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Black Cat  
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Description
Train Heartnet, also known as "Black Cat," was an infamous assassin for a secret organization called Chronos...until he abandoned that cold-blooded existence to live on his own terms as an easygoing bounty hunter. But is Train's past as far behind him as he thinks?

Type
Manga

Related Series
N/A

Associated Names
ブラックキャット
黑猫
Burakku Kyatto

Groups Scanlating
Akatsuki Manga
Akatsuki-Manga
Chronos' Time Guardians
Illuminati-Manga
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Latest Release(s)
v.20 c.176-185 by Manga-Heaven (2500d ago)
v.19 c.169-175+special by Manga-Heaven (2537d ago)
c.184-185 by Illuminati-Manga (2608d ago)
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Status in Country of Origin
20 Volumes (Tankoubon - Complete)
12 Volumes (Bunkoban - Complete)

Completely Scanlated?
Yes

Anime Start/End Chapter
Starts at Vol 1, Chap 1
Ends at Vol 20, Chap 185

User Reviews
Black Cat by mako

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3 topics, 13 posts
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User Rating
Average: 8.2 / 10.0 (1006 votes)
Bayesian Average: 8.16 / 10.0
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Last Updated
March 17th 2013, 2:56pm PST

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Genre
Action  Adventure  Comedy  Drama  Sci-fi  Shounen 
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Author(s)
YABUKI Kentaro

Artist(s)
YABUKI Kentaro

Year
2000

Original Publisher
Shueisha

Serialized In (magazine)
Weekly Shonen Jump (Shueisha)

Licensed (in English)
Yes

English Publisher
Viz (20 Volumes - Complete)

Activity Stats (vs. other series)
Weekly Pos #775 increased(+195)
Monthly Pos #494 decreased(-253)
3 Month Pos #483 increased(+237)
6 Month Pos #593 increased(+170)

List Stats
On 681 reading lists
On 628 wish lists
On 2801 completed lists
On 130 unfinished lists
On 234 custom lists

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Forum Posts
YABUKI Kentaro black cat question 685 days, 12 hours, 40 minutes ago
Is their a possibliaty of more chapter or volumes? 748 days, 7 hours, 1 minutes ago
How much of the manga does the anime cover? 1229 days, 18 hours, 13 minutes ago

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 IIRC, from 03'-04'ish   
Rating: N/A
by MatrixM
February 6th, 2012, 7:10pm
I was reading this series when my brother introduced me to Cowboy Bebop. It soon became obvious that Black Cat pretty much completely ripped off Cowboy Bebop's story for the first few volumes. Because of this i didn't bother to watch Bebop [probably a mistake]. Also, this quickly got boring for me so i dropped it.

Anyways, if you've seen Bebop just be aware that you'll be reading repeats for a while with this.
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 just ok   
Rating: 6.0 / 10.0
by alexj2936
May 26th, 2011, 7:29pm
It was an ok read with some good action scenes, but it really annoyed me that the main character is a freaking assassin and won't KILL anybody!! If I got paid $1 for every time I wanted to smash my computer when he went on one of his "I won't kill because of blah blah" I'd be rich. Other than that I'd recommend it to any shonen fans
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 Quick Review   
Rating: 9.5 / 10.0
by Ty719
January 1st, 2010, 8:43pm
You can't put this in the same category as Dragonball since it's not as terrible.

Personally I haven't found many Shounen series that jumped out at me. This Shounen Jump series I think is more refreshing. The first bounty hunter themed anime I saw was Cowboy Bebop. Black Cat is quite a big better than that. The characters were all interesting, especially the Chronos characters and the Apostle of the Stars.

The story starts a bit differently in the manga than in the anime as the manga starts when Train is already teamed up with Sven as opposed to where the anime starts off before Train discards his "Black Cat" title.

I thought the anime background music was decent but not top notch, and I find Japanese voice portray the characters better than dubs. This is just my preference though. I'm also studying Japanese so hearing the seiyuus somewhat works as translation study for me.

Everyone's taste is different so best to check out a few chapters or episodes and se if it's your style.
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 meh   
Rating: 5.0 / 10.0
by PoshSam
December 6th, 2009, 5:30pm
it's cool in a way, especially train, the guy's got some neat style and really cool powers, but i swear him and his sidekick have a cliched relationship, you know good cop bad cop sort of thing.
i felt throughout like going, 'stop with all the sarcastic remarks towards train, you're such a cliche and that's not funny'.
this is one of those mangas where you wouldn't care when a new release would be out and would probably be able to predict the ending, since i never finished it, i bet train and his sidekick have a good laugh as they face more jobs for them, oh and itty-bitty romances for each on the side.
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 classical shounen   
Rating: N/A
by pxhai
May 28th, 2009, 2:39am
What surprised me the most is that there's no ecchi stuff in this manga.
All the heroes are not perverts, unlike most of manga today biggrin. It was ended abruptly though, many characters were not used. Hope to have a sequel
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 :(   
Rating: 7.0 / 10.0
by robbit
May 4th, 2009, 5:00pm
im sad. i had this on hold for like a year and never read the last chapters. im so sad. i hope there will be a sequel.
i think this deserves better than what i gave it but there were a lot of useless chapters in the middle and the last part seemed to drag on a bit
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 Eve was much more interesting   
Rating: 7.0 / 10.0
by bignort
March 17th, 2009, 2:46pm
This is the first manga I have read that they main character was not nearly as interesting as the side characters. Eve was by far the most interesting person in the manga, and got way too little time in the series. Not the worst manga by far, but could have been much better.
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 There is nothing wrong with being generic   
Rating: 7.0 / 10.0
by kaloo
February 17th, 2009, 6:23pm
Having seen the complaints about this series I think they're nonsense. I often find myself wanting to read a generic shounen story. This one is a great example of that. While these stories will never find a place as the Best story ever or anything they are still quite entertaining.
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 Pretty good although a little repetitive   
Rating: N/A
by ButterflyNinja
January 8th, 2009, 4:21am
I thought this was a great shonen series that had an original and entertaining plotline. The length of the series may be daunting but I found myself eating through chapters, although I did tend to forget minor details due to the slight repetetiveness
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 secondary product   
Rating: 5.0 / 10.0
by Iahel
November 7th, 2008, 8:08pm
if you want to know almost all shounen cliché that exist in nature, you really should read this manga. the same goes if you don't want to read about some interesting characters with improved personalities. no more interesting plots? that's your choice! you won't find here any character developed enough to be interesting and no one surprising plot twist. get ready to boredom and predictable moves. and you definitely should read this manga if you like all those characters that had a meeting with some mysterious girl in the past, so it reflects all their present moves.
though art is ok, everything except it is so secondary that it makes you feel deja vu every time.
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