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“Mystery of a green cat bringing misfortune, investigated by a private detective from 1950s Lion Books manga.”
The Green Cat
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5.69
12,256 rank · 2,476 viewers · 1 favorites
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Synopsis
Mystery of a green cat bringing misfortune, investigated by a private detective from 1950s Lion Books manga.
The story is a mystery about a green cat and a private detective who investigates where it came from. The cat was thought to be good luck, but eventually brought misfortune to all those who come in contact. The story was taken directly from the 5th subtitle of the 1950s Lion Books manga.
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Community consensus
Derived from 3 sampled reviews
3.7
/10
What 3 viewers settled on.
0%
recommend
Score distribution
median 4
mode 2
σ 1.25
Agreement
Mostly aligned
σ 1.25 · some divergence
The polarity gap
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Not enough recommend signal yet
Score over time
↓ 1.33
Running avg · May 2016 → Mar 2021
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· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 2 “Short Review: This probably was something great at the time of release, but it's pretty bad if you were to watch this today. The story is quite stupid, boring and tedious. I didn't care about any...”
- 4 “If you stop and think about it for a minute, most of Osamu Tezuka's stuff is a little bit out there. As in, some pretty unusual premises to get the story going. But this short little one-shot story...”
- 5 “No reviews? Wow. Lucky me :D tl;dr: It’s an okay OVA. If you have extra time on your hands, go ahead and watch it. Midori no Neko is one of the most mediocre OVAs I’ve ever seen. It’s not what I...”
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Short · 67%
Medium · 33%
Long · 0%
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A Ova Production
Tezuka Productions.- Format 1 × 24′ eps × min
- Total runtime 0h 24m all episodes
- Aired Oct 1983 – ongoing
- Source Ova media type
- Rated PG 13 - Teens 13 or older
- Ref. BS-6609 catalog