Alternative TitlesEnglish: Gunslinger Girl Synonyms: Gunslinger Girls Japanese: ガンスリンガー・ガール
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Type: TV
Episodes: 13
Status: Finished Airing
Aired: Oct 8, 2003 to Feb 19, 2004
Duration:
24 min. per episode Rating:
R - 17+ (violence & profanity)
L represents licensing company
StatisticsScore: 7.681 (scored by 31443 users)
Ranked: #9572
Popularity: #225
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Both are stories about Top assasins.
Girls and guns; both about assassin girls doing their job perfectly.
Both feature kick-ass girls who are assassins as the main characters. If you liked one, you are probably going to like the other just as much.
Both are dark "girls-with-guns" series. They both also take place in a foreign country other than Japan (France in Noir and Italy in Gunslinger Girl).
Although this anime is quite different it could also be considered quite similar as well. Gunslinger Girl begins with the same premise. Girls with highly refined gun skills working as assassins. I believe both revolve around the pacing of the action sequences and if you enjoyed Noir's actions sequences Gunslinger Girl will definitely be a step up due to the detail taken to animate shooting, recoil, bullet casings, gun powder smoke, etc. If you enjoyed the action sequences in Noir, you likely enjoyed it partly because the pure insanely-cold expressions and ease they dispatched their enemies and in Gunslinger Girls you will definitely find that element still there. Lastly if you simply just enjoy watching girls shoot the crap outta guys against overwhelming odds, Gunslinger Girl is definitely your cup of tea. The main character likes hers with lots of sugar. =P
Both series feature lush European settings, powerful music, and their stories offer a more dramatic spin on the "girls with guns" cliche, emphasizing the heroines' struggles to unlock dark pasts and understand "who" they really are.
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Both deal with powerful organizations, using assassins, to do their dirty work. Dark psychological themes throughout.
Gunslinger girl also deals with girls packing heat in a secret organization of assassins.
Both animes describe a story of top-class assasins who were previously ordinary people... They were forced to forget their past and go through hard training so as to do all the dirty work of the goverment (gunslinger girl) and the inferno(requiem for the phantom)... Also in both animes pure girls are used to make assasins... Finally the dark and serious way the events are described as well as the almost no-existing music is included in both Gunslinger girl and Phantom
Born to kill and trained as assassins, both these series contain the mental and physical action that give the viewers a mind twist ride better than Disneyland; guns involved of course.
Both have awesome assassins and great violence and blood.
Both have a interesting story that will keep you hooked!
1. The basic idea: erasing someone's past and training them into assassins.
2. A lot of gun action.
(Note: Phantom is darker and twisted while G.G. is lighter and somewhat more predictable.)
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Both very deep and sad animes. Great if you like serious stuff
Deadly little girls from secret organization as a background to plot full of drama, sadness, and... dead people.
Both are about deadly little girls that are trained and ordered by older males
Violence is galore in both anime, and they portray girls being "forced" into violent behavior themselves can't really avoid. In both anime girls are circumstantially connected to a male character.
Same kind of dark aura like feel. More blood and gore though.
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Both are about stories of girls who were created to be weapons.The stories tell how they deal with their new way of life.
Both series are about young and teenage girls who have been cybernetically modified into killing machines
They both tackle the subject of modified girls and are also both extremely serious animes.
Both about girls who are in the wrong place at the wrong time and are turned into weapons of war. They are very similar in tone, and focus on some of the same themes, though SaiKano focuses more on the costs of fighting rather than the costs of being turned into a tool for fighting.
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Lolis + big caliber weapons , that's pretty much it. ^^
Young girls with gun fighting for peace
In both series, some young girls of various ages are trained and supervised by over graded members of an association for which they work for, in order to fight against a common ennemy. (Terrorists in Gunslinger Girl and Neuroi in Strike Witches.) In each of the series, the girls fight using overpowered abilities that they gained due either to their modified body (cyborg like...) in Gunslinger Girl or by using their magic power to operate "striker units" which it's the case in Strike Witches.
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Another firearms-based animes,only little girls this time.
