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mdo7
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Oh, so we're talking about the girls with gun genre now are we? All right, so I can bring up Hong Kong films like In The Line of Duty series like Yes, Madam and Royal Warriors featuring a young pre-fame Michelle Yeoh as an example. What about the Iron Angels series (also from Hong Kong and was made in light of the success of Yes, Madam). Can I and other ANN forumite discuss that too on this thread since you brought up this genre? I mean anime and Japanese live-action films that have done girl with gun genre, Hong Kong did it first way before any anime did that. And any Japanese anime or live-action film that does this genre kind of owes its debt and appreciation to Hong Kong action cinema since they were the one that started it first.
Disclaimer: I'm a long time fan of Hong Kong's heroic bloodshed genre, and gun fu in general. Yes, I do love the work (and I'm a big fan) of John Woo. If you don't understand how Hong Kong's gun fu influenced the girls with gun genre in anime, please watch this video essay from Accented Cinema for the history and birth of gun fu(turn on CC if you can't understand the person's accent). Japan's girl with gun genre found in anime own it's debts to John Woo and Hong Kong's action cinema/heroic bloodshed genre and gun fu cinema. |
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Yune Amagiri
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Girl x Gun has always been a match made in heaven and one of my most sought-after types of series. Sadly, there aren't many of them nowadays. The recent ones are good enough (where is my LycoReco S2!), but pre-Upotte!! ones, especially Gunslinger Girl, Bee Train's and the first two Strike Witches (I'm not sure if most would include the World Witches franchise in this category, but I do), are simply hard to beat. Special mention to the second Darker than Black, It's not a pure Girl x Gun, but any enjoyer of this kind of trope needs to see Suou with her huge PTRD.
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dmanatunga
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Am I the only one supremely disappointed that a column titled "Bring Out the Big (Girls with) Guns" has zero mentions of Trigun's Best Girl Milly???
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dm
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Good to mention Fujiko Mine, but maybe Kei and Yuri from Dirty Pair count, too? Maybe Deunan from Appleseed, too.
Luc Besson has made a career of making live action films that I wonder if they were the inspiration for things like Noir, that tend to do the action sequences better (though In not sure much can top the introduction of Kirika in Noir — not even any of the subsequent action scenes in Noir). |
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AdamW
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Literally just ordered the entire Baby Assassins series sight unseen based on this column.
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Triltaison
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I most enjoyed the girls with guns pre-2000 or so. Iria, Gunsmith Cats, Kite, Battle Angel Alita, Dirty Pair... even that gal in Eat-man. Those were the types I enjoyed best.
After Noir and Najica hit, everything kinda felt incredibly male gaze fanservice-focused or feel-bad joyless for a good long while. There's nothing wrong with stuff like Canaan, Grenadier, Phantom Requiem for the Phantom, and the Bee Train gals... but the fun action stuff like Dirty Pair that I enjoyed most just became a lot harder to find. Even stuff like Kiddy Grade really leaned hard into that stuff. GGO and the Strike Witches franchise are two more recent ones that I did enjoy because they were fun, though. Akiba Maid War was SUCH a welcome surprise. I didn't realize how much I missed the genre, and that show was basically perfect. It knew exactly what it was, and absolutely stuck the landing. Easily one of my favorite modern anime ever. |
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Meexa
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What I want for Christmas is for another season of the Black Lagoon Anime. They should have more than enough material to adapt.
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DigiCom
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As other commenters have already mentioned the two biggest omissions from the article (Gunsmith Cats and Dirty Pair) I'll add the third, which raised "unorthodox reloading" to an art form.
I'm speaking, of course, of Grenadier: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTTCUtuDQQo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIOxsYDHWGc |
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varmintx
 Posts: 1320 Location: Covington, KY |
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I tried watching Lycoris Recoil. It felt like Gunslinger Girl but with its balls cut off. At least I didn't hate it unlike the actual Gunslinger Girl sequel series.
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enurtsol
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Don't forget the original Big (Girls with) Guns - the Meltrandi!
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AdamW
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Just watched the first movie! Do not regret purchase at all. |
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