Alright lets try this! One chapter everyday until we die.>The Social Welfare agency, a government sponsored corporation is in the business for saving orphaned or abandoned children who are terminally ill or injured beyond the point of saving.>Using cybernetic implants, the Agency uses a process called 'conditioning' to turn orphaned children into emotionless killing machines with hardly any memories, no human comfort and no free will.>Follow the life of Henrietta, a girl who barely survived a brutal attack that killed her family and who was saved and repaired by the Social Welfare Agency. Despite her conditioning and programming, Henrietta still has the heart of a young girl. She has not completely forgotten how to love, yet the very emotion is contrary to her training and programming. Can the Gunslinger Girl survive?Chapter 6 to 15https://desuarchive.org/a/thread/289683304Chapter 7 to 21https://desuarchive.org/a/thread/289788027Chapter 22 and 23>>289947953
Sorry for the delay, difficult weeks incoming
Chapter end!
>>290001249thanks op
>>289999689So they're learning about the cyborgs, wonder if they'll make effective counters
>>289999887Shady government doing shady stuff once more
>>290001845It doesn't really take more than bigger guns and bigger booms
>>290000169Or with great power comes...
>>290000285>>290000435I know where this is going from a doujin
>>290000453What's up with Italy always being divided and fighting against each other?
>>290000961Damn!>>290001142DAMN!
>>290001249Poor Franca. I hope she finds those who killed her father
>>290002570It's full of italians
>>290003240Damn Italians, they ruined Italy! kek
>>289998873No way a lawsuit has ever worked.
>>290003506Agreed, best way to get yourself "suicided"
>>290003506It might have worked in this case. Her goal was to get her father out of prison, but it ended up he gets killed in prison under suspicious circumstances before he could be exonerated. Not an uncommon story though. After the Croce incident, a lot of people with right-wing sympathies got purged from Italian public service. That's probably what Franca's father got caught up in. In fact, a good chunk of the SWA staffers experienced something similar, but their loyalty to the Republic and contempt for Padania's methods are what brought them to the Agency.
I love these spy type manga
>>289999887lol that's not a mistake, he is randomly cross eyed.
>>290006082I thought it was a drawing mistake, kek
>>290006802If only this was her fate
>franco, franca & pinocchio chapterI'm bored when is Triela showing up next?
>>290008460It WAS A FUN CHAPTER! I like the terrorists more than the welfare agency now
>>290000169Franco's quite built for a supposedly depressed alcoholic here.
>>290009392He must have been as good as Pinoccio in his prime
>>290001249Thank you for posting.
>>290012257Glad you enjoyed, anon!
>>290008460I think she reappears in the next one
>>290000994>>290001249I always thought it weird how the glowies were so incompetent that they get found out in a span of a single chapter
>>290016539Why is it weird? They're just regular peopleLater in the manga there's a super genius spy dude who makes everyone else look like NPCs
>>290000435Could not make her seem cooler.
>>290016539It's not like a large number of irl glowniggers aren't astonishingly incompetent either.
>>290001249Feels like they're all wasting their lives for no gain doesn't it?
>>290000259>bitches about bombs that can be set off with a phone>goes on to make phones that explodeThat's honestly sort of funny.
>>290014460
>>290016539They're ex-military/special forces/police, so not exactly secrecy experts. Go in guns blazing and shoot them dead, except with a plan not to get shot dead themselves. But see >>290017071
>>290019164He is quite the autist, one of us?
Chapter 25 "Pinocchio (4)" begins!
>>290022825Nice save Henrietta! I've noticed she seems to prefer using that move. I think this is the third time she's done that during combat.
Damn, it still managed to do some damage. Also interesting how Jose seems less worried about Henrietta's actual state and more about whether she remains functional.Which fits what anon commented several threads ago.
He noticed
>>290022607If that's her, then I guess I can see why the cope about improving their lives works.
