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"Cat's Eye" Anime Remake Announced with Teaser Visual, PV
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Premieres sometime in 2025. The new PV is here. Check out the ANN article for additional information. Synopsis for the original 1983 anime from AniList:
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.
Every time anime studios do this the new one just feels completely sterilized. The art style did a lot of heavy lifting of old anime. While a good story is always good, the new art style can really make an okay story seem worse.
Trigun, IMO, is a good example that suffered greatly from this. Even though the writing on a technical level was better in the new one, I still found the art style of the original made the original vastly superior overall.
While I am interested to see more, I am concerned this will follow the rest of modern "sterilized" anime. It feels like the difference between being in an Adventurer's Guild vs being in a Hospital.
I really hope anime doesn't fall into the same trap that Hollywood has in cranking out remakes of old IPs every couple of decades just to renew the copyrights.
It wastes scarce production resources i.e. animators, crowds out the market for new ideas, and even the geezers (like me) who watched this stuff in its time want to see something more relevant to the current times.