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Black Cat(Burakku Kyatto) is a manga and anime series by mangaka Kentaro Yabuki. It was serialized in Shueisha's Weekly. The series has concluded in Japan at 20 volumes. It was also licensed for North American distribution by VIZ Media, and the English release started on March 7 2006 and is currently up to volume 11.

It was also adapted into an anime television series, directed by Shin Itagaki, which aired in Japan on the anime satellite television network Animax and the terrestrial TBS network beginning on October 6 2005 and ending on March 30 2006. It consists of 24 episodes and is produced by GONZO. The anime series was licensed for distribution in the United States by Funimation. The DVDs were released in the UK by MVM.

Whereas only 23 episodes of the series were aired on TBS's airing of the series, the series actually consists of 24 episodes, with the 15th episode of the series, not airing on the terrestrial TBS network and instead airing exclusively in Japan on the CS network Animax. This episode was also included in the original Japanese DVDs for the series. Animax also aired this episode and all 24 episodes of the series in each of its other international networks worldwide (including dubbing and translating the series for broadcast across its English-language networks in Southeast Asia and South Asia).


SynopSis
The story centers on a man named Train Heartnet who withdrew from an elite group of assassins called the Toki no Bannin (the Chronos Numbers) to become a Sweeper (a bounty hunter).

In Train's world, there is a secret organization, Chronos, that rules one third of the world through underground control of almost every kind of business. To maintain the balance of the world, Chronos is essential, and therefore, there is the need to have people to protect Chronos. Besides all normal erasers, there are special elite assassins with Orihalcon-made weapons called the Chrono Numbers. Chrono Numbers have their numbers engraved on their body and their weapon. There were twelve total Chrono Numbers, but when Train Heartnet, an unsurpassable shooter, decided to join Chronos in their cause, the number XIII was founded. No one that was targeted by Train Heartnet, also known as Black Cat, for bringing "bad luck", and his extremely quick movements and attacks, ever survived. The name Black Cat was the most feared among assassins.

His only objective was "to be the best". In one of his missions, he had to kill a target, but the target's child was at the scene. Train, recalling his childhood trauma, could not kill the target in front of his child, leading to him being shot by the target's bodyguard.

Eventually, he met Saya Minatsuki, who was a sweeper. Through his contact with Saya, Train changed drastically, a change that culminated with leaving Chronos. However, a man who admired Train in an obsessive way, Creed Diskenth, did not accept that an elite assassin was being changed that way. Creed then set out to kill Saya, while Train was not there. Train reached the scene too late and tried to fight Creed, but he escaped.

Six months later, Train is a Sweeper, traveling with his partners Sven Vollfied and Eve. Their lives as sweepers is about to be changed when the present is invaded by the past: Creed Diskenth, after two years of being away, returns. And he wishes to meet Train, with a proposal to become his partner.

A running gag in the anime is usually for a white cat to appear at a time when a character makes a joke but also appears in different places such as in Eve's crystal ball and on one page of Sven's newspaper in episode 13 and 21. The white cat also appears as a shield used by Train whenever Kyoko wants to kiss him.

This Is the plot for the Anime series, the Manga Plot begins two years after Train has left Chronos with slightly different events on how Train comes to meet Sven and Eve.