Gunsmith Cats Manga Review
Gunsmith Cats was originally published by Dark Horse comic in nine separate volumes.
Gunsmith cats manga review. 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. Video Gunsmith Cats gets a 43 regular transfer although it is an NTSC disc. Gunsmith Cats maybe still holds that cult status now even after the internet has no doubt introduced more folks to this mid-90s OVA.
So the original manga was written and illustrated by Kenichi Sonoda. StorySetup If you are a fan of the Gunsmith Cats manga and youre watching this for the first time youre going to be in for some disappointment as this OVA isnt connected to the comic very much. And my main concern with the show is obviously Minnie May.
This was a little experiment to see how well a comicmanga could be conveyed by video with appropriate background musicIf you have not read Gunsmith Cats t. 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. The only drawback was Dark Horse policy of flipping the art to conform with westerns expectation of left-to-right reading.
Simplistic yet attractive characters set against highly detailed backdrops with clean shading and lots of speed lines. Fans will be delighted to see Rally May Becky and most of the other regulars of Gunsmith Cats. Gunsmith Cats boiled down to its essentials is girls guns and grenades.
Sure there were some Mobile Suit Gundam titles that intrigued me but aside from that GSC and a few other titles nothing else of manga really grabbed me. Every other manga is way over the top and very bombastic and really heavy on Special Name Attacks which seem redundant. 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.
Gunsmith Cats epitomized what in the 1980s and early 90s was the stereotypical US description of the manga style. Anyway Gunsmith Cats as an anime delivers much of what its manga predecessor offers hey none of that now although the three episodes seem more like an appetizer than a main course. Rally and May at the Gunsmith Cats store.