Overview (Spoilers Below):An Invitation from Runan IslandHitomi faces a grueling survival challenge on Toyo Foundation’s island.The Promise of SunsetKaibara reveals Cat’s Eye’s true identity and demands that they return all of Cranaff’s paintings.Our Take:Hitomi has successfully survived the first challenge, but that was just the beginning of what’s to come for her amid the Toyo Foundation’s suspicious competition. With a mission this risky, it makes sense that this assignment would be the primary focus of the final three episodes of the season. Even better is that I got myself a double-header to finish off the season since the penultimate episode, “An Invitation from Runan Island”, didn’t appear last week. At least it’s better than getting one last week and waiting until next week for the finale, given the cliffhanger ending from the eleventh episode.Unsurprisingly, the final two episodes delivered precisely what viewers would expect regarding this make-it-or-break-it mission, with Cat’s Eye finally confronting Kaibara, the leader of the Cranaff Syndicate. While Kaibara is quite clever with his knowledge of the Cat’s Eye’s identities and relationship with Toshio, the sisters proved to be even smarter than this typical James Bond villain. Of course, the stakes were raised when Toshio came very close to figuring out the sisters’ identities. Luckily, the sisters solved this predicament by setting up a sunset date between Hitomi and Toshio, meaning their secret lives are safe for now. The finale, titled “The Promise of Sunset”, features some dialogue from Kaibara that was a bit corny at times, and it follows a similar pattern from its sixth episode regarding Hitomi and Toshio being trapped together. However, it also managed to conclude the adaptation’s first season on a suitable note regarding its stakes.Speaking as someone who has never watched the previous versions of Cat’s Eye, I must admit that I respect the ONA adaptation for its entertainment value and concept. Granted, the plots were understandably repetitive, similar to the 1980s adaptation, but the second half nearly saved it with its final three episodes. If we were to get a second season of this version, we may get more of the same in the episodic plots, but that seems unlikely since they retrieved all of the sisters’ father’s paintings. However, since Rui received word that their father is alive somewhere, I wouldn’t count these three cat buglers out just yet.