Or “How To Fuck A Sequel”

Ok, it was no secret that I was looking forward to the next series of Gunslinger Girl. The first still remains one of the best I’ve seen. Animation was fantastic, plot was good, if a little slow, voice acting was excellent, and the show did a really, really damn good job of getting the general themes of the series across.
And now the first episode of the sequel has been released for those of us limited by our knowledge of only the English language, if you know where to look (I won’t post it after MFI made it clear that they’re a bunch of scumbags). So will someone please tell me, after the first series was so well done, how the hell did they manage to go so wrong.
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