amounts of plastic explosive to penetrate a bank vault (Kamiya, who was helping, called them maniacs halfway during the job. Then Ai pulled out the ''bazooka''...).
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* OnlySaneWoman: Mitsuko Asatani is the only member of the squad assigned to arrest Cat's Eye to understand the inherent wrongness of discussing security measures ''in a cafe''. The average level of craziness only increased with the arrival of inspectors Hirano (a good shot carrying a {{BFG}}, and using it in all the most inappropriate situations) and Takeuchi (very short, but a capable martial artist. Also spends one third of his free time lecturing people on the True Japanese Spirit, another third [[StalkerWithACrush trying to impress Ai]], and the final third protesting he's not an {{Ephebophile}}).
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* EmbarrassingNickname: The thief Kamiya was nicknamed 'The Rat' by the police. He ''protested the choice of nickname to the police''.
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** Kamiya is one too.
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* CreatorCameo: Hojo is one of the Cat's Eye patrons, and has even hit on Hitomi.

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* HiddenInPlainSight: The sisters' cafe is called the Cat's Eye. Nobody ever makes the connection.

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* HiddenInPlainSight: The sisters' cafe is called the Cat's Eye. Nobody Only Mitsuko ever makes the connection.connection, but is unable to prove it.


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* RefugeInAudacity: The girls of the Cat's Eye gang own a cafe called Cat's Eye, and some of their regular patrons are cops (including the one trying to arrest them).
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* MythologyGag: The Cat's Eye cafe resurfaces in ''Manga/CityHunter'', owned by a [[HitmanWithAHeart Hitwoman With A Heart]] helped by her beloved [[ScaryBlackMan Umibozu]] (also a HitmanWithAHeart) and ''another female PhantomThief'' (the latter joining the staff [[LampshadeHanging felt strangely familiar]] to the owner).
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* IdiotHero: Toshio.

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* IdiotHero: Toshio.Toshio, although he is more competent than most guys that fit this trope.



* NiceGuy: Toshio, although he is more competent than most guys that fit this trope.

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* NiceGuy: Toshio, although he is more competent than most guys that fit this trope.Toshio.



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Tomboy? Not quite this trope! Cut it for shoehorning. If you disagree please re-add with better context. Re-read Three Faces Of Eve if you need to. Thanks!


* TheThreeFacesOfEve: Hitomi is the wife material, Rui is the seductress, and Ai is the tech-savvy tomboy.

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''Cat's Eye'' (original title キャッツ・アイ) is a manga by Tsukasa Hojo published between 1981 and 1985 and adapted to anime format from 1983.

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''Cat's Eye'' (original title キャッツ・アイ) is a manga by Tsukasa Hojo published between 1981 and 1985 and adapted to anime format from 1983.
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* CigaretteOfAnxiety: The young male detective only lights up when he's really stressed, such as when the underage youngest sister pops up in bed with him (turns out she's a sleepwalker).

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* CigaretteOfAnxiety: The young male detective only lights up when he's really stressed, such as when the underage youngest sister pops up in bed with him (turns out she's a sleepwalker).



* CopBoyfriend: Utsumi Toshio.

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* CopBoyfriend: Utsumi Toshio.



* DatingCatwoman: Toshio and Hitomi, although the former remaining unaware of it is a crucial part of their relationship.

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* DatingCatwoman: Toshio and Hitomi, although the former remaining unaware of it is a crucial part of their relationship.



* DressingAsTheEnemy: Ai and Hitomi do this in the first chapter of the manga, posing as a pair of museum guards they supposedly mugged off-panel.
* FemmeFatale: Subverted with Rui who looks like one but never ''acts'' as one, except when done on purpose.

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* DressingAsTheEnemy: Ai and Hitomi do this in the first chapter of the manga, posing as a pair of museum guards they supposedly mugged off-panel.
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* FemmeFatale: Subverted with Rui who looks like one but never ''acts'' as one, except when done on purpose.



* HeyItsThatVoice: KeikoToda best known as [[MobileSuitGundam Matilda Ajan]] voices Hitomi, ToshikoFujita arguably best known as [[DigimonAdventure Taichi Yagami]] voices Rui, and ChikaSakamoto best known to some as [[DigimonAdventure Agumon]] voices Ai Kisugi

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* HeyItsThatVoice: KeikoToda best known as [[MobileSuitGundam [[Anime/MobileSuitGundam Matilda Ajan]] voices Hitomi, ToshikoFujita arguably best known as [[DigimonAdventure [[Anime/DigimonAdventure Taichi Yagami]] voices Rui, and ChikaSakamoto best known to some as [[DigimonAdventure [[Anime/DigimonAdventure Agumon]] voices Ai Kisugi



** One episode has a rival thief committing an elaborate art heist....by posing as the painting's actual artist!

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** One episode has a rival thief committing an elaborate art heist....by posing as the painting's actual artist! artist!



* NamesTheSame: :"Cat's Eye" is also the name of an American horror movie based on the works of StephenKing.

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* NamesTheSame: :"Cat's Eye" is also the name of an American horror movie based on the works of StephenKing.Creator/StephenKing.



* ShipperOnDeck: Both Rui and Ai work hard to get Hitomi and Toshio together.

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* ShipperOnDeck: Both Rui and Ai work hard to get Hitomi and Toshio together.



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** Their rival, a French thief named Lupin's Bride, has a similar calling card for her heists.


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* DressingAsTheEnemy: Ai and Hitomi do this in the first chapter of the manga, posing as a pair of museum guards they supposedly mugged off-panel.


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** Played straight with the above-mentioned Lupin's Bride.


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** One episode has a rival thief committing an elaborate art heist....by posing as the painting's actual artist!


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* MuggedForDisguise: Done to a pair of female wrestlers in one episode so that Hitomi and Ai can steal their costumes. Another episode sees one of the sisters doing this to a maid at a fancy party they plan on robbing.
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Misuse of Hot Amazon, which was transplanted to Amazon Chaser for this very reason.


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* CigaretteOfAnxiety: The young male detective only lights up when he's really stressed, such as when the underage youngest sister pops up in bed with him (turns out she's a sleepwalker).
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* EarWorm: The French opening song. "Cat's Eye, signé Cat's Eye..."
** Hell, both of the original Japanese openings are catchy as well as the ending songs.



* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: The series is extremely popular in Europe but hardly known in the US. And in Japan, although regarded as a classic, its notoriety remains limited as well.



* [[EstrogenBrigade Testosterone Brigade]]: The show has a LARGE male fanbase for featuring three attractive, mysterious and kickass {{Action Girl}}s.
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* IdiotHero: Toshio.
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** And also, in an early episode of Cat's Eye, we see another mysterious thief, known as [[LupinTheThird Lupin's Bride]].
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* MissFanservice: All three would qualify but especially Rui.

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* MissFanservice: MsFanservice: All three would qualify but especially Rui.

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* InspectorZenigata: Toshio


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