This review is spoiler free. Im just gonna be upfront here: if you like pulp crime Gunsmith Cats is for you. Gunsmiths Cats is guns cars girls and explosions. If that sounds awesome it is then watch it. If I doesnt well I dont know what to tell ya Gunsmith Cats is pure pulp. At no moment does it take itself seriously try to lay out a complex web or delve deeply into the characters complexities. Everything is perfectly written to exude this pulp feeling. The first bad guy we meet is called Jonathan Washington. The chief of police is called George Black. Yes they sound dumb as hell. Yes its awesome anyway. The short little series is set in Chicago. Or at least what Chicago looks like to Japanese people a fantastic establishing shot shows an ad of a business man and two kids that reads I AM AN AMERICAN. Chicagoans might disagree but I think it nails the look of Chicago if one that is sometimes slightly ridiculous. The iconic train lines of The Loop the drawbridges the grey skyscrapers. Perfect. 500https://i.ur.com/YI2Ro4M.png Like it or not this is how America looks to the rest of us. Our two main characters: Rally Vincent the gunwielding mustangdriving badass and Minnie May the klutzy explosives expert whos signature is a grenade with a lipstick kiss on it. The rest of our line up hits all the marks for a perfect crime set up inducing the dodgy cop Bill Collins who blackmails our heroines into helping him with a bust. 500https://c.tenor.com/l8r2B3cYXoAAAAd/gunsmithcats90sanime.gif Theres nothing to eat After that youre in for 90 minutes of crime shooting and driving. Theres nothing more you could ask for. Its so often spectacularly cliche the plots twists and turns are so familiar its funny. And thats exactly what this show is trying to be. This is what pulp is. Its genius. And on top of that it looks and sounds fantastic. The animation is slick. Lots of attention has been paid to make the guns and cars look good. And Rally always follows correct gun safety. The work done on driving animation was remarkable. Its hard to get driving looking as smooth as it does without CGI and yet its got a cracking car chase. The sound design was awesome. Apparently they even recorded audio of an actual Shelby Cobra GT500 Rallys car. I believe it the car sounded like music to my ears. 500https://64.media.tumblr.com/8a16864f8672339e64fb7227bf73e0b8/d0157affd127258d7b/s540x810/15998ffb6508627412f6027ea0b0e17b84635cf5.gifv Even the number plate is awesome. Negatives? I cant think of any. My only complaint is that there isnt more. Gunsmith Cats is so much fun. I discovered this ages ago but put off watching this for a long time dont be like me Its 90 minutes Just watch it