Audience reviews
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oceandiscoverer
Gunsmith Cats is a visual treat. The animation and character designs are perfect. A beautifully 90s vibe. The music is just as stellar and adds so much to the scenes. The action easily tops some of the big animes of today. However, the story is rather lackluster.
The story is definitely something you’ve seen before. That’s not to say it isn’t interesting and endearing. Just go into this for everything around the story. The story is a fry and everything else is the ketchup. It does have it’s suspenseful moments though. Probably the best thing it does in a story regard. Most of the characters are extremely lovable and you will be rooting for them almost immediately. So the tense moments and emotional beats work very well.
I highly recommend especially for what is a quick watch. It’s such…
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"If they made girls in modern anime as beautiful as this, they'd execute the animator" - 4chan anon on Rally Vincent, circa 2015
I can't believe this OVA came out over 30 years ago. Gunsmith Cats is probably one of the most aesthetically pleasing animations out there. The girls, the guns, the cars - all tailored to perfection. You can't really call this a show though, being that there are only 3 episodes and less than 2 hours of content. You can knock this out in one sitting, and that's just another reason I highly recommend this. Gunsmith Cats is short and sweet. If you like cool cars, guns, and badass women - Gunsmith Cats was made for you. I really wish they did more with this, because as others have said, it is like a highly concentrated serving of what made Cowboy Bebop so exciting.…
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Gunsmith Cats is a series I keep coming back to without really planning to. I'll put it on for a scene or two, and before I know it, I've watched the entire OVA again. It's short, punchy, and still easy to enjoy after all these years. I recently rewatched this three-episode run from the mid-90s, and honestly? It’s a great time. It’s also full of noticeable flaws, but they're the kind that give it personality rather than dragging it down.
The Core Vibe: Chicago, Gun Oil, and Dynamite
The premise is simple: you've got Rally Vincent, who runs a gun shop in Chicago. She's a crack shot, a good driver, and basically the coolest big-sister figure the 90s ever animated. Then you've got her business partner, May Hopkins, who is a tiny, cheerful, walking war crime with a pathological love for expl…
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Gunsmith Cats is possibly one of the best animes to come from the late 90’s in terms of animation at the least, The car chase scene, The little things like them loading the magazines into the guns just phenomenal animation
The story isn't anything crazy, Just two girls and some guns but I'd say this was definitely worth a watch, Good enough for casual people to sit through but nothing crazy
I'd rank this a solid 7/10, I haven't read it as of writing this but I suggest reading the manga if you do enjoy this since they do a lot more in the manga from what I gather from the amount of chapters alone
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Guns: for days
Smith: well, Rally runs a gunshop? that's like half a gunsmith
Cats: only in the intro. I really thought there would be more cat ears in this show
Fortunately, Rally and Mae are absolutely stacked with appeal, so it actually took until about half-way through the OVA for me to realize there are no cats in this show at all. All of the dude characters are somewhere between lame and obnoxious, but most of the runtime is spent on Rally and Mae bouncing off of each other and pulling each other out of tight spots. The action is well choreographed and paced, meaning that there are a lot of "Hell yeah" moments. Rally's irritable and reliable, and Mae is girly and impulsive.
It's just fun! I can think of much worse ways to spend an hour and a half.
Read at the sourceLongnines
A duo of girls with a vigilante streak are strongarmed by the ATF to do some odd jobs that lead to the discovery of internal corruption. As the information trail gets followed, the danger of the situation rises.
Gunsmith Cats is comprised of 3 25ish-minute-long episodes and watches like a classic 80s action flick starring two hot-headed women. There is the noir detective, the car chase, the hitman (or hitwoman), the shoot-'em-up scenes, and the predictable and timeless progression of things going from bad to worse until they finally get better. There is even a bit of fanservice built right into it.
The animation is great, the characters are kept fairly simple in their dialogues, and the plot can only be said to have aged gracefully. ATF? Internal corruption? Selling confiscated firearms…
Read at the sourceDrakestalker
Provided that this is conjecture on my part, I put it to you that Gunsmith Cats is the show that would go on to ultimately inspire the visual identity of Cowboy Bebop. In actual fact, it is little more than Cowboy Bebop with cute girls. Based on the manga by Sonoda Kenichi, serialized in Kodansha's Monthly Afternoon magazine, it was produced by studio OLM in 1995. You might know it as the studio behind the original 1997 Berserk anime.
