History Manga / CatsEye

* FacialCompositeFailure: The first time the police get an eyewitness who actually saw Cat's Eye's face up close that is willing to testify, they try to get a sketch done. The resulting picture doesn't look anything like Hitomi, possibly because the witness was a seven-year-old who only saw her briefly in the middle of the night. Mitsuko actually tries showing the kid an actual picture of Hitomi to see if she recognizes her, but she doesn't.

%%* TheVerse: Shares one with ''Manga/CityHunter''.

[[AC:For other works by this name, [[CatsEye go here]].]]

Has nothing to do with the [[Film/CatsEye 1985 film]] or the [[Literature/CatsEye1988 1988 book]] by Creator/MargaretAtwood.

* FacialCompositionFailure: The first time the police get an eyewitness who actually saw Cat's Eye's face up close that is willing to testify, they try to get a sketch done. The resulting picture doesn't look anything like Hitomi, possibly because the witness was a seven-year-old who only saw her briefly in the middle of the night. Mitsuko actually tries showing the kid an actual picture of Hitomi to see if she recognizes her, but she doesn't.

* CareerVersusMan: Done with both genders simultaneously. In one episode, Toshio is up for promotion, but the promotion comes with a transfer to a different city. This leaves Hitomi with the question of whether she should leave her sisters and Cat's Eye to be with the man she loves. In the end she decides that yes, she is, and when she tells Toshio that's she'd be willing to move with him, he complains that he wished she had told him that a day earlier, because he had just deliberately tanked his promotion examination so that he could stay in town to be with her.

* 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]].

* MoralMyopia: One episode has Ai get angry with her sisters for stealing a gem because her crush's father, who ran the building it was stored in, was at risk of losing his job over the fact that it was stolen on his watch. Rui and Hitomi have to give the gem back to apologize. Nobody points out that things like this likely happen every time the sisters steal, and the only difference between this time and all the others was the person getting hurt being someone they know.

* 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 [[AllPartOfTheShow under the guise of it all being part of the play]].

''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 by Creator/TMSEntertainment from 1983 to 1985.

[[quoteright:270:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/s_Eye_2.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:270:From left to right: Rui, Hitomi and Ai.]]

In 2019, it was announced that the girls will be making [[https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2019-01-10/city-hunter-shinjuku-private-eyes-anime-film-trailer-reveals-appearance-by-cat-eye-trio/.141901 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]]. The French director of ''Film/CityHunterTheCupidsPerfume'' has a {{crossover}} project with ''Cat's Eye'' in store.

In 2019, it was announced that the girls will be making [[https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2019-01-10/city-hunter-shinjuku-private-eyes-anime-film-trailer-reveals-appearance-by-cat-eye-trio/.141901 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]]

The three Kisugi sisters are at first sight perfectly normal young ladies who run a cafe. In fact, they are the daughters of famous German artist Michael Heintz, who disappeared several years ago, and at night they turn into cat burglars. Their hope is to assemble their missing father's entire oeuvre in order to find clues as to his whereabouts.

* 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 ''[[UpToEleven bazooka]]''...).

* PantyShot: Mitsuko gets one in episode 21. Ai ties a string attaching Mitsuko's skirt to the chief's jacket. As the chief walks away, Mitsuko's skirt lifts up, revealing her white panties.

%%* {{Meganekko}}: Mitsuko.

The first season is now streaming on Retro Crush and [[https://www.amazon.com/dp/B085WH64V4/ Amazon Prime Video]].

Has nothing to do with the [[Film/CatsEye 1985 film]] or the [[CatsEye1988 1988 book]] by Creator/MargaretAtwood.

Has nothing to do with the [[Film/CatsEye 1985 film]].

* ActionGirl: The three sisters.
* ActionGirlfriend: Hitomi to Toshio.

* AnimalMotifs: Cats, of course.

* {{Bokukko}}: Ai is one of the early examples of this.

* TheChessmaster: Rui by all accounts.

* 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...

* ClassyCatBurglar: The sisters fit this trope to a T.

* DaChief: Utsumi's superior.
* DancingTheme: both endings features Cat's Eye doing aerobics.

* DefrostingIceQueen: Mitsuko Asatani, Utsumi's colleague.

* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: Rui disguised as a man. Even Mitsuko fell for her, ''twice''.

** Lupin's Bride.

* HeroAntagonist: Toshio, Mitsuko, DaChief, and other cops.

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

* KillSat: ''Cat's Eye'' has the first one of these employed in anime, even beating out SOL from ''Manga/{{Akira}}''.

** Toshio, Hitomi and Mitsuko constitute a more straight example. That is, if you don't factor Cat's Eye into the equation.

* {{Meganekko}}: Mitsuko.
** 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. And, sure enough, one chapter starts with her losing her glasses when trying to ambush
* MistakenForGay: Both Toshio and Kizaki tend to get mistaken for gay rather often.

* NiceGuy: Toshio.

* PhantomThief:
** The Kisugi sisters.
** Kamiya is one too.

* RoofHopping: An early example.
* RuleOfCool: Cat's Eye's heists [[InvokedTrope invoke the trope]] to better spread their fame as part of their call for their father.
* RussianRoulette: Rui is ''very'' good at this game, playing it with a henchman on board a cruise ship in episode 12.

* StickySituation: Ai falls into one in one of the episodes.

* SympatheticInspectorAntagonist: Toshio

* ThoseTwoGuys: Hirano and Takeuchi.
* {{Tomboy}}: Ai.
* TheVerse: Shares one with ''Manga/CityHunter''.
* TrueCompanions: The special team assigned to capture Cat's Eye.

* WrenchWench: Ai.

* TheTrickster: The girls, especially Rui. Who has hit on Toshio just for fun.

* GratuitousEnglish: The opening theme. Despite being primarily in Japanese, every other stanza has at least one or two words in English, and English loanwords were used in two instances of the song. And then there's the fact that the chorus ends on the extremely [[MemeticMutation memorable-for-the-wrong-reasons]] ''We got you! Mysterious girl!''

* GratuitousEnglish: The opening theme. Despite being primarily in Japanese, every other stanza has at least one or two words in English, and English loanwords were used in two instances of the song.

* GratuitousEnglish: The opening theme. It seems that other word in the song is either English, or is a loan-word from the English language.