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

Every episode is basically the same shape, and it still works because the shape is a good one.

Yayoi's reckless obsession with capturing ghosts on film is the scariest thing in the book, and that's meant as a compliment.

The premise does a lot of the heavy lifting, and thankfully it's a good enough premise to carry the whole thing.

Nothing gets stolen, nobody dies, and somehow the mysteries still feel worth solving.

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.

The art alone is worth the price of admission; the story asks you to feel your way through instead of understand it, and that won't work for everyone.

Nothing about Cowa! is ambitious, and that's exactly the point — it's a cozy one-volume hangout with monsters you'll wish stuck around longer.