Black Cat 20
Posted: May 8, 2009 Filed under: Black Cat 6 Comments »I thought it would be interesting to give this one a try. This is the last volume in a series I haven’t read and knew nothing about, so I wanted to see how the ending would play out.
After reading the character profiles and story summary in front, it was pretty easy to follow exactly what was going on. There was a final battle going on between Train, the main character, and Creed, his former friend (?) who has decided to eradicate mankind. Train fights with a gun and Creed fights with a sword, and their battle is a simple enough affair to follow. Train doesn’t want to kill Creed, but does want to drive him insane (by breaking his sword?) and let him live out the rest of his life that way as penance for killing a friend of his.
Train has allies fighting Creed’s minions, and in addition, members of the assassin organization that Train and Creed used to belong to are also fighting Creed’s minions. Their fights come up occasionally, but they are fairly simple, and most of what’s going is in the main battle.
And once the fight is over… the story wraps up pretty quickly. There’s maybe a few pages of loose ends to take care of, and then the last few pages show what I assume are all the characters in the series as a backdrop for a speech Train gives about living your life without forgetting your past.
It was pretty standard shounen stuff. This one seemed really basic, as special powers weren’t really invoked all that frequently (though there were some that augmented the traditional fighting methods) and there wasn’t even really a special vernacular the characters were using in order to fight. It was actually kind of refreshing in that respect. Again, as with most of these shounen series I jump into randomly, I probably would have liked it if I had read from the beginning because I really do like this type of story, but there was absolutely nothing about this volume that compelled me to go back for the rest. It didn’t really score any points for originality, and… really, that’s about it. Sorry, Black Cat.
This was a review copy provided by Viz.
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How Black Cat begins:(FYI)
Chronos is an super powerful secret organisation which they are protecting world peace by earasing anyone with power.
Train is a powerful ,ruthless,daedly,unfeeling and merciless assasin working for Chronos .
Then there’s the girl who ruins it all, Saya- bubbly ,artificial,extremely stupid and a bounty hunter.
Creed is a maniac obsessed with Train and his power.
Creed thinks Saya is ruining is his perfect Train by teaching him compassion and stuff so he kills her.
Train breaks away from Chronos when he gets Saya’s point about killing someone just because he is ordered to is wrong.
The rest of the story is about how he travels with bounty hunters and fights Creed’s monsters and blah , blah, blah.It basically gets worse from there. So don’t bother to read those. But the first few are cool.
Thanks for that, I appreciate it. I may go back for the first couple volumes some day, and it’s good to know that it gets a good start, but the general consensus does seem to be that it kind of fades out after awhile.
Even though I’m a big fan of cute little longed-hair girls with superpowers, I gave up on this series after reading 5 volumes. Very average shonen stuff.
Yeah, that’s kind of what I figured. I know it has its fans, but a lot of people seem mostly unimpressed with it. I still kind of want to see the first few volumes, but I’ve got plenty of other series to read without starting something I know will only be okay.
Well,I think you are wrong Pirkaf.i really like this manga.I have already read the first two volumes,and I got into it.Not to be mean,or rude but if you give the manga a chance maybe you with enjoy it as much as I do.