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NEWS: Funimation Hints at Gunslinger Girl -Il Teatrino- Anime

I watched about 3 episodes of this before I could stand no more: The limited animation and budget shortcuts, plus terrible DIRECTION (uneven editing, pacing, action also was blocked really poorly IMO)... it left a horrible taste in my mouth and instead of reminding me about what I enjoyed about season 1, it was just painful to watch: I kept hoping the "the next episode will be better"... but after 3 I could take no more.

We're talking stills with shaking pans and background noise to depict "riots" and nearly flintstone-esque background looping during car chases, and that's just in episode 1.

However I am disturbed and sort of scared now with all this negativity towards it. I guess people aren't liking the art and animation very much, but what about the story? For me that was always the best part about Gunslinger Girl. I guess I am just having a hard time that the animation could be THAT bad.

I was SO disappointed when I watched the first episode of GSG2 and realized it was a pathetic imitation that pales in comparison not only to the original, but basically every other recent series.

Especially considering how long I had hoped for a sequel.

Trust me, if you liked GSG, you won't like the sequel, unless the only thing you cared about from the original was loli girls shooting people, and even that part isn't 10% as good as the original.

GSG2 is basically just lolicon otaku fan pandering of the worst denomination. On the other hand, the poor budget and fan pandering is probably the only reason GSG2 was able to be made in the first place.

So that show I saw was real. I thought it was a joke.
I'm probably going to wait for the boxset on this one, I wasn't happy with what I saw.

I'll be honest- when I saw the picture I thought of Asuna from Negima.

the character design was a quite different and made the girls look much younger than first season but still the storyline is excellent and kept the voices same...

Yeah, the character design was definitely a change, particularly Rico for me. Also, although most do sound like the voice they had in the first season, there are different VAs for almost all characters.

Really aside from the limited production values (which is one of the last reasons that would make me dislike an anime) is the second season really that bad? I mean, didn't the series creator worked on Gunslinger Girl -Il Teatrino- while he didn't on the first adaptation?