Dark Horse Manga Releases Gunsmith Cats Burst Omnibus Sets in 2026

Dark Horse Manga has announced that it will release the Gunsmith Cats manga sequel, Gunsmith Cats Burst, in two omnibus editions in 2026. The first volume will arrive in January 2026 and the second volume will arrive in March 2026. 

Kenichi Sonoda’s Gunsmith Cats Burst was serialized in Kodansha’s Monthly Afternoon magazine from July 24, 2004 to September 25, 2008. Five total tankobon volumes were originally released in Japan. Dark Horse first released the sequel series in English between May 2007 to April 2010. 

The sequel manga’s first omnibus volume is expected to be released in bookstores on January 6, 2025, and comic shops on January 7, 2025. The main synopsis is described as: 

Rally and ace transporter Bean Bandit find themselves well outside city limits—and deep in the heart of Texas. After Bean’s vehicle is swiped, Rally hires Bean to get her and her bounty back to Chicago in a rental car, but the car only has half a tank of gas. Pretty soon, Bean’s got to get out and push! The desperate situation gets worse when they seek sanctuary at a remote motel far off the interstate with mob hitmen on their trail.

Meanwhile, there’s a new cop in Chicago: the mustachioed, Mustang Mach 1-driving Inspector Percy Bacharach, late of the Detroit P.D. Bean Bandit has wrecked a few too many squad cars in the Motor City, so Percy is transferred to Chicagoland to pursue Bean. He isn’t here to bring Bean under arrest, either—Percy is on a collision course with Bean in a duel to the death on the highway!

Meanwhile, the second omnibus volume will be available in bookstores on March 17, 2026, and comic shops on March 18, 2026. Its main synopsis is described as: 

An illegal road race exclusively for V8 freaks is underway. While big-money bets from the audience fly 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!

The chaos continues in Chicago, where old grudges and assumed dead arch-enemies return to put Rally in the crosshairs of some dangerous people. Mob boss Goldie has lost her memory and her crew wants Rally to do whatever it takes to bring her back. That might prove hazardous for Rally, who happens to be the one who put a bullet in Goldie’s head.

Dark Horse Manga previously announced the release of omnibus volumes for the Gunsmith Cats manga this past year, with the first volume being released on February 4, 2025. 

Gunsmith Cats was written and illustrated by Sonoda and ran in Kodansha’s Monthly Afternoon magazine from February 1991 to June 1997. Eight total tankobon volumes were released. 

The manga also inspired a 3-episode OVA series from OLM between 1995 and 1996. ADV Films first licensed the series for release in English in 1996. 

Dark Horse Manga describes the synopsis of Gunsmith Cats as:

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. 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!

But Rally and Minnie-May have their work cut out for them in Gunsmith Cats Omnibus Volume 1, with corrupt lawyers and cops, fetish-fueled hitmen, and crazed cocaine kingpins bringing the copters, the big rigs, and even the anti-tank guns onto the streets and the freeways of Chicagoland in a windshield whirlwind of double-crosses, car chases, and shootouts!

Source: Dark Horse Comics Official Website