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 24 to 30https://desuarchive.org/a/thread/289998808/Chapter 31 to 32https://desuarchive.org/a/thread/290159804Chapter 33 to 35>>290213817 Chapter 36>>290283851 Chapter 37 to 39>>290311377 Chapter 40 to 42>>290369678 Chapter 43>>290428851 Chapter 44>>290460161
Brace yourselves anon, seems like this will be a sad one!
Already feeling it, cute!
Nice!
Damn so Angie's getting Alzheimer?
Well at least she seems happy
Yikes
>>290477917Straight up dementia at this point, god damn
>>290477981At least she looks happy
Rico sure got an eye for killing since she wants to be perfectly mobile to end Padanian terrorists.
Badass
Nooooo!
I hope she's okay
I want to know if Angelica's alright! Is she...?
Welp that about wraps chapter 45. Sorry for taking so long yesterday, hopefully the days aren't as busy. For now it was a nice but very sad chapter.
>>290477529oh boy
>>290478535We'll have the Prince of Pasta part 2 it seems
Gotta admit I missed the gen 1 cyborgs
so between the two long named arcs we've had so far which did you all like better?https://strawpoll.com/NPgxeYQQBZ2
>>2904805321st arc, felt like a more serious work
>>290478031>Pad*nia could be here, thought JeanAlso Jose really go to the barber. No self respecting Carabineri should look like that
>>290481637So true, he really let himself go
>>290477890Aw fuck, aw fucking hell I thought this was earlier in the series
>>290482380Right? Drama incoming!
>>290478464Thanks OP! Everyone get into a seated and upright position on the feels train. Now providing express service, this train will not stop until chapter 100.
>>290480532Lady Rosso is really good. It gives all the background you need for Sandro to understand his character and his past, and injects spy thriller elements into the greater story. Petra slowly becoming more enamored with Sando and eventually fighting her conditioning to call him a piece of shit just so he'd believe her feelings were real was some great drama. The main downside is that it mostly just establishes a status quo between them that doesn't really change for the rest of the series. Pinocchio on the other hand, does a better job establishing the enemy, their complex motivations, and certain important themes to the greater story, not to mention setting up a lot of important plot hooks down the line. Rather than the end of character development between Petra and Sandro, this is the real beginning of development between Hilshire and Triela, so I've got to give the slight edge to Pinocchio.
>>290484204It really is so sad!
>>290477760https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1TnzCiUSI0
>>290484587It's not all sad feels anon, there's also a lot of hope
>>290478272It's Angelicover
>>290486111To cyborg's but a scratch!
>>290486111She did it out of love
>>290486111>Angelic-Over or Angeli-Cover?
>>290487113it sure as hell won't help her cyborg Alzheimer's though
>>290488218How much time they got left anyway?
>>290488783For little Angie, not much thanks to the bomb, but she gets to say goodbye to everyoneFor everyone else, a couple years for the surviving gen 1s.Petra in theory has a longer lifespan but she can't keep her promise to Sandro anyway thanks to her cancer being genetic.
>>290478210ANGELica "remembering" things people can't recall telling her and seeing visions of a dog that isn't there and "knowing" that she'll be a good shield for for Marco if she's ever so slightly taller, it all seems awfully spiritual. If she hadn't dawdled here for those few seconds it's possible that Marco's injuries would be much more severe.
>>290477616Oh no. I'm instantly feeling it.
>>290489206The only manga that's managed to so thoroughly pavlov me into choking up every time I read it.
>>290481637>self respecting Carabinierethere is no such thing
crepuscolo means twilight and twilight means that no one is left behind or forgotten.
>>290491085She is so cute
>>290484459The pezzo di merda scene was really nice, especially because it represents character growth. Though I'm not sure if it's all that big given that Triela has been able to be dismissive towards Hilshire from her introduction.
>>290478117Tall Angie!>RicoShe would be 100% peeling boots off of dead soldiers in WWI
>>290478353Holy shit ;_;
>>290478464>>290478449I can't believe Angie is fucking deadShe killed Franca and Franco the BombmakersAnd she wound up getting killed by a far more indiscriminate bombPottery
>>290492856Triela has never spoken to Hilshire in a way that could be considered opposing him. It's always been her frustration about his orders rather than anything she says against Hilshire.
