World Premiere of 'GunSmith Cats' Reboot Anime Short Announced

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Mar 16, 2018 3:53 AM | 35 Comments

On Wednesday, Illinois-based North American convention Anime Central revealed that the event to be held from May 18 to 20 will host the world premiere for the reboot anime short of GunSmith Cats anime. Featuring the new anime's staff members such as the producer and animation director Shujirou Hamakawa (Shuzilow.HA) (Solty Rei original creator), music composer Marco d'Ambrosio (Souten no Ken), and the series' mangaka Kenichi Sonoda.

Revolving around young women fighting off crime in Chicago, the OVA helmed by Takeshi Mori under studio OLM consisted of three episodes following an original story. The first manga series was serialized in Kodansha's monthly Afternoon magazine from December 1990 to April 1997 for eight compiled manga volumes. It was then followed by a five-volume series titled GunSmith Cats Burst, which was also serialized in the same magazine from 2004 to 2008.

ADV Films has licensed the anime for North American VHS release in 1996, followed by a DVD format five years after. In December last year, it has been announced that a Blu-ray format for the OVA is planned to be released by AnimeEigo under a crowdfunding campaign. Additionally, both manga series were licensed in English by Dark Horse Comics from 1996 to 2002 and 2007 to 2010. The manga had another release in omnibus format in 2007.

Source: Anime Central

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Lost_Viking said:

Seiya said:
This is quite interesting.

I'll definitely check it out, that is, as long as the short features Sonoda's character designs.

It will. In fact he's the one behind the entire project and as a kickstarter for it:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/beanbandit/kenichi-sonodas-bean-bandit-new-anime-project

@Cnon @ItsXolo @MrAwesome2018 Kenichi Sonoda himself is talking about possibly making this into a whole movie and/or anime series if he's able.

This will basically be a completely new spinoff that merges the Gunsmith Cats and Riding Bean universes together into a new one and set in modern times. There's already some awesome sketches:

and a short animation thrown together on the kickstarter page itself. The kickstarter is almost at it's goal, about 80% done with 24 days to go, and I just pledged $100 so I hope it succeeds.

So Riding Bean is getting an adaptation too. Great.

May 23, 2018 2:42 PM by Cnon

Lost_Viking said:

Seiya said:
This is quite interesting.

I'll definitely check it out, that is, as long as the short features Sonoda's character designs.

and a short animation thrown together on the kickstarter page itself. The kickstarter is almost at it's goal, about 80% done with 24 days to go, and I just pledged $100 so I hope it succeeds.

I just watched the preview, and it's way too modern looking for my taste.

Also, I don't care for Gunsmith Cats. I won't be supporting this.

May 23, 2018 2:09 PM by _-_Sally_-_

Seiya said:
This is quite interesting.

I'll definitely check it out, that is, as long as the short features Sonoda's character designs.

and a short animation thrown together on the kickstarter page itself. The kickstarter is almost at it's goal, about 80% done with 24 days to go, and I just pledged $100 so I hope it succeeds.

May 23, 2018 2:01 PM by Lost_Viking

I fucking loved the 3-part OVA but won't bother with the reboot. It will prob be heavily censored.

Mar 17, 2018 12:54 PM by MrAwesome2018

Tarotist said:

mozgow said:

Are there any rumours this could happen?

No. Haven't heard of anything that hints that Dirty Pair will come back. I'd love it if it did. Maybe Sunrise won't want to do it because of how much animation they're going to have to do for all the crazy horseballs they cause. ^_^

That's a pity. But based on what is happening right now I'm certain new Dirty Pair anime will happen one day.

Mar 17, 2018 12:43 PM by mozgow

mozgow said:

Tarotist said:
Still waiting on the Dirty Pair revival announcement. The OG Girls-with-Guns anime needs to make a comeback!

Are there any rumours this could happen?

