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Japanese: GUNSLINGER GIRL
English: Gunslinger Girl
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Type: Manga
Volumes: 15
Chapters: 100
Status: Finished
Published: May 21, 2002 to Sep 27, 2012
Genres: Action Action, Drama Drama, Sci-Fi Sci-Fi
Themes: Military Military, Psychological Psychological
Serialization: Dengeki Daioh
Authors: Aida, Yuu (Story & Art)

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Ranked: #5652
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Popularity: #708
Members: 25,216
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Manga: Dogs: Bullets & Carnage
Although the setting is an unnamed (and probably fictional) city, Dogs: Bullets & Carnage has a European atmosphere similar to Gunslinger Girl. Both titles have plenty of blades and bullets flying around but have considerable amounts of drama and character development give the readers a balanced diet of style AND substance. 
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Manga: Blood Alone
Lethal young girl has a thing for her guardian while he's just trying to play the role of responsible elder brother. (Aw...) Both series also feature regular people who are somewhat forced into unusual occupations due to their tragic pasts. 
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Manga: Saishuu Heiki Kanojo
Cute and innocent murder cyborgs. With a touch of depression. These two touches on a lot of similar issues, like death and life and all that, but Saikano is taking it to a global level. 
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Both feature a team of cyborg characters repurposed for use by an organization. Both have a generally somber tone, and both show the implications of being a cyborg. 
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Manga: Drug-On
The two series have similar relationship, Handler-Cyborg in Gunslinger Girl and Taker-Valor in Drug-On. The cyborg/valor are very attached to their handler/valor.  
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Manga: Monster
both are set in europe; both stories are centered around political games, social injustice, rebellious groups and terrorists, and a certain family's tragedy. 
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Manga: Groundless
One of my favorite aspects to Gunslinger Girl is the degree to which the conflict seems to be written from a good understanding of terrorism, counter-terrorism, and acts of violence in general. In terms of both why and how the factions are here and the gunfights take place Groundless is a more straightforward action vehicle, though there is also some heavy, traumatic character character drama. But I would say it is the closest manga to Gunslinger Girl in how true to reality the conflict feels in it's politics and tactics. Instead of the terrorism of the Italian Years of Lead it's an all  read more 
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Manga: Dívčí Válka
Both series have a focus on a young female protagonist(s) fighting against a large antagonistic group and their primary weapons are firearms, and a very large cast of characters. The focus is somewhat similar in the sense that all the fights are politically driven, and each fight is shown to have a lot of strategic prep work beforehand, along with the fights being much more grounded in reality, no fancy shonen powerups or whatever. If you enjoyed those aspects of Dívčí Válka you would enjoy Gunslinger Girl just as much. 
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Manga: Candy & Cigarettes
Both series have little girl assassins Both series have secret government organizations that use the girls to kill terrorists and politicians. Both stories have a team dynamic with an old man and a little girl 
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Manga: Pluto
Gunslinger Girl and Pluto are strikingly similar. Both follow mainly robots (or cyborgs, in GG's case, but they serve the same narrative purpose) and their examination of their humanity. Both feature a lot of international intrigue, spread across many countries. Both question the future of mankind and other usual sci-fi themes. And, finally, both are just as good as the other, alike in their good points (character writing and plotting) and bad ones (too bleak and with some lifeless scientific/political exposition). 
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Manga: Spiral: Suiri no Kizuna
While they have vastly different plots, they share a few aspects: 1) Both works deal with cursed children and their struggles to deal with their fate. 2) The children are desensitized to violence. 3) The children use all sorts of weapons (knives, guns, explosives) to fight. 
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Manga: Claymore
Girls are taken in at a young age, often in dire and hopeless situations, and modified into soldiers/warriors according to the "mysterious" Organization's purposes. At first it seems like the girls are saved from whatever tragic and painful experience they had but there is a deeper truth behind the Organization's plans... Both are expected to die in battle and can be easily replaced. 
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Manga: Pandora Hearts
The main characters are all girls who are trained to be assasians or weapons to be precise; they're both warped. 
reportRecommended by AuroraStar
Manga: Tista
Same kind of plot...its the story of a girl who works as an assassin for a church but has more romance or romantic connectioon between the girl and atty, the male lead. 
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Manga: Ai-Ren
The two series feature characters who try to make the most of what's left of their short lives despite their miserable circumstances. Both contain a unique mix of despair and hope although Ai-Ren explicitly favors optimism with its didactic and somewhat verbose text while Gunslinger Girl gives only a few hints and may be more morally confusing for some readers. 
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Manga: Gunnm
The female cyborg can be read as a vivid metaphor; the self-willed woman moulded by social machinery, and forced into a role for the purposes of others. In another sense, the ultimate warrior women are cut off from the 'natural' roles of parent, lover or wife. Although Alita has somewhat more freedom to search for her role than the Gunslinger Girls, both of these series use cyborgs to say a lot about freedom, identity and fighting, albeit in very different settings. Crazed cyberpunk, or convincing counter-terrorism, what's your poison?  
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Manga: Death Note
These are both very deep, sometimes disturbing, emotional books. They really make you think about what is moral, what is right and wrong. Very gripping. 
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Manga: Inuyashiki
Gunslinger Girl and Inu Yashiki takes the theme of technology and transforms it into a rather intriguing story with dark developments. The main characters gets involved with robotics and undergoes changes to their body. At the same time, we see how events in their lives influence the actions they take to make changes in their society. There's a good degree of psychological concepts that also evolves in both series. Recommended for anyone interested in a refreshing dark story. 
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Girls with guns, if you like this combination Hidan no Aria is a good choice. Hidan no Aria is much more about comedy and action with a loli-tsundere character called Aria and one guy with the funnyest power that you ever see, and absurd gun skills. 
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Manga: Elfen Lied
Young girls are put through brutal and inhumane circumstances leaving them psychologically damaged and emotionally repressed. Despite their suffering, they manage to retain their humanity. In Gunslinger Girl, the girls are trained to kill and obey. In Elfen Lied, killing is their response to the discrimination and incarceration they suffer under the label as a threat to all humanity.  
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