mentioned. Pia's preferred weapons were the Desert Eagle .50AE and M16A1 with M203 grenade launcher. On January 9, 2020, it was announced a collaboration between the mobile game Girls' Frontline and Gunslinger Girl, in which the characters of Angelica, Claes, Rico, Triela and Henrietta would become units available in the game. alongside a new story event merging the world of "Gunslinger Girl -Il Teatrino-" into the world of Girls' Frontline, a future in which humanity suffered a third world war and environmental collapse, leading to technologically advanced tactical doll or "T-Dolls" are used in combat. Other On December 21, 2005, an image album for Gunslinger Girl called Poca Felicità was released by Marvelous Entertainment. It contains various songs for each of the girls (sung by their respective voice actresses), as well as an instrumental for Pinocchio, extra songs by Josefa, and two other instrumentals. Revo of Sound Horizon wrote all the music and lyrics for the album. The cover art was drawn by Yu Aida. Reception As of December 2012, the manga had over 3.9 million copies in circulation. In 2012, the Ministry of Cultural Affairs announced the winners of the 16th Japan Media Arts Festival Awards. The Gunslinger Girl manga series won an award for excellence in the Manga Division. Jonathan Clements and Helen McCarthy feel the trauma suffered by the girls allows Gunslinger Girl to show them as "submissive blank slates in the style of Chobits", feeling that while some handlers treated them like objects, those that tried to befriend them used methods that were like "the seduction of 'damaged goods' in less popular works such as the Lolita Anime". References Further reading External links Gunslinger Girl -Il Teatrino- anime at Tokyo MX Gunslinger Girl anime at Funimation Gunslinger: Il Teatrino anime at Funimation 2002 manga 2003 anime television series debuts 2008 anime OVAs 2008 anime television series debuts ADV Manga ASCII Media Works manga Artland (company) Bandai Visual Dengeki Comics Dengeki Daioh Kadokawa Dwango franchises Girls with guns anime and manga Fuji TV original programming Funimation Italy in fiction Japan-exclusive video games Madhouse (company) PlayStation 2 games PlayStation 2-only games Political thriller anime and manga Rail shooters Seven Seas Entertainment titles Shōnen manga Terrorism in fiction Tokyo MX original programming Video games developed in Japan