The Ghost in the Shell
| How about Ghost in the Shell's board where this same question has been asked dozens of times. |
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| Just make sure you watch the original movie before Standalone Complex if you ask me, it lays the framework and is just really influential. It might be hard to watch it after the TV series and you don't want that. |
| The OVAs, movies, and TV series are all of their own continuity (barring the Solid State Society move, which goes with the TV series) so any where's fine. I'd recommend the 1st movie personally as a starting point. The 2nd movie sucks so don't worry about that one. boredxxx said: Wow theres gits 2.0 and gits 2. What idiot was in charge of making these names. Thankyou for the link is is very useful. 2.0 is just a remake of the 1st one (or so I've heard, never actually watched it). Ghost in the Shell 2 is the sequel I just brought up as not being good. |
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boredxxx said: Idk I heard it has a lot of CGI if you're into that.So since I dont like old animation should I watch the remaster then 2? |
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Are you sure you want to tho? The pretentiousness and techno-babble are strong in this one... |
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| Ghost in the Shell has 2 Ghost in the Shell movies(one of them has a remastered version called 2.0) and then it has the Ghost In the Shell SAC series and a movie that comes after that called Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - Solid State Society. The Stand Alone Complex stuff have no story relation with the 2 movies i first mentioned. Still have same characters etc but follow different storyline etc. They are like an alternative universe. You can say the TV series is a little closer to the manga than the movies. Anyway. I suggest you check the SAC series first(for it's date it still looks quite good) because it's a little less convoluted and for a new guy in the franchise it will be easier to start getting into from there. Then you can check the movies and you can choose if want to see the 1995 movie or 2.0 remaster. It's the same movie really. There isn't any major difference or anything just a little polishing and a few CGI scenes but don't imagine anything much so you are probably better watching the newer version if you like watching something as newer as possible. After that come the second movie called Innocence(i have to admit as a fan of the franchise this wasn't so great). Now besides all that there is also Ghost in the Shell:ARISE that was done recently which is 4 OVA movies of 1 hour. This is also independent from the other 2 and it will also get a TV series in April. Many feel it ain't as good though. Other than that there is also a new Ghost in the Shell movie made this year. http://myanimelist.net/anime/27411/Ghost_in_the_Shell_%282015%29 We don't know if it's a continuation of the first two movies or a new start or even connected to SAC. We still have to wait and see. All we have is a small trailer. Last we have Hollywood(Dreamworlks) making an adaptation and they already chose Scarlet Johanson for the main role. Let's see how this will go. |
MonadFeb 1, 2015 7:25 AM
boredxxx said: Monad said: Ghost in the Shell has 2 Ghost in the Shell movies(one of them has a remastered version called 2.0) and then it has the Ghost In the Shell SAC series and a movie that comes after that called Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - Solid State Society. The Stand Alone Complex stuff have no story relation with the 2 movies i first mentioned. Still have same characters etc but follow different storyline etc. They are like an alternative universe. You can say the TV series is a little closer to the manga than the movies. Anyway. I suggest you check the SAC series first(for it's date it still looks quite good) because it's a little less convoluted and for a new guy in the franchise it will be easier to start getting into from there. Then you can check the movies and you can choose if want to see the 1995 movie or 2.0 remaster. It's the same movie really. There isn't any major difference or anything just a little polishing and a few CGI scenes but don't imagine anything much so you are probably better watching the newer version if you like watching something as newer as possible. After that come the second movie called Innocence(i have to admit as a fan of the franchise this wasn't so great). Now besides all that there is also Ghost in the Shell:ARISE that was done recently which is 4 OVA movies of 1 hour. This is also independent from the other 2 and it will also get a TV series in April. Many feel it ain't as good though. Other than that there is also a new Ghost in the Shell movie made this year. http://myanimelist.net/anime/27411/Ghost_in_the_Shell_%282015%29 We don't know if it's a continuation of the first two movies or a new start or even connected to SAC. We still have to wait and see. All we have is a small trailer. Last we have Hollywood(Dreamworlds) making an adaptation and they already chose Scarlet Johanson for the main role. Let's see how this will go. SO all the stuff after the movies are alternate timelines? From the manga to TV series, to movies etc everything is in a slightly different universe. In term of animation until now we have three different universes as you might say. One universe is the universe created by the first movie and animation made(that doesn't make it more original or anything, actually SAC is closer to the manga but it was the first big hit) that in viewing order includes this: http://myanimelist.net/anime/43/Ghost_in_the_Shell http://myanimelist.net/anime/4672/Ghost_in_the_Shell_2.0(The same movie as the above 1995 movie really just remastered and with a few new Graphics) http://myanimelist.net/anime/468/Ghost_in_the_Shell_2:_Innocence Another universe is the Stand Alone Complex universe which in viewing order includes this: http://myanimelist.net/anime/467/Ghost_in_the_Shell:_Stand_Alone_Complex http://myanimelist.net/anime/1335/Ghost_in_the_Shell:_Stand_Alone_Complex_-_Tachikoma_na_Hibi http://myanimelist.net/anime/2449/Ghost_in_the_Shell:_Stand_Alone_Complex_-_The_Laughing_Man(a movie summary of the first season) http://myanimelist.net/anime/801/Ghost_in_the_Shell:_Stand_Alone_Complex_2nd_GIG http://myanimelist.net/anime/3485/Ghost_in_the_Shell:_Stand_Alone_Complex_2nd_GIG_-_Tachikoma_na_Hibi http://myanimelist.net/anime/2448/Ghost_in_the_Shell:_Stand_Alone_Complex_2nd_GIG_-_Individual_Eleven(A movie summary of the second season) http://myanimelist.net/anime/1566/Ghost_in_the_Shell:_Stand_Alone_Complex_-_Solid_State_Society Last we have the ARISE universe that was recently made and in viewing order includes this: http://myanimelist.net/anime/17187/Ghost_in_the_Shell:_Arise_-_Border:1_Ghost_Pain http://myanimelist.net/anime/19191/Ghost_in_the_Shell:_Arise_-_Border:2_Ghost_Whispers http://myanimelist.net/anime/19193/Ghost_in_the_Shell:_Arise_-_Border:3_Ghost_Tears http://myanimelist.net/anime/19195/Ghost_in_the_Shell:_Arise_-_Border:4_Ghost_Stands_Alone http://myanimelist.net/anime/21575/Ghost_in_the_Shell:_Arise_-_Logicoma_Specials http://myanimelist.net/anime/29325/Ghost_in_the_Shell:_Arise_%28TV%29(This is a TV series that will start in April so we don't know exactly what it will be but we assume that is probably a continuation of the first 4 Arise movies) LAST! We have this: http://myanimelist.net/anime/27411/Ghost_in_the_Shell_%282015%29 We have no idea whether this movie is gonna be a new universe or is based on some existing universe yet. We are still waiting for more news. |
MonadFeb 1, 2015 8:06 AM
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