Mar 17, 2018 11:15 AM by Tarotist

Cabron said:

EcchiGodMamsterP said:

and idr the last thing Yamauchi Noriyasu, my personal god, worked on

he was interviewed last year, but unfortunately nothing was said about any new anime projects

those 2 are the greatest anime creating pair to ever exist, they have the same fetishes i do lol

Well that's a shame.
Same here. ;)

Do you know why Nijishima didn't work on Zero, maybe he was busy with another anime at the time?

oh shit, you have the same fetish for that stuff? AIKa is like.. the hottest thing ever xD

the first 4 episode of Najica were hot af too, but after that it wasn't quite as sexy, although still great

yea, thats why i mentioned Yamauchi Noriyasu since hes the face of those fetishes

i'd love an anime based on the Tobimono Museum, that'd be so fucking fap

seriously, we can't have these classic badass female anime coming back and not AIKa.. that is heresy.. nothing beats an action anime where the bad guys and henchmen are all hot girls

Mar 17, 2018 8:57 AM by EcchiGodMamster

EcchiGodMamsterP said:

Cabron said:

My bad heh.
Yeah, I meant a new anime between Zero and Aika.
Agreed, Kajishima needs to get back in the spotlight as director, hasn't directed anything in a long while. Last thing he worked on was on High School Fleet storyboards for ep 8 and 12.

Well that's a shame.
Same here. ;)

Do you know why Nijishima didn't work on Zero, maybe he was busy with another anime at the time?

Mar 17, 2018 8:37 AM by Cabron

Oh hey, an excuse to check out the original, which I've been meaning to do for approximately 18 fucking years. There was a trailer for it on my shitty VHS copy of the Tekken movie. Always looked interesting.

Mar 16, 2018 6:34 PM by Lindle

This is quite interesting.

I'll definitely check it out, that is, as long as the short features Sonoda's character designs.

Mar 16, 2018 12:13 PM by _-_Sally_-_

I have watched this quite recently and it was good. The last episode was the best tho. Hope they don't fuck up the reboot.

Mar 16, 2018 12:05 PM by RobinTK

Tarotist said:
Still waiting on the Dirty Pair revival announcement. The OG Girls-with-Guns anime needs to make a comeback!

Are there any rumours this could happen?

Mar 16, 2018 12:01 PM by mozgow

Cabron said:

EcchiGodMamsterP said:

uh.. wouldn't that be another AIKa anime lol?

i didn't say it had to be after the original lol.. between Zero and Agent AIKA is perfect

anyway, if any older anime needs to come back, i'd do anything for a new AIKa.. my penis can never the world can never have enough AIKa

Mar 16, 2018 11:25 AM by EcchiGodMamster

EcchiGodMamsterP said:

Cabron said:

I wouldn't another Aika anime.
Still needs to tie up a few loose ends that Aika Zero left.

My bad heh.
Yeah, I meant a new anime between Zero and Aika.
Agreed, Nishijima needs to get back in the spotlight as director, hasn't directed anything in a long while. Last thing he worked on was on High School Fleet storyboards for ep 8 and 12.

Mar 16, 2018 11:23 AM by Cabron

Cabron said:

EcchiGodMamsterP said:
Classic sexy badass agent/police girl anime reboot????

LET'S FUCKING GO!!! I loved this anime and I'm so fucking happy these old titles like Cutie Honey are getting sequels

NOW WHERE THE FUCK IS MY NEW AIKA SERIES????

I wouldn't another Aika anime.
Still needs to tie up a few loose ends that Aika Zero left.

Tarotist said:
So many old anime coming back to the light. I've heard of Gunsmith Cats, but have yet to watch it. Looks like this one is just a short though...

Still waiting on the Dirty Pair revival announcement. The OG Girls-with-Guns anime needs to make a comeback!

i already knew this but you are one hell of a man of culture LOL

meanwhile can't fucking wait for Cutie Honey

Mar 16, 2018 10:33 AM by EcchiGodMamster

So many old anime coming back to the light. I've heard of Gunsmith Cats, but have yet to watch it. Looks like this one is just a short though...

Still waiting on the Dirty Pair revival announcement. The OG Girls-with-Guns anime needs to make a comeback!

Mar 16, 2018 9:36 AM by Tarotist

I wouldn't mind another Aika anime.
Still needs to tie up a few loose ends that Aika Zero left.

Mar 16, 2018 9:33 AM by Cabron

Bourmegar said:

EcchiGodMamsterP said: