The Cat's Eyes series is already reaching its very last episodes on TF1. Before a sequel?
“Three lively panthers, who in a flash take on all challenges.” Yes but until when? While the series Cat’s Eyesthe end-of-year event on TF1, is reaching its final episodes, fans are already wondering if the live-action adaptation of the cult manga will be entitled to a sequel. The very daring bet of the first channel, which put Camille Lou, Constance Labbé and Claire Romain in the fitted and shiny costumes of the three Chamade sisters, was in any case successful from the first episodes broadcast at the beginning of November.
Cats’ Eyes in fact gathered around 5 million viewers during its launch on November 11, even ahead of Love is in the meadowgenerally leading on Monday evenings on M6. On D+7, the launch of Cat’s Eyes even reached 6.7 million viewers for episode 1, a record of the year for a French drama, excluding HPI. This audience, however, declined from week to week. This Monday, November 25, episodes 5 and 6 of the fiction brought together an average of between 4 and 3.5 million viewers, ahead of this time by the amorous adventures of the farmers of the Six, who were, it must be said, at time to take stock.
Once curiosity had passed, would amateurs have grown tired? Opinions on this adaptation of Cat’s Eyes with Franchouillarde sauce are mixed. Particularly among 40-50 year olds, clearly targeted by the project clearly based on nostalgia for the cartoons of their childhood. Associated with the creation, the mangaka Tsukasa Hōjō, author of the original saga, was the first to be won over by the series which, according to him, “found its own identity to touch people”. Some fans also praised the “risk-taking” of the producers, the “alchemy of the trio”, or the respect for the original work and even admitted to having watched TF1 for the first time in a long time thanks to Cat’s Eyes.
Already a date for season 2 of Cat's Eyes?
But others are disgusted. “The atmosphere of the cartoon is ruined, it's flat and soft, not at all sexy. In short, it's rubbish,” says a fan of the manga in 20 Minutes, while others point out “a sort of Julie Lescaut with the label Cat’s Eyes to attract nostalgic people”. Others did not understand the choice of the origin story (trying to imagine the origin of the Cat’s Eyes rather than resuming the story of the 1980s) or the transposition of the manga to Paris, interpreted as “betrayals” amid the “gaps in the scenario” and the “multiple repetitions”, indicates the Huffpost.
Success or not, TF1 will start to make fans languish this Monday, December 2, with a single new episode of Cat’s Eyes instead of two. The 8th and final episode will therefore be broadcast on December 9. And a sequel should indeed hit the screens. As Télé 7 Jours indicated last year, the three main actresses signed from the start for three seasons. However, it is impossible to know when season 2 of Cat’s Eyes will come out. Numerama is counting on “the very end of 2025 or the beginning of 2026, at the earliest”, which would make the prequel last “until 2028”.