Well both had a major female characters, with a lousy backgrounds, and that are good with guns. Besides, their storytelling is very similar, though unlike gunslinger girl, there isn't any major story that can be seen as a result of the episodes that is watched, in black lagoon. Both have gunfights, and average pace.
There are some semilarities, both main characters are gun experts, but in Gunslinger Girls the characters are a bit emotioneless, but still the girls still have some relations of friendship between each other, in both anime there's a lot gun action, in both they take in dirty work from the bigshots and before the main story a lot of the charcters had different lifes from the ones they have now.
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Both series are of similar nostalgic feelings. Problems that they are showing are difficult to assess. Very ambiguous. Both anime are also formally similar (colors, the pace of action, universal message).
Although the topics aren't the same, they have an extremely similar emotion to them. If you liked Haibane Renmei, you'll surely enjoy Gunslinger Girl.
As another user said, there is a certain emotion one feels for the girls. As you watch you feel sorry for them yet enjoy that they can still manage to find happiness from day to day.
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both of the main characters work for some agency. also contractors and the cyborgs both have emotionless to be more efficient when a decision. both contractors and cyborgs are mutated humans in some sense. in gunslinger girl its artifical but in darker than black it is nonartifical and genuine. henrietta and hei both act differently compared to their peers.
-Secret organisation employing individuals with abilities above those of humans to carry out their plans.
-Emotionless feel at first of the characters working for the organisation.
-Political games and conspiracies.
-Realistic and well animated action.
Note: Darker Than Black as special powers, Gunslinger Girl as cyborgs.
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Young girls using guns, the differences is that 'Gunslinger Girl' is more of a realistic kind of anime with a darker-themed story-line while compared to 'Upotte!!?' which is more of a light-hearted, upbeat, and competitive kind of anime.
Both involve young girls who are expert shooters.
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Girls and and guys with guns? What else could we ask for? Both series contains great action and fight scenes mixed in with some comedy and drama.
Both stories have children gun master. They are both show the opposition of child's innocence and assassins instinct required for their survival.
Both are good stories, full of action. Both lead to reflection about youth.
Gunslinger girls is slower paced story.
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Both concern the dehumanization of children. Throughout either show, one witnesses the characters' psychological, and in some cases moral, disintegration, caused by a surfeit of episodic challenges. That being said, however, one may argue that Gunslinger Girls presents a stronger exhibition of a human's nature to do good, while Neon Genesis Evangelion is more an example of the cynical, distrusting constitution.
In Gunslinger Girl and Neon Genesis Evangelion the main characters are adolescent children fighting for some shady semi-government organizations. In both series it leads to all kind of mental problems and weird relationships. Also some plot elements and themes appear in both series. If you liked this title you most probably like the other.
P.S. In both series the organizations are very twisted and do almost anything to achieve their goal. In my opinion the gals from Gunslinger Girl, for some reason, seem like a combination of the Eva pilots and Eva Units.
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hmmm many guns and fighting but I think Gunslinger Girl is a little slower in my opinion.
Girls with guns and a good story
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Similar mature neat graphic and plot emphasizes feminism
A shady organization takes in girls, artificially enhances them so that they become more effective in combat and then makes them fight for them while they struggle to preserve their humanity.
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its similar in that there are people who are young people trapped in a world where they are forced to fight and they cant escape it, gunslinger girls has more action and fighting than angel heart but angel heart has more romance so they are both amazing and moving series.
Gunslinger Girl is a series that is similar to Angel Heart in that it places its main characters in a position as young assassins. The difference between the series is that Angel Heart focuses more on one assassin who grows out of her "set to kill" status in humorous and sweet ways after she literally gains "another" heart. Gunslinger Girl focuses on a group of young assassins and the relationships with their "handlers". The girls are each explored in brief in terms of their pasts and how they came to be assassins.
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In both shows, the young killers themselves are the most tragic victims.
Girl(s) trained by their masters to kill
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Both involve the mafia and gratuitous violence. However, Baccano! is much lighter than the deeply disturbing Gunslinger Girl.
