Anime series Gunslinger Girl

[Berg]

Anybody out there a fan of this series? http://www.gunslingergirl.tv/

The show has some pretty authentic weapons and handling tactics. I just got my DVD promotional packet in the mail today.

 

[neoncowboy]

Cool! Great trailer!

I just added disc 1 to my queue at Netflix, looking forward to it and I don't even like anime.

 

[jobu07]

Nice animation. What do we have here, an AUG in pic one and a SVD in pic two? Nice

 

[Brett Bellmore]

How's it compare to Gunsmith Cats?

 

[Father Knows Best]

Very cool. I've never seen anime before, but this may get me into it. I like Triela, already her dossier says that she prefers to use a Winchester M1897 trench gun.

 

[Mulliga]

I don't know what's more disturbing - little girls gunning down people or the fact that they all have excellent trigger discipline.

 

[chevrofreak]

Love the site music!

 

[lunaslide]

It looks interesting, kinda of a "La Femme Nikita" theme taken to the extreme.

For those new to anime, do not miss Ghost in the Shell the movie, and the TV series GitS: Stand Alone Complex. For fans of the cyberpunk genre of science fiction (such as William Gibson and Bruce Sterling's early work), the plot lines are very interesting.

 

[dev_null]

This looks like chibi Femmes Nikita, but I'm tired of super-amazing 8-y-o Mary Sues. Mind you, if Shirow or ABe did it, I'd be all over it. BTW, the manga for GiTS 2 (Man-Machine Interface) will make your head explode. Matrix, schmatrix!

 

[tc300mag1]

Had never heard of it but looks pretty sweet ill have to check it out and Ghost in the Shell is excellent

 

[Kevlarman]

Whoa, one of the characters (Rico) uses a CZ75! Just like Rally Vincent of Gunsmith Cats fame!

Still, GSC has characters who are more my age.

 

[hksw]

Huh, just so happens I bought the DVD yesterday at Best Buy. Haven't watched all of it yet as I'm watching the Samurai Jack season 1 and 2 DVDs I got with it. The first 25 minutes looked interesting. The gun are drawn accurately as with Riding Bean/Gunsmith Cats.

As for story line, GC would be more believable. From what I gather from the description and first few minutes I saw, young, terminally destined (illness or accident) girls are cybernetically enhanced and used as the weapons platforms for secret government work (for the good). They work in two man teams, a human adult and the young girl. You can interpret whatever psychological undertones of that type of relation as I'm sure some folks will think it immoral. But it's got guns (and accurately depicted in their action and use) which is good enough for me.

 

[George Hill]

The new/remake of Appleseed is very cool.

 

[hksw]

The new/remake of Appleseed is very cool.

Most definitely. The first scenes blew me away. If scaled correctly, I'm guessing those Gatling guns were at least 40mm and those sideways directed muzzle brakes were a nice touch. And those multi-barrels on those mobile fortresses, even bigger still. Also like the way they left the characters in their anime appearance (as opposed to trying to be realistic).

 

[Kevlarman]

I second, er, third that!

Appleseed was one of the first anime OVAs I've watched; I loved it then, and I love it even more now!

Deunan is my dream girl.

 

[10 Ring Tao]

*watches trailer*

Well damn. I haven't wanted to see an anime so bad since Cowboy Bebop.

 

[SnWnMe]

Rally Vincent will always be my girl.

But I will check this series out!

 

[MilsurpShooter]

http://server1.zonealta.net/~skrime/Cowboy Bebop/cowboy_41_1024.jpg

The one and only, even if she does have a gambling problem lol

 

[Zach S]

While I'm not an anime fan, I caught Ghost in the Shell one night on TV. I quickly noticed that the characters' gun handling was better than what most of hollywood is cranking out, and therefore had to watch the rest of the flick.

 

[MilsurpShooter]

Accurate gun modeling as well. One of the series episodes showed a .50cal and explaining it's workings

 

[Kamicosmos]

Breaking my self-imposed THR exile for this thread

I love anime.

Gunslinger Girls is very good. I am actually planning on picking up the mangas this week. The Adult handler, and under 10 girls is a bid odd, but...it's Japan, they have different ideas on adult/childeren interaction. Also, I saw the series in fansubs about a year and a half ago, so I got them uncut and straight from Japan, so I'm interested to see how they are edited and made PC correct for us poor sheltered Americans. I hope they don't trash it too bad.

Gits:SAC. Oh yes. Get It. Along with the movies and mangas. The new manga is very good, but yeah...I read the whole thing, put it down, and then my head exploded.

New Appleseed....Oh yes again. Made me dig out the old mangas for it too.

Gunsmith Cats...the best in my opinion. I liked the OAV so much, I tracked down some original japanese language mangas and even started trying to translate the kanji!! Fortunately for me, Dark Horse picked up the series and translated it for me.

I like anime and mangas, especially the Chicks with Guns types, can ya tell?

 

[dev_null]

Kamicosmos, have you seen Rose Hip Rose? I've only seen it for sale in manga, four volumes in Japanese only. Somewhere online I ran into an English translation which I downloaded and formatted (in MS Publisher) just so I could print it out to read.

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/manga.php?id=4393

There's some fanservice but it's not etchi.

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[ssteven1]

Seems similar to NOIR. Another good guns and girls anime. Try this

http://www.projectnoir.com/episodes/index.shtml

 

[Kamicosmos]

dev_null, no I haven't seen that one. I'll look for it.

Noir is also good. A bit deep on the character building, but when the action starts, it's pretty good.

 

[Black92LX]

Henrietta rocks a Sig 239 and FN P90!!!
Nice