I'm really enjoying Franco and Franca, they're really fun
I guess it was easier to be a terrorist in those times. Nowadays the glowies would have tracked them from phone data already
heh pretty cool guy!
Sounds like lover
Oh I see!
>>290022939She is very acrobatic
>>290022825nice reflexes!
>>290022825That kick turned it from four dead agents, one dead cyborg into one dead agent, one injured. Cold comfort for the dead guy and the poor bastard who got peppered though. That's what makes it such a great scene though, to emphasize the brutality and human cost to the fight. Last chapter two. Shades with the glass eye, and Irma who can never have kids on account of the shrapnel in her gut, it's a great way to remind us that Franco and Franca are not the good guys, no matter how human or relatable they seem.
>>290026473I think her perception skills are quite good, she seems to be the first to notice when something's wrong.Like back when the shooting happened at the protest, Henrietta seemed to be the first one to notice something was wrong.
>>290026925Eh I still find them more likable compared to the corrupt politicians. I mean the glowies are still killing innocents and committing crimes under government request and they aren't afraid of stating it in the open.
>>290027652true, presumably that would be down to her training or the drugs then since the cybernetics seem to purely be skeletomuscular
>>290029093Since Jose asked to have the least amount of drugs pumped into her, I think either she specializes on reaction time or is genetically like that. Afaik he tries to avoid the drug as much as possible from chapter 1 or 2
>>290022825The mangaka got really good at drawing split second motion, it gets even better later on in the final 2 arcs
>>290028564Yet it's the corrupt politicians and glowies that are replacing the limbs of children that the idealistic bomb makers like Franca and Franco blow off. Franco and Franca being relatable is the point, as it's up to the reader to realize that even the most upstanding Padania can't square their ideals with their actions. It's why Nino got out. That's also not to say that Franca is some tragic Quixotic villain. In the first chapter she shows up, she makes it pretty plain that the people she cares most about protecting are people who match up with her view of wealthy, well bred ethnic Italians. Would she have said the same thing if she bumped into Triela instead of Henrietta?
>>290030008That's a good point, overall I like the shades of grey
No Triela? I sleep
>>290031436Triela in compression shorts/spats next chapter.
>>290031520I can't wait!
>>290024203Thank you for posting.
>>290024203Thanks OP, have a nice Sunday.
>>290031436Oyasuminasai.
>>290024203Grazie, signor OP.
>>290035163>>290040506Glad you enjoyed, anon!>>290036026Happy weekend or rather week start!
I like these side stories about the terrorists, makes their cause make more sense
>>290042457Agreed, it humanizes them
>>290041028
>>289998808Thanks
>>290042457Gunslinger Girl's best part is humanizing all sides of the conflict, except maybe the terrorist ''mastermind'' at the end.
>>290031436Aida Yu must have known at the time, right?
>>290023869Chill cat>>290024203Thanks OP.
>>290022554it
>>290047486The government grooms loli killer robots, the terrorists raise shota assassins. I'm I the only one who thinks both partjes evil? Catarina and Franco should just move to Switzerland and become a couple, escape the bullshit.
Alright time for next chapterChapter 26 "Pinocchio (5)"
>>290048114Agreed, Italy seems like a really intense place
>>290048374Out girl, she's back!
>>290048374As was promised, now received.
>>290049033The jobbing stops now!
>>290049047
>>290049410Chapter 26 end! Sorry for that delay
>>290048169He sure loves his knives
>>290048374Remnants of a better era
>>290048450>>290048469The cutest terrorist couple!
>>290048539Such a japanese way of thinking. I guess here it shows how different they perceive the world to Western Italians
>>290048312>>290048539>Girolamo SavonarolaThey even worship the same idols.
>>290048556>>290049688this one also.
>>290049424Thanks for posting OP.
>>290050851Glad you enjoyed, anon! It has been mostly from the terrorist's pov
>>290048212Sounds like a death flag.