>>290494887Hillshire overall seems like a good guy
>>290494887>pezzo di merda3rd chapter of the manga has her saying that she hates selfish adults (like Hilshire)>non capisci un cazzashe's casted shade on Hilshire for him not consulting her on what to gift her, she's equated his gifts to bribes meant to buy her goodwill and expressed displeasure at the automatism and repetitiveness of it, she's pushed back against his suggestions of cutting her hair and changing out her firearms, she's also outright rejected his attempts to comfort her after getting K.O.d by Pinocchio and is unphased by his recurring ask that she minimize harm on the people they fight etc.Sure the defiance and disrespect comes from a place of love and understanding and there was no ill will behind the hate-comment. But the same was true for Petra and she was throwing up seconds after.
>>290496843>she hates selfish adultsNot specifically directed at Hilshire, more of a philosophical cynicism than anything.>she's casted shade on Hilshire for him not consulting her on what to gift herYet she loves every bear he's ever gotten her regardless, and even if she's a little tsun about it, she still accepts them gladly and tells him to keep it up when pressed.>she's also outright rejected his attempts to comfort her after getting K.O.d by PinocchioComforting her wasn't an order, and it came from a place of feeling undeserving of it rather than hostility to it. In fact I would say most of Triela's defiance over less-lethal tactics comes from her conditioning to kill threats to her handler and her fear that she can't live up to those orders, rather than any particular malice towards Hilshire. Instead, Triela's "defiance" is more a result of her being cognizant and self-aware of the narrow gap between the affection of her actual feelings and the affection instilled by her conditioning. Petra on the other hand was fully pissed off AT Sandro for not believing how she felt, but had no way of expressing that anger in a way that wouldn't conflict with her programming. The distinction between the two is subtle, but it's still an important difference due to each pair's circumstances.
Petra's story is about how she can overcome the conditioning and achieve 'true love' in contrast to the 1st gen cyborgs who are supposedly so loyal they would die from a joke.The specific 'saying rude things about your handler' angle hadn't been explored elsewhere in the manga but right from the first volume we saw Triela go directly against her orders and lie about it (when she let Mario go). Even Rico was able to lie when questioned by her handler in chapter 2.Since we've already seen a cyborg murder suicide with her handler, it would fit better if the 'weaker conditioning' was untrue and Petra's vomiting was something newly added in hopes of preventing that situation from repeating.In any case there's a big difference in how Petra's cognitive function is portrayed compared to the other girls. When Petra initially tries to follow Sandro's orders to say rude things, it's like there's a firewall gets triggered and some foreign entity is in conflict with her rational mind.Compare that to Rico's scene in volume 14 with the Ordnance Factory Tiruchirappalli Vidhwansak anti-material rifle; here it's not "girl vs machine", both her reluctance to cause harm and desire to get the job done are her own beliefs.
>>290478117The upper right panel has a nice composition.
>>290477917oh no>>290478464Thanks for the dump
>>290502438Happy to do so!
Chapter 46 "Crepuscolo (2)" begins!
Convenient that usually politicians aren't the ones who have to make the actual sacrifices.>>290503208Nooooooo!
Damn, so cold
Sad!
At least she saved his life
She's alive!
So cute!
>>290477433Rest in spaget .
Damn!
Henrietta meanwhile is in vacation
>>290477890>>290477875and they called it the Dog Reaper...
>>290504036kek sure feels like it. Chasing her around
Cute!
And so it ends, poor Angie!
>>290503565The assistant doctor is cute
>>290503889ANGRY ANGIE
>>290504036Shinugami?
>>290477658that is surely a good omen
>>290481637He's not a carabiniari anymore
>>290496843Being sassy about adults is different from calling her handler a piece of shit.
>>290478117My daughter is so practical
>>290504888She truly is made for killingProbably if she didn't become a cyborg, she could have grown into an agent anyway
>>290503043>EUR to CHF exchange rate 1.6Yeah, this was many, many years ago.
>>290504032>Nikon F100I imagine that for more current human beings an analog camera is a toy, a novelty item, but I remember quality single-lens reflex cameras like these being sold for hundres of euros I guess this model would have retailed for more than a grand. In the time period this would have been state of the art nipponese technology folded over 1000 times.
>>290506782I think quality can still be quite good compared to most phones
>>290506209yeah, pretty sure this volume released in 2013
>>290506782I keep meaning to mess around with my dad's old Nikon N2020 to see if it still works but since I'm a wizard with no cute daughter to take photos of on vacations I haven't gotten around to it yet
Story is getting grim, will the cyborgs start dropping one by one?
