uncle stormy>> wat is gunslinger girl??? i haven't watched tat one yet...
This sad, depressing anime, set in modern Italy tells a tale of group of very young girls employed by Italian Intelligence 2nd Section which publicly known as "Social Welfare Bureau" for covert operations against government targets. Broken, abandoned and often have no more hope to have a normal life, the girls are chosen to be modified into bionic operators, endowed with superlative human characteristics such as agility and strength etc by G-mans so they can be deadly assassin. Using non-popular killer memes, their mode of operation revolves around close inflitration and absolute surprise.
The reason why they use young females is because they were more obedient and less likely to rebel, compared to males especially children age. Not to mention, people tend to let their guard down since female child tend not to pose any significant threat. To control these souped up operators, each of them were assigned a controller who is responsible for well being. It is not surprising that the controllers is usually male, in order to induce love as means of control over the girls.
The story above which originally started as H-lolicon doujin by creator Yu-Aida, which later evolved into highly intelligent and emotional mainstream manga serialized in Dengeki Daioh followed by an adaptation by Studio Madhouse into 13 ep anime which concluded early last year. His love for Italian architecture and real weapons is strong, thus rendering an unique flavour to Gunslinger Girl setting. Cute and brutal, innocent yet morally dissonant, Gunslinger Girl asked essential question on what is morality and humanity means.
This anime is not for everyone, as subject matter presented here is highly disturbing. It is a homage somesort to shows like Luc Besson's Leon or Le Femme Nikita.
