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Gunsmith Cats Omnibus Volume 1

Illustrated by Kenichi Sonoda
Translated by Dana Lewis, Toren Smith
Paperback (Manga RTL)
5-3/4"W x 8-1/4"H | 13 oz | 24 per carton
On sale Mar 04, 2025 | 608 Pages | 9781506746227
Mature
FOC Dec 2, 2024 | Catalog November 2024
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 ½ 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
Kenichi Sonoda is a manga artist best known as the creator of Gunsmith Cats, which ran from 1991 to 1997. The sequel, Gunsmith Cats Burst, was published from 2004 to 2008. Sonoda also created Cannon God Exaxxion and is the character designer for several animes, including SoltyRei. View titles by Kenichi Sonoda
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About

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 ½ 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

Creators

Kenichi Sonoda is a manga artist best known as the creator of Gunsmith Cats, which ran from 1991 to 1997. The sequel, Gunsmith Cats Burst, was published from 2004 to 2008. Sonoda also created Cannon God Exaxxion and is the character designer for several animes, including SoltyRei. View titles by Kenichi Sonoda

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