No Guns Life

The technology to create powerful cyborg soldiers has been released for public use by the Berühren Corporation. Those outfitted with robotic parts are known as the Extended. Juuzou Inui, one such Extended, was created as a soldier and has no memories of his former life. But now, after the war, he runs a business that takes care of Extended-related incidents around the city.

Rumors of a renegade Extended that kidnapped a child reach his ears; lo and behold, as Juuzo returns to his office, a giant robotic man with a boy on his back crashes in, asking for help. While Juuzou could just turn the guy in and be done with it, something about this situation is too fishy to ignore. It seems that everyone wants hold of this kid and, whether he likes it or not, Juuzou must find out why this Extended is on the run, how it connects to the Berühren Corporation, and just how far the treachery runs in this city.

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Inui, Juuzou Main

Suwabe, Junichi Japanese

Steinberg, Mary Main

Numakura, Manami Japanese

Arahabaki, Tetsurou Main

Yamashita, Daiki Japanese

Pepper Supporting

Minase, Inori Japanese

Tokisada, Mega-armed Supporting

Horiuchi, Kenyuu Japanese

Gosling, Scarlet Supporting

Kouno, Marika Japanese

Vandeberme, Olivier Supporting

Hikasa, Youko Japanese

von Wolf, Cronen Supporting

Uchida, Yuuya Japanese

Saryshagan Supporting

Souma, Kouichi Japanese

Rosso, Bromwell Supporting

Kitazawa, You Japanese

Cook, Justin Producer

Oowada, Tomoyuki Producer

Yamanaka, Takahiro Producer

Tanaka, Junichirou Producer

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Feb 26, 2025

13ad

Recommended

Hey, gunhead! I'm talking to you, when will you start thinking with your caliber?
Stylish detective in noir style, the anime is drawn very well. The character design and their detailing are at a high level, and the general entourage of the analogue of the near future looks good.
It all starts quite boringly and uninterestingly, this is about the first episodes, the main mix occurs with episodes 5-6.
The advantages of this anime include the plot, it is very interesting here, since initially you are thrown into the thick of things and nothing is really explained. The peculiar main character stands out well. And only as the ... plot develops, you begin to understand who the extends are? Who are the terrorists from Spitsbergen? Why do they not like each other? Etc. You can also praise the atmosphere, the authors managed to convey the atmosphere of a detective story, full of despair and post-war time.
If you like cool main characters who effectively take out enemies, then this is for you.

Reviewer’s Rating: 9

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Sep 7, 2025

AshParth

Mixed Feelings

Ah, No Guns Life. I remember seeing this a couple of times when it was released before Funimation merged with Crunchyroll years later. I mean, it's still on Crunchyroll, for those curious, even when not every Funimation original shows are there. I actually went and watched it on Hulu because I just wanted to add some variety into the fray. Therefore, I figured why not? What's funny is that according to MAL, and it's actually true, that there are two seasons of this anime. The show is treated as one whole season at Crunchyrool, which I found odd. ... But I digress.
The world is set in the near future where the premise centers around the world where humans and other characters known as Extended, cyborgs that humans can become given by choice. However, a great world that ended recently, according to the series' description of its world-building, began to resort to crime in order to survive. Yes, a dog-eat-dog world kind of world-building, as you would have already guessed. But in comes a mercenary who is dubbed the "Resolver" named Juzo Inui, whose specialty is solving problems caused by other Extended. He is a different kind of Extended called an Overextended, giving his head for a gun. However, in the first episode, his life has turned upside down when a renegade Extended breaks into his office, pleading for him to protect a young boy named Tetsuro Arahabaki, who's the son of a Beruhren Corporation CEO possessing a device called "Harmony" implanted in his throat through experimentation. The Harmony has a special ability to control other Extended bodies, including Juzo, that had happened a couple of times.
Along with Juzo's associate, Mary Steinburg, who provides him with maintenance even to other Extended in a back-alley in exchange for payment. Down the road, Juzo helps Tetsuro from the Beruhren Corporation's, and later on, Juzo takes various cases like working with EMS such as Olivier Vandebreme, the director, and Kronen von Wolf, the chief. Juzo also takes some odd jobs from various clients, even when some of them are kinda forgettable. Yes, if you want my honest opinion, the story does take a fair amount of detours with what's shown like this young woman named Karen and a Gun Slave Unit she associates with called Seven working under the Beruhren Corporation and this organization called Spitzbergen, a quasi-religious organization that opposes all Extensions, seeing them as an affront against God. I will give it credit that they try to connect the dots since it's part of how the anime's neo-noir theme works when Juzo is on the case, regardless of who pays him. As a matter of fact, the world-building and the atmosphere work a fair bit. It's just that the story isn't stable, and not everything has been explained whenever something new comes up, like with this character called Mega-Armed and the war that Juzo had participated in.
The characters themselves are pretty mixed for me. Juzo is one of the better characters with how he was built up to be. Except for some of those moments where he could be stoic and bashful. Honestly, doesn't that still make you think of how Alphonse from Fullmetal Alchemist does? But I digress. Both voice actors who provided the character are great out of everyone else. I thought I was gonna hate Tetsuro, yet he was just fine. He had an interesting premise until it was shoved aside when Juzo was finished with Tetsuro's case. Mary is fine. Not gonna lie, I could not help but think of Olivier looking like she'd jumped out of Jojo's Bizarre Adventure and lives in No Guns Life from then on. Everyone else was just there for Juzo's cases. They do work well for a neo-noir setting. I can't say much for this anime's humor, however.
As far as the animation goes, it's good on its own. Trying to add some flair in its own world when looking at life between humanity and Extended. With that said, it's nice to see what life is like in a world of No Guns Life. The action is decent for what it delivers. The CG animation used in this is also a mixed bag for how it's used. Sometimes, it works. Yet not so much sometimes, either. Hopefully, the second season picks up better in terms of the action, theme, and story. For now, this first season is just in the middle for me. It had its moments. I had some fun with it. Just too much fumbling with the story that is just not as stable as Juzo can be every time he smokes his favorite brand of cigarettes. Which is why I'm gonna give this season of No Guns Life six Juzo's awkward still moments out of ten. 6/10.