>>290499377>Make a joke about an obscure Indian copy of the NTW-20 several threads ago>Anon makes a callbackFeels good. Anyway, concerning the volume 14 Rico scene, she ultimately shot in such a way that both men survived. Besides, Aida needed that "Live for me!" panel to negate Jean's spiraling deathwish in killing Dante, so it's not exactly a clean example.
>>290509122Yes, yes they will
>>290477529>>290478353Noooo....
>>290511397>>290511397Buckle up anon, its gonna get sad
>>290507503>I think quality can still be quite good compared to most phonesNot sure, phone cameras are mostly gimped by the form factor, they don't want to use thicker lenses or longer focal lengths because of size constraints which pretty severly gimps your ability to get sharp pictures at a distance, but then again the ease of use and sheer range of post production options that digital imaging gives you means that it's much much easier to take a good picture with a phone. >>290508401what even breaks in these things? maybe the motor for the shutter or the mechanism that rolls out the film? can't you just put in batteries (potentially a new roll of film) and go click-click-click and then it either works or it doesn't?
>>290509122Not until Dante shows up, who kills off a bunch of side cyborgs like Beatrice, but Henrietta and Triela only fall during the final battle against Padania in the nuclear plant while the survivors bite it from their conditioning post epilogue, and Petra dies of a relapse.
>>290511968That's a really cool model, anon! Is it difficult?
>>290503208rip
>>290507703the manga ran from 2002-2012
>>290514994A blessed time compared to now
>>290503265>politiciansThese guys are glowies. The guy with the glasses is Jean's manager. Even if they're political appointees and mainly in charge of setting strategy, securing funds, briefing and managing the expectations of career politicians.>sacrificesthis was a direct attack on a government building even if no one important (in the political sense) was hurt or killed that day, the message an attack like this is meant to send is that no one, big or small, is safe. I'm sure the:>there will be no change in our policy. line is more driven by animosity than by an assement over whether continuing to fight rather than seeking compromise with padania will change their personal security because it will affect them and the people they work with directly.
>>290516292Well thats a good point
i need see this anime
>>290511968>what even breaks in these things? maybe the motor for the shutter or the mechanism that rolls out the film? can't you just put in batteries (potentially a new roll of film) and go click-click-click and then it either works or it doesn't?I don't know, I'll have to find out at some point though
>>290519354Its totally worth watching desu. Very good animation too, particularly s1
>>290511780
>>290514994Oh right, looking at the wrong ISBN release lol. Yeah, volume 9 was 2007. I still remember when the Euro jumped that year.
>>290503265She looks like Thatcher.
>>290503751marianna btfo
>>290512129You know, it would have been easier for you and less spoilery for everyone else if you had just spoilered your whole post.
>>290526348ange' is a miracle.
>>290526740The cutest miracle! And now lets watch where her story leads
Chapter 47 "Crepuscolo (3)"
Already wanting to corrupt poor Angie?
She had quite the life
Well at least they got him to care. Well done Giuseppe!Though I still hate the new hair style
No, its the reaper dog!
So in a way he and Giuseppe are quite similar on this
So they require gibs and the wellfare agency gives them.
Well that is quite advanced
>>290527490He thought the bit about using the girls for medical research was just BS so they could kill more people huh.
This seems to be the end of the volume, so will finish it today. Lets see how Angelica's story unfolds
>>290527965Damn!
So sad!
She seems to fully understand her situation now
No, no, its too much!
Damn that hurts
>>290529330title drop
>>290529330
Chapter end, okay so it seems I was wrong and the volume isn't over yet. But this seems like a good spot to stop.Angelica didn't appear much but being the first prototype, it makes sense she'd be the first to go. Unless they die in combat, it seems its very hard to take down a gunslinger girl. I kind of wish she appeared more, her story was tragic, but it would have been neat to see her in operation more, with Marco directing her. Or at least more of her past.
>>290530431yeah this is only the conclusion of the crepusculo tetralogy, there are two more chapters in the volume. thank you for posting.
>>290530431>, it makes sense she'd be the first to go.i don't think author showed all the Gen 1 grills. i don't remember. maybe some died in car accident or got covered up as failed experiments. the girl who shot herself in the eye was Gen 1 too. that seems to be covered up.
>>290528997>i like noodlesmetoo, mario.
>>290527906Thanks for the extra chapter.
>>290527965>>290527921good dog > bitches
>>290509122>the cyborgs start dropping one by one?there's a final showdown with the italia terrors.
