Gunsmith Cats Manga Review
Gunsmith Cats epitomized what in the 1980s and early 90s was the stereotypical US description of the manga style.
Gunsmith cats manga review. This 1995 OVA rather then start adapting the manga from page 1 or choosing the very best of Sonodas stories decided to create an anime original plot. There is also a five-volume sequel series Gunsmith Cats Burst. Better than the manga better than a lot of anime.
And my main concern with the show is obviously Minnie May. Rally and May operate the titular Gunsmith Cats gunshop in Chicago Illinois. In the dangerous suburbs of Chicago skilled bounty hunters Irene Rally Vincent and Minnie May Hopkins run Gunsmith Cats a firearms store of questionable legality.
The storys pacing is sure and steady starting with what seems. The only drawback was Dark Horse policy of flipping the art to conform with westerns expectation of left-to-right reading. So too the Kickstarter campaign that funded a re-issue a few years back now I love so much about this series but Im torn when it comes to rating Gunsmith Cats.
Gunsmith Cats is one of the best action manga you can find on the North American market as well as one of my personal favorites. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. The story centers on two young women 19-year old Irene Rally Vincent and her partner 17-year old Minnie May Hopkins.
Rally runs a gun store and is approached by the ATF to cooperate with them on a sting. One day Bill Collins an agent for the Chicago branch of the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms and Explosives blackmails Rally. January 26 2015 at 1644 a year ago I caught the 3-episode Gunsmith Cats OVA see my reviews of episode 1.
To cut a long story short after many violent and admittedly well-stylized shootout scenes in which Rally and May display an impressive capacity for violence and indiscriminate destruction it turns out that MAJOR SPOILER INCOMING the mole and indeed the mastermind behind the gun-running gang was the senator the whole time. Simplistic yet attractive characters set against highly detailed backdrops with clean shading and lots of speed lines. Of note to fans of the manga Bean Bandit does not show up in this series a good thing in my personal opinion.