Review of Gunsmith Cats

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 lostit 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 well into the OVA. It is definitely looking like you are in America from the details, I mean I was surprised just by the fact they have the Illinois flag in the first episode.

The music is also something to praise, I find it catchy, funky, with its jazzy vibe. It goes well with most of the parts of the anime. I am not exactly a fan of the ending music, but the opening is pretty rad music and design wise.

Overall, I am pleasantly surprised by the OVA which, from what I understood, is an original story, unrelated to the manga. I would recommend this OVA to anyone that loves police/detective story with a fun and charming lady duo.