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| Nice Catcher In The Rye reference. I'm starting to like this series. A possible score of 10 |
| The ending kind of scared me, with Laughing Man coming out all out of sudden on this drawing (with only his motto being a very short teaser of what is to come). Great episode. |
| Man that rehab center basically use the patient as force labour to buff network security, talk about slavery. This episode makes me realise that Togusa has his brain cybernized but his body is in fact flesh and bones. That explains his memory or facial depiction for Aoi a.k.a. The Laughing Man is wiped clean. |
| Started interesting and ended with a good suspicious thing, seems like this chief Aoi can actually be the Laughing man. Great Episode. |
| Creepy episode with all these kids there... So was that guy in the wheelchair the laughing man? I thougth he might be him when he talked to that other kid that he has to go... but it's not completely certain yet, maybe he's just a impostor who uses his symbol. Such an interesting series :3 |
| Hi, first time poster. Just started binge watching GITS. But this ep pretty much confirms to me that maybe having a cyber-brain or being accessible to computer input ain't the smartest thing humanity has come up with. Yeah, hacking your brain, changing your memories, screwing with reality...give me old fashioned chemical inducements, like whiskey and LSD. :D Cheers to all. |
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| I love how this world can so seamlessly mess with reality. Rewatching and still love it. I applaud this episode for putting a smirk on my face. |
| What a bizarre episode.. It's all, really weird Especially Togusa's injury.. His head seems okay for someone got hit by blunt object until bleed Also, the head woman.. She just disappear |
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| Hmmm, i like the fact that Togasa might have just met the laughingman. But im sure that wasnt him. Overall, great episode. The whole austism angle was pretty original, yet sad too. Great episode! (Hoping all the best for the kids). |
| Yo, this episode was REALLY good. I already can't wait to watch this series again after I finish it. |
Ray_Light said: What a bizarre episode.. It's all, really weird Especially Togusa's injury.. His head seems okay for someone got hit by blunt object until bleed Also, the head woman.. She just disappear Plus the giant cyborg he shot turned into a statue, and that profile he thought he sketched turned into the Laughing Man logo. All of which hint that much of what Togusa saw and experienced in there got hacked. |
| Major wearing jeans :3 hawt. |
"At some point, I stopped hoping." |
tabernac said: Hi, first time poster. Just started binge watching GITS. But this ep pretty much confirms to me that maybe having a cyber-brain or being accessible to computer input ain't the smartest thing humanity has come up with. Yeah, hacking your brain, changing your memories, screwing with reality...give me old fashioned chemical inducements, like whiskey and LSD. :D Cheers to all. This series shows the cons of having cyber augmentation. To be fair, we as responsible human beings, should always be cautious about what to inject into our bodies. Thousands of years of evolution made us who we are, so changing human nature shouldn't be trivially done. Each augmentation can improve our lives or worsen it. |
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| Crazy good episode. Interesting to see how the Laughing Man was incorporated into it through Aoi. Possibly the Laughing Man was part of the institution hence the writing on his symbol about being one of the deaf-mutes like the autistic kids at the center? Seems like Aoi himself was an illusion created by hacking into all of the people's minds, which the Laughing Man made sure to clear out at the end. Intrigued to see where this is going. |
Though we are parted, If on Mount Inaba's peak I should hear the sound Of the pine trees growing there, I'll come back again to you. |
| Definitely must watch this episode again after I've finished the series. |
One Piece episode 914 & 915 & 1027 were a mistake and 957 brought the salvation - FMmatron |
vitaminB said: Did I miss something or since when Batou smokes Didn't he smoke cigar in one of the movies as well (possible innocence)? can't remember, been a long time. |
| "...our faces marked by toil, by deceptions, by success, by love; our weary eyes looking still, looking always, looking anxiously for something out of life, that while it is expected is already gone – has passed unseen, in a sigh, in a flash – together with the youth, with the strength, with the romance of illusions.” - Joseph Conrad ('Youth') |
| Strangest episode yet. |
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| Another shit episode comparable to some half baked American police drama. It takes a lot of balls to weave philosophy into a scifi anime in an attempt to picture what the world could look like in the future but its not believable at all. This anime is continually failing at what it is trying to do resulting in just plain mediocrity. Hint. The world is going to look nothing like this in the future. |
| Ah, a nice mindfuck to start off the day |
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| I think the boy was indeed The Laughing Man. But I don't think it was him per se, but that the boy was an avatar of The Laughing Man. I have a theory that The Laughing Man doesn't have a physical body, but manifests using the bodies of others or even creating illusory people (like the boy or the cyborg who was actually a sculpture). One could say that he "manipulates" or " shapes" reality as he pleases, at least the reality perceived by people with cyberbrains, as if he were the artist painting on a canvas. By the way, has anyone else noticed that the kid who compliments Togusa when he first asks "who's the leader?" is the same as the guy with the kid's voice in the virtual chat in episode 9? |
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