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Fields	USA Info	Japanese Info	Image
Title	Gunslinger Girl	Gunslinger Girl(ガンスリンガーガール)
Released	13 TV episodes	13 TV episodes
Dates	2005	2003
Company	FUNimation	Madhouse Studios
Creator		Yu Aida
Director		Morio Asaka
Genre	Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi	Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Characters	Angelica	Angelica
· · ·	Claes	Claes
· · ·	Elsa	Elsa
· · ·	Henrietta
· · ·	Jean
· · ·	-- more listed below --	-- more listed below --

Last I checked, this anime was available on DVD at Amazon.com and Anime Nation.

In Italy, a private organization exists called "the Social Welfare Agency". In truth, the Agency is not as innocent as it's name says. It specializes in cover assassinations ordered by the government. However, the weapon of choice is possibly the most chilling... children... little girls, in fact!

Taken from families that were wiped out in criminal attacks, these girls are cybernetically enhanced and brainwashed into forgetting their pasts so that they become remorseless, cold-blooded killers. Jose, a handler of one of the girls, Henrietta, is worried, however. Jose is finding it hard to fulfill his duties to the Agency, as he is constantly concerned that Henrietta will continue to lose more of herself as she undertakes more missions.

It appears that the characters don't age after they have the surgery since Angelica looks as old in the present time as she did when she first joined the agency (which based on what Rico said had to have been at least two years ago, probably more).

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