Gunslinger Girl Il Teatrino is apparently over at 13 episodes. Which is really news to me because I’ve only got subs for up to episode five. Whats more I’ve not heard anything about why, for all I know there’s a license out for it already. None of my information places have anything on that. All I know is it apparently ended yesterday. Maybe it’s slow, maybe everyone who was working on it turned into big babies because it’s not as good as season one and dropped it. I really have no idea.
Onward and… well, forward anyway, not so sure about upward.
A while back, before I started doing this, I was watching something called Kazemakase Tsukikage Ran, yes I’m aware at how huge the name is. The base premise of the show is the main character is a samurai, and a woman, you see the appeal now don’t you. I’m not sure exactly how I got referred to this but all I know is it was via the internets and some sort of ‘if you liked this you might like this’ thing. Which were hard to find until I found MAL which has reviews and reccomendations by other users, anyway off the site pitch. Ran’s episodes are pretty much random. So far I’ve seen her and her partner in aimless wandering Meow, let’s see. Wander into a town where sake is evil, fight pirates, find a baby, undergo a case of mistaken identity, join a cult… Well… Meow joined a cult, Ran drank sake and showed up to kick some ass later on. And that’s how they go for the most part, on occasion someone manages to make Ran mad, maybe not mad, mildly annoyed. She likes to act all cool and reserved but she does get interested in things, and we’ve seen her get indignant a few times. Not to mention laughing at people getting electrocuted.
Half the draw to the show, in my opinion, is the art style. The show is from 2000, but manages to pull off off an older feel. It’s not that it’s drawn super, a good deal of the random male characters have heads shaped like potatoes after all. Another part of it is they don’t bother with most of the character archetypes. Sure, Ran is a couple of them, and Meow is quite obviously the stupid/happy go lucky character… but there’s nothing else. There’s no tsuntsun there’s no loli there’s… heck there’s not even a moe character, with the exception of a couple single episode characters, because I can think of one loli, but she didn’t do much aside from argue with Meow when she wasn’t trying to be a reverse trap. The Op is great too, very old school, and I do mean old school.
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