Ghost in the Shell

Public Security Section 9 In all honesty, I don't have a ton to say about the series, and I don't have many screenshots either, but here are some assorted thoughts on the series: Like the first 1st Gig, this series touches on many of the same existential issues as the films, but in a less direc...

Grave of the Fireflies offers a different perspective on war and a represents a genre of anime that deals in a serious manner with tragic world events. 7. Ghost in the Shell- This cyberpunk, sci-fi police thriller features a cyborg that searches for a ...

By Ard Vijn I dunno, I’d just been meaning to write something about it lately, and you guys do profess to like Masaaki Yuasa. It’s an extraordinary animated series. “Kemonozume” was a disappointment, to a degree - why the ero episode? Why?  - but this was just pure magic from start to finish, and pretty m...

By Todd Brown Yes, the concept will seem quite familiar to anyone who is a fan of either Ghost In The Shell or Tetsuo: The Iron Man - both of which seem to be obvious visual touchpoints - but something being a bit familiar doesn’t mean it can’t also be good.  Such is the case with Matthew Santoro’s Offline, a c...

If you're even a casual anime fan, then you're more than familiar with the classic Ghost in the Shell. And if you're familiar with Ghost in the Shell, you recognized a Tachikoma when you see one. But one that you can ride in? That's something new. ...

 UK There's the option here to watch a variety of genres like Malaysian zombie comedy, Zombies From Banana Village, to Ghost In The Shell 2.0, a manga sci-fi classic. Ghost In The Shell 2.0 is not a remake and not to be confused with the sequel Ghost In ...

Studios have not yet cracked the code for marketing anime to mainstream audiences. That may change when Steven Spielberg finishes his 3-D remake of the futuristic thriller "Ghost in the Shell." Harrison figures it's only a matter of time before anime ...

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 MA questions about the morality of creating artificial life, and coupled with the heavy focus on networked virtual worlds, it ends up feeling something like a live-action cross between the anime series Serial Experiments Lain and Ghost in the Shell. ...

 Canada I actually think that, as an industry, anime is doing a better job of giving a fair shake to things that never really got off the ground these days. Ghost in the Shell 's TV shows turned out a lot better than the (original) movie (I haven't seen the ...

By Todd Brown After achieving huge international acclaim as the director of Ghost In The Shell: Stand Alone Complex, Kenji Kamiyama evidently felt the need to step out from the shadow of Mamoru Oshii and Shirow Masamune and so has struck out to do something unrelated to the cyber-punk epic.  We first he...

 CT He traces the early history of the cyborg through to modern conceptions in Haraway’s work and elsewhere, then examines the idea in the Ghost in the Shell mythos, particularly Kenji Kamiyama’s 2002-2003 TV series Kōkaku Kidōtai Sutando Arōn Konpurekkusu ...

To extend Schneier's critique, it's hard to find a cyberwar thinker who isn't a fan of classic cyberpunk science fiction like Neuromancer or Ghost in the Shell. One might even go as far to claim that Ghost in the Shell's philosophizing cyborg ...

 Canada that have achieved cult status around the world, with their fusion of jazz, hard rock, blues, hip hop, and ambient techno, devised for such anime films and television shows as Cowboy Bebop (1998) and Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex (2002). ...

 Canada I've always been a big Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex fan (the movies, not so much), and while I have about a dozen tiny Tachikoma gashapon running around my office, I don't have a big one. Now, Japan makes plenty of expensive Tachikoma ...

 South Africa - The nineties saw the release of some great anime titles, the most significant of which, Ghost in the Shell, hugely influenced The Matrix. Ghost in the Shell ...

 Canada - He watched Japanese animation (manga) like Ninja Scroll, Akira and Ghost in the Shell. Films and comics have helped him develop the ability to see where the ...

 - Dec 7, 2008 The film's director Mamoru Oshii gained a following in the American anime community with the sci fi Ghost in the Shell and its sequel Ghost in the Shell 2: ...

press release) LE CHEVALIER D’EON THE COMPLETE SERIES (ADVANCE REVIEW) press release) - Dec 1, 2008 The animation production is done by the same talented cats who did Ghost in the Shell SAC so Chevalier kicks serious visual imagery. ...

By Jeff Ritter A strong anime that's not too complex for American audiences.

 CA - Nov 17, 2008 Mary Elizabeth McGlynn (who has done tons of work in the anime dub biz, most notably as Motoko Kusanagi in the Ghost in the Shell series) does great voice ...

By Chris Beveridge Ghost in the Shell: SAC Season 1: I find it very hard to find anything negative to say about Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex. Everything from the storytelling to the presentation is about as good as it gets. ...

Making an early announcement to retailers, Bandai Visual has set an early-January Blu-ray date for 'Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence.' A follow-up to the seminal anime 'Ghost in the Shell,' the sequel will...

 CA - Nov 7, 2008 A follow-up to the seminal anime 'Ghost in the Shell,' the sequel will receive its high-def premiere on January 13. (Bandai previously released a DVD ...

By Speedy Boris A number of new titles have been announced for January '09 releases from Bandai Entertainment: Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence: 1/13/09 - $19.98/$29.98 (limited edition) Gundam SEED Destiny Collection 1 (Anime Legends): 1/13/09 - $49.98

This week’s ‘Ghost in the Shell’: What’s inside the Shell? is very short and covers the scene occuring directly after the last scene we critqued which was the scene involving the Puppet Master and Its attempt to define itself, at least if we read between the lines it was practically beggin...

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Writer-director Mamoru Oshii's animated thriller concocts a complex follow-up to his monster hit, Ghost in the Shell. It's now 2032, and machines and people have grown so similar they're virtually interchangeable. The fate of the human race hangs in the balance, and a robot with human te...

