CAT’S EYE (New Anime Officially Announced for 2025 on Disney+)

[no3Ljm]

Disney announced during its 2024 Disney APAC Content Showcase in Singapore on Thursday that it is producing a new anime adaptation of Tsukasa Hōjō's Cat's Eye manga that will debut exclusively on Disney+ in 2025. The Disney+ YouTube channel is streaming a teaser video for the new anime. The teaser features singer Ado performing a cover of Anri's "Cat's Eye," the opening theme song for the 1983 television anime.

Disney did not reveal the precise format of the anime, such as whether it will be a series or a movie.

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2024-11-20/tsukasa-hojo-cat-eye-manga-gets-new-anime-on-disney-in-2025/.218113

Edited November 21, 2024 by no3Ljm

[F-ZeroOne]

A fond favourite of mine; back in the day when finding anime in the UK was something of a treasure hunt, it was possible on the British satellite TV receivers that existed at the time to receive certain European channels, and I stumbled across a number of anime that I would otherwise never have encountered, with the slight drawback that they were all in German. To this day, the German version of the "Sailor Moon" theme is the one that springs to my mind first. Here is the German opening and its rather literal title:

 

[Old_Nash_II]

New trailer

[Big s]

1 hour ago, Old_Nash_II said:

New trailer

Looks awkwardly lifeless 

[Chronocidal]

Oh... whoa.  Ok... can "uncanny valley" apply to completely animated characters?

Those are.. somehow really disturbing looking characters.  Like genuinely terrifying to look at. 

I would honestly suspect the whole thing was actually AI-generated, except for the fact that they all have normal-looking hands.. and AI usually draws much better faces than those.

Edit: Actually.. maybe I need to rethink that...  How do knuckles work again? 

Edited March 19 by Chronocidal

[davidwhangchoi]

17 minutes ago, Chronocidal said:

Oh... whoa.  Ok... can "uncanny valley" apply to completely animated characters?

Those are.. somehow really disturbing looking characters.  Like genuinely terrifying to look at. 

I would honestly suspect the whole thing was actually AI-generated, except for the fact that they all have normal-looking hands.. and AI usually draws much better faces than those.

Edit: Actually.. maybe I need to rethink that...  How do knuckles work again? 

looks like Megazone Part 4

[Dynaman]

More importantly, I have no idea what the show is about and the modern trailers don't help at all in that regard.  The trailer looks like a show about a coffee house with some creep filming it on a hidden camera...

[renegadeleader1]

31 minutes ago, Dynaman said:

More importantly, I have no idea what the show is about and the modern trailers don't help at all in that regard.  The trailer looks like a show about a coffee house with some creep filming it on a hidden camera...

All you need to know about Catseye is it's about three sister's who double as coffee shop owners by day and crime solving cat burglars by night Charlie's Angels style.

 

That's all your really need to know. That and gratuitous 80s spandex workout montages.😆

[Shawn]

Ran across this video recently (even though posted 17 years ago), first time I had ever seen it.

Cat's Eye was always one of the shows watched in the various Anime clubs in the 80s, the music was quite popular.

 

[danth]

15 hours ago, renegadeleader1 said:

That's all your really need to know. That and gratuitous 80s spandex workout montages.😆

I need to watch the old series!

I was super excited to try out City Hunter, but it was ruined for me by the main character being a total perv idiot. Maybe Cat's Eye is what I need.

[F-ZeroOne]

Basically, the worlds dumbest detective tries to catch three suspiciously familiar to him art thieves and fails every time. Sometimes with roller skates!

[Old_Nash_II]

New trailer and release data

It's beautiful, but still very sterile, in my opinion.
I'll still watch it, though.

[Bolt]

W out Lupin the 3rd. Not interested. 

[mechaninac]

The Rotten Rat getting its filthy mittens on Anime, more than likely to bestow its now-infamous brand of "tender loving care" upon it like they did with Star Wars and Marvel and Willow and Indiana Jones and many more, fills me with dread for this most-Japanese art form and story telling.

By no means is this immediate distrust uniquely relegated to Disney; every American studio has had a terrible track record on this front, be it animation or live action:  For every Alita or One Piece, there are dozens of examples of complete (on many levels) failures.

[Raikkonen]

1 hour ago, mechaninac said:

The Rotten Rat getting its filthy mittens on Anime, more than likely to bestow its now-infamous brand of "tender loving care" upon it like they did with Star Wars and Marvel and Willow and Indiana Jones and many more, fills me with dread for this most-Japanese art form and story telling.

By no means is this immediate distrust uniquely relegated to Disney; every American studio has had a terrible track record on this front, be it animation or live action:  For every Alita or One Piece, there are dozens of examples of complete (on many levels) failures.

I agree regarding the Toxic Rat. Especially the vandalism it did to SW and IJ. 

But, the Alita film wasn't a sounding success. 

And If One Piece was called something else and didn't bring it's goliath fanbase, it wouldn't have made it past the pilot episode. 

[danth]

It looks bad but I don't think it's a Disney problem. It's late stage capitalism problem. Everything is enshitified, including animation. 

Lower budgets, hiring less talented/cheaper animators, using algorithms/AI to generate in-betweens and animate, manipulating vectorized images to animate instead of hand-drawing more frames, all that. People of course deny that animation studios even do this stuff, when it's proven they do. They will also swear up and down that anime is just as good as ever, when it clearly looks lifeless and sloppy next to hand drawn cel animation. Strong recency bias with anime fans these days. 

[Big s]

3 hours ago, danth said:

It looks bad but I don't think it's a Disney problem. It's late stage capitalism problem. Everything is enshitified, including animation. 

Lower budgets, hiring less talented/cheaper animators, using algorithms/AI to generate in-betweens and animate, manipulating vectorized images to animate instead of hand-drawing more frames, all that. People of course deny that animation studios even do this stuff, when it's proven they do. They will also swear up and down that anime is just as good as ever, when it clearly looks lifeless and sloppy next to hand drawn cel animation. Strong recency bias with anime fans these days. 

I gotta agree here. I don’t think it’s the Mouse, but recent anime and especially reboot anime in general these days. They all seem to have a similar or worse look compared to their classic counterparts.Worse being the look of the new Fist of the North Star. But the majority have this almost AI kinda look to the animation 

[Swann]

Cats Eye is one of my favorites too. I would love to see anything by Mitsuru Adachi. On the Disney Channel