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by Kenichi Sonoda (Author), Kenichi Sonoda (Illustrator), Dana Lewis (Translator)
Chicago in the 1990s--a city of crime that means good business for two young women: bounty hunter partners Rally and Minnie-May, the Gunsmith Cats!
Fans will love this crime manga classic from the '90s from the character designer of Bubblegum Crisis, printed in an over-sized format and high-quality paper. Rally Vincent runs Gunsmith Cats--a gun shop in Illinois with her partner, demolitions expert and former call girl Minnie-May Hopkins. But Rally's "real" job doesn't pay the bills, her hobby does. And her hobby is bounty hunting: bringing the most wanted men and women in the Chicago area to justice--dressed in her sharp suit and tie, and driving her Shelby Cobra GT 500! But Rally and Minnie-May have their work cut out for them in Gunsmith Cats Omnibus Volume 1, with corrupt lawyers and cops, fetish-fueled hitmen, and crazed cocaine kingpins bringing the copters, the big rigs, and even the anti-tank guns onto the streets and the freeways of Chicagoland in a windshield whirlwind of double-crosses, car chases, and shootouts! Gunsmith Cats Omnibus Volume 1 introduces supporting characters including bespectacled info broker Becky Farrah, master thief Misty Brown, Chicago detective Roy Coleman, and the infamous transporter "Roadbuster" Bean Bandit--unstoppable either in his Corvette LS-7 or in hand-to-hand combat! Contains:- Gunsmith Cats Volume 1: Bonnie & Clyde (1996)
- Gunsmith Cats Volume 2: Misfire (1997)
- Gunsmith Cats Volume 3: The Return of Gray (1998)
The Gunsmith Cats Omnibus is using the 2000s unflopped version of the manga, so that it reads in the original Japanese style. For mature audiences. "...[Sonoda's] work on series such as Bubblegum Crisis and Gall Force helped define the look of 1980s anime. His first major manga, Gunsmith Cats, proved that Sonoda is a talented writer as well. (3 1/2 stars out of 4)"--Jason Thompson, Manga: The Complete Guide "Muscled thugs stalking mean streets, fast cars, pretty girls, and enough munitions to equip a personal army...Gunsmith Cats is a superb series worthy of just about anyone's collection." --A.V. Club "A classic girls with guns manga." --Library Journal
Author Biography
Kenichi Sonoda is an iconic artist of the retro anime aesthetic. He was the character designer for the classic 1980s cyberpunk saga Bubblegum Crisis, and in the 1990s for Otaku no Video, the anime from legendary studio Gainax (Neon Genesis Evangelion) that popularized the term "otaku."
Gunsmith Cats is Sonoda's longest manga series, making its original 1991 debut in Kodansha's Afternoon magazine, home of such stories as Vinland Saga, Blade of the Immortal, Oh My Goddess! and Wandering Island. Kenichi Sonoda traces his roots to Kumamoto, Japan, where in recent years he has become the 19th family head of his ancestral wagashi (traditional Japanese confectionery) shop, founded in 1582--for which Sonoda now designs character mascots!
Number of Pages: 608
Dimensions: 1.2 x 8.3 x 5.8 IN
Illustrated: Yes
Publication Date: March 04, 2025
