There is something incredibly disturbing and creepy about little girls shooting giant guns.
Little girls should be playing with dolls and eating sweets and talking about how they'll talk about boys one day.
They should not be whipping giant machine guns out of guitar cases and annihilating rooms full of fully grown men. They should not be assassinating people with expressionless faces and a lack of guilt.
Even if they are some kind of cyborgs trained as ultimate killing tools, it is still wrong.
Disturbing.
Creepy.
Not okay.
Which is probably why the basic plot of Gunslinger Girl includes just that: little girls in cute little girl outfits shooting giant guns and blowing people's heads off.
Because the idea is creepy but also fascinating. And it is presented well. This anime is drawn in a much more realistic fashion than most of the other shows I've been watching lately. There aren't bizarre hairdos or giant boobs or super powered shape-shifting dragon girls. There are just little girls with cute faces and sad pasts who kill people with big guns.
Its so so wrong, but .... also somehow right.
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