OBSCURE O.V.A.S, *Geobreeders

Akihiro Ito has a thing for girls and guns in the same way Kenichi Sonoda did for Gunsmith Cats with an aesthetic influenced by American movies. Ito created a supernatural action manga titled Geobreeders that builds on the "babes and bullets" trend that was abound in the 90s. The manga got two OVA series, a 3-episode one directed by Yuji Moriyama who helmed Project A-ko, and then a 4-episode sequel titled Geobreeders: Breakthrough by Initial D director Shin Misawa. Both of these along with the original manga got an English release from Central Park Media with varying degrees of success with the first OVA series having a little more traction than the sequel since they did little advertising for it. Each version of the story in anime and manga contains hardcore gun action and gratuitous portions of fanservice along with some impressive character development. Chaos Project was the studio behind both OVA series which also worked on fan favorites such as Comic Party and To Heart. The main downside to the anime adaptation is that it doesn't explain much of the plot if you hadn't already scoped out the manga.

Kagura Total Security Inc. is team of five females in Ayagane City who hire their services specifically for the task of hunting down a terrorist group of cat people called the Phantom Cats. The evil were-cats use their shapeshifting abilities to cause instability, mainly with the government whose agencies regularly conflict with the Kagura girls. The Phantom Cats also have the power to spiritually take over various electronic devices, making them more like gremlins than lycanthropes. Kagura's only male member Taba in constantly struggling to have the other ladies stay on point while he goes further into debt to them, partially to help protect the stray Phantom Cat named Maya that he took in that the others a searching for. Kagura can use technological charms to send the cats back to the ether, the particularity involves cornering the cats into four-sided space with parchments. This leads to an abundance of destruction in Kagura's efforts to catch their prey that are up to screwball comedy levels of absurdity.

Both pistol-packing OVA series are winsome in their own way, even though Breakthrough drags the premise further than it needed to with an extra episode. Unless you bothered to check out at least the first two volumes of the manga then you will be at a loss trying to comprehend the whole plot. It might seem inviting with its gun-toting ecchi girls regardless of the lack of explanations concerning its inner lore.