Título: Gunsmith Cats Omnibus Volume 1
Autor: Kenichi Sonoda
Sinopse: 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. 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
Contexto da obra
Como livro em inglês, esta obra costuma ganhar também uma camada própria de interesse editorial e linguístico. “Gunsmith Cats Omnibus Volume 1”, de Kenichi Sonoda, publicado pela editora Dark Horse Manga, em 2025 e com 616 páginas, integra a categoria Livros em Inglês. Por isso, o interesse da obra tende a se ampliar quando o leitor considera também a relação com a língua em que ela circula.
Editora: Dark Horse Manga
Páginas: 616
Ano: 2025-03-04
Edição:
Linguagem: en
ISBN: 1506746225
ISBN13: 9781506746227
Sobre a editora
Os livros da editora Dark Horse Manga oferecem uma experiência de leitura imersiva, frequentemente marcada por narrativas densas e personagens complexos, muitas vezes em cenários sombrios ou fantásticos. O catálogo privilegia histórias que combinam ação intensa e elementos sobrenaturais, como guerras épicas, horror e conflitos psicológicos, com ritmo que alterna entre momentos de tensão e pausas reflexivas. Há obras que exploram dilemas morais profundos e outras que apostam em tramas de mistério e suspense, incluindo jogos mortais e investigações. Além disso, o material sugere um interesse por produções que valorizam o visual, seja em edições deluxe com arte detalhada ou em narrativas que dialogam com o universo do anime e da cultura pop japonesa.
