Gunslinger Girl, Episode One Review
By Yang
Wow, these guys seem really uptight. It seems to be a story a young huntress in training named Henrietta. She's with a cover organization, the Social Welfare Agency, and is really, really close to Jose, like her brother or something. In fact, its kinda odd that it is all little sisters with much older brothers.
Anyways, they were going after some thugs with guns really sneaky like. When trying to figure out if the guy they were looking for when one of the thugs got into Jose's face, and Henrietta just lost it. I mean, like Coco what the Grimm smashed her favourite clothing store lost it. They must have had really weak auras because she totally kicked butt.
It then cuts to an explanation as to what is going on. Turns out that Henrietta's family was taken out by some Grimm and she was in bad shape. They erased her past life somehow, and healed her scars. The they paired her with Jean whom had personally selected her. Her training was a bit off. I mean, guns are good but they should have trained she with a sword or something as well. Also, I don't see why they couldn't let her make her own weapon. I assume they let her eventually, but her mind was too wiped in the first episode. She was kinda dense, but she worked up some skills.
Cutting back to her taking on some thugs, she got hurt. I guess she aura needs work too but she's tough. But she got the job done with the help of Rico, another girl, with a sniper rifle. Rico must have some kinda of sight or tracking semblance.
They, the big-brothers, discuss the control mechanisms in a meeting afterwards. It turns out that the more control they exercise, the lower the lifespan of these girls! No wonder these guys have been having issues. This must be set before the Great War because no one would do something like that today. Turning children into weapons! That gets me so mad I'll text entry unreadable/Corrupt
Sorry about that. I left Ember Celica on and had a little accident and spilled by Strawberry Sunrise on my scroll I was writing this on. Took a bit to recover the file. Pyrrah was nice enough to lend me her scroll the next morning so I can finish this before class. She wanted to read something about maids before class and was complaining about Nora giving the finer points of Ursa wrestling to Jaune.
Anyways, turning children into weapons makes me mad. Who do such a thing? I'm sure Professor Ozpin would agree with me on this.
Where was I? Of yeah, Jean who is Jose's real brother tells him off for being emotionally attached to a 'tool'. Well, Jean's the tool, so there. I wouldn't go around calling a little girl names like that, especially ones trained to be assassins. Well, it turns out that Henrietta is not just a huntress or sorts, but a cyborg too.
The school in the show reminds me of Signal Academy. Jose seems like an okay guy and the other girls seem cool with what they do. I like Treilla, the oldest at what I guess would be a little younger than Ruby. Claes and Treilla would get along with Blake with their tea and stuff, though Henrietta is also a bit like Blake is that she's quiet around people until she gets to know them.
The end really brings into perspective that these are just little girls, trying to please their brother-figures though good performance and killing people, but still little girls. Are they trying to debate at what point are we tools and at what point we are just ordinary people? The ending animation was kinda odd too. It was just a gun in the rain with no raindrop hitting the same place twice during the entire sequence. I don't get it. There wasn't even a little umbrella.
Oh well. That's all for now. See ya!