Title: Gunslinger Girl Vol. 2
Artist/Author: 相田裕 (Yu Aida)
Book Size/Pages: B-6, 170pp., w/o furigana
Original Serialization: Monthly Dengeki Daioh 1/03-6/03
First Printing: 7/15/03
Rating: 3/4

After a lukewarm first volume, I'm starting to like the story. The artwork still has that aura surrounding it, perfectly compatible with the plot. There's a lot of underlying meanings on humanity in each of the chapters dealing with the half-human child assassins.

The bonus is only a colored first page with Toriella and Henrietta.

6. A kitchen garden: Claes gets paired up with Robaro, an ex-military person the company has recruited back. As Claes is training, he pulls her out and talks to her about books and planting a garden. He also takes her out fishing. While he's strict and doesn't talk to her while training, they jabber when they take these fishing trips. After a failed live-training accident and almost having Claes kill Henrietta, he decides to quit. As he's leaving, he gives her the keys to his hut saying that she can borrow books anytime. Later, she learns that Robaro has been killed. While it's contemplated on, the company decides to keep her despite not having a master for her.

7. Ice cream in the Spanish open space: Joze and Henrietta listen in on Enrico, their next target who is involved in a revolt against the government. Like before, Henrietta walks around innocently with her violin case. The next day, with the help of Toriella and Rico, they capture Enrico. As they're walking away from the crime scene, one of Enrico's rivals in his organization (I think) sees Henrietta with the violin case and says that's what the revolution is about, protecting kids like her.

8. 歓びの歌 (Pleasurable Song): Toriella visits Angelica in the hospital ward and brings her a gun so she can play around with it and remember it's feel [that's messed up]. She then invites her to go watch the shooting stars with the other girls, but she can't leave. The other girls go atop a hill and watch the meteorites and start singing to Beethoven's 9th.

9. How beautiful my Florence is!: Joze and Henrietta meet Fililpo, an accountant on vacation and enjoying the arts around the city. They present themselves as normal people at first, but in fact, they're trying to protect him from the anarchists. When Filipo gets surrounded by the bad guys, Henrietta and Joze reveal themselves and scurry off with him. Unfortunately, he and Henrietta get shot. He won't make it, but Henrietta tells him that it's a shame for him to die as he would have been a good painter.

10. パスタの国の王子様（前編） (The Prince of Pasta Country, First Part): The girls are checking up with Dr. Bianki. First Henrietta, and then Angelica. With Angelica, the doctor tests who she remembers with a photo album. Then, he recites a story about the Prince in Pasta Country to see if she remembers. She doesn't. Afterwards, she asks her master, Marco whether they have any jobs to do. He tells her she's not ready and then makes her run laps around the campus.

11. パスタの国の王子様（後編） (The Prince of Pasta Country, Last Part): A flashback to when Angelica and Marco first met. Angelica was murdered by her own dad for insurance money. Marco started taking care of her in the hospital and made up a story about Prince Pasta and Pizza Princess. It is this story that she has now forgotten.

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