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Editor's Note
Despite its girls-with-guns storyline and doe-eyed characters dressed in schoolgirl outfits, the action anime series GUNSLINGER GIRL eschews its genre's typically breezy comedy style for a dark and brooding exploration of female childhood. Set in Italy, the series centers on a little girl named Henrietta, who is taken in by a seemingly benevolent social-welfare agency after her entire family is murdered in a massacre. But the organization is really a front for a secret government program that adopts terminally ill or orphaned girls, erases their memories, and endows them with implanted cybernetic devices that transform them into perfectly conscience-free assassins. As part of the reconditioning process, the girls are partnered with older male agents who not only provide them with professional instruction but also act as their surrogate older brothers. Moody, stylish, and violent, the series chronicles Henrietta's training with her partner, Jose, with equal parts high-octane action sequences and poignant character studies of the pair's evolving relationship. This set includes all 15 episodes of GUNSLINGER GIRL: IL TEATRINO, the series? second season.
| Features | The girls of the Social Welfare Agency are no ordinary children. They are the grizzly remains of human wreckage pieced back together with cybernetic implants and trained to kill by the government. The oldest, Triela, pursues her targets with a ferocious enthusiasm - unwilling to settle for less than total annihilation. Her mirror in this bloody stalemate is Pinocchio - a shell of a boy raised as an assassin by the FRF - a terrorist faction at war with the SWA. Cold and cruelly efficient, he wields sharpened steel as though it were his own hand. Once human, these shattered souls have become murderous machines with only vague recollections of what it meant to be real - and a brutal compulsion to be the last killer standing. |
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Release Information
|  | Studio: Funimation Prod Inc |
| Release Date: 8/18/2009 |
| Running Time: 320 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 2007 | | Catalog ID: 08199 | | UPC: 00704400081996 | | Number of Discs: 2 |
Audio & Video
| | Video: Color |
| Cast & Crew | Luci Christian - Voice | | Caitlin Glass - Voice | | Laura Bailey - Voice | | Monica Rial - Voice | | Jerry Jewell - Voice | | Hiroshi Ishiodori - Director |
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