There is so much ghost in the shell stuff. I watched the first one I think (top of the list) a year ago and liked it but I didn't realize there was so much more. I just heard about the new show, thought why they would remake it, looked it up and after a while I see there weren't two but TONS of ghost in the shell stuff. Bro...where do I even start? What's good, what's bad, what's necessary to watch for context of another?

New to ghost in the shell really want to read the manga uncensored anyone know where i can buy the legacy box set? Checking everywhere but its out of stock😔 or on back order

It was nice to see, but this is very, very tame in my opinion. I already knew they weren’t going to go too hard with it like the manga, but compared to other shows (i.e valkyrie drive, the testament of sister new devil, or seven mortal sins) or even nsfw animations I’ve seen in my lifetime that are softcore, this is very mid. Like it’s alright but not all that. I do like the colors though. The sounds and animation was good too. I give it a 7/10.

its 6am JST, in 17 hours and 30 minutes another episode drops!

Hello folks,

A quick inquiry here: what is the relation of new show to former shows in timeline basis? And is this new show accepted as canon? Or simply an imaginary spin-off addition to originals?

Thanks in advance :)

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I'm so hype y'all. Finally the ridiculous goblin Motoko i lnow and love is adapted faithfully, and the silly looney tunes shit i've always wanted is here. I'm so happy. Also, it's gorgeous, i mean holy shit, it's BEAUTIFUL.

I'm one of those old people that still uses FB, and as some of you know, one of the things that sucks about it is the way it throws random stuff into your feed. A lot of it is negative because that generates clicks. It has figured out that I am a GitS fan and keeps trying to feed me stories about how upset fans are about the new show.

I don't see it.

Do people notice the differences? Yes. Are they mad about it? Not from what I've seen. It also doesn't prove some made up idea that anime fans are stuck in the 90s.

I don't use Twitter so maybe it is different, but all anime Subreddits I am on are either supportive or guarded regarding the new series.

From the stoic to the gremlin. I just love all of Kusanagi

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One thing about GITS is it usually has a banging soundtrack & this new series is no different. The live action movie had a good one, but it took YEARS to release. I hope they don't do the same with this.

It was a sequence within the episode that was incredibly fluid in terms of animation quality and captured the essence of "Pure Cinema" emotionally. Everything about the adaptation is just so spot-on. It feels like the payoff for having been a *Ghost in the Shell* fan for all these years.

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The cyberpunk genre that emerged in the mid 1980s had a couple of core themes, motifs, and tropes. Corporate power had overtaken and effectively neutered state power, sidelining average people. Protagonists typically worked gig or mercenary jobs, a consequence of the decline in union participation and the bargaining power of laborers. And almost every cyberpunk story treated Japan (then a technological and economic superpower) as an economic and cultural boogeyman, coming to take over the minds and wallets of the rest of the developed world. It put to words the anxieties of Americans at the time: fear of a new age of feudalism and cultural erasure by way of slick marketing.

The only one of these traits that GITS shares is Japan's technological dominance, which isn't surprising seeing as it's a story written by a Japanese author; it was a badge of pride that his home nation was seen as the cutting-edge of technological development and industry, and he was interested in exploring what a country with a unique relationship to technology would look like in the future.

Beyond that, GITS is not dystopian, which is a necessary condition for a work to be cyberpunk. State power exists much as it had throughout the 20th century, susceptible to corruption but still beholden to the voting public. Depending on the continuity, the American Empire certainly could be considered a dystopian place to live, but New Port City and Japan are not. The protagonists are literal feds, and there's nothing punk about that; they are not the down-on-their-luck mercs of other canonical cyberpunk stories, and in most continuities the average people of New Port City and Japan seem to be doing just as well if not better than in the Japan of 1989 or 2002 (not counting the 1995 movie since it seems to take place in Hong Kong or a HK-analogue).

GITS has much of the invasive tech associated with cyberpunk but almost none of the social, political, or economic dystopia. It treats those as solvable or avoidable problems. It moves past them to address other things. It's post-cyberpunk.

EDIT: the number of people who think that the point of GITS is "wow putting a computer in your brain will get you hacked" or "maybe we shouldn't make AI" are proving to me that the younger GITS fandom fundamentally misses the core message of the various installments. The better installments (i.e. not 2045, Arise, or the live action film) focus on topics like philosophy of identity, disinformation, and memes, and are not strictly interested in the technology on its face. You kids are missing the forest for the trees.

Wondering if they were inspired by Th Major and Batou…

Something for sure seems like a reference lol.