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Ghost in the Shell Arise announced - Details updated in OP

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Dina

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Tacitus_ said:
This iteration is so bland and it has nothing to do with wearing pants. Check this out:
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To be fair, SAC's Kusanagi is as much as far cry from Shirow's work as is Arise's Kusanagi (although SAC's Togusa and Batou look more alike). And I immensely enjoyed SAC after I got used to the artstyle.
 
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Tacitus_

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Dina said:
To be fair, SAC's Kusanagi is as much as far cry from Shirow's work as is Arise's Kusanagi (although SAC's Togusa and Batou look more alike). And I immensely enjoyed SAC after I got used to the artstyle.
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True enough, but the Arise look just looks... bad. It's hard to put it in words. This kinda looks like the cyborg from Psycho Pass, but that was completely intentional to look off-putting, while in GitS the cyborgs are supposed to be completely lifelike.
 
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Professor Renegade

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XANDER CAGE said:
Wearing pants is bland now?

Considering most of the characters in the show are government, police, or military specialists, I don't see anything particularly "bland" about them. Hell, Ishikawa is even rocking some Tokyo urban ninja shit that's popular right now, which is sort of funny considering this is supposed to be a prequel. I guess he gets way into early 90s fashion as he ages?

But really, nobody besides Saito, the Major and Aramaki's smooshed face looks that different from their SAC iterations.
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I wasn't referring to the pants, in fact I think that the new outfits look okay. What really got me was the new facial design as well as the eyes and hair (It looks like they just used blue and the paint bucket tool in photoshop), to me it doesn't seem like I'm looking at the Major. Then again, since she's essentially cyborgs I guess they could get a new body whenever she wants.

I'm sure that the story will be on par with the past entries to the series, but I just think that the old character designs are superior.
 
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Dina

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Tacitus_ said:
True enough, but the Arise look just looks... bad. It's hard to put it in words. This kinda looks like the cyborg from Psycho Pass, but that was completely intentional to look off-putting, while in GitS the cyborgs are supposed to be completely lifelike.
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True. I could do with a look more reminiscent of Shirow's work. It worked in Dominion: Tank Police.
 
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speedpop

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Looking forward to it. Feels like it is trying to bridge the artistic gap between Oshii's adaption and Kamiyama's adaption.
 
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duckroll

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Murata probably brought somebody who knows what they're doing with him
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Other than concept art designers it doesn't look to be the case. The color design and composite director are both people who regularly do IG stuff, including Robotics;Notes most recently. Maybe Murata just gives better instructions and isn't influenced by the IG culture of liking everything saturated and dark.
 
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Risette

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duckroll said:
Other than concept art designers it doesn't look to be the case. The color design and composite director are both people who regularly do IG stuff, including Robotics;Notes most recently. Maybe Murata just gives better instructions and isn't influenced by the IG culture of liking everything saturated and dark.
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Maybe. I guess I underestimate the influence a good director can have, and Murata is a pretty good director -- lots of attention to detail (watch the Milos making-of to see him in action)
 
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Village

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From what hear in the trailers the soundtrack will not dissapoint.
If this is English dubbed, or rather when it is, I wonder if they will replace the SAC VA.
 
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duckroll

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whatsinaname said:
Ugh. They are like a goddamned virus.

Edit: Wait, is this an ad created for MS or is this going to be product placement in the series. If it is just the former, I don't really care.
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It's an ad using modified footage from the show. :p

Heads up: Next Friday they're putting the first 8 minutes of Arise up on their Youtube channel, along of the entire SAC 2nd Gig series for free until the end of the month. Probably not in HD though, since they put up the entire SAC series previously and it wasn't HD.
 
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SKINNER!

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whatsinaname said:
Edit: Wait, is this an ad created for MS or is this going to be product placement in the series. If it is just the former, I don't really care.
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One of the trailers did show a Surface device for a few seconds.

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duckroll said:
Heads up: Next Friday they're putting the first 8 minutes of Arise up on their Youtube channel, along of the entire SAC 2nd Gig series for free until the end of the month. Probably not in HD though, since they put up the entire SAC series previously and it wasn't HD.
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yesssss!
 
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whatsinaname

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duckroll said:
It's an ad using modified footage from the show. :p
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I hope that it is limited to that. Otherwise, this will keep popping into my head as I watch the episode.

