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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 it’s seldom spoken out. It just happens. The enemies as well as May and Bill have their quirks of killing, however, Rally is specifically fun to watch because of her skill with the gun. She can just shoot a bunch of guys, roll, reload on a knee, and balancing a magazine on her foot, shoot some more. Then she’ll kick her foot up, catch the mag in the air and reload.

The director, Takeshi Mori, had little knowledge of guns before the production of the show, and went out of his way to learn about it. He’s no Watanabe, but I give him props for doing some homework. Some staff members, also, made many trips to Chicago in order to locate Gun shops and Police departments, which increased the shows authenticity.

One flaw is how bland the plot is. It has its twists, but it’s missing that spark a show needs.
The soundtrack is very 90’s, bringing you back to that golden age of city life, though outside of that it isn’t special. Visually, very 90’s too, and I like that.

The show isn’t very special or memorable. It lacks a strong message. All we have is Rally’s final lines: “I have to stand up by myself. That’s what you’ve got to do in this town...” like, it’s a city. What the fuck.