Gunslinger Girl

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This is a stack with anime that take place in different European countries, either completely or in several episodes when characters are traveling to these countries.

Countries included in this stack: England, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, Czech Republic, Switzerland

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An anime in which handguns are coolly portrayed and used as the primary weapon.

Anime with assassins.

Every animated media that has been made has the idea to tell a story and to express a feeling on the watcher. But then, there are some series which has a particular way to evocate their sentiments and they use different tools to do that. Thought provoking writing, displaying the characters' internal monologues, their struggles and fears, using particular cinematographic angles and by blending contrasting styles of animation, coloring and highly symbolical and metaphorical imagery - these are some of the many hallmarks signifying the said animation has psychological themes, and that it is avant-garde in it's approach. This method of expression is not limited to any genre, as well.

I do realize that animation like this may not be for everyone, but I firmly believe in it's artistic merits and integrity. Media like this allows us to peek into the human psyche and probably our own too, and it provides us with often interesting viewpoints of our world, even if fractured through the prism of the animated fiction. Shows like that also likes to ask us questions without answers, to give us moral dilemmas without solid conclusion or in summary, to provoke us to think.

The shows that were picked follow a pattern - the ones which are more straightforward, less abstract and easier to get into will be first and the more complex and obscure the works will be at the end.

Anime with a modern gun focus.

aka girls with guns.
The genre that isn't.

As seen on fakemorisummer.wordpress.com/2021/04/01/militarymoe-recommendations/ minus the grayzone ones.

Animes which prominently feature female characters with firearms

These shows are my all-time favourites that only feature female characters as main casts. Sure, some of them will just boil down to "Cute Girls Doing Cute Things", but don't let that keep you away from watching these and just relax - just settle down on your chair, wet from your swamp ass.
Also, I decided to just include shows with male characters as well, so the title is kinda clickbait, huh? :P

!this is based on my opinion please don't berate me for my tastes much appreciated!
anime that were popular/influential during the 2000s. (this is also based on what I've seen so far, list will go through changes)

Anime that licensed English songs for their Opening and/or Ending music

For multi season/entry series I added only the first season.

No mecha

Let em know that LC sent you

Trying to compile a list of all anime and manga that has girls with guns in it

Anime:

Part 2: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/12610

Part 3: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/31927

Manga Series:

Part 1: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/31410

There is also a NSFW series but I'm not linking that here

Both real guns and toy guns, as long as it can shoot. (so, no Persona 3)

Continuation of the first stack.
https://myanimelist.net/stacks/10500

This should be about it.
While I could keep adding more by digging deeper, especially into the older stuff, or just adding even more mainstream titles... I feel like that'd be excessive - as I want to keep these stacks somewhat balanced and easy to digest for a broad range of people: whether you're someone who mostly watches modern anime or an oldhead that still has VHS anime.
As long as the person reading this is okay with something outside of their comfort zone - they will find something for themselves.