>>290051253Probably, against cyborgs and glowies the "suicide" rate is high
>>289948969>doctor>doesn't know how to use a gun>meets cop>cop doesn't have any field work experience>they go alone in a mission to save minors from bad guys>WHAT COULD GO WRONG?
>>290052940>WHAT COULD GO WRONG?Hag died, loli lived. Everything is as it should be.
>>290048374Praise the lord
>>290049424thanks op
>>290055510Glad you enjoy, anon!
>>290048374>>290048397Uoooooh Triela so erotic in spats and a trainer bra.
>>290048729Triela's cute half-skirt shorts!
>>290057454The author is the gift that keeps on giving
>>290057454Was anyone disappointed it wasn't an actual skirt so that with a kick like that we'd get to see Triela's spats?
>>290059124I liked it a lot. Triela is capable and beautiful as she is
>>290057454I think those are called skorts.
Leg holders!
>>290048408>>290048429Need that HK53 shirt.
>>290060116Did they ever sell GG merch?
>>290060502Sure, when the animes were being produced.The HK53 shirt is probably a promotional shirt when HK made the gun though.
>>290059737>Triela is capable and beautiful as she isdon't jinx it anon, Triela might very well revert to being a jobber.
>>290062820Good point, don't want that>>290061654Sequel when?
>>290062820Pretty sure she doesn't job for the rest of the manga. Unless you count chapter 80.>>290063433>Sequel when?Never Ever.
>>290063780Makes me sad, this story has so much soul
>>290063780>Never Ever.Why not? It has everything. I wish it was made by the guys who made Spy x Family
>>290065484It's a series that ended well over a decade ago that got two seasons five years apart from two different studios with two different approaches to the source material. The books are long out of physical print in both Japanese and English, and while digital sales are always nice, Kadokawa would probably rather put their resources into better performing IPs. Short of some director with pull putting their foot down and insisting on remaking and readapting the entire series, it's just not in the cards. Hell, if Aida still even wants to do another anime, he'd probably rather it be done for his current manga (probably also not gonna happen since it's a painstakingly researched Meiji era period piece). And honestly, I'm okay with that. The manga succeeds in what it sets out to do, and it doesn't need an anime to justify or elevate it. Plus, if I had to hear and see in HD full color animation Angelica in her last moments of lucidity apologizing to her childhood dog for forgetting him, it might break me.
>>290048397>>290048374unf
You did it OP, you suckered me into re-reading this for the fourth or fifth timeMight use this as motivation to actually watch Il Teatrino now, since I still haven't
>>290067381It is a downgrade production-wise from the first season, but they do such a good job of faithfully bringing the Pinocchio arc into animation, I don't even mind. The OVA episodes are also pretty peak. Wish we got more of those.
>>290062820>>290052940I suspect Hilshire is the real jobber. He is a desk jockey turned investigator, whereas Jean was a gendarme. The latter puts his charge in ideal tactical situations and usually does not lose situational awareness like >>290048768.
>>290065484The only recent thing that happened with this manga is a collab with a chinese mobile game 5 years ago, which was probably the most optimistic 'official' fanfic it got where the plot involves the self insert protag finding digital reconstructions of the girls in an abandoned, dying SWA server, and after experiencing their stories (retelling some arcs of the manga), allows these backups to be transferred into his base's server to 'live' on in peace.
>>290069801That sounds incredibly retarded. Did the girls frontline devs think the gunslinger girls were robots? Or do they have lots of crossovers involving upload-your-brain technology? That doesn't fit with this manga at all.And even if you make a "digital reconstruction" (AI chatbot) based off a person, the actual person is still dead as a doornail so what's the point?
>>290070301Girls Frontline is a post WWIII setting in the 2060s, you can't really explain having the actual girls from the 90s there without timetravel shenanigans, which actually does exist in-universe along with brain uploading. The most optimistic part is that at least someone today remembers the SWA cyborgs and the shit they went through rather than them being forgotten forever when the server finally goes, as the girls' memories live on in their backups. That's why it's merely optimistic since it's not an attempt to retcon the fates of the cyborgs for some belated happy ending.Also, Gunslinger Girls is one of their biggest inspirations and they also collab with stuff like Jashin-chan and Zombieland Saga.
