I'm starting to see a trend here. Well, as the title may suggest, Seven Seas have swooped in and announced the rescue of several abandoned manga titles. Seven Seas Entertainment, who you probably know for their release of the occasionally controversial loli-pire work, Dance in the Vampire Bund, has decided to keep their trend of dark, loli works alive. Blood Alone and Gunslinger Girl, which I've detailed below, will see a three-volume-in-one omnibus, compiling all of the work their previous translators had finished. Afterward, they'll begin rolling out the newer volumes, that have yet to see an official release.  That said, having researched these titles for the article, I'm kind of excited for both. Then again, I'm a sucker for dark, thinker pieces that have a high chance of controversy. Blood Alone Kuroe Kurose - Former Vampire hunter turned best-selling author, Kuroe Kurose has begun to care for a young girl who has recently turned into a vampire. He moonlights as a private detective, and this often puts him in direct confrontation with various types of undead monsters. Meanwhile, Misaki Minato, the vampire youth, struggles with vampirish nature, as well as her growing infatuation to Kurose. Title: Blood Alone Produced: 2005-ongoing Originally Distributed by: Infinity Studios Volumes: 6+   SOLD. Not only is the guy a former vampire hunter, but he's a writer. How cool is that?!? Plus you have the dynamic that he has begun to care for a vampire girl, who contrasts her feelings of gratitude with infatuation for our cool, calm protagonist  Gunslinger Girl In the heart of Italy, the Social Welfare Agency rescues young girls from hospital beds and gives them a second chance at life using the latest in cybernetic advancements. With their artificially enhanced bodies, the girls are brainwashed and trained as assassins to carry out the dirty work of the Italian Government. Despite all the modifications, they are still just children at heart, struggling for recognition from those they love, even knowing the love they feel is manufactured. This tragic tale unfolds as these girls grapple with their emotions in an agency that treats them as nothing but ruthless killers. Title: Gunslinger Girl Originally Published: 2002-current Original Distributor: ADV Number of Volumes: 11+  You've probably heard of Gunslinger Girl before. The story of Italian youths converted into violin carrying assassins has already been turned into a two season anime (distributed by FUNimation.) That said, while the series seemed a little dry, I think such source material could work considerably better as a manga
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Only one of the five Valentine manga box sets m&c! has planned for this week releases and unless you're a rabid fan of Kawamura Eri-sensei, you'll probably want to give it a miss, enticing IDR 30,000 price tag notwithstanding. Tennis no Oujisama © Konomi Takeshi/Shueisha (Serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump) Published in Indonesia as The Prince of Tennis by PT Gramedia/m&c! Most Wanted are (of
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I had made mention of this back in the December 2009 Month in Review post, but I had watched the first season of the Gunslinger Girl anime and I had a thing or two to say, not only of the anime (which will come in the future), but of the opening theme as well. For [...]
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Once again will have to thank Yi. Why? 4 words… Gunslinger Girl Il Teatrino. I’ll also be borrowing a few ‘BAMS’ from Glo. -.-“ Gunslinger Girl Il Teatrino It took a few episodes, but I finally managed to dwell myself into the anime. By then, the “lower” quality animation no longer has a hold [...]
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Album Title: Gunslinger Girl Original Soundtrack Anime Title: Gunslinger Girl Artist: Sahashi Toshihiko, the delgados, Yoshitaka Kitanami Catalog Number: MJCG-80140, MJCD-20073 (re-release) Release Type: Soundtrack Release Date: December 21, 2003, October 4, 2006(re-release) Show » Track Title Artist Time 1. The Light Before We Land the delgados 1:57 2. TEMA I Sahashi Toshihiko 3:51 3. Costruzione Sahashi Toshihiko 1:25 4. Popolo Sahashi Toshihiko 1:19 5. Citta’ Sahashi Toshihiko 1:30 6. Malinconomia Sahashi Toshihiko 1:46 7. Tristezza Sahashi Toshihiko 1:24 8. Ansia Sahashi Toshihiko 1:24 9. Amoretto Sahashi Toshihiko 2:28 10. Ti Amo Sahashi Toshihiko 2:06 11. Rabbia Sahashi Toshihiko 1:27 12. Desperasione Sahashi Toshihiko 1:14 13. Calma Sahashi [...]
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I watch quite a bit of anime, but the number of series that truly, deeply touch me, series that completely captures me and my love, I can count on one hand. Gunslinger Girl is one of them, both the first and the second season, Il Teatrino. Before watching Il Teatrino, I had read a few negative [...]
