Bonnie & Clyde

Gunsmith Cats #1

by Kenichi Sonoda, Toren Smith, Dana Lewis

Uber-babe bounty hunter Rally Vincent is on the trail of counterfeiters, but vengeance-minded killers are on the trail of Rally. And they've got her pal Misty under wraps. Rally has to team up with a pal who happens to work for one of Rally's bounty targets! Round and round Rally goes, but where she stops...you'd better believe she's heavily armed! Duck and cover! Gunsmith Cats is gun-blazing, tire-screeching, eye-popping manga as only Kenichi Sonoda can deliver. Includes two special Gunsmith Cats short stories.

Genres: Manga, Graphic Novels, Comics, Crime

176 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1995

About the author

Japanese Profile: 園田健一

Sonoda Kenichi is a Japanese manga artist and animation character designer.

Reviews

[Laura (ローラ) · Rating 4 out of 5]

The art is super clean!

[David Doel · Rating 4 out of 5]

I enjoyed the story, despite a slow start. The art was disappointing.

[Sean Newgent · Rating 3 out of 5]

The first volume establishes exactly what Gunsmith Cats is. Before Black Lagoon, this combo of bad action movie and ecchi starring two likeable badass women who are constantly naked because it sells books was the bees knees and the series has a cult following. I love the anime and this first volume is fine fun. There are a few over the top schlocky moments I enjoyed and the art is very clean and portrays action, characters, guns, and cars well. It’s really a shame how good the art is given much of this seems more a gun, car, and pantyhose fetish book than anything else.

Overall, dont let grandma read.

[Doremili · Rating 5 out of 5]

Esta es una de las historias más fuertes que tengo. Y me encanta.

[Bookworm Erica · Rating 5 out of 5]

Found my original book from the 90s. Still love it. 12 year old me had good taste

[David · Rating 4 out of 5]

I'm a little confused by this manga. I'm assuming that the two protagonists are really violent lesbians. But I'm not sure. And the younger one that likes to blow things up is apparently really good at oral sex with men? To the point where she impresses the management at a gentlemen's sex club. I have never been exposed to Gunsmith Cats and if I had to explain it ...

Two female bounty hunters with a gun fetish shoot and explode their way through Chicago.

I want to believe that they're the example of strong female protagonists. But at the same time I have to wonder if their depiction is actually exploitive.

[Andre · Rating 1 out of 5]

Re-reading. Comments for the series. I remember liking these in the 90s as action mangas with cool guns and cars. I now find them to have the details of action movies without the meat of it, filled with clichés from mangas and movies, all "cool-looking" scenes with no story/character depth behind it. More free space on my shelves.

[Noemi · Rating 3 out of 5]

While I absolutely loved the OVA, I feel the Gunsmith Cats Manga (which I read in a more Western comic format) was confusing and bit awkwardly paced to keep up with. with that said, the art was very attractive and the characters all had their quirky personalities that make it all memorable.

[Erika · Rating 5 out of 5]

Classic.

[Trip · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is about as shounen as it's possible for manga to be.

[Cagne · Rating 3 out of 5]

Before Drive, and Driver, there was Gunsmith cats.