History Manga / CatsEye

* HelloNurse:

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

The anime can be legally watched on [[Creator/NozomiEntertainment Nozomi's]] Website/YouTube page [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrrh84y760v-IWVRKshinyIfauCmFjRQu here]].

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

In 2019, it was announced that the girls will be making a guest appearance in ''Manga/CityHunter: Shinjuku Private Eyes'', marking their first on-screen appearance ''in decades'', complete with their original voice actors....sorta [[note]] Creator/KeikoToda and Creator/ChikaSakamoto are reprising their roles as Hitomi and Ai respectively and Toda's [[TheOtherDarrin taking over]] for [[ActingForTwo Rui]] as well due to Creator/ToshikoFujita's poor health and eventual death in 2018 [[/note]]

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

In 2019, it was announced that the girls will be making a guest appearance in ''Manga/CityHunter: Shinjuku Private Eyes'', marking their first on-screen appearance in decades, complete with their original voice actors....sorta [[note]] Creator/KeikoToda and Creator/ChikaSakamoto are reprising their roles as Hitomi and Ai respectively and Toda's [[TheOtherDarrin taking over]] for [[ActingForTwo Rui]] as well due to Creator/ToshikoFujita's poor health and eventual death in 2018 [[/note]]

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

''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 to 1985.

* ReverseCerebusSyndrome: Both the original manga and the anime are hit with this. Most noticeable in the manga however, where after the first 70 or so chapters, the tone shifts towards a romantic ensemble comedy as opposed to an action manga, the heists staged by the girls become rarer to the point of nearing TheArtefact territory and the heists that do appear become LighterAndSofter courtesy of Hitomi's recurring masquerade as the Blonde Cat's Eye.

* {{Mukokuseki}}: The Eurasian Kisugi sisters look no different from the fully Japanese characters. In addition, Toshio is said to greatly resemble Michael Heinz, the sisters' father... even though Heinz is German and Toshio is Japanese.

* {{Mukokuseki}}: The Eurasian Kisugi sisters look no different from the fully Japanese characters.

** The sisters are so self-confident that they sign their thefts before they even commit them. 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)..

** Toshio's two juniors in the force, Hirano and Takeuchi, instantly crush on Rui and Ai respectively.

* SpandexLatexOrLeather: The sisters'suits are spandex in the original, in the remake, they look like rubber or latex.

* ColorcodedForYourConvenience: The outfits the girls wear while robbing, in the color drawings, have Hitomi wearing a blue one, Rui a purple one and Ai a yellow one.

* DefrostingIceQueen: Asatani Mitsuko, Utsumi's colleague.

** 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.

* MovieSuperheroesWearBlack: The sisters wore black vinyl outfits in the live-action movie made in the 90's. The costumes were inspired by Comicbook/{{Catwoman}}'s look from ''BatmanReturns''.

The anime can be legally watched on [[Creator/NozomiEntertainment Nozomi's]] YouTube page [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrrh84y760v-IWVRKshinyIfauCmFjRQu here]].

** Got one in ''TotallySpies'' (really), given that Alex is an affectionate rip-off of Aï. Much more blatant for French viewers, since Ai's name in the dub was ''[[TomboyishName Alex]]'' (for "Alexia").

* AdaptationalBadass: Lupin's Bride. In the manga, the girls find out her plan rather easily (since she doesn't resemble the woman she's impersonating ''at all''), and Hitomi casually dispatches her with a single blow before stealing her identity and eventually turning her over to the police. The TV adaptation portrays her as more cunning and capable, and fixes the identity theft problem by having her actually use a [[LatexPerfection lifelike mask]] to impersonate the art expert, with Hitomi only finding out the truth because of a coincidence the impostor hadn't foreseen. She even manages to turn the tables on the sisters after her men capture Ai, and is about to ''kill'' them all before deciding to let them go after learning who their father is. And most importantly, she manages to evade capture this time.

* AdaptationalBadass: Lupin's Bride. In the manga, the girls find out her plan rather easily (since she doesn't resemble the woman she's impersonating ''at all''), and Hitomi casually dispatches her with a single blow before stealing her identity and eventually turning her over to the police. The TV adaptation portrays her as more cunning and capable, and fixes the identity theft problem by having her actually use a [[LatexPerfection lifelike mask]] to impersonate the art expert. She even manages to turn the tables on the sisters after her men capture Ai, and is about to ''kill'' them all before deciding to let them go after learning who their father is. And most importantly, she manages to evade capture this time.

* BoundAndGagged: The sisters sometimes use this to incapacitate marks during their heists, often [[MuggedForDisguise so they can replace them]]. Lupin's Bride also does this to a French painter she ends up impersonating.

* ActionGirlfriend: Hitomi to Toshio

->When I hear those words that you whisper
->flowing so sweetly in my ear.
->I love you baby, take me baby.
->Don't stop, let's get in gear.

** ActionGirlfriend: Hitomi to Toshio
** AmazonBrigade: 3 {{Action Girl}}s that kick ass? Yeah, they fit this.

* AttractiveBentGender: Toshio and Rui. Toshio once dressed as a female officer to try and get the drop on a crazed bomber, and was downright sexy. Rui, on the other hand, created the persona of a fictional male member of Cat's Eye, and was so beautiful that Mitsuko fell in love at first sight.

* 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: Lupin's Bride.

* HelloNurse: Rui. Even Toshio ([[SingleTargetSexuality who normally has no reaction to any girl but Hitomi]]) and Takeuchi ([[{{Ephebophile}} who is attracted by high school girls]]) have been shown to fall for her charms...

* ObliviousToLove: Mitsuko is a mild example: when Kamiya resigned to Hitomi being with Toshio, he proposed to Mitsuko, who, ''a week later'', woke up realizing she had been proposed.

* PhantomThief: The Kisugi sisters.

** SecretIdentityIdentity: Happens to Hitomi in the manga: after creating the identity of the Blonde Cat's Eye (actually Hitomi with dyed hair and green lenses) to try and seduce Toshio into joining Cat's Eye, Hitomi slowly realizes that she acts completely different as the Blonde Cat's Eye, and both personas are in love with Toshio and ''jealous of each other''. It's solved only at the end of the manga, when [[spoiler: Hitomi confesses to Toshio that she is the Blonde Cat's Eye and both her and the Hitomi he knows are parts of her]].

* [[WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes Why Did It Have to Be Lingerie?]]: [[ItMakesSenseInContext Toshio is scared by female underwear due a childhood trauma.]]

* ContrivedCoincidence: The final episode of the anime sees Ai writing a school play about Cat's Eye, while Rui and Hitomi try to steal a rare diamond from a famous actress named Noriko Kurokawa. They're thwarted by a high-tech, computerized jewelry vault, and realize that they need to somehow lure Noriko out into the open and swap her diamond with a fake without anyone realizing it. Through sheer coincidence, they find out that Noriko is an alumna of Ai's school, and that all former students are eligible to act in school productions regardless of age. All it takes is some convincing from Ai, and Noriko joins the show ''and'' offers up her diamond as a prop. From there, the sisters are able to replace the diamond [[RefugeInAudacity under the guise of it all being part of the play]].