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Fuck the anime thread- my posts about GITS always get lost in the fold.
Anyway, all 7 volumes of SAC 2nd Gig are out, and there's a SAC film coming out sometime next year, although I'm not sure if the Japanese version by some freak chance has english subs, or if a decent fansub is out (GITS isn't easy to get across on fansubs though)
I haven't seen volumes 5 6 and 7 of 2nd Gig, so please spoiler spoilers.
I'm waiting for them to put it out in a box or something like that.
Also, there are 2 SAC novels, and a prequel novel to the Innocence. I've read the Innocence one, which you'll enjoy if you like Innocence. I like Innocence, but it's definitely a different beat- it's more a character study than anything, so you only see Batou through the entire thing, and not a whole lot happens. But I liked it.
Anyway, all 7 volumes of SAC 2nd Gig are out, and there's a SAC film coming out sometime next year, although I'm not sure if the Japanese version by some freak chance has english subs, or if a decent fansub is out (GITS isn't easy to get across on fansubs though)
I haven't seen volumes 5 6 and 7 of 2nd Gig, so please spoiler spoilers.
I'm waiting for them to put it out in a box or something like that.
Also, there are 2 SAC novels, and a prequel novel to the Innocence. I've read the Innocence one, which you'll enjoy if you like Innocence. I like Innocence, but it's definitely a different beat- it's more a character study than anything, so you only see Batou through the entire thing, and not a whole lot happens. But I liked it.
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I've seen the movies... and well, they weren't good.
I need some good anime to watch over the xmas holidays.
It had some damn fine art in it though.
I was pleasantly surprised by the show. It sort of has a X-Files feel to it, but dealing with technology instead of monsters and aliens. I'd recommend it, even if you didn't like the movies.
We... but... what?
You've made one post in there... about Ergo Proxy.
The new movie (Solid State Society) was aired in september in japan I think, there're some pretty good subs floating out around on the internet.
I much preferred the series over the films. There's a much better ratio of action and cool character scenes to philisophical quotations.
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And the MUSIC. Oh lord, the music.
Yoko Kanno. 'Nuff said.
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GITS: SAC is one of those anime I can stand to watch and understand. I hope there will be a third gig.
Also, Motoko in the opening sequence of the first movie = :winky:
and in general = :winky:
Being, of course, the Jean Luc Goddard homage episode in the first season, and the second one that seemed like one big reference to "Taxi Driver".
We need a lime heart.
I wish more of her work was available domestically. It's EXPENSIVE to import, and some of it is old enough that you can't even find legit copies anymore. :?
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But my favorites are still the original manga, the first Ghost in the Shell film, and the SAC 1st gig, I just liked the stories a lot more in that season.
Also...fuck the anime thread? I don't remember seeing too many of your posts there :P
GiTS is worthy of its own though.
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Not all of them die for love.
I can't speak for anyone else, but I stopped posting in the anime thread when it turned into "let's talk about the lastest episodes of the hot series that are fansubbed yesterday and ignore anything else".
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We talk about older series pretty often.
But I don't think it's a bad thing to keep up to date on our hobby, and to that extent, talking about current shows works because we can all watch the same thing and have a discussion about that.
I mean, I'd love to talk Bubblegum Crisis and Starblazers but it'd be me talking and crickets chirping.
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Not all of them die for love.
It's expensive to buy in Japan too. $30 for a CD? Screw that... I am frequently happy that you can rent CDs here, but fuck the no renting video games...
Now, time for some spoilers from the last episode:
[spoiler:e2ae2558ae]I love how Goda gets whats coming to him. He thinks he can get away, then bam! Executive privledge, bitch. It would be awesome if someone made the part where Batou and Motoko blow him away into a gif.
Someone mentioned it before, that towards the end of the series, Motoko starts to act more and more like Kuze after she touches his Ghost line. Up until that point, she had always wondered how he got the refugees to look up to him like they did. After that I think she finally sees just how powerful and persuasive a mind he has over people, as his own quirks (like not moving his mouth when talking) start to become hers.
And I almost cried when the Tachikomas sacrificed themselves. I'm gonna miss them
[spoiler:35ec5b1159]those little guys have brought me to tears, bless their little blue hulls[/spoiler:35ec5b1159]
(I guess Bandai and Manga Entertainment are releasing it in select theatres then immediately to dvd this spring in the US)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=CFddzIBG-Kc
Oh, and this has to be one of the coolest GITS things:
NeoRamen: panoramic cyberpunk gamer comic
I've made posts about GITS at least three times in previous incarnations of the thread which all dissapeared into the void unanswered in the wake of all the other stuff. Which is fine really, I mean there's other anime to discuss and all, which is why we did away with megathreads.
I think this will be the only anime that I might actually purchase the whole volume set off the internet, as I cannot find it anywhere in Canada.
Definitely prefer the series to the movie, the movie was too pretentious for its own good. 1st Gig got a good balance. It was mainly a detective story, but it was also heavily political as well, and the action scenes were very well done.
[spoiler:fbdedf4da8]Motoko, - 1 arm, + 1 Anti-Tank rifle = VENGEANCE[/spoiler:fbdedf4da8]
The more serious response, she dresses in a manner that she finds attractive, and apparently isn't the least bit embarassed about it, and can kick the living shit out of anyone who comments on her wardrobe choices. I personally prefer when she wears full-length pants, but then I think leather jeans are pretty hot.
That scene was one of the best things I've ever seen.
-clicky image to big and nsfw
I'm sorry but that just smacks of over the top fanservice, and it makes it hard to take it seriously.
Edit: Oh, right, one horny London cop, too.
Edit: The deal is this. If I were to post a picture of a stripper, I would get bitched at until the end of time about NSFW. If I post a picture of Motoko Kusanagi, or Huntress for another comparable example, I will get no lecture. The difference has to be more than just "oh it's a drawing" on the grounds that I can't post hentai or ecchi either. I'm not one of those guys who freaks out if a girl doesn't feel a need to hide every inch of skin. Personally, I don't care. I don't get why so many guys will actually talk shit about girls for that and start drawing false-parallels calling them whores sluts and strippers, whether they be real or ficticious.
Great figure, yeah I've seen Solid State Society already. It's pretty good, if you enjoy the TV show it's basically a maxi-episode.
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That statuette is the best thing ever though.
SAC final episode: [spoiler:f22c20b665]oh, actually, everyone is okay. We won't explain why or how, but all the bad things you saw happening to them? Dirty lies, they're fine. Haha, group laugh everyone.[/spoiler:f22c20b665]
I'd need to rewatch it to be name and action specific, but the last episode of SAC was just one bit deus ex machina.
[edit] Manners, manners...
C) They actually explain all of it, but you would have to pay attention to the dialogue and be fluent in the language you're watching it in (either the audio track or the subtitle track) to notice.