From the mind of Kenichi Sonoda, most famous for Gunsmith Cats, Bubblegum Crisis, and Gall Force, comes this high-octane action adventure. Though it was a one shot OAV in anime and had only a brief run in manga, Riding Bean still remains an action anime cult classic. Although its lead character Bean Bandit cameoed a few times in the Gunsmith Cats manga, the film itself will have no sequel. Why? Well, Kenichi Sonoda had a falling out with the original company that produced what was supposed to have been the first OAV of a continuing series of Riding Bean. He left the company, but they still unforunately owned all the rights to Riding Bean, so he could not take his work to a new studio to continue the series. Thus it remained a single video. Sonoda was, however, able to redesign the characters of Bean and Rally and place them in the new manga setting of Gunsmith Cats. Rally had darker skin and black hair while Bean's hair calmed down somewhat. Still, they remained the same people in essence. Bean Bandit's manga run in Gunsmith Cats is currently available from Dark Horse Comics.