Review of Gunsmith Cats
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 mainconflict 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 room, the anime does a very quick close-up of the website Jonathan is viewing, and then she enters. Apparently, it's just a scene with a comic intention (since the character appears to be watching a pornographic website), but that has its relevance in the following episodes. Or the scene where Bill is talking in Chief George's office. As Bill leaves the room, the Chief receives a phone call from the State Representative, who is above him. (Bill's own phrase as he leaves the room also reinforces this moment: “Being in such a high place, they keep him very busy.”)
All the important information in the anime communicates very well in a visual way.
The character Radinov, in the scene where she is sent to kill Jonathan, in addition to accomplishing her feat, she also kills the other officers who are there. In the confrontation, she gets shot, but is protected by her bulletproof vest (which is a cape), and comes out unscathed from the shooting and returns to her accommodation. In the car chase scene in the second episode, she gets a wound on her ear, and this makes her very angry – even vengeful in the next episode. All this shows that her physical integrity is something very important. It is even more relevant in the final episode, when the character is shot dead by the Rally, and the shot shows the bullets going through her body and being stopped by her cape.
Being visually informative is something that many animes, movies, series, etc. manage to do very well, but Gunsmith Cats has its very agile character and objective of informing. It won't stop precious seconds for the viewer to pay the most attention to that detail and wait for that one to be revealed later. Gunsmith Cats will frame one shot, and will already switch to another shot; shows something happening, corrects the framing and switches to another shot. It's an anime, which even when it's not in an action scene, it's always in constant motion. The continuity of the scenes has a very good sense and rhythm.
It is not an anime that will worry about a dramatization, history or future of the characters and the plot. Everything that is experienced in the anime begins and ends very quickly.
Even some character traits are more immediate and “obvious” with the intention of not having to specify too much about them. May has this more childlike appearance, a voice with a more spontaneous tone, and in action, in a comical way, she displays this more carefree and explosive side. Officer Bill can already be assumed, from his clothes and way of talking, that he is someone brazen and a little ham. Radinov is already this emotionless, rude, superior character.
The way that director Takeshi Mori used, composed and staged elements and characters in the scene, even if some small details, within a very frenetic and informative style worked very well.