No Guns Life

No Guns Life (Japanese: ノー・ガンズ・ライフ, Hepburn: Nō Ganzu Raifu) is a Japanese manga series by Tasuku Karasuma that has been published in Shueisha's seinen manga magazine Ultra Jump since August 2014. An anime television series adaptation by Madhouse aired from October 10 to December 26, 2019. The first season was a split-cour anime, with the second half being scheduled for April 2020, before being delayed to July 9, 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

No Guns Life
Cover of No Guns Life volume 1 by Shueisha
ノー・ガンズ・ライフ
(Nō Ganzu Raifu)
GenreCyberpunk[1]
Manga
Written byTasuku Karasuma
Published byShueisha
English publisher
MagazineUltra Jump
DemographicSeinen
Original runAugust 2014 – present
Volumes10
Anime television series
Directed byNaoyuki Itō
Written byYukie Sugawara
Music byKenji Kawai
StudioMadhouse
Licensed byFunimation
Original networkTBS, AT-X, SUN, KBS, BS11
Original run October 10, 2019 – present
Episodes24

Plot

In the near future, many humans have become cyborgs called "Extended" (エックステンド, Ekkusutendo). However, with a great war having recently ended, many Extended, who are former soldiers, begin to resort to crime to survive. Juzo Inui is a "Resolver," an Extended mercenary who specializes in solving problems caused by other Extended. However, Juzo's life is turned upside down when a renegade Extended breaks into his office, pleading for him to protect a young boy named Tetsurō Arahabaki.

