Gunslinger Girls – Il Teatrino – Episode 03 – Fight! Fight! Fight!
- Hot Girl on Literary Metaphor Action!
My love/hate/vague indifference relationship with Il Teatrino continues with our 3rd episode in the series. This week the plot starts proper with inexplicably cool, suit wearing child assassin Triela and her greasy haired keeper Hillshire going out in search of a missing Section 2 agent.
First, because i’m nice that way, the positives:
Triela seems to be the only character to come through the recasting process unscathed. Maybe its simply due to her fundamental coolness, but Triela remains an endlessly watchable character, even after the horrid voice changing and character design nastiness that has occured. The scenes that made up a majority of the episode – Triela eating in a fancy restaurant, snooping about the town and blushing like the cute schoolgirl the new production team seem to think she is – were all fine. I might even go as far to say fun to watch.
Of course, the dramatic climax to this episode was the inevitable clash between her and oh-so-serious pretty boy killer Pinocchio. This, sadly, is when everything starts to fall apart…
I’d almost forgotten just how cheap Il Teatrino is compared to season 1 or, really, most other anime this season. The fight scene in this episode struggles with its pea-sized budget and, in a desperate attempt to create the feel of a dynamic action scene, the animators are reduced to:
Whoooooossssshhh!!!
Action lines! and boy, do they love using them! Every punch, every kick, every slow walk forward (seriousley) is accompanied by crazy flashy borders travelling up the side of the screen like they’ve just activated a bonus in Rock Band.
SSSSSwwwwoooooossssshhH!!
It’s a cheap, horrible effect that just stinks to heaven of cheesiness and silliness. It doesn’t ruin the episode or anything – not really – but… god…
The only thing that could make this cheesier is if it was accompanied by a Six Million Dollar man style “ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-chaaaa” noise
Look at it!
This isn’t 1968!
What sort of animation is this?.
