Gunsmith Cats/Trivia

Everything About Fiction You Never Wanted to Know.


  • Hey, It's That Voice!: The anime has most of the cast from Neon Genesis Evangelion doing the voices.
    • Rei is Rally
    • Hikari is Minnie
    • One of the UN Commanders is Bill
    • Asuka is Becky
    • Touji is Johnathan
    • Ritsuko is a news reporter
    • Misato is Kathy
    • Kaji is Haints
    • Aoba played a thug
    • Fuyutsuki is Roy
    • Even Shinji was in there.
  • Mythology Gag: The Anime also has a shout-out to two Manga-only characters when Washington shows Rally two exotic weapons: Bonnie's submachine-gun leg (sans foot) and Gray's sword arm. Rally tells him to stop joking around.
    • Also, Bean has a dream of building his own Cool Car from the ground up. When he succeeds, the resulting vehicle is the one he uses in Riding Bean.
  • Names to Know in Anime: Michiko Neya (Rally), Kae Araki, (May), Aya Hisakawa (Becky), Yoko Soumi (Radinov), Hideyuki Tanaka (Bean Bandit), etc.
  • Shout-Out:Done using the license plates on various cars in the series.
    • BRD-529, the license plate on Rally's Shelby Cobra, is a reference to that of another Cool Car from Chicago. The latter is "BDR-529."
    • The tag on the Mustang that Bean uses in the earlier chapters is "THX 1138", and the tag on Bean's custom car called "The Buff" is TT1000.
    • The tag on Roy's car is MAX 007.
    • Also, if you closely in a crowd scene in the third episode of the OVA, you can spot Hellboy.
    • The tags on Glass's car read ZZ TOP.
    • A random car in the anime has the license plate NCC-1701.
  • Shown Their Work: See Gun Porn on the main page.
    • Not only that, but the anime in particular is extremely exacting about accuracy regarding Chicago. A fan of the manga from Chicago wrote to Sonoda commenting that only two things were missing, the two that she'd happily see gone from the real city - graffiti and litter.