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1* CreatorCouple: Then-real-life couple Herman López and Norma Iturbe provide the Latin American Spanish voices for Roy Coleman and Becky Farrah, respectively.
2* CreatorKiller: The abysmal reception of ''Burst'' torpedoed Kenichi Sonoda's manga career. After ''Bullet the Wizard'' wrapped up with little fanfare, he hasn't made anything else since.
3* DirectedByCastMember:
4** The English dub was directed by Matt Greenfield, who voices one of the titular gun shop's customers.
5** In the Latin American Spanish dub, Creator/MariaFernandaMorales was the ADR Director as well as the voice for Cathy.
6* DVDCommentary: [=AnimEigo=] went all out with this for their release.
7** On the Japanese side, two are present -- one by Kenichi Sonoda (hosted by animator Masahiro Arai), and one by director Takeshi Mori (and hosted by ''Anime/OtakuNoVideo'' director Hiroki Saito, at Mori's behest as {{lampshaded}} on episode 1's commentary).
8** On the English side, three are present -- One by Creator/TiffanyGrant and Matt Greenfield for episode 1; one by [[WebVideo/BennettTheSage Bennett White]] (a noted fan of the series), Creator/MarcSwint and Creator/BrettWeaver for episode 2; and one by Creator/AmandaWinnLee and Kimberly Yates for episode 3, capped off with several of the other voice actors saying hello during the credits.
9* HeyItsThatSound: In the OVA's third episode, one of the sound effects used in the house explosion comes from Creator/{{Universal}}'s sound library.
10* InternationalCoproduction: While the OVA was animated by Creator/OLMIncorporated in Tokyo, the music and sound effects were recorded in Los Angeles.
11* KeepCirculatingTheTapes:
12** The OVA was released on three VHS volumes in Japan during its initial run and they haven't been released on DVD or Blu-ray there since then.
13** In North America, ADV's home media rights to the OVA lapsed after its liquidation in 2009. Fortunately, Creator/AnimEigo released it on DVD and Blu-Ray in 2019.
14* ReferencedBy: "[[https://youtu.be/3UcMP76wQN8?si=rEiEapqtecDfa-gI Walther PP Series Pistols - In The Movies]]" by [=YouTuber=] Johnny Johnson contains several clips from ''Gunsmith Cats''.
15* StudioHop: ADV Films originally released the OVA on DVD and VHS in a North America. However, ADV was liquidated in 2009. Eight years later, Creator/AnimEigo acquired the rights to the OVA and released it on DVD and Blu-Ray after a successful Kickstarter campaign in 2019.
16* WordOfGay: According to Sonoda, Rally is a celibate lesbian. Kinda got [[http://gunsmithcats.livejournal.com/14606.html confirmed]], too.
17* WrittenByCastMember: In addition to directing the English dub, Matt Greenfield also wrote the scripts.

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