Thank you, Dark Horse!
Gunsmith Cats has long been one of my favorite anime. I always wanted to read the manga that spawned it, but I didn't want to pay the eBay prices.
So I was stoked to learn that Dark Horse is releasing all of the Gunsmith Cats stories in nifty new omnibus editions.
It's a heck of a deal. You get about three of the old mangas in the pre-flip, right-to-left Japanese style, all for about $17. And it's got all of the fun stuff I like from the anime -- cute girls, fast cars, guns, explosions, car chases and adult humor. There's also a ton of nudity, frank discussions of underage sex and an implied rape -- this is not kiddy stuff.
I was pleased to see how rich the Gunsmith Cats world is -- it's not just Rally and Minnie May, it's their friends, all their past acquaitances, love interests and rivals. You learn just how Minnie May learned about explosives, and you meet Bean Bandit, a rival driver has skills to equal Rally, with none of her scruples. (If the money is there, he does not care!)
This is like reading a 1980s action movie -- fast, furious and fun. Bullets are flying, bodies are falling, the collateral damage is *massive* and everywhere there are guns, guns, guns. I have to wonder if Robert Rodgriez used this as inspiration for Rose McGowan's character in Planet Terror -- Bonnie bears a strong resemblence to Cherry Darling at the end of that Grindhouse gun fest.
Rated 18+ for violence, sexuality and the gleeful, repeated trashing of Rally's Shelby Mustang Cobra GT5000.
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