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Koukaku Kidoutai
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Armitage III
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Armitage came out around the same time as GITS and was therefor completely overshadowed by GITS' huge success. Both series have stacked intelligent heroins that excel in combat and who are members of a policing force and both have strong muscle bound male leads that play the important balancing role. Both fall into the "Cyber Punk" genre and both ask many of the same questions regarding the questions of what makes us human and the very definition of life.
However, One key difference is in how they approach these same philosophical questions. While GITS uses Motoko (a cyborg) to search for
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Recommended by 8GaugeBrett
Both are a philosophical experiment of the mind-body problem, through cybernetics, robotics and psychology, though they are two different model (different, but not opposite). Both are settled in a very detailed political, economical, social... spheres mixed into a very realistic fictionnal reality. Both are very mature, and require more attention than other anime like any pieces of art you stare at. If you like mature and psychological anime, GITS and Armitage are timeless one of the greats... ...kupo.
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Philosophical animes about robots/cyborgs that have a strong female lead.
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