My extrajudicial killing wife and her death squad have returned.Masamune Shirow, the greatest fictional weapons designer alive, returns with 攻殻機動隊 THE GHOST IN THE SHELL.
>>65313605>amagoyzogon prime
>>65313638Jeff Bezos himself drew every frame and voiced every character, very talented man.
>>65313638>fussing over the publisher of digital media They're only buying first broadcast rights and they know it.Someone has to pay for this so that you and I can download it a few hours later from a keyword trigger on an RSS feed to a preferred tracker.
What country is exploding head diplomat man supposed to be from?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxVbIq3HRY4
>>65313601It seems like a real throw back to 80s anime style. Designed to appeal to GenX weebs I guess, probably a fairly big market segment with cash to burn on nostalgia. https://youtu.be/7yE9MHlifmw
>>65313698>on nostalgiaHave you considered that the style is just good and mostly abandoned due to costs instead of finding something better? Do you have a preferred anime style that you think is better?
>>65313698THINGS WILL IN FACT GET BETTER
>>65313698
>>65313762>>65313746>>65313722except the original GitS movie and TV series was a seminal work that advanced art styles in anime and provided the roadmap all the way out to late 2000s.don't get me wrong, 2045 was an abomination and arise already reverted to early 2000s inspired artstyle so this might count as the next step in the meta-narrative, but why the fuck should anyone care about a meta narrative
>>65313638Can't today's kids pirate shit anymore
>>65313722>Have you considered that the style is just good and mostly abandoned due to costs instead of finding something better?Naturally your favourite style is objectively the best, anon.Those kids today don't know good television plays when they see them.
>>65313781>advanced"changed" is the word you are looking for. Whether that is for the better is down to personal taste. The current Ghost in the Shell anime is GitS as it was originally intended and it looks beautiful. >>65313830>Naturally your favourite style is objectively the best, anon.I like a variety of animation styles. New art styles can be great but you are a fool if you think cost saving isn't a major factor in why the in vogue style changed. >Those kids today don't know good television plays when they see them.Bet you a ton of people going gaga over the current GitS are young. It looks both fresh and beautiful to them.
Think I heard somewhere that this one's supposed to be closer to the mangaNot necessarily a good thing considering the manga story is largely gibberish
>>65313605>not cgi slopa for onceGood
>>65313673the real issue would be how much creative influence they have over the show
>>65313601Is it true they Moefied the major? Kinda disappointing if true.
>>65313605Looks good. I hope it turns out so.
>>65313888She was cute and kind of goofy in the manga.
>>65313856Looking into it, it looks like Shirow got too attached to the movie and that affected his writing. The first manga was fine, but Shirow got too hyped up on wanting to try and shove as many obscure references and philosophies into the sequel that it ended up being sloppy. He was the kind of guy who liked the sequel movie and all of the philosophy quotes it spammed.
>>65313605I do not like how the chief looks. He doesn't look right with non white hair.
a hot anime girl OWES me SEX
>>65313888>>65313898Shes not moefied, she's the spunky trash talker major from the og manga from 1990. She's still strong and smart as hell but her attitude is a lot less brooding and cerebral. Its like the timeline reset and instead of the 1995 movie we get this new take thats more authentic to the source, rather than just taking the characters and themes from.Im honestly excited because im hoping that this can get the hype up to get us some Appleseed and Dominion Tank Police stuff made, not likely but a man can dream.
>>65313781>seminalyea you eat semen with that take faggot
>>65314108I never say the OG animu from the 90s, but the Major's "birth" scene in the first 5 minutes is pure fucking KINO. IDGAF if the art style wasn't exact to the manga, it was heavily inspired by it and had a unique feel all on its own. This new version looks more faithful to the manga, and I'm all for that too.
>>65314025The movie and corresponding manga is as far as the story does make sense
>>65314129>pure fucking KINOI agree×100, the 95 movie and its derivative works really set the bar for cyberpunk anime in the late 90s to early '00s.Also shirows gun designs are peak cyber design, too bad the show wont be able to animate all his little autism notes from the margins.
>>65314171>Cyberpunk F2000SEXO. Keltec better start taking fucking notes lol.
what is sex with the major like?
