| Re: Gunslinger Girls - Worst Concept Ever!!! |
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Group: rec.arts.animation · Group Profile
Author: David McMillanDavid McMillan Date: Apr 16, 2007 04:53
Ken Arromdee wrote:
> In article hon-adsl-168-192.telekom.net.sb>,
> Stainless Steel Rat newsguy.com> wrote:>> "Terrence Briggs" lycos.com> wrote:>>> TV-14, V) follows a group of orphaned children trained by a government
>>> agency to become gun-wielding assassins. If you don't find this sick,
>>> I don't want to know you."
>> Bah. Someone needs to force this guy to watch "Nikita". "Gunslinger
>> Girl" and "Nikita" bear more than a passing resemblance.
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> The difference is that there's no lolicon in La Femme Nikita. The lolicon
> vibes in Gunslinger Girl are so creepy that it's one of the few shows I
> can't watch.
*What* lolicon? Seriously, I've watched GG end-to-end, and read all
the available translated manga, and I've never seen anything remotely
loli in the series. Yes, several of the girls are severely infatuated
with their handlers, but there's never any inappropriate contact, or
even so much as a suggestive look. None of the handlers ever so even
the slightest loli-like interest in their charges. And there's *no*
fanservice of any kind.
Heck, if anything, GG reads (to me, at least) as a cold-eyed
examination of the moral ambiguities of the underlying plot: most of the
handlers are good, decent guys who've gotten themselves into a nasty
situation while honestly thinking they were serving a greater good, and
now can't just walk away.
Yeah, it's an action series based on Cute Girls With Guns, and there's
lots of shooting and explosions. But the girls' dual natures, and the
ethical/moral dilemma that all of Section 2 is caught in, is a
*constant* underlying theme, like background music that never quite gets
drowned out.
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