Advantages: Interesting, serious, believable and unique Disadvantages: slow at times
...In my honest opinion, Gunslinger Girls is one of the most unique animes on the market, because it pushes highly unfamiliar territory in the female manga sector (I don't remember the proper word for female manga, male is "shonen"... I think...). Most animes aimed at a young female audience play to the cute romantic comedy side of things (Tokyo Mew Mew and Chobits are good examples of this). The protagonists in these examples are still battling the ... ...put into it.
Gunslinger Girls tells the story of an Italian Government agency where girls are taken from their deathbed and "conditioned"- fitted with cybernetic implants and then trained to make them the perfect assassins. Each girl has her own handler, who is both like a trainer and a father or older brother to her at the agency, and is responsible for their actions and training. The girls have been trained to obey and almost love their handlers ...
madlilnerd 16.01.2007
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