>>290051253Just being a character in this manga is a death flag.
>>290048374hnnnnnnnnnnnnng
>>290049688Did you miss how Cristiano's surname is also Savonarola?
>>290068278The music is also really nice-
>>290071305Yeah, the name held no significance to me untill i decided to bing search the painting of the hooded monk in the forence san marco museum.
>>290066145>Aida still even wants to do another anime, he'd probably rather it be done for his current manga (probably also not gonna happen since it's a painstakingly researched Meiji era period piece).Aida seems like one of those autistic authors who take a long time to release stuff because of how much research they have to do. Reminds me of Carlo Zen
Time for a new chapter!
Chapter 27 "Pinocchio (6)"
Time to job!
I was joking but it actually happened
>>290073268remember when that anon said Triela wouldn't job for the remainder of the manga until chapter 80 or something? I remember.
>>290073421>More annoyed that it was her favorite gun than actually getting shotThat's some hardcore brainwashing
Damn, Rico's hardcore!
I like that it doesn't play them as cute girls doing cute things with guns as an extra. It could actually be seen as horror with dehumanized and brainwashed child soldiers who feel like hardened killers in combat.Like any cute girl on the street could be one of these ready to murder.
Here comes the cavalry!
>>290074488OMG no Rico is hecking dead.
>>289998808cute female
>>290075010Laying down the suppressing fire on her tippytoes.
>>290075206Triela is basically destroying her body to win here
Double K.O.!
Cute! In a way is this proof of the brainwashing or Triela's actual feelings?
Chapter 27 and volume end!I kind of hope Pinoccio and Franco and Franca survived. I really liked them and the manga spent a lot of time in them to just kill them off.
>>290074442>>290075010Rico's MG3 would've come in real handy here
>>290074177>You'd never understand! I have to fight!!She got stabbed, shot at and thrown out of a window. All to murder people she doesn't even know, and all she's going to get out of it is a headpat and a teddy bear for christmas.
>>290075229How else do you beat a dex build?
>>290075892Agreed, not sure how to feel about it. So far the terrorists have acted more human and actually believe in something
>>290075259FUCK THAT NERO GUY
Yeah, fuck Nero he's not getting a bear named after him.
>>290076513Triela is amazing. Our girl did it!
I feel kinda sad for the terrorists
>>290074239scary rico
>>290077171The game was rigged from the start
>>290077672Agreed, the glowies won
>Triela breaks steel with her bare hands>her kicks break glass, and pulverize drywall and maybe even cement>she punches through marble>all the while she's crying from determinationTsuyoi.
>>290079073That was such a kino scene
>>290073268Skorts are jobber clothes. Triela still looks adorable tho.
>>290079918Yeah she is alright as a jobber
>>290075451If Pinocchio isn't dead I will riot.
>>290081086What are the odds?
>>290075229Good thing her body can just be repaired.>>290075350>>290075402It's like a puppy bringing back a ball ;_;
So il teatrino is bad?
>>290081585It was just a flesh wound to the jugular, Pino will be fine.>>290082510the animation hasn't aged all that well for the origial series and that had much better animation than Il Teatrino, personally I like it for the plot, and the ost. https://youtu.be/y-eUOZo8dfQ
>>290082732The plot is definitely great
What does this manga have that modern manga lack? It feels like a genuinely good story
>>290075451Dang that was a wild ride, all that setup payed off so so much. I feel like this author is the only ones who draws kids fighting adults right, even when other authors want to do a fight where the kid just loses it doesn't hit the same as it does here when the kids is a super strength cyborg.
>>290084607Right? This author actually paid attention to the setting and the children's weight and the effect weapons and drugs would have on themMost unrealistic thing so far seems how well Pinocchio kept up with the cyborgs but barely.
