Maybe I ‘m getting jaded, but a show about turning prepubescent girls into cybernetic assassins is just a bit over the top. It’s like since they’re a Gunslinger, cyber-enhanced, they aren’t human anymore. And their handlers are a bunch of sociopathic thugs, or they would be except they are government agents so this makes them dedicated civil servants.

The girls are supposed to be robotic killing machines, and with the brain-washing and conditioning they go through, they mostly turn out that way. Of course, sometimes a little emotion may break through, but that’s a sign for more conditioning (which shortens their life span, not that what they have is much of a life.)

I don’t know if the authors are going out to an extreme limb to make a point, or if this is the only place left for them to go. There have been other girl assassin shows, like Noir, but they generally are about the girl’s quest to regain her humanity, not about watching it get drummed out the her.

So, while this show has very good production values, I don’t think I could take another DVD of this. I will give it a 4 out of 10.