Characters
Juzo Inui (乾十三, Inui Juzo)
Voiced by: Junichi Suwabe (Japanese); Chris Ryan (English)[2][3]
An amnesiac private detective who works as a "Resolver," taking on cases relating to Extended and priding himself on always seeing a case to completion. His distinguishing feature is that his head is a giant functioning revolver, the trademark trait of the Gun Slave Unit model of Over-Extended used in the war. However, he is unable to fire it himself and requires someone else to do so, only granting the privilege to people he trusts out of a desire to not become a "tool." His head gun is immensely powerful, firing a large beam that can easily destroy even the strongest Extended. His personal motto is "wipe your own ass," a belief that one should deal with their own problems without relying on others. He expresses distaste for children and humidity, out of fear his head will rust, and has no memory of his life before becoming an Extended. Juzo is a habitual chain smoker, preferring the Tanegashima brand for their taste. His cigarettes are actually a specially-formulated medication for Extended which dulls the pain from nerve damage stemming from Extensions. Juzo's body, being an older Over-Extended model from the war, is equipped with a number of hidden features and is far stronger than it appears, though Juzo is unable or unwilling to use most of these features consciously. Particularly, his onboard combat program automatically activates whenever he is in significant danger, activating his body's full functions at the cost of suppressing his consciousness and sending him into a berserker state where he attacks anything his program deems a threat. He is able to force this combat program and its related abilities to activate with some effort, but doing so is dangerous, as he must struggle to prevent the program from overwhelming his mind. His primary weapon is a revolver-like device embedded in his right hand that allows him to fire a powerful concussive punch known as Funke Faust (ファンケ・ファウスト, Fanke Fausuto) (German for "Spark Fist").
Tetsurō Arahabaki (荒吐鉄朗, Arahabaki Tetsurō)
Voiced by: Daiki Yamashita (Japanese); Caleb Yen (English)[2][3]
The teenage son of Berühren Corp CEO Soichiro Arahabaki. He has been experimented on and possesses a device known as "Harmony" implanted in his throat, which allows him to control Extended bodies from a distance as if they were his own. The tendons in his arms and legs as well as his vocal cords have been severed, making him incapable of moving or speaking on his own. Mary later provides him with wearable Extensions that allow him to walk and use his arms again and he uses Harmony with a discarded Extended head to speak. Because of the torture he received at Berühren Corp, he has lost significant portions of his memory, particularly the fact that he once allied himself with the anti-Extended organization Spitzbergen and funded their operations.
Mary Steinberg (メアリー・シュタインベルグ)
Voiced by: Manami Numakura (Japanese); Kylie Stewart (English)[2][3]
An associate of Juzo's, a young woman who performs back-alley maintenance on Extended in the mafia-controlled Kyusei Pit immigrant district, one of the few places in the city not under Berühren Corp control. She provides Juzo with medicated cigarettes after he loses access to his favorite brand. She and her brother Victor were orphans taken in by an engineer named Emmett. Mary became a mechanic hoping to reunite with her mechanic brother Victor who went missing during the war. She eventually installs an Extension on herself that replaces her breasts with two missile launchers, which noticeably increase her bust size when loaded.
Olivier Vandeberme (オリビエ・ファンデベルメ)
Voiced by: Yōko Hikasa (Japanese); Marissa Lenti (English)[4]
The director of EMS, a branch of the Reconstruction Agency tasked with enforcing Extended law and regulating Over-Extended. She has granted Juzo some leniency and autonomy despite the Over-Extended laws in exchange for him performing the occasional under-the-table job for her. She wears distinctive blue lipstick and carries a can of surströmming on her person at all times as a memento of her father.
Kronen von Wolf (クローネン・フォン・ウルフ)
Voiced by: Yūya Uchida (Japanese); John Burgmeier (English)[4]
An EMS section chief and staunch believer in EMS' duty towards enforcing Extended regulations. He distrusts all Extended, especially Over-Extended like Juzo, believing them to be no more than unstable machines. His weapons of choice are thrown needles, which he embeds in pressure points to disable Extensions.
Avi Kobo (アヴィ・コーボ)
Acting director of EMS following Olivier's suspension. Despite his attitude towards Extensions, he possesses an Extension that lines his skin with sensors he relates to ampullae of Lorenzini, allowing him to detect electrical impulses around him.
Pepper (ペッパー)
Voiced by: Inori Minase (Japanese); Marianne Bray (English)[2][3]
A Berühren Corp agent and Seven's handler. Pepper's right forearm is an Extension known as a Hands Unit, which resembles a large mechanical hand with a revolver cylinder replacing the forearm. This Extension allows Pepper to unlock a Gun Slave Unit's full function. She also possesses a Harmony unit, though unlike Tetsurō's, Pepper's is a removable collar-like accessory rather than a permanent implant. The unit is also weaker than Tetsurō's implant and is prone to shorting out under stress. She is the younger sister of Karen.
Seven (セブン)
Voiced by: Yūko Sanpei[4] (Japanese); Kimmie Britt (English)[2][3]
