Gunsmith Cats Omnibus Booklist Review

Title: Gunsmith Cats Omnibus

Volume: 1

Mangaka: Kenichi Sonoda

Translator: Dana Lewis and Toren Smith

US Publisher: Dark Horse Manga

Age Relevance: Adult (NOT SCHOOL APPROPRIATE)

How Essential Is It?: Unnecessary but Fun (FOR AN ADULT COLLECTION)

Curricular Connections?: N/A

Reader’s Advisory Tags: Action, Pulp, Mystery, Crime

Anime: Yes, but good luck finding it.

Content Warnings: Sexual Harassment, Sexual Assault, Murder, Gun Violence, Prostitution… This manga has all the content warnings. Again. DO NOT BUY THIS FOR A SCHOOL. I warned you!

Publisher Synopsis:

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 vol. 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 vol. 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 vol. 1: Bonnie & Clyde (1996)
Gunsmith Cats vol. 2: Misfire (1997)
Gunsmith Cats vol. 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.

Review: Please read the review on Booklist.