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Gunslinger Girl: Il Teatrino is an ugly show. Maybe Artland isn’t the worst studio on earth, but compared to what Madhouse built in the first season of Gunslinger Girl, Artland might as well be. But, whatever, the first season supposedly had an insane budget that Artland probably didn’t have, but still, Il Teatrino has some [...]
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Gunslinger Girl - Il Teatrino is the recently released 13-episode sequel to the 2003 anime series. In Rome, Italy, a covert government operation takes in orphan girls on the verge of death, implants them with cybernetic technologies, and trains them to become the ultimate killing machine to take out the terrorist and bad guys that [...]
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I was introduced to this show when I picked up these dvds at gamestop on a whim in freshmen year. 13 episodes long, I was fascinated by Gunslinger Girl. I loved the premise of turning the girls into weapons, what that would entitle, and the emotional cost. It really caused me to think deeply and reflect [...]
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While Gunslinger Girl - Il Teatrino never managed to scale the heights of its predecessor, or indeed the manga which came before that, it wasn't a complete disaster from beginning to end, making the prospect of a two-episode OVA by the same production team a potentially interesting affair. With around fourty minutes of screen time to play with, surely there's ample time to delve into the world
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- Gunslinger Girl Blu-ray Box for both Season 1 and 2 are scheduled to be released on Oct. 23. First box 29,400yen, 5.1ch, 2disc, 13 ep + extra. Second box, 34,650yen, 5.1ch, 4disc, 13 ep + 2 OVA + extra. But I know Funimation is planning to release the..글 전체보기
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This is a repost, please read this post as to why. And so the latest episode of Sengoku Basara finally features one of the two women I like in the show - Nou Hime, wife of the Sixth Devil King, Oda Nobunaga (why oh why is she married and to such an evil person…wait she is [...]
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With terrorist attacks continuing to plague Italy, the cyborg girls of Section 2 are needed more than ever- and through a mixture of conditioning and adolescent, they are more than willing to fight alongside their handlers. But even the enhanced abilities of a cyborg may not be enough to combat the likes of naturally gifted [...]
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Episode 6 is full of the other woman I like in Sengoku Basara, that of Oda’s wife (why oh why is she already married?) Nou Hime, who is also as evil as her husband. But in any case there are a few other highlights…spoilers ensue for those who have not watched it. Yes I watched [...]
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The Elsa-Lauro fratello is found death with no evidence as to who might have killed them. Section 1 sends a pair of investigators to learn more about the cyborgs to see if they can put some pressure on Section 2. When section 2 learns what happens, they bury the evidence and blame it onPadania then send Henrietta and Giuseppe on vacation. Fermi doesn't buy the explanation so he and Gabrielli decide to visit Giuseppe and Henrietta on their vacation. Henrietta concludes that Elsa, who was in like with Lauro but always ignored, probably shot him and then shot herself.
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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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Short Summary: Rico talks about how she loves having a working body and her life at the social welfare agency. She gives more background info on the agency. When she is sent to scout out a hotel for an assassination, she meets a boy named Emilio who works there. He seems to like her and rattles off his life's story to her before she has to leave. Rico isn't really sure what to make of him. Later, when she performs the hit at the hotel, Emilio sees her and she kills him without remorse, explaining once more how much she loves her life at the agency.
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I don't get many chances to talk about Gunslinger Girl, and in fact, I don't think I've ever had a post centered on it. This is a travesty because Gunslinger Girl is my favorite franchise. I'd go so far as to say that I like the Gunslinger Girl manga more than any single anime. The first GG anime was very excllent, but only covered the first 2 volumes of the manga, which were mostly plot setup. When they decided to make a second season, some how Il Treano happened and PLEASE NEVER AGAIN. Anyway, I have a lot to say about the GG manga (understatement) and I want to do a chapter-by-chapter analysis.
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Over a year after I first started watching it, at last I've come to the end of Gunslinger Girl - Il Teatrino, a show that really didn't impress me for the first half of the series, but one that has in all fairness grown on me as it matured and improved throughout its second half. Of course, this final episode takes us to the grand finale of the Pinocchio story, promising (and delivering) an
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Well, I predicted this penultimate episode of Gunslinger Girl - Il Teatrino to be an action-packed one, and although I wasn't entirely wrong, I can't really say that I was right either. With Franco and Franca preparing to blow up the experimental bridge, and the Social Welfare Agency all set up and ready to stop them, it wasn't going to take long for the two to clash, and so it came to pass,
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