Production
The series is licensed for English adaptation by Funimation. The English dub of the anime aired in the United States on the Independent Film Channel. A single DVD box collection, containing all thirteen episodes of the first series, was released in Japan by Marvelous Entertainment on March 10, 2005. Funimation has released three DVD compilations of the English adaptation of the series, with the first compilation containing the first five episodes, with four episodes in the other two compilations. The first compilation was released on May 17, 2005, the second on July 12, 2005, and the third on September 6, 2005. Funimation has additionally released a collection box containing all three compilations; it was released on December 11, 2007. The episode titles of both the English and Japanese adaptations are given in Italian, with the corresponding kanji preceding the Italian title in the latter.
A DVD compilation of the second season, containing the first two episodes of the anime, was released by Media Factory on March 25, 2008. Funimation has licensed the second season and is streaming the English subtitled episodes on their website as well as on Veoh, promising a Region 1 retail release in 2009. Unlike the first season of the series, which mixed Italian with the Japanese kanji in the titles, Il Teatrino's titles are pure Japanese.
Two pieces of theme music are used for the first series; one opening theme and one ending theme. The opening theme is "The Light Before We Land" by The Delgados, and the ending theme is "Dopo il Sogno 〜Yume no Ato ni〜" (Dopo il Sogno 〜夢のあとに〜?, lit. After the dream 〜After the dream〜) by Yoshitaka Kitanami. Gunslinger Girl -Il Teatrino- also uses four pieces of theme music. The opening theme is "Tatta Hitotsu no Omoi" (たった1つの想い?) by Kokia, and the main closing theme is "doll" sung by Aoi Tada (ep. 1-5, 10, 12) or Lia (ep. 6-7, 9, 11, and ova) and written and composed by Jun Maeda. The closing theme was replaced by "Scarborough Fair" (by Aoi Tada) for episode 8 and "human" (by Lia) for episode 13.
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