BLACK TORCH
TV anime

BLACK TORCH

Source tagsBattlesManga adaptationFantasyFor boys

The story starts here

A boy raised as a ninja descendant can speak with animals. Rescuing an injured black cat reveals that it is a legendary supernatural being. Other creatures and a state organization pursuing dangerous entities pull them into a struggle over its power.

  • Saving a cat draws a boy into a supernatural power struggle
  • An unlikely pair faces both hostile creatures and an official organization
Premise source

Reviews, with context

Season impressions · 6 sampled opinions, not a site-wide consensus.

Appreciated

The sample is relatively positive about production and character visuals. Direct, energetic battles remain effective, and some particularly praise the finish of later action scenes.

Reservations

Criticism concerns familiar character groupings and conventional heroic formulas without fresh ideas, plus unconvincing worldbuilding and power scaling. Production effort does not compensate for dull storytelling in the middle and later sections.

Sample details

Selected 6 attributed short reviews with specific viewing observations from the 20 entries on the first comments page at retrieval. This non-random sample does not represent a site-wide or audience consensus.

Reviewers: 珂朵莉 / , / 乾小圣 / 杨 / Kritz / Yui

These are paraphrases of the named viewers’ reviews, not direct quotations or an audience-wide consensus. Relative dates refer to the original collection time.

Premiere
Listed episodes
12 episodes
Source count, not airing progress
Format
TV anime
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Independent source ratings

Original scales
Bangumi5.2 / 10
5.2 / 10
346 ratingsRetrieved 2026-10-15 22:07 UTC
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Kitsu69.5 / 100
69.5 / 100
266 ratingsRetrieved 2026-10-15 22:07 UTC
Source records6 sources

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