I regret to inform everyone that Gunsmith Cats was not nearly as good as Riding Bean. Lower production values aside, the main reason was that it was not as awesome as Riding Bean. There were really only a few flashes of that sort of Crank-esque craziness in Gunsmith Cats, like when May drops the armful of grenades onto the mobster in the warehouse. Otherwise, it generally had a kind-of-decent, could-be-better vibe to it.
hnnnnnnnnnng?
One thing that Gunsmith Cats had that Riding Bean did not, however is tons of gun porn. I mean that in every sense of the phrase. It’s not that the show has lots of gunfights. No, it’s because the show lavishes screen time on guns, and on all kinds of guns. Screenshots like the one above are all over the place. Without fail, every time there is a gunfight (and there are plenty of them), rest assured that every character will have a very different kind of gun, and the mise en scene of shots of the character firing the gun will generally be arranged in a way so that the details of the gun are the focus of the shot.
Unfortunately for me, as a socialist, communist, Maoist, baby-killing, lie-beral, east coast media elite, un-Real American, ACORN operative (are there any other epithets that I missed?), I don’t care at all about guns so all that gun porn did nothing for me. I’ll stick to fighter jet and warship porn instead, thank you very much.
On the other hand, I would very much like the gun porn myself. Though seeing as how I live in the Modern Warfare age and Gunsmith Cats comes from the age of Myth and Legend (and Xena and Hercules), most of the guns I’m really interested in wouldn’t have existed yet.
On the other hand, I would very much like the gun porn myself. Though seeing as how I live in the Modern Warfare age and Gunsmith Cats comes from the age of Myth and Legend (and Xena and Hercules), most of the guns I’m really interested in wouldn’t have existed yet.
+1
+2, except being oldfag I know about the older guns and am *very* interested in them.
The first thing I noticed about Gunslinger Girl’s first volume cover, for example, was not Henrietta but rather the two-tone SigSauer P239 lying on her chest. I came for the gun porn and subsequently realized it was an interesting story, but every once in a while my eyes just made a beeline straight to the guns and I’d marvel at the artist’s loving attention to detail.
Gunsmith Cats I’ve only read a bit of the manga, but I get a lot of the same feelings from reading it, albeit with quite a bit less substance than GSG. The author has a hard on for czech weapons, and who am I to disagree with his taste? Rally’s CZ-75 is more delicious to me than the woman holding it.
The manga itself? Eh, Bean is cool when he made an appearance once in a while. I don’t remember much else.
Round these parts, we just call y’all “gun grabbers”. Saves on the dehydration from all of the spittle, y’know.
The Gun Smith Cats OAVs were kind of forgettable, if I’m remembering them correctly. Not nearly as crazy and sketchy as the comic, which is just full of black-and-grey morality, heroic drug dealers, allegedly sympathetic pedophilic explosives experts, brain-washing charismatic lesbian kingpins, and a much, much more insane and corrupt version of that crazy cop from Riding Bean.
The comic, in point of fact, was just plain nuts. It was closer to cyperpunk than Blues Brothers.
This reminds me: I chuckled when I had a similar realization regarding the elaborate attention to detail given to Bardiche (versus Fate) in Nanoha A’s.
well, loved it for gun porn and crazy characters…
“When in doubt, lob another grenade” – Minnie May