Girls with guns
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Girls with guns is a subgenre of action films and animation—often Asian films and anime—that portray a strong female protagonist who makes use of firearms to defend against or attack a group of antagonists.[citation needed] The genre typically involves gun-play, stunts and martial arts action.[citation needed]
Anime and manga
The "girls-with-guns" genre has also permeated the anime space. Some examples include Bubblegum Crisis,[1][2] Gall Force,[2][3] Dirty Pair,[2][3] Gunsmith Cats,[3] Angel Heart,[4] Gunslinger Girl,[3] Noir, Madlax,[5] and El Cazador.[6] More recent examples of "girls with guns" anime are Masamune Shirow's and Mamoru Oshii's Ghost in the Shell and its television adaptation Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex and Yasuomi Umetsu's works Kite, Mezzo Forte, Mezzo DSA, and Kite: Liberator.[7]
Video games
- Bayonetta series
- Oni
- Perfect Dark series
- Tomb Raider series
Television
See also
- Andy Sidaris
- Bad girl movies
- Bond girl
- Feminist film theory
- Femme fatale
- Gun fu
- Heroic bloodshed
- Hong Kong action cinema
- List of female action heroes
- Yukari Oshima
- Zero Woman
References
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