Gunsmith Cats is the story of Irene Vincent, Rally for short, May Hopkins, and Becky Farrah, the members of the Gunsmith Cats freelance bounty hunter company, which also doubles as a walk-in gun store.
The story of GSC is mediocre at best. Devil-may-care Spike Spiegel wannabe law enforcement agent hires the GSC girls to help him with an investigation, they…
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An anime with perfect production, but an average script.
Gunsmith Cats is technically sensational, the soundtracks are very good, a very unique atmosphere, very good animation, a simply impeccable artistic direction, a very eye-catching design and an excellent visual representation of Chicago, making it a series that is well worth watching just by its technical terms.
However, narratively speaking it is well mediated, the characters are only supported by charisma, fun situations and an interesting story, but not so well used.
At least it's a really fun anime to Watch.
In portuguese
Um anime com uma produção perfeita, mas um roteiro mediano.
Gunsmith Cats é tecnicamente sensacional, as trilhas sonoras muito boas, uma atmosfera muito única, uma animação muito boa, uma direção artística sim…
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After asking a friend on Discord who the cute girl in their profile picture was (it was Becky), I decided to watch Gunsmith Cats. In the end, I had a great time with this little story! If you want an anime take on those classic American action shows/films, this is for you! Awesome action, jazzy music, a fun story, and good comedy! The story had me invested and the pacing was great, so I never felt bored and time flew by. If this was a full length series some issues may have popped up and I might of bumped it down to a 9, but it felt perfect with this short length.
One last thing I'd like to praise the show for is the art. I always have a soft-spot for traditional/non-digital animation, and this is no exception. The background and setting art was beautiful, and it was especially fun to see…
Read at the sourceLionBolt1921
Explosions, Car chases, a killer soundtrack, and plenty of gunslinging action. It isn't often one finds buried treasure, but that was how it felt to discover this hidden gem of an OVA. Set in my home city of Chicago, Gunsmith Cats stands out for its unique setting for an anime and the high quality it infuses in each of its three episodes. Despite its short length, the series feels full of content and life, leaving the viewer satisfied, if wanting more.
Story: The premise is rather straightforward—bounty hunters Rally Vincent and Minnie May get roped into helping an ATF investigation filled with danger and action at every turn. The highlights of the series are its high-octane action sequences, tailor-made for a Western audience accustomed to Hollywood action movies and 70s cop shows. Gun f…
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Instant favorite! It feels like an old school American action movie and there wasn't a single scene wasted! The artstyle, the sound design, the animation; it's all perfect! Even has the classic American-style pacing and storytelling you'd expect from 80s and 90s Hollywood films!!
Much like Lupin III: Castle of Cagliostro I went in without any expectations or prior knowledge of the series (other than its connection with Riding Bean, another awesome anime) and once again I got a complete and satisfying story from beginning to end. It's a simple one, but it works and the creators made sure to get the most out of it.
What an opening too! One of my favorites for sure! So full of colour and energy!! This is what an anime opening (or any opening for that matter!) should be like! Banger OST as w…
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Gunsmith Cats is a cool as hell cop comedy with a heaping dose of drama, and is delightfully 90s right down to its very bones. Needless to say, this makes for a pretty excellent time. Beginning with the story, it's set up in such a way so as to evoke an unmistakably American flavor, and this is a repeating theme throughout the show's 3 episode run. It manages to blend plot progression with comedy and action in a seamlessly Americanized style, which not only makes for an engaging story but is also simply a feat of writing and directing on its own. Of course, it does feel a little predictable, but with this kind of story that's not really that big of a deal as long as it reaches that obvious ending with some style.
This leads me into the art, which is easily the best part of Gunsmith Cats.…
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Gunsmith Cats at the same time is an anime that preserves a dynamic and flow of very engaging and comic events, but also manages to give a very revealing sense to some very small and subtle details, which are enhanced in the middle of the action and scenes.
The best quality of the anime is the way it solves itself in a very practical and direct way. All anime plans have this very agile and objective character, not only in action scenes, but also in their dialogues and more informative plans.
Although the anime is divided into 3 episodes, and both have their own "end", the main conflict exists and connects in both. This one, of course, will be more present until the last episode arrives. There's a scene in the first episode, when Rally goes to Jonathan for a deal. Before she enters the ro…
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A boring utterly generic plot, solidly done animation, amazing detail work especially on Rally's G.T 500 and all the guns. And some of the worst voice acting I've ever heard. Honestly there is nothing really unique about Gunsmith Cats that brings me to recommend it. Everything here is rather middling, unless you care a lot about firearms your not going to get much out of this. It feels like a good concept that no one put enough effort into to really sell it.