A Gun Slave Unit partnered with Pepper and working for Berühren Corp. Seven has a personality much like a young boy. Befitting his personality, he is often seen eating lollipops. Seven is presumably a newer model of Gun Slave Unit, as his head more closely resembles a modern semi-automatic handgun rather than a revolver like Juzo's. His right hand is a three-pronged claw appendage containing a powerful cannon.
Hugh Cunningham (ヒュー・カニンガム)
Voiced by: Yōji Ueda (Japanese); Tyler Walker (English)[4]
Chief of security at Berühren Corp and an enforcer tasked with retrieving Tetsurō. He operates under the fanatical belief that people are replaceable cogs in a machine that exists only to serve Berühren Corp.
Karen (カレン)
Voiced by: Reina Ueda (Japanese); Emily Neves (English)[4]
A high level Berühren Corp operative who held Tetsurō captive, posing as a nun. She is the older sister of Pepper. Her Extensions include an artificial eye that assists her in aiming her double-barreled revolver
Christina Matsuzaki (クリスティーナ松崎)
Voiced by: Masashi Ebara (Japanese); Jeremy Inman (English)[4]
Juzo's overbearing and doting landlord.
Scarlett Gosling (スカーレット・ゴズリング)
Voiced by: Marika Kouno (Japanese); Macy Anne Johnson (English)[2][3]
A neighbor of Juzo and daughter of an elderly barber who cleans and services Juzo's head. She has a notable stutter and seems to have a crush on Juzo.
"Mega Armed" Tokisada (メガアームド西条時間)
Voiced by: Kenyu Horiuchi (Japanese); Christopher R. Sabat (English)[4]
Also known as "Armed Sai," Tokisada is a popular celebrity considered a hero by the public for being the first person to undergo full-body Extension during the war. Tokisada is one of two still-living members of Tindalos, a group recognized as the first generation of Extended, the other being Hayden Gondry. Tokisada's Extensions, which include a large number of built-in weapons (hence the nickname "Mega Armed"), served as test prototypes for equipment later installed in other full-body models like Juzo, including the same Funke Faust hand weapon.
Hayden Gondry (ヘイデン・ゴンドリー)
An Over-Extended fugitive and former member of Tindalos who escapes from EMS while being transported to a Berühren Corp facility. Hayden is infamous for being the perpetrator of the Nightmare of Norse Scott, an incident where he murdered several people, including many of his wartime squad mates and Olivier's father, before being apprehended. Many details about the incident, including the fact that his rampage was caused by dangerous Extension experiments performed on the Tindalos members, were covered up over the years to preserve the public's opinion on Extension technology. Gondry's Over-Extended body is specifically designed for stealthy assassinations and is only vaguely humanoid, featuring a head with two faces mounted on thin limbs and a cloak of light-refracting camouflage plates, which allow him to cloak and disguise himself.
Colt (コルト)
Voiced by: Makoto Furukawa (Japanese); Jason Liebrecht (English)[4]
A young immigrant man who has illegal extensions so that he can work at construction sites to support his family. He agreed to work for Spitzbergen to make enough money to pay for surgery on his mother who suffered nerve damage through a defective Berühren extension.
John Podpie (ジョン・ポッドパイ)
Voiced by: Minoru Aoyama
An old man with Extended eyes capable of image analysis using the Multiple Alternative Light Sources (MALS) system which utilizes ultraviolet and infrared light to construct images for evidence. He was an analyst at the Security Department but was dismissed for misusing his ability to illegally take pictures of women's underwear and then selling them.
Victor Steinberg (ヴィクター・シュタインベルグ)
Mary's older brother, a former Extended engineer who is now a sadistic Over-Extended serial killer known as the "Dismantler" due to his ability to quickly and expertly destroy Extended bodies. He was Juzo's personal engineer during the war and later gave Juzo his first job as a Resolver: protect Mary. He is aligned with Spitzbergen despite the organization's staunch anti-Extended views. It is later revealed that the Dismantler is merely a "shadow" of the real Victor's personality existing in an experimental sub-brain he developed. The "shadow" took control after Victor was traumatized by the brutality the Extensions he created caused in the war, using remote bodies to operate under the real Victor's subconscious desire to destroy all Extension technology. Victor's real body, including the experimental sub-brain, exists in an unknown location.
Edmund Baker / Theodore (斑目 右弦（まだらめ うげん） / 左弦（さげん）)
Voiced by: Konishi Katsuyuki
An Over-Extended with a motorcycle headlight and handlebars for a head. He saved Emma Kurtz from committing suicide over the death of her fiancé, Theodore, who was apparently killed in an explosion while in a bomb disposal unit after the war. Edmund and Emma were married, but after having a new arm Extension fitted, Edmund disappeared planning to kill his former partner, a Gun Slave Unit named Five, who he believed was hunting him. His arm Extension is a powerful electrical generator, which he uses in combination with a club weapon that embeds conductive needles in whatever it strikes.
Wachowski (ワコウスキー)
A representative of Spitzbergen (from Dutch, meaning "pointed mountains"), a quasi-religious organization that opposes all Extensions, seeing them as an affront against God. He is known as the father of Extension technology for his extensive contribution to developing the first generation of Extensions. He is wheelchair-bound and has a severely weakened body.

