Gunsmith Cats: Burst Omnibus Volume 2

The sequel to classic manga Gunsmith Cats!

When mobster Goldie returns with amnesia, Rally is forced to help Goldie remember her past—for example, like that time Rally tried to kill her!

Rally Vincent runs Gunsmith Cats—a gun shop in Illinois with her partner, demolitions expert and former call girl Minnie-May Hopkins. But Rally’s “real” job doesn’t pay the bills, her hobby does. And her hobby is bounty hunting, bringing the most wanted men and women in the Chicago area to justice—dressed in her sharp suit and tie, and driving her Shelby Cobra GT 500!

In Gunsmith Cats Burst Omnibus vol. 2, an illegal road race exclusively for V8 freaks is underway. While big-money bets from the audience are flying fast and furious online, Rally’s behind the wheel of her new Mustang II King Cobra to keep a tail on Bean Bandit. Bean’s the favorite to win the race…but his obsessed nemesis Detective Percy is in the contest too. And Percy’s not what you’d call a clean cop—in fact he’s so dirty, he’s taking a 10% cut of the bets…plus he plans to throw the odds by having Bean wrecked by hired mercenaries armed with rocket-propelled grenades!

Then it’s back to Rally’s side hustle of bounty hunting—but before she can collect on a Mafia informer who’s jumped bail, he’s downed by a sniper working for none other than Rally’s own arch-enemy, Iron Goldie. She’s been assumed deceased ever since Rally put a bullet in her head, but Goldie’s not out for revenge—because she doesn’t remember who shot her! There’s more than just old grudges at stake; Goldie’s also forgotten her valuable designer drug formula, and her henchman wants Rally’s help in getting his boss’s memory back. That might prove a little dangerous for Rally, but the Mob’s hostage might convince her to cooperate…

The Gunsmith Cats Burst Omnibus is using the 2000s unflopped version of the manga, so that it reads in the original Japanese style, from right to left.

For mature audiences.

Collects chapters 22-50 of Burst, plus the final chapter “Faces of Chicago.”

Author Biography

Kenichi Sonoda is an iconic artist of the retro anime aesthetic. He was the character designer for the classic 1980s cyberpunk saga Bubblegum Crisis, and in the 1990s for Otaku no Video, the anime from legendary studio Gainax (Neon Genesis Evangelion) that popularized the term “otaku.” In 2024, Kenichi Sonoda was given the prestigious Inkpot Award at San Diego Comic-Con.

Gunsmith Cats is Sonoda’s longest manga series, making its original 1991 debut in Kodansha’s Afternoon magazine, home of such stories as Vinland Saga, Blade of the Immortal, Oh My Goddess! and Wandering Island.

Kenichi Sonoda traces his roots to Kumamoto, Japan, where in recent years he has become the 19th family head of his ancestral wagashi (traditional Japanese confectionery) shop, founded in 1582—for which Sonoda now designs character mascots!