Gunslinger Girl: Complete Box Set
by Morio Asaka
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Actor: Ami Koshimizu, Dave Trosko, Kanako Mitsuhashi, Sendai Eri, Yuka NanriDirector: Morio Asaka
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; Japanese (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Format: Animated, Box set, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.77:1
Running Time: 375 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-09-19
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Funimation Prod
Movie Reviews of Gunslinger Girl: Complete Box Set
Movie Review: Loveable assassins
Summary: 5 Stars
This was a different kind of story. Orphan girls are taken in by the government and trained to be killers. Body parts are replaced with highly advanced robotic parts if the girls are injured in combat. Memories of their abusive past erased and they are then taught military tactics for combat use. This makes them faster stronger and unsuspecting killing machines. The story shows how some trainers love their girls like real children and others treat them like weapons and how this effects each of the girls. Even though their abusive memories have been erased and they are mostly robotic they do still have feeling like any normal girl. It's an emotional story with a lot of action. The animation was among the better I have seen and the story line had no filler episodes like many series I have scene.
Summary of Gunslinger Girl: Complete Box Set
The Social Welfare Corporation is a secret military force that has been "saving" orphaned girls by making them more machine than flesh. No longer children, they are assassins. and an even more frightening truth will change everything. Box Set Features: . Exclusive collector's box . 13 Episodes . 325 Minutes of Content . Audio commentary . 16:9 widescreen . 5.1 English audioHenrietta, Claes, Triela, Angelica, and Rico, the adolescent heroines of the broadcast series Gunslinger Girl (2003), are orphans who have been turned into petite assassins through cybernetic implants and brainwashing. Each girl has an older, male "handler" from the Social Welfare Agency, a covert branch of the Italian government, who oversees her training and takes her on missions. The miniature murderers travel through Italy, dispatching criminals, right-wing terrorists, and uncooperative police officers with a cold-blooded efficiency Scarface might envy. The girls remember a few scattered fragments of their past lives, and the only feeling they express is a mixture of affection and adoration for the handlers. This lack of emotion makes them singularly unappealing as characters and robs Gunslinger Girl of the pathos of Saikano. None of them feels a shred of regret for their murderous actions: In episode 8, Henrietta complains that's she's only killed four people in the last month. The results suggest Key the Metal Idol re-made by Sam Peckinpah. Although Gunslinger Girl was one of the first examples of the "murderous moppet" genre of anime, it ranks among the grimmest series of recent years. (Rated TV 14: considerable violence, alcohol use) --Charles Solomon
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