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「攻殻機動隊」Ghost in the Shell

A futuristic, police/noir thriller, set around the mid-21st Century, dealing with the reality of corporate power structures, and cyber terrorism, against a backdrop of technological advancement, and transhumanist cyberisation, in a Neo-Japanese state.

「攻殻機動隊」

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First Assault Online


Ghost in the Shell is a futuristic, police/noir thriller, set around the mid-21st Century, dealing with the reality of corporate power structures, and cyber terrorism, against a backdrop of technological advancement, and transhumanist cyberisation, in a Neo-Japanese state.

The narrative follows the covert operations division of the Japanese National Public Security Commission Section 9. This unit specializes in combating tech-based crimes, with a lean toward Spec Ops weapons and tactics, as well as an investigative focus on hacking, data mining, and more traditional methods of information sleuthing, and detective work.

Ghost in the Shell expands its scope beyond the narrative by exploring many rich Philosophical, Economic, Social, and Political themes. With a weighting on Existentialism and Humanism, Consumerism, economic class disparity, Industrial political corruption, and Politically radicalised splinter groups.


Watch

Ghost In The Shell (1995)

Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (2004)

Stand Alone Complex (2002)

Stand Alone Complex - 2nd Gig (2004)

Solid State Society (2006)

SAC _2045_ (2020)

SAC _2045_ 2nd Season (2022)

Arise - Alternative Architecture (2015)

Arise - New Movie (2015)

Soundtrack

Ghost in the Shell (1995)

Ghost in the Shell: Innocence

Stand Alone Complex: OST

Stand Alone Complex: OST 2

Stand Alone Complex: OST 3

Solid State Society

Be Human

Arise

Ghost in the Shell (2015)


Related Anime

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Akira

Ergo Proxy

Paprika

Patlabor

Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade

Megazone 23

Bubblegum Crisis

Gunnm: Battle Angel Alita

Dominon: Tank Police

Bounty Dog

Macross Plus

Serial Experiments Lain

Bubblegum Crisis: Tokyo 2040

Metropolis

Parasite Dolls

Texhnolyze

Dennou Coil

Un-Go

Kaiba

Real Drive

Psycho-Pass

Under the Dog


Games

Official GitS games:

Ghost in the Shell (PS1))

Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex (PS2))

Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex (PSP - PS2 sequel.))

GitS: SAC - First Assault Online (PC, Discontinued)

Other GitS-like cyberpunk games:

The System Shock series (PC, shooter/survival)

The Deus Ex series (PC and various consoles, stealth-action RPG)

Cyberpunk 2077 (PC and consoles, action RPG)

Oni (PC and PS2, 3P shooter/fighter))

The Shadowrun series of tactical RPGs for PC (Returns, Dragonfall, Hong Kong)

curated by u/dUc0N


Official Ghost in the Shell media channels

Twitter: @kokaku_m

YouTube: GITSchannel


Books

Ghost in the Shell

Human Error Processor

Man Machine Interface

Stand Alone Complex

Arise: Sleepless Eye

Appleseed

Dominon

Black Magic

Orion


Creators

Masamune Shirow

Oshii Mamoru

Kamiyama Keji

Kazuchika Kise


Other

Ghost in the Shell (2017)

Project 2501

MAL: Seinen

Anime Every Day: Cyberpunk

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/r/cyberpunk

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/r/transhumanism

/r/futurology

/r/scifi

/r/anime

/r/philosophy

/r/Cyberpunk_Music

/r/mangafr/


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7

Why does this Art School Girlfriend remix sound like a GITS OP?

6 Comments
2024/04/04
00:46 UTC

373

I love my cyborg mommy waifu

Seriously seeing my cyborg mommy waifu make me taste defeat while she calls me a pathetic loser and a pervert is the only thing that gives me joy in life.

38 Comments
2024/04/03
13:54 UTC

8

Ghost in the Shell: Innocence - two versions with different (English) dialogue?

I've had the DVD for many years. As I've been replacing my DVDs with BRs in recent years and GitS: Innocence is one of my favourite films, I've been considering replacing it too, but I've sometimes found that while the BR version is visually better quality, for some films it doesn't make a huge difference to my viewing pleasure, so I downloaded a BR rip of this film and flicked through it quickly only to find that some of the dialogue is different but also seemingly different actors have been used to voice the parts! It's really unnerving.

Here's an example. Opening lines in the film from my DVD version:

Batou: Fill me in.

Cop 1: The perpetrator killed the owner a few minutes ago at the first crime scene then ran off. It was called in anonymously.

BR version:

Batou: What's the situation.

Cop 1: 52 minutes ago, the suspect killed its owner at his condo, the first crime scene. The perp fled, and now holed up in the second crime scene...

I haven't watched the BR version any further but I've seen such differences in two other scenes when flicking through.

Any idea what's going on? I tried a quick google but I haven't encountered any mention of different versions having different dialogue.

10 Comments
2024/04/02
16:28 UTC

35

heard some of you guys wishing to have a ghost in the shell game

what would you like to see in a ghost in the shell video game

-gameplay

-genre

-storyline

-connected to another universe

etc etc

im not into video games anymore at leats for the most part but i would consider maybe trying a ghost in the shell game

if it was good of course

48 Comments
2024/04/02
04:09 UTC

0

Wierd CGI Intro

I just started watching SAC after the 1995 film and am wondering why the studio decided to use a CGI intro with Russian singing?

41 Comments
2024/04/02
00:15 UTC

67

SAC Ep 14: Rich guys house, seems like he has at least 8 Countach's in there. Including 25th Anniversary and QV5000

3 Comments
2024/04/01
17:21 UTC

6

SAC2 DVD set. Audio quality is terrible.

