Gunslinger Girl Season two - ArniesAirsoft

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DesertFoxRomel

Registered: July 2006
Posts: 836

Review Date: 16/3/08

Would you recommend the product? No | Price you paid?: None indicated | Rating: 2

Positive aspects of the product (pros):	Not much really
Cons:	Generally not as well done or memorable as the first season

Review of Season Two
Everything that could be said about the first season could not be said about the second season, unfortunately. The animation style is totally different. All the characters lost their flare from the first, and looks more like a kiddy anime show rather than one targeted to young adults. The adults look more like teenagers than adults. The gunplay is very lacking, and comparable to a low budget action movie rather than professional counter terrorist in the first season. For instance, take the car chase in the first episode of the second season, to someone who likes good action scenes but hate bad, unrealistic ones, will cringe. The terrorist in the van held and fired his gun like a kindergartener playing cops and robbers, and is shot, dies, and falls out of the van from a locked door. Highly unlikely someone who is shot will fall out a car door without opening it by the handle . It doesn�t end there. Triela later creeps around the van, with her back against the van instead of panning and cutting-the-pie around the sliding door, which means walking around the van while facing it, with the weapon drawn and pointed at it. With her back against the van means she could have been shot or stabbed in the back and is less aware of the threat, while walking around it normally while searching it would have been more effective and safer, not to mention more realistic as law enforcement/ military uses the same technique. I literally cringed and yelled at the screen for these inaccuracies that ruin the overall quality of the series.
There is also a riot scene in the middle of the first episode; with what looks like a kindergartener playing with card board cut outs and playing make believe rather than a intense, enraged mob protesting and being bashed in by police. I skipped most of the scene, as I couldn�t stand to watch the terrible quality cinematography and bad directing decisions that went into making the scene.
If there is one good scene in the first episode, it would be when the girls are back in their dorms and their guns are put away. I felt that was the only well done scene in the episode, and although her character design has changed in the most part, I really liked the way Triela looked with her hair down, which made her looked very pretty and feminine. The same cannot be said with her character design though out the rest of the episode.
I brought myself to watch the second episode and I couldn�t get myself to finish it, nor the rest of the season. Words cannot describe how much I miss the first season�s animation style, action sequences, attention to detail, character design, cinematography, and most of all, sound track. Five years of waiting only to end in disappointment, not only to me, but many hard core Gunslinger Girl Fans. Avoid the second season, but watch the first.

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