Let me place up this warning: if you’re watching Gunslinger Girl because of the action, then drop this series now. Seriously, if you thought the fight in the first episode was bad, you haven’t seen anything yet. Artland just doesn’t have the budget to animate nice fights, and in this episode, this shows.
In terms of storytelling, though, this episode rocked, and I really enjoyed it. Triela and Hirsher are assigned to the Pinocchio-case, and they quickly find his home. Before they were able to collect any information, the girl whom we saw with Pinocchio in the previous episode finds out about the things he’s been hiding from her, and she gets taken in by Franco and Franca, who manage to convince Pinocchio to not kill the girl. At that point, Hirsher decides to go and arrest them, even though there isn’t any kind of backup. So indeed, the mission fails, and Pinocchio, Franco and Franca escape, and both Triela and Hirsher end up with some wounds.
The aftermath was quite an interesting one, and it seems that Triela now knows who she’s up against, which has a lot of potential for the future episodes. I also liked the techniques that Franco and Franca used to get away. Sure, the fight was badly animated, but at least some thought was put behind it, compared to some other series which have characters just throwing fireballs at each other without any tactic whatsoever.
seriously,el cazador might have better action scenes than this episode had lol I also nominate Hatenkou Yuugi for the “bad action scenes” award for this season.
Even if that makes me a little sad,I always thought someone watching (or reading) gunslinger girl for the action seriously missunderstood what gunslinger girl was about and was missing out on a lot.So like you said,if they’re in it for the action,they should drop it,but they’d miss out on a great story.
If they’re droping it because of the new designs….that’s another story lol
Triella rocks…
It’s not possible… i watched to the Ep2 just yesterday… i can’t stay up to date with Psgels… sigh T.T