
Is Cat's Eye Worth Reading? Review & Where to Read
Watching a detective fall for the thief he's chasing without realizing it shouldn't be this fun, and yet.
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We use the whole 1–10 scale and judge each title against the best version of what it is trying to be — a comedy on how funny it is, a thriller on its tension — not against some other genre. As a rough guide: 9+ is all-time great, 8 excellent, 7 a solid recommendation with caveats, 5–6 mixed or average. A 7 is a genuine yes, not a knock. The “Community score” in each review is the crowd rating from AniList, MAL, and MangaUpdates, shown next to ours for comparison.

Watching a detective fall for the thief he's chasing without realizing it shouldn't be this fun, and yet.

Every fight ends with someone getting up from something that should have killed them, and somehow it never stops working.

Whiplash between razor-sharp gunplay and full slapstick pervert-comedy, chapter to chapter, and somehow it holds together.

This is what the Pokémon anime would look like if it let anyone actually get hurt.

Short, funny, and better looking than most series ten times its length.

Nihei draws a tower like it might collapse on you personally, and that oppressive scale is doing most of the storytelling here.

Video game manga adaptations are usually padding; this one is the rare case that actually improves on its source material's character work.

Tama and Jinka's mismatched, prickly bond does more heavy lifting than most of the monster-of-the-week fights around it, and it's better for it.

Makes its lead's three lost years an actual obstacle to claw back from rather than a throwaway detail before the power fantasy starts.

Treats its opening betrayal as the whole point rather than a speed bump, and Touka's slow-burn payback is better for it.

Sells its betrayal hard enough in the opening chapters that every later victory actually feels like it's owed to Theo.

Sells itself on secret strength and delivers mostly on secret feelings instead.