- Joined
- Jan 25, 2022
Gunslinger Girl is good, but it has a lot of little things that keeps it from being great:
- The author has a habit of introducing and forgetting about side characters, then they abruptly show up again volumes later to die or just adding characters out of nowhere to be fodder. The anime did a good job making Elsa a character, I wish other characters like Beatrice got the same treatment.
- The Gen 2 cyborg and her handler are boring and hog the spotlight for 3 volumes in the middle of the series.
- In the final volume, the author tries to cleanly tie up ALL loose ends in a political thriller story. Which means ass pulls (the Pope's speech stopping the political violence in Italy), last min villains, and an epilogue that is way too long and sappy. Literally just show Triela's daughter saying bye to her mom as she goes to school, everything else was excessive.