The Explosive Edition is out of print!

The Gunsmith Cats Explosive Edition Kickstarter was our most successful yet -- almost 5000 backers!

The Gunsmith Cats OVAs were based on the manga of the same name, created by famous manga artist Kenichi Sonoda. Gunsmith Cats is a semi-reboot of Mr. Sonoda's Riding Bean manga, which was also made into an anime. Both Riding Bean and another Sonoda-related anime, Otaku no Video, have been released as limited-edition Blu-ray sets, and we still have some copies available.

The Explosive Edition is available in two core variants:

The Basic Set ($40) includes the all 3 OVAs in both English and Japanese on a max-bitrate BD50 all-region high-definition disc.

The disc itself has multiple subtitle variants -- colored (color-blind friendly), colored SDH, captioned SDH (similar to "Netflix-style") and captioned English SDH. There are 3 commentary tracks - two in Japanese featuring Kenichi Sonoda, Arai Masahiro, Kazaana Takanori, Mori Takeshi and Satō Hiroki, and one in English featuring Matt Greenfield and Tiffany Grant (OVA 1), Bennett the Sage and Marc Swint (OVA 2) and Amanda Winn Lee and Kimberly Yates (OVA3).

On-disc extras also include the original production documentary, an updated production documentary, a how-to-draw tutorial by Mr. Sonoda, an artwork slideshow, a clean version of the opening credits, a list of all the project backers (as of the time we went into production), and more.

The basic set comes in an amaray case with a reversible cover slip and a 9-panel insert which contains a new original poster and a list of all the backers. It also includes sticker sheet suitable for adorning your laptop or vehicle. And just to be nice, we threw in a second copy of the sticker sheet and two postcards!

The Premium Set ($70) includes everything in Basic, plus a 176-page Amaray-sized full-color Artbook that fits together with the amaray in a colorful chipboard case, and a very special dojinshi “thinbook”. The artbook contains existing and new artwork, plus an extensive collection of original production settei (design drawings) and the results of the fan art contest we ran as part of the Kickstarter campaign.

The thinbook contains a new 4-page color manga short by Mr. Sonoda, as well as new Gunsmith Cats illustrations by Mr. Sonoda,  KOTOBUKI Tukasa (Mobile Suit Gundam: THE ORIGIN), UEDA Hajime (FLCL), and TADANO Kazuko (Sailor Moon),

All of the new artwork created for the Explosive Edition is available online in high-resolution form (including PDFs of the artbook)

International Intrigue: If you order a Blu-ray for delivery to Canada, our Shipping Ninjas will cleverly redirect your order to a Toronto fulfillment warehouse, which means no Customs duty or processing fees! One caveat, however: your order can't also contain items that have to be shipped from the USA — the warehouse only has the Blu-rays. We can also handle our other Blu-rays this way as well.

Add On Items

In addition to the main sets, we produced some add-on items available only to backers.