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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.
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.
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Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (2004)
Stand Alone Complex - 2nd Gig (2004)
Arise - Alternative Architecture (2015)
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Official GitS games:
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
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/r/Ghost_in_the_Shell
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.
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.
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
I just started watching SAC after the 1995 film and am wondering why the studio decided to use a CGI intro with Russian singing?
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?
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?
Wondering if i should watch the live action first or the animated 1995 version?
Thanks
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)
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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