>>290530431damn i knew it was coming and still hit like a truck, this is such a good manga
>>290503947How about heartbreaking miracles
>>290528543Fuck. Every time. EVERY TIME. She deserved better adults in her life. fuck.
>>290535305I'm sad that she only existed to suffer. First with her family, then with her trainer, and now this.
>>290533262It really hits hard, so sad!
>>290526892>>290526880Priscilla is one of my favourite side characters-- you really do get types like her in military and police units from time to time and their either's ultra competent or total shitpumps
>>290527269wtf you're telling me that the evil SWA staff, who turn children into literal murder machines, were a loveable bunch of rascals the whole time???Bros I'm starting to rethink my affiliation with Padania
>>290527327He's just willing to try and break out of it unlike Giuse
>>290527415Realistically, cyborg implants in Italy would be invented for football players first before they would be for assassins>>290528304kinda funnyMy older sister had a pet budgie growing up, maybe until she was about 8-9She loved that little bird and would feed it every day, but one day it died while she was at school, and my mother buried the bird and took the cage away, and just never mentioned itmy sister completely forgot she ever had the bird for many years, because they just never brought it up with her
>>290528543;_;>>290528925>>290528997fucking brutal
>>290538792Marco's a cop that knows he's a bastard, and by this point, he's fully resigned himself to never grow past that bastard. He was a hard-ass thug that worked for the Italian equivalent of the brute squad, and then he moved on to work for an agency that brainwashes vulnerable little girls into murderbots, all while stringing along his publisher girlfriend that makes picture books for children. At least until now, when in her final moments of lucidity, Angie remembers all the good Marco did for her, and can do for others. Marco's a true, dyed in the wool bastard. He knows it, he shows it, so the scariest thing to a guy like that is learning that he doesn't have to be, and there, his deepest regret, dying in a hospital bed for his sake, goes and realizes his worst fears by forgiving him the unforgivable.
>>290538642Priscilla's a lot of fun, but the entire goonsquad around Marco and Ange' makes the who agency feel so much more alive. I don't even know if Gian, Peppe and Hilshire have any friends and obviously Sandro doesn't either. Remeber when Marco made her carry a case of explosives and then even sent her into a gunfight with it without telling her.
>>290528925>>290528997;-;
>>290539790Honestly, one of the biggest weaknesses of the manga is we never get a full picture of the Agency or even just section 2. Slyvia and Chiara have both been around for years, but we don't even see their faces, so much as read their names, until volume 11. Arguably, Chiara's back shows up in chapter 23 in the photo the journalist creep has, but the point is that the agency is larger than the character focuses let on, and having had more time to explore that would have been nice.
>>290539000>Realistically, cyborg implants in Italy would be invented for football players first before they would be for assassinsIn an alternate universe, GSG is about Italy's attempt to win the Women's Football World Cup by developing prosthetics using junior league girls.
>>290544728italy doesn't care about women's football
>>290547212And Lega Nord isn't heading a right-wing terrorist organization yet. Your point?
>>290548776She is so cute. Petra manga
>>290528925>>290528997First time I read this was during a drive with my dad and I was trying my damnedest to not let the tears flow
>>290549953How did you do it, anon? I was so sad for Angie all the time
>>290548776italy turning little girls into cyborg assassins is more plausible than italy caring about womens football
>>290530431Thank you for posting!
>>290527269extremely talented
>>290556220through Ange' unily.
>>290556220The cutest! Now time for another chapter
Chapter 49 "Three Hugs"
>>290556220That was cropped a few years back too >>236632235
>>290539268She might have been the purest cyborg
>>290528925Fuck I instantly started crying.
So the ice man does have a heart?
Elegant!
Guess she may have less time than expected
>>290558241>full marksI wouldn't ever expect anything less from Rico. She is never not best.
They seem to understand each other very well, and don't need the drug for that
L-lewd!
She is maybe the most successful cyborg so far
Also lots of gen-2. Wonder if we'll learn their backstories
Somehow this crypt feels quite italian, the author did his research it seems
What a change, so in the end, he came to appreciate it
Chapter 49 ends
>>290559761Grim
>>290559283friendly reminder that petra is legal in italy, it's all above board here.
>>290560316Afaik the age of consent is 13 over there
>>290556220
>>290560899>apple godessI kneel.
Rico as always being the best tool!
>>290559761Are those also cyborg prototypes who died or agents?