>>290084864Pinocchio has a range advantage and he has the benefit of experience. I was a bit worried he'd grow dull from his 4 months on the farm. But he actually won almost every exchange of blows, it's just that getting 3 hits in for every one hit he takes isn't enough in this case.
>>290075451Thanks OP. My recommendation to everyone following along for the first time is to now watch the first two seasons and the OVA episodes. The OVAs will get covered by the next two chapters, but there's a reveal at chapter 29 that the anime does way better. You have two days anontachi. Don't disappoint yourself.>>290082510Il Teatrino is way better after you read the manga and treat is as a companion piece rather than a stand-alone. The biggest problem it faced besides production downgrades is that it had to retcon the hackjob Madhouse did to the end of their cour, meaning that watching from S1 to S2 could be confusing and missing important plot details that the first season recontextualized for its own tidy plot button-up.
>>290081086The number of Padania-aligned characters who survived this chapter is one half.
>>290075010
>>290073304But she didn't job anon, she won. She beat Pinocchio through her own grit and determination, no qualification needed. Obviously it was a hard won fight, but the stakes needed to be real.
>>290085550Cute!
Which girl would you gunslinger?
>>290087139Triela
>>290087139Sylvia
>>290088588Can't wait to see her
>>290085210Twintails are so great
>>290075451Thank you for posting!
>>290074159skorts of death.
>>290002570And us Americans can talk? We're a cunt-hair away from another civil war.
>>290075892Eh, she fights for the same reasons as Pino: filial piety, camaraderie and pride. Stuff like ideology is humbug in comparison.>>290074194A medieval squire that received his knight's old sword would feel the same slight to their honour.>>290090469Truly, she is a better tsundere than As*ka.
>>290073304I don't think you know what jobbing means
>>290075892Pino also fights for a metaphorical headpat.
>>290075229Gotta take care of her advantages
>>290082485More like a cata bringing you a dead bird
>>290083823care and research
>>290092739Pinocchio in Gunslinger Girl much like his literary counterpart becomes a real boy through sacrifice for his father. All the while demonstrating the agency that the girls lack.
Time for a new volume!It seems we go back to the Machiavelli girl
Damn, must be a nightmare
Chapter 28 "Dum Spiro, Spero"
So are the left wingers the bad guys?
Gotta admire his dedicationSo basically the brother thinks Jean just hid and is trying to ignore Sophia's murder, while Jean is being a glowie and covertly killing every terrorist he can find because of his personal vendetta, right?
Rico is the perfect tool. No emotions, just pure loyalty and killing instinct. And as another anon mentioned before, doesn't complicate things with feelings, romance or the art
Badass Rico! This time her height is working against her and she still manages the jump
Who is the best handler out of them all? Jean seems quite competent while Jose keeps fumbling it by distracting Henrietta instead of honing her skills or teaching her gun safety (which almost caused her to kill herself on accident).
Damn
Didn't expect it of Jean. Then again its a double digits expensive cyborg assassin
>>290083823Knowledge of what woman butts look like in pants.
>>290093829They all have their unique strengths. Marco is the best combatant, Hilshire cares the most, Jean is the most mission driven and Giuseppe spoils his cyborg the most.
>>290093385Pinocchio, Cristiano, Franco and Franca are still listed in the "cast of characters" section. They're all alive and well. HAPPY ENDING.
>>290094100>Giuseppe spoils his cyborg the most.That's gonna get him killed someday. Also funny since he's quite similar to Hilshire but one ends up being more effective than the other. I wonder if the roles were reversed, Giuseppe getting Triela and Hillshire training Henrietta, how much would change.I mean its clear Triela is a natural ace in most things, so Giuseppe having a naturally talented cyborg that doesn't look like his sister would be interesting.And wonder if Hillshire would be harder on Henrietta to make her more competent.
I like these moments of quiet stoicism and contemplation.I think its lost in modern media with loud crying characters, Deku being the most blatant example.
