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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 .. Read more

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  Seriously deep and dark.
  
  While this appeared to be a bit slow paced at the begining, it was only setting the tone of this well animated series, which got more dark and sinister as it ... read more »
  
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  - 12 Apr 2006 at 16:31
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  for the anime conoisseur
  
  First I must state: nother reviewer said 'the animation could ruin it for some'. Um, what??? Gunslinger Girl is one of studio Madhouse's most ... read more »
  
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  - 08 Aug 2010 at 11:31
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  some advice...
  
  stick to the manga.
  
  It's a lot better than the animation, and i personally find the animation could even ruin it for some.
  
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  - Canterbury
  - 07 Jun 2009 at 11:30
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  Customer Review
  
  ...in fact weird on several levels, from the sparse music to the stacatto animation, to the characters to the whole premise, to the dialogue.... But it draws ... read more »
  
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  - UK
  - 23 Jun 2008 at 15:22
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  The concept behind this anime is plain daft, namely young girls are trained to kill, just because they are terminally ill and so require artificial bodies (I ... read more »
  
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  - 23 Jun 2008 at 15:22
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  There is a Four Star ep on the disk
  
  Episode 3, I think it's Rico's story, is easily a four star episode and highlights the strenght of this series. It's ability to suprise it's ... read more »
  
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  - Huddersfield
  - 18 Feb 2008 at 18:42
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  La Femme Nikita, Anime style
  
  At first, the premise of men taking young girls, cybernetically enhanced and brainwashed under their wings and tutoring them to be assassins seems rather creepy... read more »
  
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- - MajorEasy
  - 26 reviews
  - Cranbrook
  - 31 Mar 2007 at 15:07
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  stylish but oddly empty
  
  From such a promisingly dark premise I was, I'm afraid, hoping for more.
  
  The rather disturbing partnering of bionic young girls with older men ... read more »
  
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- - kennedy
  - scotland
  - 29 Sep 2006 at 21:00
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  Entirely unseating experience
  
  the premise of the story, that a shady governement group rebuilds and recruits schoolgirls for wetwork shows the gulf between western and eastern taboos and the... read more »
  
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- - macatsuma
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  - Elland
  - 01 Aug 2006 at 11:21
- - 6
  - 0
  Seriously deep and dark.
  
  While this appeared to be a bit slow paced at the begining, it was only setting the tone of this well animated series, which got more dark and sinister as it ... read more »
  
  Report this review
- 232120
- - a customer
  - Northern Ireland
  - 12 Apr 2006 at 16:31
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- - 6
  - 0
  Seriously deep and dark.
  
  While this appeared to be a bit slow paced at the begining, it was only setting the tone of this well animated series, which got more dark and sinister as it ... read more »
  
  Report this review
- 232120
- [Highly rated reviewer]
  - a customer
  - Northern Ireland
  - 12 Apr 2006 at 16:31
- - 3
  - 0
  Entirely unseating experience
  
  the premise of the story, that a shady governement group rebuilds and recruits schoolgirls for wetwork shows the gulf between western and eastern taboos and the... read more »
  
  Report this review
- 270098
- - macatsuma
  - 24 reviews
  - Elland
  - 01 Aug 2006 at 11:21
- - 3
  - 0
  stylish but oddly empty
  
  From such a promisingly dark premise I was, I'm afraid, hoping for more.
  
  The rather disturbing partnering of bionic young girls with older men ... read more »
  
  Report this review
- 371001
- - kennedy
  - scotland
  - 29 Sep 2006 at 21:00
- - 2
  - 0
  La Femme Nikita, Anime style
  
  At first, the premise of men taking young girls, cybernetically enhanced and brainwashed under their wings and tutoring them to be assassins seems rather creepy... read more »
  
  Report this review
- 425796
- - MajorEasy
  - 26 reviews
  - Cranbrook
  - 31 Mar 2007 at 15:07
- - 2
  - 0
  Customer Review
  
  The concept behind this anime is plain daft, namely young girls are trained to kill, just because they are terminally ill and so require artificial bodies (I ... read more »
  
  Report this review
- 584517
- - a customer
  - UK
  - 23 Jun 2008 at 15:22
- - 1
  - 0
  There is a Four Star ep on the disk
  
  Episode 3, I think it's Rico's story, is easily a four star episode and highlights the strenght of this series. It's ability to suprise it's ... read more »
  
  Report this review
- 528122
- - a customer
  - Huddersfield
  - 18 Feb 2008 at 18:42
- - 1
  - 0
  Customer Review
  
  ...in fact weird on several levels, from the sparse music to the stacatto animation, to the characters to the whole premise, to the dialogue.... But it draws ... read more »
  
  Report this review
- 581165
- - a customer
  - UK
  - 23 Jun 2008 at 15:22
- - 1
  - 1
  some advice...
  
  stick to the manga.
  
  It's a lot better than the animation, and i personally find the animation could even ruin it for some.
  
  Report this review
- 767574
- - a customer
  - Canterbury
  - 07 Jun 2009 at 11:30
- - 0
  - 0
  for the anime conoisseur
  
  First I must state: nother reviewer said 'the animation could ruin it for some'. Um, what??? Gunslinger Girl is one of studio Madhouse's most ... read more »
  
  Report this review
- 912573
- - a customer
  - UK
  - 08 Aug 2010 at 11:31

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  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 ...