Media

Manga

The manga series has been published in Shueisha's seinen manga magazine Ultra Jump since August 2014. It has since been collected in ten tankōbon volumes. The manga is licensed in North America by Viz Media.[5]

Anime
See also: List of No Guns Life episodes

An anime television series adaptation was announced in the April issue of Shueisha's Ultra Jump magazine on March 18, 2019. The series is animated by Madhouse, produced by Egg Firm and directed by Naoyuki Itō, with Yukie Sugawara handling series composition, and Masanori Shino designing the characters.[6] Kenji Kawai is composing the series' music.[7] Its 3DCG backgrounds were created by Cyclone Graphics, the studio that also produced the series' ending animation, using Unreal Engine 4. The series will run for 24 episodes[8], with the first half of the series (containing Episodes 1 to 12) aired from October 10 to December 26, 2019 on TBS, AT-X, SUN, KBS, and BS11,[9] and the second half of the series (containing Episodes 13 to 24[10]) slated to premiere on April 9, 2020, but delayed and premiered on July 9, 2020 due to COVID-19.[11][12][13][14] Kenichi Asai performed the series' opening theme "Motor City," while DATS!! performed the series' ending theme "Game Over."[4] The second opening theme is "Chaos Drifters" by SawanoHiroyuki[nZk]:Jean-Ken Johnny, and the second ending theme is "new world" by THIS IS JAPAN.[15] Funimation has licensed the series for simulcast and dub.[16][17]

References
  1. "Viz Media Announces September Anime and Manga Releases". Viz Media via Anime News Network. August 22, 2019. Retrieved May 12, 2020. NO GUNS LIFE is a cyberpunk series in which the protagonist's head is replaced with a giant gun… and his memories erased.
  2. "No Guns Life Anime's Video Reveals Cast, Theme Song Artist, October Premiere". Anime News Network. July 19, 2019. Retrieved July 19, 2019.
  3. "The No Guns Life dub premieres tomorrow, and the cast, lead by director @KylePhillipsFUN, is ready to dive into the world of the Extended". Funimation. October 23, 2019.
  4. "No Guns Life Anime Unveils 8 New Cast Members, Ending Song Artist". Anime News Network. August 18, 2019. Retrieved August 18, 2019.
  5. Ressler, Karen (14 February 2019). "Viz Licenses The Way of the Househusband, Cats of the Louvre, No Guns Life, Levius Manga". Anime News Network. Retrieved 15 May 2020.
  6. "No Guns Life TV Anime Confirmed, Staff Announced". Anime News Network. March 18, 2019. Retrieved March 18, 2019.
  7. "No Guns Life TV Anime Unveils Promo Video, Visual". Anime News Network. March 23, 2019. Retrieved March 23, 2019.
  8. "No Guns Life Anime Runs for 24 Episodes". Anime News Network. October 16, 2019. Retrieved October 16, 2019.
  9. "No Guns Life Anime Premieres on October 10". Anime News Network. September 19, 2019. Retrieved September 19, 2019.
  10. "No Guns Life Season 2 release date: 2nd cour set for April 2020 — No Guns Life manga compared to the anime". Monsters and Critics. December 21, 2019. Retrieved December 21, 2019.
  11. "No Guns Life Anime's 2nd Half Premieres in April". Anime News Network. December 20, 2019. Retrieved December 20, 2019.
  12. "No Guns Life TV Anime's 2nd Half Delayed". Anime News Network. April 7, 2020. Retrieved April 7, 2020.
  13. "No Guns Life TV Anime's 2nd Half Premieres in July After COVID-19 Delay". Anime News Network. June 1, 2020. Retrieved June 1, 2020.
  14. "No Guns Life Part 2 Set to Release in 4 July 2020 After Being Delayed Due to COVID-19". Anime News And Facts.
  15. "Hiroyuki Sawano & MAN WITH A MISSION's Jean-Ken Johnny Collaborate for No Guns Life 2nd Season OP". Crunchyroll. Retrieved March 13, 2020.
  16. "Funimation to Stream Azur Lane, No Guns Life Anime". Anime News Network. October 3, 2019. Retrieved 2019-10-21.
  17. "Funimation's Fall 2019 Lineup Ramps Up the Action!". Funimation. September 18, 2019. Retrieved October 21, 2019.
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