>>65314343Dunno. I turned her down cause I was like 12 at the time.
>>65314355That was SAC Major, current Major is more of a freak
>>65313605Why is Amazon getting away with blatantly ripping off Cyberpunk 2077?
>>65314433It's an adaptation of a manga from 1989, kind of hard to sell copywrite infringement to a 2020 game in court.
>>65313782Kids today are so fucking retarded they don't even know how to use Word to type a simple homework. Tablets and smartphones have rotten their brains.
>>65314433You need to be at least 18 yrs old to post here.
>>65314343I wouldn't know, I'm not a woman and this is supposed to be based of manga Major who's a lesbo (because Shirow thought drawing a straight sex scene would be gay because that would involve drawing a dick, no I'm not making any of this up)
>>65314433>Underage b&jannies clean it up
>>65314569>>65314813I'm sure they're joking
>>65314578She swings both ways. We see her with a male boyfriend later on.
>>65314433I don't love the color palette but anything to get modern anime to have some contrast. It's been over a decade of blowing out every single color grade it's time to stop.
>>65313856So far it's incredibly faithful, to the point of even emulating Shirow's love of random technical notes in the margins.The first volume, the one actually called 'The Ghost in the Shell' in Japan, is what this show appears to be adapting and it's fine. It's Man-Machine Interface that's batshit and incoherent.
>>65313601I thought we lost him to terminal coombrain. I remember him releasing those badass artbooks, then he got into 3D models, and basically he abandoned all mechanical designs and all he did was porn with eerily shiny women.It might be also due to the artist meta, that coomers are just willing to pay more
>>65314433it's hilarious how people take such obvious jokes seriously
>>65313781>except the original GitS movie and TV series was a seminal work that advanced art styles in anime and provided the roadmap all the way out to late 2000s. No, they weren't.
>>65314578Funny, he's drawn a tonne of cock since then
>>65315032Merely pretending
>>65313601Buy an ad, Jeff.
>>65313693Soviet union perchance?
>>65313693Gavel Republic. A fictional dictatorship
>>65315191yeah? it's called being ironic, or whatever.>wow, they sure painted up the sky like they did my room as a child.
>>65315237
>>65313638Just pirate it?
>>65313781I didn't like 2045 at first because I thought they shifted away from the slow political/philosophical drama, but they shifted back after they got rid of the black guy. I'd still recommend it. I haven't seen arise. To keep this somewhat /k/, the tactics employed by the specops team at the end of the series was really cool. Not to spoil it, but they had a strong emphasis on no man left behind.
>>65314032>He doesn't look right with non white hairThis is earlier in his career, he hasn't been Major's boss long enough for his hair to go grey.
>>65313638Pirate it. Translation is alright aside from only showing one lune of sub at a time so the information dense scenes don't flow nicely.
>>65313601Watched the first episode.I will always be a Standalone Complex babby but this looks good enough to keep watching
>>653137811995 was a follow-on to the techniques and production that the team had already developed for patlabor 2 (1993)
>>65314108>get the hype up to get us some Appleseed and Dominion Tank PoliceThis. Only this.
>>65314578Manga Major is bi. She does have the one explicit sex scene with a couple women. She also has at least two different boyfriends. One of them is a live-in from Section Six and they make casual references to having fucked in the past. Then she kinda of gets an accidental penis at the end of the Puppet Master storyline, mostly as a gag. In the post-transcendence stories she's implied to have sex with other shards of herself, while most of the depicted facets of the new entity/species "Majors" clearly have personal sexualities and tastes. GitS gets WAY weirder and more esoteric than Appleseed or even Orion ever did and a lot of it is about transhumanism.>>65313601I do appreciate Shirow's little touches, like the guy trying to pump +P armor-piercing out of the MAC and fucking his gun up, or the side notes about the American 'borgs who went merc after the civil war and the West Coast got repeatedly nuked. And I want a Gong more than any fictional firearm that wasn't in Deep Rising. I hope he's not all that involved, honestly, whatever broke in his brain after the Kyoto earthquake went into overdrive after Fukushima and he's just locked himself in his apartment photoshopping metal textures onto moistened prostitutes ever since.
