Comments on: Gunslinger Girl Il Teatrino: Pinocchio Stinks

By: lmao

lmao — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 03:51:28 +0000

Eh.. i liked the second season the only thing that turned me off is that pino was dead and the girl lived.. it would of made a better ending if they both died but then again season 3 should happen since the manga is still going

By: Lol

Lol — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 19:35:04 +0000

It seems like most of the dislike was from expectations o ,of the indiviual person, not of the orignality or the story share.

I agree with most people some of the rendering isn’t as great as the first season but the new character design nd luminisity i did like.

Also i loved the other side story type of technique they did use. I fell in love with pinnocio and his short yet revolving story line.
Along the lines with the strenght and weakness issue , i don’t care much about the subject.

If anything i suppot it : it shows that the girls are strong but not invincible and have some emotion and i think thats what they are potraying.
The fight scenes weren’t bad either , it was about a 5 year gap between animations and for me and alot of other fans it delivered. (I find no use in complaining because somethings not like the old bone that was buried years ago.(not saying you complain o.o))

Me defending this doesn’t mean i like 2nd season more than the 1st but it was pretty good to me and it is souly my opinion. Plus they just about the same of rating in my opinion.

By: super rats

super rats — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 06:08:08 +0000

Don’t worry, I am with you on your tirade.

Yeah, thinking that Angelica died when I watched the first season, I thought that was beautiful and stirred my emotions. Seeing that she didn’t die sort of diminishes the ending of the first season for me a little bit, to the point that I wished I never saw the second season. The first season, in my mind, is one of those select anime that rises above just being a good show. I held out hope that the second season would find that again, but it just made me upset and annoyed at how it just seemed to throw what made everything good about the first out the window. But, on the plus side, I’ve been able to forget about season two for the most part and still have good memories of the first.

By: Mags

Mags — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 07:03:36 +0000

Over the years I have definitely slimmed down the amount of anime I watch. I don’t know why, but I think after a while the big eyed, huge smiled girls and sulking, misunderstood guys (though I do still love them) filled my quota for cute. But I definitely partake, and one of the shows that actually pulled me back into watching anime more was Gunslinger Girl. It was so beautiful, from the music to the voices (Japanese, I’m a bit of a purist in some cases) to the art to everything. Especially, though, was the story and how beautiful and sad the fight for self comprehension these girls had to endure. From coming to terms with their partial loss of humanity and difficulty to relate with others and the inevitability of their deaths, it was so so moving. The scenes where they sat in Claes’ room and drank tea were always sweet, but the fact that they were juxtaposed against everything else in the outside world was what made everything in the series so meaningful.

On that note, I agree with most of your post and loved the way you stated it. Granted I only watched the first episode of the second season, but through the whole thing I couldn’t help but feeling that the show I loved didn’t exist anymore. I actually had to stop it in the middle of the episode to watch the first episode of the first season to remind myself of the show I loved. I will continue to soldier through the season, but I just wanted to thank you for putting my mind at ease about how crazy bad the episode was. Here are some quick points.

1. The animation sucked. When you shack a picture in front of a camera, you don’t call it animation but a 6th grade history project.

2. Does Henriette continue to act like a high school girl with a crush towards Jose, and if so, why? I admit her feelings for him seemed confused in the first season, but not like that.

3. Was Rico always that cutesy? Because she seemed pretty quite from what I remember in the last season.

4. Angelica didn’t die?! That totally ruins everything that is beautiful from the last episode. I don’t feel embarrassed saying I cried for that ending, and now I’ll just be angry.

I apologize for the tyraid, I just don’t get to do this often, and this anime has been one of my favorites since the first time I saw it. I know everyone has a different taste in shows, whether you want something light hearted or serious, but I thought the reason people were drawn to Gunslinger Girl was it’s weight (as you noted) and it’s beautiful melancholy.

edit: Sorry, meant to add this as well. How many times did they say “cyborg” in the first series? Because they said it 50 times (obviously not accurate) in the first episode of this series, and they seemed to rarely say it at all last time. “Tool” and “Weapon” were used, but I thought that by not outright saying “cyborg” and “android,” it blurred the lines that made that fight for identity so amazing. Ok, enough pre-judging. Going to brace myself and watch the ep. 2.

By: super rats

super rats — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 16:22:53 +0000

That’s one way to look at that savage cheater.

By: Roger

Roger — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 22:11:00 +0000

Teatrino accomplished one thing more then any other anime, make me hate the villian. Upon the introduction of a slim normal human boy that had the ability to dodge bullets, greater upper body strength and greater speed and better hand to hand combat skills then the cyborgs whose articifial bodies require them to pay the debt in their lifespan and memories, I was right there with Triella hating his ass, wanting nothing more then to see her bludgeon his head against the floor.

His name Pinochio also seemed like a clever shot at the girls, especially the ending “And Pinnochio finally became real boy.” even though, you know Pinnochio always was a real boy whereas the girls stayed imprisoned in fake bodies.

So yeah, they accomplished that at least.

By: Zach

Zach — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 17:43:15 +0000

Can’t believe I still have this page bookmarked, heh…

Anyway was browsing through best buy and found the 2 episode OVA (I’m guessing its relatively new?) meant to tie up the ending of Il Teatrino. Hopefully it will be some good watching, although its only about 50m long. But not bad I guess for $12.99

By: Garrett

Garrett — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 02:55:13 +0000

I appreciate your analysis of the series ^_^ Like many have said before I immediately noticed that the visual clarity and crispness was gone, and for me that takes a lot away from it. I enjoyed GSG because the beautiful imagery and the storytelling (mostly because it wasn’t at a rushed pace). But I already like it! it just seems to be more based around the people and less about the visual aspects of the series. thanks

By: Zach

Zach — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:43:33 +0000

That’s true..I had never considered the Father/Daughter dynamic. Not sure if I suck at identifying those kinds of things, or I just intentionally overlook them because of my own turbulent relationships. (sitting through crap in movies like “I love you dad/son” really drives me nuts.. just makes me uneasy, don’t know why, lol)

By: super rats

super rats — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:04:46 +0000

Triela and Hilshire have always had more of a push back relationship. Sort of like a father and a teenage daughter, except you know, the daughter is a cyborg assassin. I think they made it obvious in both series that they do actually care about each other even if when confronted with the other they’re always pushing away, so it felt right to me how they reacted in the end, even if they’ve never been that way before.