Anime fans who use Crunchyrollhave a little bit more additional content now available on the service this month as Gunslinger Girl: Il Teatrino is now streaming there. The thirteen episode run from FUNimation that last had a DVD release in Viridian form back in 2010 is now running in its original Japanese with English subtitles for fans.
If you like the show, we definitely recommend the Blu-ray as it has some good extras including the Japanese Cast Interview – Marco, Original TV Commercials and the clean opening and closing sequences.
Plot concept: The girls of the Social Welfare Agency are no ordinary children. They are the grizzly remains of human wreckage pieced back together with cybernetic implants and trained to kill by the government. The oldest, Triela, pursues her targets with a ferocious enthusiasm – unwilling to settle for less than total annihilation.
Her mirror in this bloody stalemate is Pinocchio, a shell of a boy raised as an assassin by the FRF – a terrorist faction at war with the SWA. Cold and cruelly efficient, he wields sharpened steel as though it were his own hand. Once human, these shattered souls have become murderous machines with only vague recollections of what it meant to be real – and a brutal compulsion to be the last killer standing.