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Both are about girls that have guns and they both have a man with them that tells them what to do like a handler/monk. And their handler/monk can treat them however they like, a good friend, or just a piece of garbage. Although GS is more realistic.
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Both shows use detailed visuals and evocative music to create a European atmosphere (GsG is set in Italy while Aria's setting is based on Venice).
The two stories also feature female protagonists who are very much dedicated to their professions, and each one is accompanied by an authority figure. For some reason never given, their jobs seem to be open only to girls.
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Both relate to the cybernetic implants within the future, and how adaptations occur for both sides of mature, and immature. These two shows/ movies also relate due to being a part of public security established by government(s) of countries.
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The main characters both go through some of the same thing. Both are cybernetic ally enhanced and used as weapons for other peoples purposes. Both animes will be epic and amazing in their own way.
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both series have feminine power in the plot.
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little girls + action + drama
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The theme of young girls becoming assassins is hard to ignore in both of these series. Whether it's for justice or not, there is definitely liberty. The violence and action are also shown in a very realistic and gore some way so be aware of that if you're planning on watching both series. Sci-fi also plays a theme in both of these series although more so in Kite Liberator. Both of these series are not for kids but for the more general mature audience.
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Although the characters of these two stories are vastly different, the setting is quite similar. They both are mafia animes focusing on a particular 'organization'. The shoot em battles between well dressed gunmen are present in each one, and a slower pace style of storytelling is also shared. Plenty of blood and gun fights in each one as well.
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Both series use fantastic elements (magic for Madoka★Magica, futuristic technology in the case of Gunslinger Girl) to set up stories which revolve around complex themes.
Expect drama, an immersive ambiance, top-notch music, surprisingly appropriate lyrics, references to classic works, and cute girls in unenviable professions.
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Both are violent and fun to watch.
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The storylines of both animes are standing on totally different edges, but the real core of them have some similarities: a group of friends that deals with new and different feelings and endure hard challenges (and bullets, in Gunslinger case) to stick together. Good dramas with very touching endings.
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Both are action series about young assassins.
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They both have gun's and fighting scenes (more like gunslinger girl near the end of higurashi )
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Both are sad, tragic, and dark dramas about children. Neither anime pulls their punches or is afraid to show the darker side of humanity. Both are also realistic in their approach and very grounded in reality even though the worlds they take place in may be a little different then our own. Also due to the content and the paceing both are most definitely for the older crow. Both series have lots of deaths, are dark, and can be very disturbing at times.
And both are masterpeices worthy of your top ten list. Give the one you haven't seen a shot.
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Both are stories about young girls suffering.
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Both shows star girls doing important work for the good of the world, at the price of certain negative alterations to their bodies (robotic implants in GG and losing the abilty to grow older in Shigofumi).
They also both have structures that are based on smaller, one-episode plots that build up the story of the main chracters.
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Well for the obvious reason they both involved guns and shooting. The main reason is the characters in them both, grow immensely. They start to interact more and seem more "human". The mood however is way different, just to point out.
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These share the guns, the action, kids with weapons, fatherly figures and the use of assassins.
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Both are similarly themed - adults using genetically altered children as soldiers.
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Love girls with guns? Both these series feature girls with guns blasting their way through to gain freedom and find a sense of purpose for living their lives. Fantastic animation, detailed gun fights and jaded, young girls parading their skills as gun masters set both these series apart from the diseased world of anime.
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These series are similar in that they both have a very similar focus. Neither series are really made to just entertain the viewer and to merely tickle us with animation, action, comedy and other forms of vibrato. Instead Gunslinger Girl and Kino's Journey share the same motive of simply making us think.
Both series will continue to provide various situations with each episode, which consist of conflicts of similar themes, but neither really end with any suggestion as to what the resolve should be, thus leaving it up to the viewer.
If you appreciate the challenge of watching Kino's Journey, Gunslinger girl will surely give you the same appreciation, and vice versa.
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Both are stories about young girls that act as assassins/bounty hunters. They both also take place in a foreign country other than Japan (Mexico and Italy).
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