Edited sentence: ("Professional" and "Personal" Taken from English Gunsmith Cats book 1, Dark Horse Comics).After leaving Artmic and becoming a freelance comics artist, in February of 1991 Sonoda exploded onto the pages of the popular manga magazine Afternoon (magazine) with "Gunsmith Cats," a follicking action story about a tough, female bounty hunter and her dangerous buddies who fight drug gangs and extortionists in the mean streets of Chicago.Bill" (From "Saturday Night Live") merchandise.Came to Tokyo to seek his fortune at age 21 and promptly landed a job at Artmic where he was soon creating character designs for such animated films as Gall Force and Bubblegum Crisis.He also collects "Mr.He owns several computers, such as an NEC PC-9821 and a Fujitsu/Towns MA (see FM Towns)... but only uses them to play computer games.He prefers 100% malt for both beer and whiskey.His collection of model and air guns numbers over 60, and his laserdisc collection takes up over 13 feet of shelf space.Sonoda got his motorcycle license at 20.Sonoda is single and lives in Kichijoji, Japan.The series brought two of the toughest women in Japanese comics, gun aficionado Rally Vincent and bomb freak Minnie-May Hopkins, to hungry readers, who have boosted sales of the subsequent Gunsmith Cats graphic novels to 200,000 copies each in Japan and spawned a series of original video animations.Women adore him