Gunslinger Girl: Il Teatrino (Blu-ray-A)

Release date: 2010-03-16
Suggested retail price: $49.98
Age rating: MA13

SKU: FN-08198
UPC: 704400081989 704400081989
ISBN-10: 1421018136 1421018136
ISBN-13: 9781421018133 9781421018133

Description:
The girls of the Social Welfare Agency are no ordinary children. They are the grisly 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 an extension of 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.

Contains episodes 1-13.

Special Features: Textless Songs, Trailers.

Spoken Languages: English, Japanese, English subtitles.

(added on 2010-02-03)

• Reviewed by Jacob Chapman (August 9, 2010)
• Reviewed in Shelf Life (June 14, 2010)