By Todd Brown Very good news here for fans of Mamoru Oshii and Ghost in the Shell.  There was speculation early on that the upcoming Japanese DVD and BluRay releases of the re-animated version of the cyberpunk classic would include English subtitles but at the time we were told, no, the English referred...

This week’s ‘Ghost in the Shell’: What’s inside the Shell critiques one of my favourite scenes from the film. This week we going diving with Kusanagi both in the computerised sense as well as to the bottom of the sea. The scene is a perfect scene and is a representation of the heights that can b...

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Review: 'Wario Land: Shake It!' subscription), TX - Oct 23, 2008 It’sa 2-D platformer with a critically acclaimed pedigree and gorgeous hand-drawn sprites from animation company Production IG of “Ghost in the Shell” and ...

OVERVIEW The creative team of Ghost in the Shell , Innocence and The Sky Crawlers resurrects the legendary swordsman, Miyamoto Musashi on the big screen!

Just when you thought there was never enough Samurai animations in the world Ghost in the Shell’s lord and master Mamoru Oshii is developing a animated samurai film for Japanese animation powerhouse Production I.G. ...

By ncsx «©NCSX» The Tachikoma of Ghost in the Shell were once fearsome machines with squeaky voices. They were well-armed, fast, and scrabbled quickly to points of conflict like war machines are apt to do. That was then. Preorders for the Tachikoma Trading Figures Vol 3 will ship in August 2008 at JP...

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By ncsx «©NCSX» Wave rolls onwards with their popular W.H.A.M. (Wave High Advance Model) series of toys with a new Tachikoma variant. There’s been six other Tachikoma W.H.A.M. toys released to market already and the upcoming version is dubbed the “Solid State Society Version” which is packaged with a tr...

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A Tachikoma (タチコマ) is a fictional AI walker/roller tankette in the Ghost in the Shell universe, appearing only in the Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex sub-universe. They are best described as a “spider type multi leg combat vehicle equipped with artificial intelligence”. Now, thi...

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By Alex Billington I'm a huge fan of the two Ghost in the Shell anime movies and am incredibly excited to see this finally come together under Spielberg's discretion. It looks like the new trend in Hollywood definitely is adapting anime and it looks like ...

By ncsx «©NCS» The default color of the Tachikoma is blue with white trim. However, in episode 12 of Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, two color variants were shown: a silver-painted Tachikoma which was eventually destroyed and a yellow-painted model which was also wrecked in an all-out a...

By ncsx «©NCS» The default color of the Tachikoma is blue with white trim. However, in episode 12 of Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, two color variants were shown: a silver-painted Tachikoma which was eventually destroyed and a yellow-painted model which was also wrecked in an all-out a...

By truth9 These figures are actually from three different sources, the 1995 Ghost in the Shell movie, the TV series (Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex), and the manga. Anyways, these are Amanda’s Ghost in the Shell gashapon. Major Motoko Kusanagi: Batou Togusa

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By MaoChan If you have no idea what a tachikoma is, they are from Ghost in the Shell best described as a "spider type multi leg combat vehicle equipped with artificial intelligence". As you all know, Ghost in the Shell is an amazing movie/anime. I use the term movie since the film version by Mamoru Oshii i...

After two successful TV seasons and a pair of theatrically releasedfilms, Ghost in the Shell returns with a straight-to-video movie: Ghost in the Shell:  Solid State Society.  In the US,direct video releases are often horrible, movies that weren't goo...

I’ve always believed that Ghost in the Shell’s best incarnation—outside of Masamune Shirow's original manga—was the TV version: Stand Alone Complex. It stayed true to the cyber thriller/police procedural-style manga without falling into the somewhat boring, brooding style of Mamo...

Fantasia info page here.] Ghost in the Shell fans, rejoice for there is yet another worthwhile addition to the canon about to arrive on these shores. Following two hugely successful seasons of GitS television series Stand Alone Complex, a show...

Hardcore fans of Japanese anime are revelling in the release of the new DVD, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex: Solid State Society. Hardcore fans of Japanese anime are revelling in the release of the new DVD, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex: Solid State Society.

High-concept anime is a tricky proposition, but the new "Ghost in the Shell" feature pulls it off without a hitch.

Animation super-house Production I.G. announced today the new project by animation director Mamoru Oshii, who brought us such animation staples as the Patlabor and Ghost in the Shell movies. Oshii will be adapting the five-volume novel series The Sky Crawlers...

I don't watch too much anime but I do enjoy 攻殻機動隊, the Ghost in the Shell series as well as the recent Appleseed (2004) movie. Now Jean Snow tells us that the next "Appleseed Saga Ex Machina" is scheduled for later this year. I cannot wait! Comment - TrackBack

With Karas, Noein, and Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex 2nd GIG taking up the lion's share of Manga Entertainment's promotion lately, some series get lost in the mix. Which is a damn shame, as Tactics is quite the little gem.

Masamune Shirow's Ghost in the Shell, an anime and series of movies set in a dystopian future, has long been renowned for having some of the best and most through anime industrial design in the genre. Everything from guns to cars and parking meters to telephones have been well-rendered and...

Firstly, Production I.G and Masamune Shirow's earlier partnership spawned one of the classic anime films, namely 'Ghost in the Shell' of course, and now they re-team for an adaptation of Shirow's manga 'Ghost Hound'; which actually begins its manga serialisation...

By Sterfish Musician Tsuneo Imahori composed 18 of the 20 songs on The First Donuts. Imahori is no stranger to anime music. He has served as guitarist on several soundtracks by Yoko Kanno including those for Cowboy Bebop, Arjuna, Wolf's Rain, and Ghost In The Shell: Stand Alone Complex. As far as I know, h...