GunSmith Cats Burst
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Rally Vincent and Minnie-May Hopkins are two regular American girls. Regular American girls who own a gun shop, and might have dabbled in prostitution, respectively. And who happen to be a crack shot and an explosives expert, respectively. These might be odd skills for American girls, but these two happen to be Chicago's top bounty hunters. Rally can shoot the trigger off a gun from a good distance, and May generally wreaks havoc with explosions and cuteness. And together, with some very useful friends and associates, they make up the Gunsmith Cats. Burst finds our ladies back at work, back in action, and...back in trouble. (Source: Dark Horse)
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Jul 24, 2004 to Sep 25, 2008
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Irene Vincent537 fan favoritesExternal profileMaster gunsmith, highly successful bounty hunter, and all-around action girl, Rally Vincent's love of guns and fast cars came from her father. He vanished under mysterious circumstances when she was young, and she entered the bounty hunting profession to gain easier access to both sides of law, in an effort to find him. Over the years, she has made many close friends and even more committed enemies. She operates both her gunsmithing and bounty hunting business from a small shop in Chicago. (Source: BESM)
May Hopkins120 fan favoritesExternal profileAge: 17, 19 (Chapter 23) Diminuative Minnie-May Hopkins was working as an under-age prostitute at a brothel in Chicago's China Town before her iron resolve, talent with explosives, and great demeanor with the customers at the Gunsmith Cat Gunshop caused Rally Vincent to hire her as her assistant. May can hide armed explosives in just about anything, and is therefore equally expert at finding and disarming bombs placed by others. She usually carries a variety grenades and explosives hidden about her person, ranging from harmless smokebombs to deadly fragmentation grenades. May learned her trade from Ken Taki (a.k.a. Takizawa) a special effects expert and infamous bomb maker. He is a former mob hitman who has gone straight. (Source: BESM)
Goldie Musou5 fan favoritesExternal profileArguably the most ruthless of Rally's opponents. Of Italian ancestry, "Iron Goldie" is a high-ranking member of a mob family in Sicily. Many call her a Mafia Queen. She is an incredible hand-to-hand combatant, and is quite skilled at creating complex plans, which, though often successful, often make plain her cavalier attitude towards her subordinates. She is a pathological personality, the textbook definition of a "control freak." She is obsessed with controlling everything and everyone around her. People who resist her successfully, such as Rally, become even more attractive to her. She is a lesbian, though she tends to express it as a form of sadistic pedophilia. She keeps a trademark harem of young girls who have murdered their parents while under the influence of her drugs. She and Rally crossed paths many times, and the bounty hunter is usually quite lucky to escape with her life and the lives of her friends. However, this is far better than any of Goldie's previous opponents have done, and repeated escapes quickly turn the mobster's appreciation for her skills into a dedicated sexual obsession. Finally, Goldie decides that she will make Rally her masterpiece, a slave broken to her will through sheer psychological torture without the aid of drugs. The linchpin of her power base is psychopharmacology, or the use of hallucinogenic drugs similar to LSD. Over the years she has developed an incredibly effective method of mind control. The first thing she does after she gains chemical control of someone she considers a worthy "pet" is order him or her to kill his or her loved ones. The alternative to the chemically induced fantasy world she had built for her puppets is a reality where they have murdered everyone who cared for them, she has yet to lose control of a subject whom she has completely enslaved. Her current empire is based on a powerful designer drug called Kerasine, which is also a major plot device of the series. It is a compound that she knows how to produce cheaply but has yet to be reverse-engineered by chemists outside of her organization. Its popularity is due to both its low cost and its ability to produce the effects of several different drugs: a small amount is a stimulant like cocaine, a larger amount is a euphoric similar to heroin, and the entire contents of a vial combines both with a powerful hallucinogenic effect similar to lysergic acid diethylamide. All this comes with a nasty side effect—a user of the drug can be given hypnotic commands while he or she is under its influence. Currently, it is the most popular drug in the world of the manga. Several storylines detail Rally's efforts to prevent Goldie from flooding Chicago with this mind-bending substance, including one which involves using Rally's father, through Kerasine inducement, in which he becomes Goldie's personal assassin. No voice actors have been added to this character. Help improve our database by searching for a voice actor, and adding this character to their roles .
Misty Brown1 fan favoritesExternal profileAn expert sneak thief, cat-burglar and lockpick, she joins up with Rally and Minnie-May after having been caught by them and serving time for various criminal activities. She is prone to becoming a damsel in distress, and subsequently has to be bailed out by her friends. She is 15 years old when she first appears in the series. Misty doesn't carry any guns but is quite adept in the use of knives (wielded and thrown). She also has a crush on Rally, although at the end of the series she also expresses an interest in Bean Bandit. No voice actors have been added to this character. Help improve our database by searching for a voice actor, and adding this character to their roles .