At the end of the day, Gun Smith Cats feels like filler. You could do a lot better.
But you could also do a lot worse.
I feel the urge to add an extra paragraph, many months after watching this anime. Mostly to address the sudden wave of popularity it has gotten.
Just because it agrees with your politics, does not make an anime g…
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Number of Episodes: 3 (about 30 minutes an episode)
Plot: C *Rally Vincent is a bounty hunter from Chicago who owns just about every gun you can think of. She is roommates with May Hopkins, an explosives expert and they are best friends with Becky Farah, an expert hacker/whatever else the plot needs her to be. The duo gets blackmailed by a government ATF agent who wants them to track down an illegal guns dealer which leads to a bunch of shootouts, car chases, and a bunch of mindless fun. This isn't a show you watch for the plot. It's rather basic and at times is laughably bad, but it's a lot of fun.
Visuals: A+ *The reason I watched this in the first place. My roommate was on his Xbox watching a YouTube video that was talking about this show and just from glimpsing at the panels, I fell…
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>badass female characters who kick a hundred kinds of ass
>real guns and cars drawn/animated with painstaking amounts of detail
>brisk pace and engaging intrigue
>insane action choreography, direction, and editing
>magnetic and loveable characters (did i mention the leads kick a hundred kinds of ass?) >absolutely kickass jazz fusion OST by legendary drummer Peter Erskine
>main bad guys are literally the ATF and corrupt establishment liberal politicians
an absolute blast with infinite rewatchability factor. everything is so concise and delivers exactly what you'd expect, with that aforementioned impeccable attention to detail keeping the zany, loud action grounded. Rally and May are just impossible not to love, and their comaraderie carries the entire show and its flawless technical…
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Simple yet lovely. I had the great pleasure to watch Gunsmith Cats OVA in its HD edition from AnimEigo's Explosive Edition. While the story is pretty straightforward, I can't help finding lots of the charm to its cast of characters: Rally Vincent and Minnie May are really a fun duo to watch. On top of this, the story never get boring and the 3 episodes connect pretty well with each other. For a very quick summary of the story, our 2 ladies are basically working with the ATF (and particularly ATF agent Billy) in order to regain their license to buy weapons. They obviously lost it due to the ATF, so it brings up some funny tension between Rally, Minnie and Billy.
I was greatly surprise by the level of details in the background art, the guns, the cars etc, they are all brilliantly working we…
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I suppose it only makes sense to use contemporary anime as a benchmark with which to compare this show against, as that is what most people will be able to relate with; and is likely to be the most prominent concern for viewers used to that visual standard when considering picking up an older show like this for an afternoons entertainment. I would say to that, that it's a 3 part OVA and so it's not that big of a commitment, the second and third episodes are also very much the same as the first so you can get a feel for the show quite quickly and decide if it's for you or not. Much of the shows charm is that it stands on its own as a story without the need to rely on (too many) tropes and set pieces. So if you like something more original, or at least as original as an 80's action type show…
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With it’s upbeat music, angled action sequences, explosions, and guns, Gunsmith Cats is made to feel like an American 90’s film featuring bounty-hunting action. The main characters find trouble, get blackmailed. Crazy shit will happen first, the cops come after. The twist is that two cute girls are main characters.
Vincent (Rally) is the one in charge. She does things her way and wants to do it alone. Minnie May is the crazy-explody girl who loves to end every event with a bang. They live together and share a strong bond. There’s also Becky, who isn’t nearly as bold as the main two, thus being often ignored.
The action events can get pretty intense, and are executed well. When Rally is in a pinch, the show will leave you wondering what she’s thinking. She appears to have a set plan, but…
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It's January and time to begin girls with guns month. Gunsmith Cats was a manga written by Sonoda Kenichi that ran from '91 to '97. In '95, OLM, Inc. released a three episode OVA. Incidentally, OLM also worked on Steel Angel Kurumi 2, Berserk and the anime that never ends or changes, Pokemon. So, let's take a look at the OVA and see if it's worth the three episodes.
Story:
Rally Vincent & Minnie-May Hopkins are bounty hunters who also work as gunsmiths. After a mission, they're approached by agent too much hair oil of the ATF. He coerces them into working for him, using the gun shop as leverage because Rally, apparently, couldn't be bothered to get a proper license. Someone is sabotaging the ATF's operation to find the mastermind behind the man they just captured and several other illic…
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