Gunslinger Girl

Gunslinger Girl takes place in Italy, where the Social Welfare Agency employs cybernetic enhancements to transform young girls into assassins for the Italian Government. The agency rescues girls from hospitals, brainwashes them, and trains them in combat skills. Despite their artificially enhanced bodies, the girls retain their emotional vulnerabilities, yearning for genuine human connection. This struggle for emotional recognition occurs within an agency that prioritizes their work as deadly assassins over their inherent humanity.