>>290093925love what you do and you'll never work a day!
Chapter 28 end!
>>290094370kek
>>290094224YES! My day is made
>>290092189>Truly, she is a better tsundere than As*ka.That goes without saying.
>>290094297It's hard to pick apart the people from the roles they play and the circumstances they find themselves in. Does Triela take a leadership role because she's the oldest of the girls or because it's in her nature? Hilshire has a scene like Jean's here >>290093778 in a later volume where he orders Triela to take the fleeing targets alive. Is that because he doesn't hate Padania as much, because he doesn't want to see even criminals hurt by nature, or is it because he hated the sight of Triela walking up to him with tears in her eyes, heavily injured and on pain medication to tell him she killed someone just like he ordered her to? Jose chose Henrietta because she looked like his sister, Hilshire choose Triela because of their shared past, who knows how things are if you take away the things that shape us.
>>290094372What a beautiful land to start an endless blood war in.
>>290095088Exactly what I wonder. Would be a fun AU
I love the atmosphere of sadness that gunslinger girl has
>>290093344That's not Mimi lol.
>>290093940Jean is the biggest hypocrite in the series, and that includes the villains. You'll see a bit why next chapter.
>>290098226Looking forward to it!
>>290095088She is so capable and cute
Why does Jean glow so much compared to the other Section 2 handlers? This much glow goes beyond revenge.
>no cute, geeky Henrietta fratella to watch the solar eclipse withI don't know why I'm alive at this point someone please choke the life out of me.
>>290101493Nope. It's all revenge, all the way down. Jean's vendetta is just that deeply rooted, there's nothing he's more certain of. He's entirely internally justified that every single Padania shitstain deserves a violent and bloody death, and that he will deliver as many of them as possible. Glowies tend to be certain in their belief that what they do protects the country, and the more certain they are, the more they glow. >>290102032But what would you do when she forgets everything you taught her under the stars?
>>290087139
>>290102114>Glowies tend to be certain in their belief that what they do protects the country, and the more certain they are, the more they glow.Are they really? I thought they were mercs selling to the highest bidder
Right now taking a trip through Italy amd the further south I go, the more Padania is in the right.
>>290102979Nice, enjoy the wine and pasta, anon!
>>290102529no they are glowie that use little cyborg girls to do the government dirty works
>>290102529The government doesn't pay well enough to keep guys like that on their payroll. True Glowies are always true believers.
>>290104892For real? I wouldn't know
>>290104905I've seen it a few times from a few different glowies from different countries, but the one that stuck with me the most was a companion documentary that came out around when Zero Dark Thirty released. Some CIA analysts were among those being interviewed, and that certainty of everything they were doing in pursuit of Bin Laden, torture, collateral murder, whatever, was fully justified in their eyes.
>>290105673Scary in a way
>>290102979Silly anon, if you're going south then Padania is to your rear, not your right
>>290106336Eh, every country has 'em. They're sort of necessary for an effective state security apparatus.
>>290102979I'm sorry, but were those pro-Padanian sympathies I just heard?
>Rico chapterBasato
>>290106902Was she more mentally ill than Henrietta?
>>290107606No
>>290102979In what way is that meant to be? (I don't even get what Padenia is fighting for)
all shootouts become 10 times better if they happen in Venice
>>290108557They don't want the government supporting Rome with their hard earned taxes and the immigrants coming to steal their jobs
>>290109033implying Italians work
>>290108557The main goal of Padania is to federate the modern Italian republic into five semi-autonomous republics under a centralized government, primarily due to wealthy Italians in the more developed and industrialized north of the country not wanting to pay taxes for the poorer south. This is based on an actual political movement spearheaded by the political party Lega Nord, just, you know, without the rampant terrorism. They've mostly moved past their secessionism they pushed for in the 90's, which the Padania of GSG is borrowing heavily from, and more recently gone all in on Euroscepticism and anti-immigrant platforms.
Valliant Must Fall anime when.
>>290110679Yes
