Caterina was an expert on bombs and explosive materials who worked as a freelancer with her partner Franco under the codename Franca.    ~! Franca's true identity was Caterina, a student who dropped out of her university in order to file a national lawsuit against the arrest of her father, who was imprisoned on charges of unspecified crimes. Shortly afterward, the father died of suspicious causes during his incarceration. Convinced of her father's innocence and angry at the Italian government's apparent immoral attempts to silence political dissent, Caterina sought out various activists within Italy in an attempt to learn how to get revenge on the Italian government. At the recommendation of Mangello Marinov, a family friend, Caterina made contact with Franco, whose uncle was a well-known explosives expert. Although Franco was reluctant at first, he was soon moved by the strength of Caterina's convictions. Caterina learned much from Franco and eventually took the name "Franca" as a cover identity since she would be working closely with Franco from then on. !~   ~! Later, when Section 2 moved in to arrest Cristiano, she and Franco were barely able to save Cristiano from Rico and tried to escape with a car. However, after Angelica shot Franca several times, the car crashed over a cliff into a river. It's later revealed that she died with Franco in this accident, leaving Cristiano alive, paralyzed and resolved to extract revenge on the Agency. !~

The girls of the Social Welfare Agency are no ordinary children. They are the grisly remains of human wreckage pieced back together with cybernetic implants and trained to kill by the government. 
 
The oldest, Triela, pursues her targets with a ferocious enthusiasm, unwilling to settle for less than total annihilation. Her mirror in this bloody stalemate is Pinocchio, a shell of a boy raised as an assassin by the FRF: a terrorist faction at war with the SWA. Cold and cruelly efficient, he wields sharpened steel as though it were an extension of his own hand. 
 
Once human, these shattered souls have become murderous machines with only vague recollections of what it meant to be real — and a brutal compulsion to be the last killer standing. 
 
(Source: Funimation)

Stephanie Young is an American voice actress who works for anime series of FUNimation Entertainment. She has provided voices for a number of English language versions of Japanese anime films. She is also a jazz singer, currently being the lead vocalist in her husband's band, "The Brehm's".

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Officially, the Social Welfare Agency is a government sponsored corporation that's in the business of saving lives. In reality, it's an agency on the fringe of technology. They give terminal patients another shot at life using cybernetic implants. This conditioning process then shapes the patient into an efficient machine for handling all of the government's dirty work. 
 
(Source: Funimation)

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She co-hosts an ongoing radio show with fellow seiyū Kappei Yamaguchi and Sakura Wars creator Ōji Hiroi. She is founder and head of her own voice company called Banbina after leaving Arts Vision. When she was a high school student, she was an assistant of Jump Broadcasting Station of Weekly Shonen Jump (1988-1996). She is most known for the roles of Sasami Masaki Jurai (Tenchi Muyo!), Lucrezia Noin (Mobile Suit Gundam Wing) and Sakura Shinguji (Sakura Wars)

The Social Welfare Agency in Italy is not what it seems. Yes, it rescues young girls who have been brutalized, but it then brainwashes them and turns them into ruthless killers for an elite and secret counter-terrorism unit for the Italian government. 
Enter a young girl named Henrietta. After witnessing the savage murder of her family and barely surviving, the Agency takes her in and repairs her injuries using the latest in cybernetic technology. All traces of Henrietta's past are wiped from her mind, as she becomes one of the Agency's most lethal assassins. 
(Source: Seven Seas Entertainment)