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shorty_symd said:
One of the trailers did show a Surface device for a few seconds.

yesssss!
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This is going to stick out like a sore thumb. The shots for product placement in any scene are always unnatural. The focus is usually different from the rest of the scene. The timing is different in the shot. I can deal with that shit in Hawaii Five-0 but not here.
 
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Articalys

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Looks like Funimation licensed this for North America, and their release plans are sort of interesting.
FUNimation announced today that it has acquired rights to Ghost in the Shell: Arise. They plan to release a special edition subtitle-only Blu-ray containing the imported Japanese O-card, Blu-ray discs, and film strip along with an English translated art booklet. This special edition will be a limited single run printing of 2,500 units and will be on sale prior to FUNimation's typical English language home video release. FUNimation will also be screening parts 1 & 2 of the OVA series in a limited theatrical run later this year.
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hateradio

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That has to be one of the least interesting anime openings I have ever seen. But overall the clip seemed fine.

Also, I can't believe they still don't bother to deinterlace their video when putting it on YT.
 
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Cwarrior

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So many version of Gits already out there, it's already too confusing and convoluted in which order to watch them in, now there's another one to add the pile.

Speculator said:
First 9min of GITS: Arise
Turn on CC for english subtitles.

Enjoyed the first few minutes of it, but I'll reserve my judgement once it's released in it's entirety.
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Wah? wait I thought this was a new main character judging by the look of the main character in all the poster ads, a slimier blue haired girl in a red suit with far less ass and tits then old one.

I know nothing of gits apart from seeing the old movie but how does a cyborg even age? or grow?

I have to say I like this new design on mokoto much better then the old ridiculous one.
 
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Crazymoogle

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I know nothing of gits apart from seeing the old movie but how does a cyborg even age? or grow?
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It's another reboot.

To strictly answer though...they don't. Partial cyborgs would need part replacement unless it's a part of the body that doesn't change in size. Full cyborgs (presumably like Motoko) do not age. Part of the mystique to her in SAC was that she looked like that by choice; what she really looked like or her real age was either an interesting mystery or utterly irrelevant. She's typically depicted as being on the "edge" between the traditional humanity of her coworkers and the body-freedom of the Puppeteer (Solid State Society) or similar characters.
 
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Router

Hopsiah the Kanga-Jew
People complaining about Microsoft Surface but nobody bats an eye at Batou driving a bloody Nissan Figaro?

I don't care if they are considered classic in the future. That's not how Batou rolls.
 
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Danj

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I forgot about this, what happened with the online game? Read the OP but there didn't seem to be much details about that aspect.
 
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duckroll

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Watched the first episode today. Posted some thoughts on the anime thread, thought I'll post them here too:

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Ghost in the Shell Arise - Border 1: Ghost Pain

Well, that wasn't bad at all. Much better than the trailers let on in fact. The problems which surfaced with the trailers are still there - the character designs are pretty shit, the digital composite style which IG loves to use still makes everything look flat and boring, and recasting the characters, especially Batou, is kinda dumb. But in the end the script turned out to be pretty tight and not randomly dumb. It felt reserved enough and it didn't try to cramp too much crap within a short runtime. The action was pretty well animated too.

As far as an origin story reboot for GitS goes, I'll say this does a decent enough job of not being garbage. Surprisingly enough, that low bar is a pretty high bar in a lot of remakes and reboots these days. Or even other IG shows on average (lol Psycho-Pass). The new style of GitS is definitely modeled after the modern thriller. With self-investigation by the main character, lots of trust/suspicion dynamics with allies and superiors, and more "realistic" sort of mysteries like money laundering and murder, wrapped around the cyberpunk setting of GitS. It think it worked well enough.
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SmarterUnconscious

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I was hoping for another stand alone complex season, but this will have to do I guess.

Not really a fan of origin stories but I'm keeping my hopes up. Thanks for the impressions duck.
 
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I've just seen the first one. I had no idea there was so much extra material. I genuinely thought there was GitS and GitS SAC (being a movie too)

Now I find out there is loads and loads more.
 
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metsallica

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Whoa, what the heck, this is out? I'm completely out of the loop here. Is it just theatrical in Japan at the moment? Any ETA on the blu-ray? Likelihood of English subtitles is nil, right?
 
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