Comments on: Gunslinger Girl ~Il Teatrino~ Episode 3: “Triela on the reconnaissance mission”

By: Karoline Mota de Sousa

Karoline Mota de Sousa — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 19:26:49 +0000

alguem sabe sobre o passado da triela-san ?

se alguem souber poderia entrar em contato comigo no meu e-mail : hyuuga1hinata@hotmail.com

By: Marie C

Marie C — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 05:00:35 +0000

Kudos, just wandered in. Gotta love google, neat site.

By: Derek

Derek — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 03:03:58 +0000

Perhaps having been “spoiled” by the first season, I find the extremely upbeat attitudes of the girls odd. It’s like their personalities have been supplanted by different girls altogether. Henrietta is not the shy girl she was in the first reason, even calling out to Jose loudly. It just doesn’t feel like it’s the same girls.

With that said, I am enjoying the second season… it just doesn’t fit with the first.

By: fugue

fugue — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 16:11:42 +0000

[...he evades her attack sensing some previous injury on her leg that hampers her speed and knocked her unconscious with an uppercut to her chin.]

you’re good! (or the animation was bad). i didn’t even realize this detail till i rewatched the episode.

By: k.

k. — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 00:36:39 +0000

Finally, someone blogging about Il Teatrino for something else than just bashing it. \o/

I’ve felt quite alone in my very moderate appreciation of the first season (I would even say disappointment, considering all I’d read about it consisted in long paragraphs of genuflexions), and complete openness regarding the new treatment of the series. …

So. Sure, it’s far from perfect, and sometimes very lacking in the seiyuu (I don’t really care for Henrietta, though) and music (srsly, what happened by the end of this episode?…it almost blew Triela’s final tirade) departments, but I completely agree on the irony concept, and I love the idea. It’s exactly what I had in mind when reading the manga.

Thank you for this post. Really. :3

By: Calawain

Calawain — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 06:08:47 +0000

I finally watched this, wow the speedlines are massive lose. What a pathetic action sequence =/

By: StealthFire

StealthFire — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 09:58:44 +0000

Btw, what kind of plot are you talking about for season 1? There was hardly any story in it, and yet the character development alone blows the new season away.

I wish Yu Aida(author of GSG manga) and Alan Moore(author of V for Vendetta comic) will both just STFU and let the experts make the decisions! For heaven’s sake, reading the original comic of VfV just soiled my memory of the movie, which was perfect in every way.

I don’t know enough about GSG’s manga to make a similar judgment, but I’m highly skeptical that it is better than what Madhouse achieved with season one, and I am quite certain it is going to be a lot worse than what Madhouse would have done if Yu didn’t pull the plug on them.

By: StealthFire

StealthFire — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 09:50:25 +0000

IMO, the best part of this episode is that we didn’t have to put up with the fucking tragedy that is Henrietta’s VA. Somebody please run her over with a truck.

I will probably stop crying about how MadHouse would have done everything better by episode 7. Then I will just stay and watch it for the supposedly great story. Hope it doesn’t disappoint at least in that department.

In other news, I watched GSGT ep3 followed by Persona ep3 today, and this was more entertaining. Annoying fucktard of a protagonist is annoying.

By: José

José — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 23:42:20 +0000

Hendrietta?

I thought it’s Henrietta?

Confused…

Both season 1 & 2 of GSG is good. No matter how good or bad the quality of the animation is, as long as the story has a good plot, it is worth watching.

By: Impz

Impz — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 04:21:07 +0000

@Icystorm: Imho, The rest of the crew are generally fine to handle except for Hendrietta. Hendrietta just sounds awkwardly wrong, and I guess the handling of the character by the new seiyuu just did not rock my boat at all. It’s a good thing that Hendrietta somewhat disappears after the 2nd episode (hardly see her since it’s the Triela arc), so I do not feel the pain of listening to her.

It’s honestly easier to criticize Season 2 because there are so many things to dislike, but at least the foundation of storytelling in Episode 2 & 3 is pretty much sound. The action scenes: let’s not go to it, should we ?

By: IcyStorm

IcyStorm — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 04:09:18 +0000

I’m waiting for the series to finish before watching it… but I haven’t heard great things about it until now.

How are the seiyuus? Were they hard to get used to or do they match the characters well?

By: Impz

Impz — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 15:19:06 +0000

@Chami: It is perhaps accurate to say that the budget is pretty low for this series, which is perhaps why it does not seem to work. Moreover, the first episode for the second season did not give it much justice because the opening seems flat, as though they are trying to acquaint us with the girls once again. I fully agree with your statement of Hendrietta.

I personally am a huge fan of the first season, and also the manga since I had to refresh myself with the love of Rico (yes, she’s my favorite loli!). The art style of the character are perhaps more accurate with the manga but there is this melancholic feeling in the first season that is replaced by the innocent feel in the second season. I do not know whether this is good or not, but ya.

However, the storytelling does improve by the second episode, and it is really worth holding out at least for the third episode before making a harsh judgment on the series. Gunslinger Girl’s storytelling, despite the flaws pointed out, is still excellent. It shows by the second episode, so I seriously hope you give it another chance, k, chami ^^

By: chami

chami — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 14:40:45 +0000

I understand the point you are making about the production quality. That said, I’m not sure I would agree with your point. I had watched the first episode of il Teatrino before watching the first season – I only marathoned it this weekend to see what the difference was – and I still felt too much of a disconnect between the mood of the manga and il Teatrino. The voices felt off (Giuseppe and Hillshire’s first conversation ticked me off) and the show just didn’t fit at all in the ways you described (bad animation really doesn’t help). When I watched the first series, I still had that sense of innocence lost when it came to the girls with the movement and the mannerisms that the girls exhibit (the way Henrietta cuddles the gun in the first episode was especially powerful for me). Now when I compare this season to that, il Teatrino just feels like a joke. Where you see deliberate irony and dissonance, I see a horrible budget, shoddy casting, and bad directing.

By: Impz

Impz — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 13:56:49 +0000

@psgels: arrr, well, you do not usually blog summaries, you see. I do admit that I do not read Tenka Seiha since its blogging style is not usually something I will read constantly. Those anime you mention are definitely extremely non-mainstream, and is a bit tough for me to digest

I am a sucker for decent graphics (read: superficial).

By: psgels

psgels — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 09:38:18 +0000

Actually, myself and Tenka Seiha are also blogging this series. When compared to shows as Porfy no Nagai Tabi and Hakaba Kitarou, this show is getting enough coverage.