I have ID 1-3, never got 4 as the focus on CG rendered video game stuff didn't interest as much. Would have loved to collect the Exon Depots but that was just too difficult, though some seem to be in the Pieces books so I might get them that way. There is just precious little about all this stuff in english (probably due to the nature of it, I guess) so it's hard to really grok what is even available. Is there still a big Shirow footprint in Japan, was there ever?
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Ghost in the Shell getting a direct anime adaptation of Masamune Shirow's original manga
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killatopak
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Was just listening to SAC ost and saw this thread. Will definitely check this out.
Sokka
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Tourika (?) music piece part of that OST is sooo good.
_Idea_of_Evil_
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Hopefully this is well-executed. The tone of the manga is very different than the first two movies. Curious how they're going to approach a direct adaptation.
s_mirage
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Does it have the lesbian scene in it (pages 53 and 54, perhaps)? If yes then it's uncensored.
AFAIK the Japanese version wasn't ever censored, which is another reason that I call bullshit on Kodansha's claim that the recent English editions were censored at Shirow's behest.
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Porcile
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I had a look and yeah it's included. So only 1.5 and 2 have censored stuff in Japan. I had a look to see what got cut and it doesn't seem worth dropping a lot of money for the fully uncensored box set. Shirow is an odd guy lol.
So I got a Solid Box from ebay japan for about $250. The hardback GitS and MMI are nice, proper Japanese and both the uncensored versions. Full size as well, like my OG Dark Horse GitS paperback versus the newer 1.0, 1.5, and 2.0 set that's more of a pocket size. Also has some art pages and a poster. There there is a nice grapefruit size plastic Fuchikoma model. But for some reason it's mostly clear plastic to represent the cloaked ability, which makes it kinda lame for display. Also has a little inch long silver model.
Anyway, pretty cool for reference and seeing the artwork, though I don't read (or speak) Japanese so it's mostly for show.
I also started getting the Pieces hardback art books. Those are really well done but wooooow, #3 on is pretty hard core hentai, much more than the exon depot panels they were expanded from. Still very cool, but definitely not for kids. Still, it's nice to have his stuff in a good format, plus the books came with some inserts and partial sleeves which seems like a Japan thing and are an interesting presentation. I plan on finishing up the Pieces run (9 volumes in total i think) the get the 3 Pieces Gem books. That should do it, I think, unless I try for the wierder stuff like the Wet Cat books or whatever they were called. I figure in a few years I can use vr glasses to translate the Japanese on the fly and read the books as if they were in english.
Anyway, pretty cool for reference and seeing the artwork, though I don't read (or speak) Japanese so it's mostly for show.
I also started getting the Pieces hardback art books. Those are really well done but wooooow, #3 on is pretty hard core hentai, much more than the exon depot panels they were expanded from. Still very cool, but definitely not for kids. Still, it's nice to have his stuff in a good format, plus the books came with some inserts and partial sleeves which seems like a Japan thing and are an interesting presentation. I plan on finishing up the Pieces run (9 volumes in total i think) the get the 3 Pieces Gem books. That should do it, I think, unless I try for the wierder stuff like the Wet Cat books or whatever they were called. I figure in a few years I can use vr glasses to translate the Japanese on the fly and read the books as if they were in english.
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