1/19/2023 0 Comments Ghost in the shell![]() ![]() While I'm not the biggest fan of this style I think the characters, redesigned by a fantastic Russian artist I've followed for years, look as good as ever. Forgoing traditional animation for the CG Netflix original anime favor, the first hurdle to getting into the series is how it looks. For a fan of "Blade Runner" or "Westworld" it offers a lot - and all wrapped in a military shell. It tackles deep philosophical questions of near science-fiction and cyberpunk like what a human is, the ethical implications of basically turning your memory into code, whether robots have a soul, and what it means to be sentient. It's one of the few anime I can easily suggest to a non-anime fan because it doesn't fall into the pitfalls of the medium and maintains a very serious, adult, and thoughtful tone throughout (for the most part). It's one of the first "adult" anime I can remember watching as a young child who did not understand a thing he was watching. So a return to what made the series great was what fans really wanted. Since then we've had a middling reinvention in "Ghost in the Shell: Arise" and the much-panned and pretty awful Hollywood version of the original film. "SAC: 2045" is the third season of Stand Alone Complex, coming out nearly 15 years after the second. Through multiple movies, TV series, and specials, the team has taken on dozens of threats from super hackers to refugee crises and continued war-mongering and espionage from the American Empire - all within a post World War universe where cybernetics have become prevalent, the Net is everywhere, and the world is recovering from widespread violence. It follows Motoko Kusanagi and other members of Section 9, a Japanese special ops group focused entirely on crimes related to cybernetics and the Net. I've gone on record multiple times saying "Ghost in the Shell" is one of my favorite films of all time and "Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex" one of my favorite anime series. ![]()
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