An extensive overview into the media associated with the anime. A great map for those just entering the series.
SHELLZINE article: https://shellzine.net/ghost-in-the-shell-series-watch-orders/
Yesterday I went to the theater to watch the premiere of the first two episodes of the new Ghost in the Shell anime series.
Overall, I had a great time.
It's vibrant, stylish, and just the right amount of weird very much in the spirit of the original manga.
Unlike previous adaptations, this one stays remarkably faithful to both the manga's visual style and several of its individual scenes, while still making its own changes.
I'm really looking forward to the rest of the series!
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The rumors of the op being sung by King Gnu are true, we are in for a treat!
original leak: Ghost in the Shell 2026 OPENING - YouTube
What are the odds we get a blu ray release? I know Amazon is streaming it so it'll at least be a year before something like that is allowed. But do we have any precedence for Amazon distributed anime getting a physical release?
Fuchikoma doing a hero landing pose is the funniest thing!
How come no one thought about making an AI powered pet/ companion out of them yet!?
https://www.theghostintheshell-anime.jp/en/character/fuchikoma/
So I recently re-read the manga, and after those comments by the creators, at the Annecy Film Fest about how Motoko will be wearing 48 outfits across the season, I got curious how many different outfits Motoko is actually wearing in the manga.
So after reading, I decided to skim through the manga again, to take a look at how many outfits she's actually wearing in the manga, in order of appearance, and including slight variations, omake sections (like the one where Motoko is wearing a sweater and scarf), chapter cover art and even going as far as to include her being shown as just a cyber brain or having a new body all together, those combined only count up to 31 different looks.
And including the promotional artwork where Motoko sports a chromatic outfit inspired by Hajime Sorayama's art, we'd only be up to 32 different outfits.
So it'll be interesting to see what those other 16 outfits (and in case I missed something while skimming through the manga, it certainly couldn't have been that many to go all the way up to 48) will be, and how they're implemented. Perhaps the opening and ending animations and eyecatchers will include some other outfits, that're either originals like that one promotional artwork, or based on Shirow's other artworks, from his artbooks or that used to be covers of old multi volume releases of the manga.
In the episode "POKER FACE", the Union Jack can be seen on Pickle's uniform in a few different shots-- the most obvious being this one where it's front and center of the shot. You may notice that the flag lacks any white colors. Back when I first watched this episode, I found that to be a curiosity, perhaps even an animation error, but then I noticed that it is consistent across that whole segment.
Now, jump back to "ANGEL'S SHARE" from the first season, and the episode has numerous United Kingdom flags flying at the start of the episode, completely unchanged from real life.
Now, regardless of whether it actually is an animation error from a lazy animator for that whole sequence, or an intentional detail, I believe that the final result implies that the country of Scotland seceded from the United Kingdom at some point before 2019, but would later join back up again by the year 2029.
The weapons in Ghost in the Shell seem well documented but I'm struggling to find an exact match for this pistol, I'm trying to model it in fusion before my education licence runs out :,o