Gunslinger Girl
"The girl has a mechanical body. However, she is still an adolescent child."
The Social Welfare Agency saves the lives of terminal patients using cybernetic implants. Then it teaches them to kill. After surviving the slaughter of her family, young Henrietta awakens to her new life at the Agency with a rebuilt body and no memory. Teamed with Jose, who is responsible for turning her into the perfect assassin, Henrietta’s been given a second chance—but at what cost?
First Aired
October 8, 2003
Last Aired
March 31, 2008
Original Language
ja
Popularity
6
Type
Scripted
Official Website
Production Companies
Artland
Madhouse
ASCII Corporation
Marvelous Entertainment
MediaWorks
Fuji Television Network
Seasons & Episodes
Episodes
Set in modern Italy, story follows a group of traumatically-injured young girls taken from hospitals all over the country, who are then cybernetically enhanced, indoctrinated and trained to be assassins by a secret branch of the Public Corporation for Social Welfare, Section 2. Each girl is assigned to a male "handler" who oversees her training, deployments, and general conduct. Each handler is free to "condition" his cybernetic assassin to the extent he sees fit, which increases a girl’s lethality and loyalty at the expense of human individuality and lifespan.
Cast
Yuuka Nanri
Henrietta (voice)
Kanako Mitsuhashi
Rico (voice)
Eri Sendai
Triela (voice)
Ami Koshimizu
Claes (voice)
Hidenobu Kiuchi
José (voice)
Mitsuru Miyamoto
Jean (voice)
Rie Nakagawa
Ferro (voice)
Hiroshi Yanaka
Lorenzo Pieri (voice)
Norihiro Inoue
Marco Toni (voice)
Masashi Ebara
Victor Hillshire (voice), Victor HIllshire (voice)
Masami Iwasaki
Alfonso (voice)
Hitomi Terakado
Angelica (voice)
