GUNSLINGER GIRL -IL TEATRINO- Vol.2 [Regular Edition] [DVD]

Product Introduction

The original manga series has sold over 2.5 million copies! The long-awaited new series of Yu Aida's "GUNSLINGER GIRL" is being adapted into a TV anime!!

In January 2008, the new GUNSLINGER GIRL finally begins! GIRL Begins!

★This popular series, currently serialized in Monthly Comic Dengeki Daioh, is generating a lot of buzz for its fusion of meticulous realism and beautiful fantasy!

★Original author Yu Aida is in charge of series composition and scriptwriting, pursuing even greater realism! The TV animation adaptation has been realized with even greater depth to the original world!

★You're sure to be drawn into the profound story and delicate characters! More than just a story of girls fighting guns, you'll be deeply moved by the poignant and earnest ensemble drama of the various characters surrounding them!

【First Press Limited Edition Bonus】 1. Bromide Set (3 cards) 2. Video Bonus Disc

≪Video Disc Contents≫ ~Approx. 15 minutes~ 1. Italian Travelogue (Triela) 2. Non-credit Ending for Each Episode 3. DVD Vol.1 CM 4. Character PV (Henrietta)

【Bonus Features】 1. Package featuring an illustration by Noboru Sugimitsu 2. Picture Label

【Episodes Included】 Episode 1: "The Distance Between Two: Siblings"

【Story Summary】 Dolls dancing in battle, adults driven by revenge—the stage revolves. (Il Teatrino)

The setting is a certain European city. The public interest corporation "Social Welfare Corporation"— Ostensibly a project sponsored by the Prime Minister's Office to support people with disabilities, this organization is actually an intelligence agency that secretly eliminates forces hostile to the government by giving dying girls mechanical bodies and "conditioning" them. These girls, who have become "cyborgs" in exchange for their lives, each have a dedicated officer, and because they always act together, they are called siblings (Fratello). For these girls, whose memories of their time as living beings have been sealed away by "conditioning," following their officer's orders and fighting with a gun is their greatest happiness.

The ensemble drama, in which the pasts and feelings of those on the social welfare corporation side, such as the cyborgs and their handlers, and those on the opposing Five Republics side, intertwine like intricate threads, inevitably leads towards a tragic climax.

[Main Staff] ◆Original Story & General Supervision: Yu Aida ◆Chief Director: Hiroshi Ishiodori ◆Director: Rei Mano ◆Series Composition: Yu Aida ◆Series Composition Cooperation: Tatsuhiko Urahata ◆Screenplay: Yu Aida, Tatsuhiko Urahata ◆Original Animation Character Design: Yu Aida ◆Animation Character Design & Chief Animation Director: Noboru Sugimitsu ◆Chief Animation Director: Masaru Koseki, Masaru Kawashima ◆Firearms General Supervision: Hiromichi Matano ◆Firearms Setting/Chief Firearms Animation Director: Keiichi Eda (Studio Ron) ◆Art Director: Riki Nishikura ◆Director of Photography: Hiroshi Onishi ◆Music: Yuki Otani ◆Sound Director: Takuya Hiramitsu ◆Sound Production: Jinnan Studio ◆Animation Production: Artland

(C) Yu Aida/MediaWorks/Marvelous Entertainment

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The second TV animation series based on Yu Aida's popular comic. The first season of this series is a fantastical violence action series brought to you with a completely new production studio, staff, and cast. Episode 1, "The Distance Between Two: Siblings," is included. The Italian Prime Minister's office has secretly established an extra-legal intelligence agency called the "Social Welfare Agency." There, officers and cyborgs called "prosthetic bodies" form pairs called siblings (Fratello) to carry out covert missions. The Fratello, Jose (Kozo Mito) and Henrietta (Kana Akutsu), suppressed terrorists from the Five Republics faction, who were hostile to the government, in Rome. And that night... This time, we're only introducing the setting and other details. The original author himself is in charge of the script and series composition, but the anime itself, including the art style, is so different from the previous work that it certainly takes time to get used to. It's still early in the series, so we'll avoid drawing any conclusions, but it seems best to approach it as something completely new and different rather than a second season. (Tatsuya Masutou)