Introduction: Dark Cat is an infamously abysmal OVA well known amongst anime historians for being a load of hot garbage. I mean you dont just get a MAL score of at the time of writing anyway 3.58 by doing nothing so this has to be something special. Well for better or worse it is. Story: The plot if you can call it that revolves around our two main leads who have the power to transform into house cats. Evil shit is going on because this plot demands it the 2 leads meet back up with their old master Jukokubo whos evil for the sake of evil. Theres also some romance plot going on in the background but nothing comes of it. The story of Dark Cat is incredibly basic yet it sucks so much ass because of how poorly structured this movie is. The first 2 minutes 52 seconds of this movie are nothing but padding. The movie starts with some girl randomly disappearing for no reason now all of a sudden shes dead and oh boy do they make it blatantly obvious. As you could guess by the term padding absolutely nothing comes of this. I mentioned there was a romantic plot going on in the background of the 2 brothers fighting evil spirits how creative. You also mightve catched absolutely nothing comes out of this plot. Which is to be expected given the short length rushed story of this plot. Characters: The characters in Dark Cat are just as nothing as the plot is. Theyre all one dimensional caricatures who exist only to serve the plot. Hyoui is just main character guy who pulls the strings goes around defeating the evil spirits. Rui is pretty much the younger brother person who only goes along for the ride. He does get to do some stuff admittedly he kills one of the Hentai monsters as an example. Hiroki is pretty much a blank slate. He does go through some arc if you can call it that about him realizing that Ami is the girl that he shouldve been interested in/attracted to because she cared about him was his childhood friend. But Dark Cat kills Ami off by the time he realises this making the whole endeavor pointless. Hiroki also has an incredibly grating voice as well. Ami is the girl character of Dark Cat the definition of a blank slate. As mentioned earlier shes in love with Hiroki but nothing comes out of this. Aside from near the end where Hiroki recognising that Ami was the girl he shouldve loved all along kills one of the Hentai monsters for some reason. Jukakubo is the villain of Dark Cat. Hes the definition of evil for evils sake. He never gives a reason for what he does or why he does it. He was apparently the former master of Hyoui Rui. But the series only mentions this once never lets us in on why Hyoui Rui split away from him went solo. Jukakubo also has a transformation near the end of the movie but the transformation somehow makes him look WORSE even less of a threat than he already has. Dark Cat is so abysmal that it FAILED at making a powerup sequence. Art: You probably guessed it by now given how negative the rest of this review was. But the artwork on display here is absolutely atrocious. The overall presentation is a bit of a blurry mess the line art on the hair in one particular scene gets worse worse each time they change the frame. The series also gets lazy forgets about detail. In the first fight scene against Jukakubo Hyoui receives 3 slashes on his chest in the exact next frame theres only 1 scratch on his chest. Then in the very same fight scene Jukabkubo slashes Hyoui in the back in the very next scene the slash on his back is gone. The animation if you can even call it that is ridiculously lazy. The characters rarely ever animate theyre usually just still images being dragged across the screen or a still image being panned across the frame in order to convey movement.Dark Cats unite also has a sword that Hyoui pulls out of his ass in first fight against Jukakubo. The slashes of course are never animated. They just cut the screen to black draw a slash. Sometimes they dont even draw the slash at all just cut to a still image thats how competent the animation team was. The only part of Dark Cat that can be considered animation are the Hentai monsters. But even those are just the same 2 second animation looped over over to nauseam they couldnt even bother to animate the Hentai monsters well. For fucks sake Dark Cat Sound: The sound is TRASH Dark Cat is well known amongst anime historians for its ludicrously bad voice acting. The series makes use of late 90s Hentai actors to voice the characters which makes the dialogue come off as incredibly awkward. Taking a note from Garzeys Wing no it wasnt dubbed by the same studio the characters speak in runon sentences. These make the characters incredibly hard to understand hear the abysmal sound mixing doesnt help there either. Dark Cat also has the distinct feature of an absolutely lacking sound design. Youll see things like tentacle demons smashing windows no sound effects. People getting punched no sound effects grabbing people by the shirt no sound effects footsteps no sound effects. The sound design is absolutely lacking on all fronts. I dont think Ive ever seen an anime with sound design this lacking. Final Thoughts/Overall: So thats Dark Cat. Its absolutely abysmal. You know MAL is a pretty generous site when you think about it. They give trash like Girls Panzer Zombie Desu a 7.5+. What Im getting at here is that you dont just get a 3.56 at the time of writing by doing nothing. You have to be especially bad in order to get a rating like that. Dark Cat is just THAT BAD I usually say in my 1/10 reviews that theres nothing positive here. Well thats a bit of a lie. See Green Green got me some laughs out of how lazily made it was. Kennel Tokorozawa is under 35 minutes Girls Panzer made me laugh for the 1st 6 episodes Skelter + Heaven is only 19 minutes. But this time I actually mean it. THERE IS NOTHING POSITIVE TO SAY HERE Dark Cat just fails on absolutely all fronts. The sound is bad the story is abysmal the voice acting is ATROCIOUS literally NOTHING is good here. Dark Cat deserves to remain a buried piece of garbage that nobody should watch. Final rating is to nobodys surprise a 1/10.