Eve (Black Cat)

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caption=Eve from the manga "Black Cat"
name =Eve
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gender = female
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born = Unknown
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portrayer = Misato Fukuen (Japanese)
Brina Palencia (English)
creator = Kentaro Yabuki

Eve (イヴ "Ivu") is a young girl who is a genetically engineered bio-weapon from the manga "Black Cat". She is able to use nanotechnology to transform her body. Initially only able to alter limited parts of her body, she is later able to transform her entire body at will with ease. Raised like a lab rat, Sven treats her like a real person and opens her up to the world.

Eve resembles the character "Konjiki no Yami" (translated as "The Golden Darkness") in Kentaro Yabuki's newest series, "To-LOVE-Ru". As usual, she can manipulate her body into a variety of weapons and shapes.

Eve in the Manga

Eve is a young girl known to be 11 years old. She was cloned from Professor Tearju Lunatique. She was designed as the ultimate soldier, having been injected with nanomachines that allow her to change her body's shape and composition at will. Examples of this are turning her arms into blades, hammers and shields, turning her own skin into steel, sprouting wings, and firing feathers at ranged opponents.

Her hair is her best weapon, as she can turn it into fists (or later, into monofilament blades) that attack with blurring speed. Later in the story, she starts to use her hair while fighting as opposed to earlier in the story when she preferred to use her hands.

She was raised by Torneo Rudman (an influential dealer in the underground weapons market) to be an emotionless killing machine. However, Sven rescues her and teaches her how to live by her own choices. Now she travels with Sven and Train. She seems to perceive Train as a rival, wanting to replace him as Sven's partner, but this is done for Sven's attention. Additionally, she loves reading, and can remember everything in a book after reading it once. One of her most noteworthy transformations is into a mermaid, during her battle against Leon Elliott at Clarken Island. Eve grows into a very compasionate girl over her time with Sven and Train and tries to protect everyone that she can.

Eve in the Anime

Eve does not seem to have the intense rivalry with Train as she did in the manga. This is most likely because due to the anime's altered timeline of events, Eve actually ended up joining Sven before Train does. Although in the anime Eve never displays the urge to replace Train as Sven's partner, she is still highly competitive with him, which is shown on many occasions when she would try to catch a criminal before he does. However, it seems that she develops a bit of a sibiling-like relationship with Train, who nicknames her "Himechi" or little princess. It is hinted in the anime that she could have 'romantic interest' in Sven. In addition, there is foreshadowing in the anime that Eve is cloned from Tearju Lunatique, as Tearju has appeared in the anime as a hospitalized patient with the same hair as Eve.As seen in the orphan episode she has terrible cooking skills particularly in omelettes which turn out charred black instead of the usual yellow. After Creed's defeat in Clarken Island Eve is captured by Mason's Zero Numbers who then uses her to start the Eden project. Mason had arranged for Sven to capture Eve when the accident at Torneo's mansion occurred. That way, Mason could use Eve when she was mature enough to implant her in the Eden machine that would create the monstrous creature that is shown in the Anime, that would bring "world peace" by absorbing every single person in the world, turning them into lobotomized creatures incapable of thought other than obeying Mason and his team. Eve does not resonate with Eden, as she's stopped in the final stage by a shot fired by Train, which severely damaged the machine she was held in. She is then rescued by Sven. In the final episode she is shown with her hair cut short, similar to the final chapter of the manga.

Similar Faces

There is a manga character of To-LOVE-Ru based on Eve, Golden Darkness. She also has the ability to transform part(s) of her body into weapon(s), and her appearance is a lot similar to Eve. To-LOVE-Ru is also a co-working of Yabuki Kentaro with Saki Hasemi.