I know it is a little late to be blogging the 2nd season of Gunslinger Girl, but bear with me because I am extremely huge fan of the manga. Ever since I read the first volume sometime last year, it has remained my favourite manga till now. The accurate weapon designs and the overall realistic [...]
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Before I start with the usual review, I’d like to point out that this is the 250th review I’ve written for my blog. Yay! In any case, if you’ve watched the original Gunslinger Girl and plan to watch Il Teatrino, there’s one thing that you need to take into account: a lot of changes have been [...]
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Haha! I couldn’t have expected a better finale than this one! Seriously, it’s so great to see that this has been a series where everything went right, apart from the smaller budget, perhaps. This is really why it was such a good thing that the original mangaka had been assigned to do the Screenplay and [...]
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Even though it hasn’t officially ended yet, I’m pretty sure about my top-3 series for the winter-season: Wellber no Monogatari, Porfy no Nagai Tabi and Gunslinger Girl, though I’m not sure about the order yet. Everything is very close in terms of quality for this season, and Shigofumi, True Tears and Hakaba Kitarou have also [...]
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Before I start with the episode review, I’d like to share something that Solaris wrote up, about Gunslinger Girl’s connections to the real situations in Italy. ——————————– You all like Gunslinger girl story don’t you? Let’s take a closer look on the social picture the show feature to us. The story is setted up in Italy some [...]
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Ah, of course. Triela and Hirsher were the only ones who still weren’t fleshed out enough, and this episode takes care of that. Now all that’s left is for the three final episodes to conclude the story, now that the cast is fully developed. It’s interesting how Triela gets to be the final character that [...]
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I’m not sure what it is - the animation-quality wasn’t really better than usual - but this was the most visually pleasing episode of Il Teatrino yet. Not only that, but it’s also quite possibly the best episode of the entire series so far. It really captured the essence of Gunslinger Girl, more than Madhouse [...]
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Summary: Marco’s ex girlfriend, Patricia, investigates the Social Welfare Agency. This leads her into partnering up with a man named Leonardo, whom is actually a terrorist disguised as a reporter in order to use Patricia to get information about Marco. Very soon the agency takes notice of this, knowing Leonardo’s true identity the agency releases [...]
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It’s episode 5, and Marco’s old flame Patricia gets caught up with an old acquaintance of her’s, Leo, who is investigating the truth behind the Social Welfare Agency. Will Marco be able to keep his secret from Patricia, while Leo has his own motivation for finding out about the Agency. Go Straight to the Screenshots [...]
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This is one episode that should have belonged in the first season, as it’s entirely devoted to Claes without any signs of the plot whatsoever. I’m not sure why it took her so long to get her own episode. Was this the actual sequence in the manga, or did Madhouse just omit her back-story when [...]
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I’m getting more and more convinced that there is no such thing as a main character, or a main group of characters for this series. The girls are definitely not the ones who receive the most airtime. Heck, in this episode they yet again didn’t appear at all, and the focus shifted to Franca, as [...]
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An episode about Marco’s past, developing his character a little more. We get a bit of Angelica, Triela, and Priscilla, too. Brief Summary Flashback of Marco getting an eye injury that leads him to being kicked out of the force. Patricia is around and worries about him as he searches for a new job. They seem to [...]
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This episode we see the past of a young boy named Pinocchio. It seems that Cristiano took him under his wing and trained him to become an assassin. It’s quite sad that he shoots the little girl after killing her father. Reminds me of that time Rico shot the boy who worked at the hotel [...]
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I was surprised by the huge difference of Gunslinger Girl Il Teatrino compared to season 1. I really enjoyed the old style. It’s a shame that it changed and lost some of it’s atmosphere with the transition. The voice actors also seem to be different. I watched season 1 in a couple of weeks and [...]
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It’s episode 4, and we get to see Angelica in action for the first time since the end of the 1st series. However, she’s still treated with kid-gloves as no one is sure whether she is really read to be back. Meanwhile, it’s just a normal day for Bruno, the Five Republics clean-up [...]
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Just as the episode is titled, we see Angelica back doing work in the field.  I can’t help but notice her eyes: the deep green that suggests so much emptiness inside.  But she gets some good development.  And really, you can’t resist that cute face. There’s a new kid named Antonio; he doesn’t get more than [...]
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…Is officially over (for me at least). Not only the plot has picked up but the tension between the sides and the characters has picked up dramatically. It just feels like watching two different shows or watching 2 different halves of a ball game in which the home team is making a dramatic come back. [...]
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I am speechless.
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Thanks to Windspirit, for pointing out that last week’s episode wasn’t a half-recap at all. It seems that I just had gotten a wrong file from Share, and it looks like there are no signs at all that the budget is running out. Of course, it was relatively small to begin with, but something tells [...]
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I really, really, really hope that the useless recap of the previous episode that took up nearly half of this episode was used to save some budget for the future episodes, and NOT a sign that the budget for this series has already ran out. Bad animation is one thing, but when the creators start [...]
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