thor123

Edited at 18/03/2016

If you ever heard about Gunmania, it's probably because you heard about the author elsewhere: after all, this is a short manga written by Kouta Hirano, the guy who is known mainly for his works Hellsing and, more recently, Drifters. I haven't read Drifters yet, but I'm familiar with Hellsing, and his style in Hellsing seems to be the same as in Gunmania... kinda.

The "story", for what it's worth, isn't a coherent plot but rather something like 3 "one shots" with the same main character: Eiji Bando, a crazy guy who calls himself a gunman because he kills people with his guns. While we're served some kind of excuse for this guy to just kill people  in the first 2 chapters (with all the gore you'd ever need - this guy wrote Hellsing after all), the 3rd chapter is just comedy. Well, not that it made me laugh though, rape-jokes get stale very fast imo.

Add some very classy dialogue to the mix of gore and rape-jokes, with memorable lines like "Don't make me ass-rape you to death you homo bastard", and you know you're gonna get an instant classic.

Characters aren't especially noteworthy either, since only one of them appears in more than 1 chapter and most are killed before we even learn their names. The MC looks like a prototype of Alucard, not only physical appearance but also in how he's just a crazy guy with big guns.

The art had some good moments, but is mostly mediocre or just bad. Some poses will be recognised by those who know Hellsing.

Overall: it looks like Mr. Hirano really wanted to draw some manga to experiment in, and so this little turd got published. I definitely recommend looking for something else, unless you're hell-bent on finishing everything that has the name "Kouta Hirano" on it.