| So Netflix made a new Ghost in the shell anime, and i'm curious what are your thoughts or expression about the Netflix series |
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| It's just another take on the source material and it reminds me of some of the old CGI cartoons of the early 2000's but more polished. It's not Innocence, but I didn't expect it to be. It's fun and doesn't have the problem of thinking it's smarter than it is that Arise had. |
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| So like, first off, kinda bugs me how people are calling it a Netflix series coz it's still Production I.G making it (with Sola doing the... Uh... "animation") and even has the same director as the OG SAC series. Like... You can't really blame Netflix for this show. They're just hosting it. Aight now about the anime... It's 💖not very good💖 but not entirely terrible. The first few episodes are unforgivably bad but once Batou let's back to Japan things start getting better. Still no where near as good as the other SAC stuff but it's watchable. I'm still keen on the second half when that comes out. I like the direction it's going despite the rocky start. Characters are a goddamn mess. The returning cast act more like their ARISE selves, not their SAC selves. And once again Pazu and Borma are barely in it. Looks wise they're... fine. It's a bit weird that the guys with human bods haven't aged despite it being 10 years after we last saw them and Motoko looks young. Not as young as she did in ARISE but definitely not like the mid 40s woman she is. I'm fine with this, it's just a bit weird. Also Ishikawa is out in the field and its weeiiirrrrd and he has the same haircut as Batou for some reason. Like they literally just copy-pasted that part of the model. The new characters are a mixed bag. Standard (Clown) needed a redemption bit that he never got and just kinda disappeared after the real plot started. Purin is the bane of my existence... this gurl out here actin and talkin like she's in some CGDCT show and it DOES NOT fit the tone. She also just kinda does whatever the fuck she wants and never gets in trouble for it which bugs me so muuuuuch. Agent Smith is just Hugo Weaving and it's not even subtle and also he acts like a stereotypical villain for the first few episodes which, again, does not fit the tone of the show. Lastly we have the new Prime Minister of Japan who is honestly kinda cool. I really dig his character. Nothing bad to say here. He fits the show well and I actually found myself rooting for him. Music is... Eh. The opening is fine and the closing is good but the rest of the OST is forgettable af. |
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| I enjoyed it a bit more than arise. Having some of the original staff and cast back (especially kamiyama) made it feel more authentic and funnier. The main plot is weak and some episodes like the one with the guy in the glass cage were just terrible . The visuals are like reverse polygon pictures and by that I mean that animation is decent but the characters look like garbage. The 2d drawings were OK, better looking than arise so that's probably an issue with translating those designs to 3d. Some of the background work is nice. The music has a blade runner vibe, does its job but it's nothing memorable like the kawai or the kanno scores of past entries. |
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| It's poor, like very poor. Arise levels of poor. Netflix should stay clear of the Ghost in the Shell franchise, please, but we know that's not going to happen. The opening song is the most memorable part, not for good reasons too, it's one of the worst opening songs I've ever heard. The only other memorable parts were the product placement for Budweiser and Sony Walkman.. |
| It was simply trash, biggest garbage I've seen in my life, and not primarily because of the cg. |
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Catalano said: It was simply trash, biggest garbage I've seen in my life, and not primarily because of the cg. Well, I mean you have only seen 15 anime (accordingly to your list). It was hardly “trash.” If this was the worst anime you’ve ever seen, you are incredibly fortunate because this doesn’t hold a candle to something like Mars of Destruction or Raimuiro Senkitan in regards to dumpster fire quality. I mean shit, have you seen any of the modern day Berserks? Now there is a pile of garbage. |
| To be completely honest, I enjoyed it, but I do have to admit that it doesn’t hold a candle to the original GITS:SAC that aired in the early 2000s. Is it as bad as everyone is making it out to be? No. I think people are egregiously overreacting because of the shit CGI (which I’ll agree sucks...I really wish they wouldn’t have animated it that way). However, I do think the story is interesting and it is pretty much the same Section 9 characters that I remember and love. I did think the plot stumbled a little out of the gate, but it felt like it was really starting to take off when they finally got the gang together and were starting to hunt down the posthumans. I really wish they wouldn’t have broken this up into two halves though. It felt like they were finally starting to get the ball rolling toward the end and now we have to wait until God knows when they decide to release the second half. This should have either been airing episodically or released all at once. I am really not a fan of breaking it up into two halves. |
| Slow start but eventually got interesting. CG haters should avoid it instead of badmouthing. |
| Painfully average, imo. |
| slightly better than arise, far less pretentious than a lot of so called 'deep' anime we've seen lately. It gives off some Standalone Complex vibes, but is nowhere near the quality of the SAC series or the movies. Overall though, I rate it somewhere around 7-8 in terms of personal enjoyment. I liked it. |
| "...our faces marked by toil, by deceptions, by success, by love; our weary eyes looking still, looking always, looking anxiously for something out of life, that while it is expected is already gone – has passed unseen, in a sigh, in a flash – together with the youth, with the strength, with the romance of illusions.” - Joseph Conrad ('Youth') |
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