Story: The story of GitS 2 doesn't depend on the first movie as much, as you might think considering it's something like a sequel. After the Major vanished, Batou and Togusa, are investigating a series of murders commited by Androids that kill their owners, before comitting suicide. The story is just as complex as the one of it's prequel, but a bit better to understand.
8/10
Characters: The characters are pretty much the same as in the first movie with the sad exception of the Major. It is not much to say since we simply dive a bit deeper into those we already know.
8/10
Visuals: The visuals of the 2nd GitS movie are outstanding for it's age. Another great work by Production I.G. at this point. The Animations are always fluent. It does use a whole lot of CGI, does this in such a good way, that I wouldn't have expected by something that got released in 2004 (if you consider that the dragon from Fate/Stay Night got released in 2006...what a shame). The backgrounds look gorgeous too and the character design isn't bad.
9/10
Sound: The Soundtrack at this point was composed by Kawai Kenji, who we know from such titles as Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni and Fate/Stay Night. The music always fits the scenes, and has some parts that are really good. But in total nothing too memorable. I didn't watch the sub, which I don't like to comment on normally. I actually watched the dub of this and have to say, that it is surprisingly good in my opinion. With the best performance having Richard Epcar as Batou.
Enjoyment: In total, GitS2:Innocence has a pretty good mistery story about characters we all learned to love. If we include the art to this one it really does become quite a good movie and is of course really enjoyable.
8/10
