Science SARU Produces New 'Ghost in the Shell' TV Anime for 2026

ProudElitist said:
@Karkov05 you mean that a manga with social commentary, japanese ideas about fate, provisions about the future that are still relevant to this day, characters that feel multifaceted (particularly the protagonist) I.E. they feel like real breathing people with their own different attitudes on job, with the colleagues, in private life does not surpass an hamfisted Blade Runner remake telling the same exact things Blade Runner already told in 1985 with a protagonist as deep as a shoe and with ridicolous christian overtones added by an hack who wanted to be a priest before turning his shitty hands to anime, overtones not there to begin with? it's really sad to see so much delusion. I tell it as a person who previosly considered the 1995 movie his favourite movie ever...before reading the manga and seeing the richness of the world and characters in their original form Vs. the technical richness of the 1995 movie masquerading a barebone remake of a previous hollywood movie adding nothing to the mix, except what wasn't there to begin with because Masamune Shirow is not a christian and he has never been.

ProudElitist said:
@Karkov05 you mean that a manga with social commentary, japanese ideas about fate, provisions about the future that are still relevant to this day, characters that feel multifaceted (particularly the protagonist) I.E. they feel like real breathing people with their own different attitudes on job, with the colleagues, in private life does not surpass an hamfisted Blade Runner remake telling the same exact things Blade Runner already told in 1985 with a protagonist as deep as a shoe and with ridicolous christian overtones added by an hack who wanted to be a priest before turning his shitty hands to anime, overtones not there to begin with? it's really sad to see so much delusion. I tell it as a person who previosly considered the 1995 movie his favourite movie ever...before reading the manga and seeing the richness of the world and characters in their original form Vs. the technical richness of the 1995 movie masquerading a barebone remake of a previous hollywood movie adding nothing to the mix, except what wasn't there to begin with because Masamune Shirow is not a christian and he has never been.

ProudElitist said:
@Karkov05 yes it's multifaceted in a sense that Motoko is depicted according to three different personas, meaning the one who enjoys her life with the colleagues, the one who on work is an hard-ass woman with whom you don't fuck with and plans her jobs accordingly to what goals she's undertaken and the one in private life who expresses her sexuality freely with both sexes. She's a fully fleshed out persona. In the anime Motoko is a melanchonic Roy Batty wannabe - all that she misses is repeating the dialogue about the tears in rain, really - who spouts the same stuff you can find in Blade Runner about the fact that the androids are too much specialized and too much specialization means death etc. etc. etc. Literally it's copy-pasted-copy-pasted-copy-pasted from Blade Runner, an anime rendition of Blade Runner with the usual Christian barf that Hack Mamoru Oshii wants to throw down your throat (I've seen other works of his like Roh-Jin, Angel's Egg and Patlabor, EVERY SINGLE TIME HE DOES THIS CRAP WHILE THE STORY IN THE BACKGROUND MAKES NO SENSE NOR IT IS WELL WRITTEN WHATSOEVER). This is what the 90's anime is, Blade Runner made into an animated form. So genius, so much originality, so great! I'd rather rewatch the original than the animated copy, it makes no sense to spend your time with a carbon-copy when you already have the original american, me thinks.

ProudElitist said:
@Karkov05 in the movie she's not serene, she's moping all the time. The conflict you see in her is the same of Roy Batty, which I guess is the reason behind the success of the movie as it is a remake of a well-known western movie with simbology westerners know as intended by westerners (and with that I mean it to differentiate it from something like, for example, the use of crosses in tokusatsus, which are not used in a christian sense outside the specifics of Ultraman and Ultraseven) because Oshii wanted to be a christian priest and so it's digestible for westerners, whereas the manga particularly towards the end is rooted in shinto stuff about cosmology and fate etc. etc. etc. etc. My personal take is that the best animated version is the first GITS SAC season, not as deep - and I don't mean serious, you don't need to be serious all the time to be deep - as the manga but good nonetheless. The original GITS is the only manga I've ever read that I consider superior to any animated product they made out of it, I generally prefer animes over mangas. The original GITS is the only exception.

ProudElitist said:
@Karkov05 you're making the anime more than it actually is. Oshii is not as deep or profound as you make him out to be. I mean, he friggin' made a movie out of red hiding hood pretending he was doing some sci-fi political crap when it's just a retelling of red hiding hood with people wearing sci-fi armours and getting lost in a sewer (?). Angel's egg? pure nonsensical masturbation with no story, no characters, nothing worth of mentioning or remembering. The guy is not a philosopher nor anything, he's a just a person who wanted to be a priest in his youth and then decided otherwise, nothing particularly deep or profound if you ask me.