title: "Dark Horse’s Gunsmith Cats Omnibus Volume 3 Ends the Original Run With Rare" Riding Bean Extras excerpt: "Dark Horse’s final Gunsmith Cats omnibus wraps the original manga, adds rare" Riding Bean chapters, and gives English readers a much easier collector pickup. category: anime date: '2026-04-18T00:03:01+08:00' author: Aimirul tags:
- Gunsmith Cats
- Dark Horse Comics
- Kenichi Sonoda
- Riding Bean
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Dark Horse Comics has wrapped up its latest English re-release of Gunsmith Cats with Omnibus Volume 3, and for longtime fans, this is easily the big one to watch.
This final collection closes out Kenichi Sonoda’s original manga run with Rally Vincent and Minnie-May Hopkins back in full chaos mode. The book picks up with Rally caught inside a messy custody dispute linked to crooked lawyers, a disgraced magician, and stolen mob money. From there, things escalate hard when Goldie, one of the series’ most infamous enemies, comes back carrying a new mind-control drug and a very personal agenda against Rally.
If that already sounds like a lot, yeah, memang very Gunsmith Cats. Loud, pulpy, stylish, and never exactly subtle.
What makes this omnibus especially interesting is not just the ending stretch of the main story. Volume 3 also includes four Riding Bean manga chapters that were previously only released in English in the now very hard-to-find 2008 Gunsmith Cats Revised Edition Volume 4. There are also a few gag manga pages connected to the making of the Riding Bean OVA. For collectors in Malaysia and across SEA, that is a pretty big win. Instead of hunting an old out-of-print edition at ridiculous resale prices, readers can get the material inside a current release that is much easier to track down.
The omnibus covers chapters 47 to 75 of the original manga, which means it handles the final major portion of the series. One thing to know first: it starts partway through the Kidnapped arc, so this is not the smoothest place for newcomers to jump in. If you are brand new, better start from Omnibus Volume 1 first. But if you have already been following the re-release, this volume is where the emotional and dramatic payoff really lands.
The main draw is Mister V, a major arc that digs into Rally’s past and gives readers more of the family history the series had mostly kept at arm’s length. It also brings Goldie back into the spotlight, which immediately pushes the stakes higher. Goldie remains a deeply disturbing villain, and the material here gets heavy fast. The book includes violence, abuse, coercion, psychological harm, and frequent nudity, so this is definitely not one of those retro manga rereleases you hand to just anyone without context.
That said, Sonoda’s strengths are still super clear here. His action scenes stay easy to follow, the gunplay still hits, and the cars and weapons have that precise mechanical detail fans love. The Riding Bean chapters look rougher and more 1980s compared to later Gunsmith Cats, but that is part of the charm. You can see the earlier version of Sonoda’s ideas forming on the page before they fully evolved into Gunsmith Cats.
This edition is translated by Dana Lewis and Toren Smith, with lettering by Studio Cutie. It runs 650 pages with a US$30 cover price, which is honestly a solid deal for a book this chunky. Malaysian readers will still need to account for import markup depending on where they buy, but the value proposition is way better than chasing scarce older editions.
Why should SEA readers care? Simple. English releases of older cult manga do not always get proper, affordable reprints, especially for action-heavy titles like this. So when a publisher actually preserves the full run and bundles in rare extras, it matters. For anime and manga fans here who grew up loving stylish old-school crime stories, car chases, and gun-heavy action, this is the kind of release worth paying attention to.
Dark Horse is also expected to give sequel series Gunsmith Cats Burst the omnibus treatment this year, so Volume 3 feels less like a full stop and more like the handoff to the next chapter for English readers.
Source: Anime News Network