Everyone is telling me I need to watch Ghost in the Shell... but there is a lot of series of it. Do I start with that old film? Are there any that suck that I should miss out? Are some of the series sequels or or interconnected or anything?
There are two movies that are in the same continuity.ProtoChimp said:Everyone is telling me I need to watch Ghost in the Shell... but there is a lot of series of it. Do I start with that old film? Are there any that suck that I should miss out? Are some of the series sequels or or interconnected or anything?
Start with the manga if you can. Then watch the film. Then watch stand alone complex. The sequel to the old movie is...OK, but not great.ProtoChimp said:Everyone is telling me I need to watch Ghost in the Shell... but there is a lot of series of it. Do I start with that old film? Are there any that suck that I should miss out? Are some of the series sequels or or interconnected or anything?
Eh, each to their own I guess, origin and romance story they shoe-horned into one season killed it for me. I mean, plot twist!DoPo said:As for SAC - I liked it. I liked the second season more than the first
mad825 said:Eh, each to their own I guess, origin and romance story they shoe-horned into one season killed it for me. I mean, plot twist!DoPo said:As for SAC - I liked it. I liked the second season more than the firstAfter seeing that coming within 10 miles away I literally took the CD out and snapped it half. After watching SE1, it felt like an insult.Major had a crush on a guy as a kid and so happened to be the guy they were chasing
Yeah...In ep14 when Major gets thrown onto dirty bins then has to change her normal outfit. I found it funny how the group reacted as if the new outfit was more revealing when it wasn't.DoPo said:The season one outfit of the Major constantly bugged me, though. Part of what I liked in 2 was changing it.
As far as I'm concerned you could start and end with original movie, and have a truly great experience. Thr sequel isn't bad, but cannot live up to the first.ProtoChimp said:Everyone is telling me I need to watch Ghost in the Shell... but there is a lot of series of it. Do I start with that old film? Are there any that suck that I should miss out? Are some of the series sequels or or interconnected or anything?
Agreed. I love basically everything about the show except for that god-awful 80s crotch-pad thing she wears. I just can't take it seriously. In my mind it plays out as if she forgot to wear pants one day and no one called her out on it so she just kept forgetting to put them on every morning.mad825 said:Yeah...In ep14 when Major gets thrown onto dirty bins then has to change her normal outfit. I found it funny how the group reacted as if the new outfit was more revealing when it wasn't.DoPo said:The season one outfit of the Major constantly bugged me, though. Part of what I liked in 2 was changing it.
Arise is not a prequal of SAC.Scarim Coral said:I consider these two-
Arise- This somewhat serve as a preclude to Stand Alone Complex since it start on how the Major assemble her team. I suppose this is a good set up but I will warm you be prepared for the heavy terminology used in the series (I was competely lost with the final episode as in what the hell was going on).
Now I said somewhat since while it does act like a preclude to SAC but there are a couple of contridition to SAC (like the Major origin) but it isn't that big of a deal.
Stand Alone Complex and 2nd GIG- It's pretty much the main series since the only other contunity left is the 90's movie and the manga (haven't read). To me this is the best out of the franchise with GIG being my favourite.
I don't know what the fuck they were thinking with that "remaster". Yeah, let's take the biggest reason people adore anime and replace it with fucking CGI. And while we're at it we'll take the blue/green colour scheme that gives the movie its cold and synthetic look and replace it with brown. I'm not even a big fan of this movie and it still pisses me off.Ragsnstitches said:Note, there is a remastered version of the 1st movie with new animations and stuff. It's good quality animation but it's a little annoying since the 1st film looked so good anway and they just ad CG sequences in place of beautiful cell animated scenes. I got both, but there is no difference in the story either way.
Here's an image for the sake of comparison:
Well it happened during a time where CG was super popular (mid 2000's) and classic cell animation was on deaths door. Also I believe they wanted GitS and Innocence to be aesthetically closer (since Innocence looks so drastically different). I think it works in Innocence case since it was made with CG in mind, but it's kind of jarring in GitS.Casual Shinji said:I don't know what the fuck they were thinking with that "remaster". Yeah, let's take the biggest reason people adore anime and replace it with fucking CGI. And while we're at it we'll take the blue/green colour scheme that gives the movie its cold and synthetic look and replace it with brown. I'm not even a big fan of this movie and it still pisses me off.Ragsnstitches said:Note, there is a remastered version of the 1st movie with new animations and stuff. It's good quality animation but it's a little annoying since the 1st film looked so good anway and they just ad CG sequences in place of beautiful cell animated scenes. I got both, but there is no difference in the story either way.
Here's an image for the sake of comparison:
Not on the blu-ray I bought. It just had this crappy version, which I didn't even know existed untill I popped the blu-ray in. So yeah, I was mildly disappointed to say the least.Ragsnstitches said:To be fair, the Remastered version came bundled with the original version so it wasn't like they were trying to pull a Lucas. I think they just wanted to bring the original to a newer generation (it was around the time Stand Alone Complex was airing) and trends were saying CG was needed.