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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Feb 17, 2024

Thicc_Ink

Not Recommended

This show has no sauce. The first episode tricked me into thinking this might be good. Stylish MC, a looming megacorp that owns people's bodies, and a unique mystery. Unfortunately, all three of these points get dropped in like... episode 2. You are promised a hard boiled detective series, but then fails to have the detective do any sloothing. No villains are uncovered, they are all happy to explicitly state that they are evil. The mysteries, if you could even call them that, basically solve themselves with the answer just falling into the lap of the b-plot character for that episode so they can show ... up to the main plot and actually do something for exactly one scene before taking the background to sauceless action sequences.

The aesthetic is interesting on a surface level with next to nothing lying behind it. Dudes just have fucked up bodies that look evil if they are evil or cool if they are good. There's no consistency or themes.

If I vaguely state stuff that happens in the story it almost sounds interesting. A megacorp makes all the cybernetics (called extensions in this series) and own the world. There's an anti-extend group killing innocent people who have cybernetics. The main character was made to be a weapon in a war and is now a private eye. Sometimes extends (people with extensions) experience discrimination (despite literally everyone we see in the series being extended.)
The problem comes in on how these aspects are executed. The megacorp is just comically evil, because if they weren't then the show would actually have something to say. Idk how you have a corporation that owns everyone's physical bodies without even the slightest attempt at commentary on capitalism. The anti-extend group is also just evil with no subtlety, they just kinda hate extends and just like to murder people to make extends look violent. Don't think about how stupid that is. They don't really have any philosophy besides just cyberpunk racism. The main character is just op in the most boring way possible, there's never any tension because literally nobody could ever threaten him in any meaningful way. He gets on the megacorps bad side and the only consequences are like one attempt to spite him and a minor inconvenience.
The discrimination against extends bit never actually has consequences for anyone. The main character is never denied entrance somewhere because he looks like a gun. At most a few characters act slightly shocked at the fact he looks the way he does. Best we get is a girl in the final arc who won't talk to him, but it's all hand waved by the end of the episode with the main characters just stumbling into the thing that progresses the plot.

The story is painfully passive. Nobody does anything. Things just kinda happen to the characters and then the resolution just kinda happens in the same way the conflict just kinda happened at the start.

The music is forgettable. I genuinely can't recall how a single track sounds and I literally just finished watching it.

The sound is bad, half of everything in this show sounds like stock audio effects.

The action is lame, it's a slideshow with no weight or consequences.

Visually you get everything from the first episode with no actual variety in the locations, colors, or sets. Nobody interacts with the world, it's a wholly unappealing backdrop (and not in the intentional way that cyberpunk likes to do)

A remarkable lack of sauce on display. Don't waste your time.

Reviewer’s Rating: 3

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