Gunsmith Cats Omnibus Volume 1 by Kenichi Sonoda

Gunsmith Cats Omnibus Volume 1

Kenichi Sonoda

Dark Horse Comics · Paperback · March 4, 2025

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!

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Who it’s for
Chicago crime, bounty hunting, and high-speed mayhem make for a sharp-edged manga ride.
Themes
Bounty hunting, Crime in Chicago, Partners in dangerous work
Pacing
Fast

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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.

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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

Fast, Armed, Unruly

Chicago crime, bounty hunting, and high-speed mayhem make for a sharp-edged manga ride.

Come here for

  • Bounty hunters, double-crosses, and car chases across 1990s Chicago
  • A crime manga with guns, big rigs, and a Shelby Cobra

Expect

  • Action-heavy scenes and a crowded cast of allies and adversaries
  • Original Japanese reading direction in an oversized omnibus edition

Where it sits

General Manga90%
Action & Adventure Comics51%
Crime & Mystery Comics43%

Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.

Publisher categories

  • Crime & Mystery Comics
  • General Manga
  • Action & Adventure Comics
Authors
Kenichi Sonoda
Publisher
Dark Horse Comics
Published
March 4, 2025
Format
Paperback
Theme
Bounty hunting · Crime in Chicago · Partners in dangerous work
Reading lane
Crime & Mystery Comics