Series · Drama, Action & Adventure, Animation

Gunslinger Girl (2003)Season 1

Set in modern Italy, story follows a group of traumatically-injured young girls taken from hospitals all over the country, who are then cybernetically enhanced, indoctrinated and trained to be assassins by a secret branch of the Public Corporation for Social Welfare, Section 2. Each girl is assigned to a male "handler" who oversees her training, deployments, and general conduct. Each handler is free to "condition" his cybernetic assassin to the extent he sees fit, which increases a girl’s lethality and loyalty at the expense of human individuality and lifespan.

Writers

Yu Aida, Junki Takegami, Kazuyuki Fudeyasu

Network

Fuji TV, TOKYO MX

Country

Japan

Language

Japanese

First aired

October 8, 2003

Status

Ended

Original title

GUNSLINGER GIRL