A N I M E / O T A K U : PART 6

Cat's Eye

Other Title:

Cat's Eye: Anime

Synonyms:

Cats Eye

Type:

TV

Aired:

July 11, 1983 to July 8, 1985

Source:

Manga

Genres:

Action, Adventure, Comedy, Mystery, Romance

Synopsis:

The three Kisugi sisters—Rui, Hitomi and Ai—during the day run a small cafe called "Cat's Eye." To discover the whereabouts of their father, the artist Michael Heintz, who has disappeared, Hitomi and her sisters rob art galleries as the smart and mysterious thief "Cat's Eye" in the hope that his works can give them clues about his vanishing. The crucial point is that Hitomi has a relationship with Toshi, a police inspector who has sworn to catch "Cat's Eye"—and of course he has no idea about Hitomi's double life.

Characters and Voice Actors:

- Main:

Ai Kisugi

Baby sister of the trio, Ai has a spunky, tomboyish personality and demeanor, and has a genius-level I.Q. and is particularly adept in mechanics, computer programming and engineering. She has built a wide array of gadgets to help her sisters in their heists. A typical teenager, she seems to be preoccupied a lot and dreams of falling in love. Being a high school girl, she also has a pet tabby kitten called "Tiger."

While not as skilled as her sisters, Ai has none-the-less mastered a number of skills and is regularly the one who operates the get-away vehicles for the heists, including helicopters, gyrocopters, trucks, motorcycles, cars and mini-planes. Her greatest weakness lies in the fact she is physically the weakest of the three siblings (evident in the anime when she tried to suplex a wrestler, only to have the maneuver backfire on her), but in exchange, she is also the most agile.

- Sakamoto, Chika (Japanese)

- Miβbach, Silvia (German)

- Yang, Jeong Hwa (Korean)

- Roux, Annabelle (French)

- Fassetta, Susanna (Italian)

Rui Kisugi

Hitomi's elegant and fashionable older sister, Rui is the leader of the "Cat's Eye" group and the one who usually outlines and plans the heists. With model good looks, worldly sophistication, and a razor sharp intelligence she is able to handle almost any situation. She is extremely athletic and proficient in a great number of activities and skills including car racing, hang gliding, parachuting, helicopter piloting, motorcycle riding, roller skating, skateboarding, martial arts, electronics, handguns and scuba diving. She is a skilled actress and is able to disguise her appearance effortlessly. She is also fluent in a number of languages including English, French and German.

Rui acts as the mother figure for her sisters and is very protective of them. She is the only sister who has any lasting memory of their parents.

- Fujita, Toshiko (Japanese)

- Aust, Andrea (German)

- Castracane, Barbara (Italian)

Hitomi "Tam" Kisugi