Assault Girls

Did You Know?

• The film is a spiritual sequel to the shorts Assault Girl: Hinako The Kentucky and Assault Girl 2, which Oshii directed as part of the Shin-Onna Tachiguishi Retsuden and Rebellion: The Killing Isle collections.
• It is set in the same fictional universe as Oshii's 2001 film Avalon but is not a direct sequel.
• Jäger's luck stat is very low, as the Game Master tells him directly.
• Only the first person to turn in the quest gets the points, which triggers Jäger's player-killer rampage.

Synopsis

After a global thermonuclear war, three battle-tested women fight giant mutant sandwhales inside the virtual reality game Avalon. They all seek to defeat the end boss Madara Sunakujira but cannot engage it alone, so they form a party. The group includes Gray, a sniper who flies her own plane; Lucifer, a girl in a black dress who turns into a giant crow and uses magic; Colonel, a woman in burgundy armor wielding an FN FAL with M203; and Jäger, a drifter with a powerful sniper rifle and low luck. They defeat Madara, but only the first to turn in the quest gets the points, and the women have flying transports while Jäger is on foot. Enraged, Jäger shoots them down, declares himself a player killer, and a fire fight ensues.