Triela accidentally kills a guy who Hillshire is trying to question. When Hillshire says she should not shoot without his permission, she comments that if he wants her under control, he should pump her full of the medication. Hillshire and Giuseppe discuss the trouble of training the girls on minimum dosage. Meanwhile, Triela is suffering from major cramps as she is on her period. The Triela-Hillshire team does a mission as a favor for Section 1 to take Mario Possi into protective custody so he can testify against the mob. Hillshire knows Marco from his time as a police officer and tracks him down. Marco escapes while under Triela's watch and immediately runs into gang thugs. Triela dispatches them and then discusses things with Marco. Marco realizes that he may be the cause of Triela's cyborgism since his story of exporting babies with the mob matches up with hers of being found in Amsterdam, but he doesn't say anything. He tells Triela that he is avoiding custody so that he can see his daughter and Triela lets him go.
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Whereas last episode was very much focused on the introduction of Pinocchio and his collaboration with Franca and Franco, this week’s installment follows Triela and Hilshire’s mission. As expected, Triela and Pinocchio’s encounter was interesting, unfortunately it is one: nil to Pinocchio. With the terrorists on the move, the story is definitely movie along [...]
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Yeah, yeah, OK, so it’s better than episode one. We have Triela reading the story of Pinocchio; we have she being traumatized and wondering about her life, and we have decent gun fighting sequence and fighting sequence. I’m sure many others said something about this episode already. All I’ve gotta say is - KEEP THIS UP, PLEASE. But [...]
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It’s episode 3, and Pinocchio finally gets to meet his first Gunslinger Girl: Triela. Surely he can’t beat these indestructible cyborg girls, right? Right? Go Straight to the Screenshots | Go Straight to the Review The highlights of this episode: Hilshire and Triela are tapped to go to Montalcino to investigate a Public Safety Division officer (I’m [...]
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Let me place up this warning: if you’re watching Gunslinger Girl because of the action, then drop this series now. Seriously, if you thought the fight in the first episode was bad, you haven’t seen anything yet. Artland just doesn’t have the budget to animate nice fights, and in this episode, this shows. In terms [...]
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How often does a series with this degree of depth and sophistication come along? Allowances for the open ending aside, the final episodes of Gunslinger Girl are among the finest to grace the UK's DVD shelves this year. As you might have guessed from the series so far, it's not a cheery affair either...The first half of the disc concerns itself with the fatal shooting of one of the fratellos: Elsa and Lauro were found de...
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