Good and Bad news today. Bad News. Its official, Funimation has licensed Gunslinger Girl season II. Well Triad, I hope you all are happy now. You have the chance to finish the project months ago but you all choose not to. Good job.Good News. As a consolation, episode 7 was released before the announcement. Bad News. The torrent’s been taken down from most site so those interested please get it quick. Good News. Episode 7 comes with a brand new opening animation featuring the main characters. Much preferred this to the original one which consist of series of random photos.
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To commemorate Funimation’s license of Gunslinger Girl yet again (they got the first season as well), I’ll be writing up something on the 2nd season OP single (and the re-released first season OST), which I’ve been listening to over and over and over again (and have actually been singing it in the shower lulz). The cover [...]
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F*CK YEAAAH!!!!! I’ve been checking the Funimation website for for sometime now after I read this post from ANN. As a rather huge Gunslinger Girl fan, I’ll be preordering the first DVD/boxset as soon as its available. A shot of my collection from ages past to post in some forum: What!? No figurines, you ask? Well I think [...]
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Well, I was hoping I could get my review for episode 7 of this series out before this announcement, but oh well.  In any case, just as the hint yesterday suggested, Funimation has licensed Gunslinger Girl -Il Teatrino- and will release it in a single 13-episode set sometime in 2009. As a result, I’m suspending my [...]
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Okay, they really gave it away too easily with the picture on their website, which AoD picked up on instantly….but I just got the official press release: FUNimation has acquired the rights to the sequel to Gunslinger Girl, Gunslinger Girl Il Teatrino. The most interesting tidbit in the release? “FUNimation Entertainment will release all 13 episodes [...]
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ANN reports that FUNimation has another mystery license announcement up their sleeve. It will be made official tomorrow, but for now we get a teaser silhouette of the lead character. Hmmmm… who could it be? Well Anonymous did its research (if some of us fans couldn’t tell already from the easy hint) and found the girl [...]
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Cheers! Fan-subbed episode 6 of Gunslinger Girl -Il Teatrino- has finally been released! The series had already ended its current season last month but the team behind this project stopped subbing it after episode 5. Intelligences gathered by my team of highly trained monkeys suggested that the team abandoned this for another series. Now that they have finished their current project, they are now back to subbing Gunslinger Girl -Il Teatrino-. Well better late than never I guess.
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Wow. With this scene, I take back anything I’ve said concerning bad directorial quality for the 2nd season of Gunslinger Girl. There was moe, there was inhumane violence and it blended into the OP magnificently. Suceeded in giving me Higurashi-like chill down my spine WITHOUT the use of psycho-moe, which is a keen display of [...]
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Reviewed this week: Allison and Lillia 1-2, Amatsuki 1, Chi’s Sweet Home 7-8, Crystal Blaze 1, Gunslinger Girl Il Teatrino 6, Kurenai 2, Kyouran Kazoku Nikki 1, Tower of Druaga 2, Wagaya no Oinari-sama 1, Zoku Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei 10 …and in manga: Akagi 10-11,Chi’s Sweet Home 1, Doujin Work 20-22, Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei 12 ANIME CURRENT SERIES [...]
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The fan-sub team that picked up Gunslinger Girl IL Teatrino stopped subbing this series and I heard rumors that they did so because they’re busy working on another series instead. It’s a pity to start something and then to put it on hold when they’ve already done 5 out of the 13 episodes, causing utter [...]
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