I've had this DVD set for years. I think I got it 10 years ago? Watched it plenty of times.

But the last couple days I've been watching it on my home studio computer. With the good DA converters and very good full range speakers. And it sounds bad.

The dialogue audio jumps in level and then gets squished down. Like a badly configured compressor is jumping in there and messing with the level. The background music is also frequently loud enough to clash with the dialogue.

My SAC1 DVDs don't have such a problem. They all sound great.

Anyone else notice this?

Is there a better release of the SAC2 series?

3 Comments
2024/04/01
15:47 UTC

221

Happy Easter Sunday with artwork of Motoko in a bunny outfit

5 Comments
2024/03/31
22:22 UTC

511

Love seeing artwork from the movie

7 Comments
2024/03/30
22:37 UTC

6

What Color Is The Majors Hair In The Manga?

I know it varies a lot (I always thought she had black or blue but I see some people saw brown) and I always assumed it was supposed to be a fun artstyle thing or maybe she just changed it a lot (she is a cyborg after all). But if we go with the first option, does she have a canonically color in the manga?

3 Comments
2024/03/30
20:58 UTC

360

Floppy disks in 2030

59 Comments
2024/03/30
17:17 UTC

15

Best way to watch Ghost in the shell?

Wondering if i should watch the live action first or the animated 1995 version?

Thanks

40 Comments
2024/03/30
06:36 UTC

7

what is the best or most balanced sec 9 not just the major,which one feels the most fleshed

for thsi one you could also say for example togusa i like in the 95 movie timeline the best and saito in arise ,but overall the sac timeline is best (not my real thoughts just a example(sorta true))

i do think sac is goanna be the most popular to be honest)

3 Comments
2024/03/30
04:56 UTC

4

Animation error in S.A.C 2nd GIG Episode-4?

First post here, sorry if I break any rule.

I was re-watching the S.A.C 2nd GIG and found something that seems really confusing.

On the Episode-4 of S.A.C 2nd GIG. As Major let go of the wire that is pulling the Jigabachi so Saito can sniped the pilot's cyberbrain.

Clip found on youtube

1:25 - 1:30 Saito was sniping from Jigabachi's right side. Bullet went in from Jigabachi's right and exit through the left. With the water tower on Jigabachi's left side.

1:30 - 1:31 But in this scene, the water tower is on Jigabachi's right side that was penetrated after the Jigabachi's penetration.

1:35 The water leaking from the penetrated water tower is back to Jigabachi's left.

Am I missing something here or is this an actually animation error?

EDIT: Solved! u/kailethre explained it perfectly to me.

5 Comments
2024/03/29
08:13 UTC

201

My favorite episodes in SAC since we got to see more of Motoko's personal life

1 Comment
2024/03/29
03:48 UTC

34

Mars Express comes to the US on May 3

5 Comments
2024/03/28
21:14 UTC

236

Motoko Kusanagi cosplay by Milashiroki

3 Comments
2024/03/28
17:56 UTC

450

Section 9: School Days

16 Comments
2024/03/28
10:58 UTC

269

左眼に気をつけろ POKER FACE | 玲

4 Comments
2024/03/27
09:43 UTC

28

How prevalent was Kusanagi's body dysmorphia?

This comes around because of the recent influx of "look at how hot the Major is" posts in the subreddit.

I'm curious to the collective's thoughts, because in the '95 film Kusanagi was so indifferent to her being in a female prosthetic that it was Batou (during the boat scene and post-climax resolution) who was more aware and bashful to her sexuality than she was.

Kusanagi seemed to be experiencing body dysmorphia. Which is why I find the redditors here to be at a disconnect to who Kusanagi really was as a character... at least as far as the '95 and '04 movies had to say.

61 Comments
2024/03/25
12:25 UTC

174

Ah yes, the Major in EP.11

2 Comments
2024/03/24
19:29 UTC

35

Watching the final border of Ghost in the Shell Arise. Love this taking place during Christmas time and it's heavy snow everywhere. A new environment for the series. And it kicks off with a classic Kusanagi building top stealth dive! Awesome series.

0 Comments
2024/03/23
20:22 UTC

136

Does anyone else have these?

27 Comments
2024/03/23
18:18 UTC

2

Who wiped Agent Smiths memory and why? (Sac 2045)

At one point Agent Smiths memory was wiped so that he does not remember the Mayor and Section 9 anymore, do we know who did it and why exactly?
I couldnt piece it together myself, but it doesnt make much sense.
The mayor and everyone else act along him not nowing them, but would the Mayor be able to delete data at the NSA which documents their first meeting?
Was it done by his superiors for some reason?

Any Ideas?

1 Comment
2024/03/23
18:13 UTC

248

Ghost in the shell 2030 - (11min video below) - that one Unreal project i was working on lol

27 Comments
2024/03/23
12:39 UTC

19

An interesting piece of GITS style music.

When I close my eyes, I imagine this song the opening to a GITS series.

Please enjoy "freefall" by dracodraco

Tell me what y'all think.

5 Comments
2024/03/23
03:47 UTC

1

SAC blu ray dubtitles only?

Just bought the SAC blu ray and was excited to watch it again, but noticed the only subtitle option is for the English audio? Why would they do this and not have an actual subtitle track for the Japanese? Guess I have to dig up my old dvds up to watch those instead

4 Comments
2024/03/23
00:28 UTC

294

LEGO Spider Tank

16 Comments
2024/03/22
19:36 UTC

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