>>65313888She's exactly like in the manga
>>65316479This is the cyber future i wanted, not Elon Musk and his faggot twitter memes.At least we can 3D print guns...
>>65316483Ope-ko my beloved
My only concern is it being normalfaggified and them being scared to put any raunchy fanservice in there, when the original manga was constant horny.
>>65314171It gave us the Perfect Dark RC-P120.
>>65315023He lost most, if not all, of his notes and papers during the Kobe earthquake.
>>65313888She is a bit of a brat prior to the Puppet Master incident.
>>65316641good
i looked it up and they are making a new macross too,are things getting gooder finaly after the terror of covid?
>>65314343HIGH IMPACT TACTICAL ESPIONAGE ACTION
>>65316496>>65316929What is he so smug about?
does the major have a cyberpussy?
>>65316619I don't think science SARU is a studio that self censors too much, they did do devilman crybaby.We'll see if they animate the lesbian boat orgy in, that'll be our answer.
>>65316953
I'm watching it now. So far so good. Dub vs sub? As usual I think GiTS has a better english dub.
>>65316953He fucks
>>65316903>are things getting gooder finaly after the terror of covid?It's just that we're the generation with peak disposable income that is being actively targeted by the media industry.Basically the boomers are no long as profitable and it's Gen X/Ys turn to shit up culture and force their nostalgia on the kids.
>>65317249I prefer watching subs first, then dub, though I do prefer the dubs for gits because they are actually not ass, but the major isn't Mary Elizabeth McGlynn this time just like in Arise, so ill prolly stick to subs.
>>65317716>a million modern Isekai harem trash = no problem>one faithful adaptation of a well liked late 80's manga = forcing nostalgiaHow do people talk themselves into these kinds of insane worldviews?
>>65317749New things are the norm, throwbacks are notable for a reason.
>>65313877This. Look at Rings of power.
>>65317716As boomers die off, old card values may fall too.
>>65317047Yes. She only has a few scraps of brain tissue left of her original body, and that's assuming it takes place early enough in her life she hasn't either Ship of Theseus'd the last of it out or outright swapped into a whole new body by this point.
>>65315003>The first volume, the one actually called 'The Ghost in the Shell' in Japan, is what this show appears to be adapting and it's fine.As long as you skip all the politics talk because it's like trying to read Albedo
>>65313601>extrajudicialarent they just flatout extralegal Japanese Glowies?yellow glowies if you willlike canonically arent they not even beholden to their shitty fictional court system? until they piss off a politician and then have some fake kangaroo court proceeding thats just a formalitythey never go to court for all the other hundreds of dead bodies they leave around and like billions of property damage of dead robots and destroyed buildings and tanks
>>65314108OG major - spunky pervert transhumanist female james bondFilm major - depressed dykeSAC/2nd gig - stoic stone fembutch bi-dykeArise/CGI OVA - trash
>>65317843>like canonically arent they not even beholden to their shitty fictional court system?They play it both ways; legal arrests, serving warrants, off-book sneak&peaks, and black ops wetwork.They do so much illegal shit that they can certainly be railroaded if they try and fail to take down someone with some authority. They're usually acting on the Prime Minister's direct orders who apparently has some legal authority to order extra-judicial executions but which seems to hinge on not getting caught and the operator getting thrown under the bus if they fail (because Japan and seppuku-culture).
>>65313601who made the best Major Motoko knock off?>Hana vaschel- Fear Effect>konoko - bungie's oni (has the shitty brother storyline that the fuck ass scarlett johanssen movie stole)>Minoko - project eden core design ( another secret sibling is the villain sotryline but with horror)>Marie- Peripeteia>Joana Dark- Perfect Dark>Lian Xing- Syphon filter series>Regina- Dino crisis>jeniffer mui- mercenaries pandemic studios>Naomi Armitage- Armitage 3/polymatrix>karen bride-hidden invasion PS2 shovel ware>naoko hikari- tsunami 2265 PS2 shovel ware>Trinity - matrix series>Violet Song- Ultraviolet>Ash/grey lady- Avalon>selene- underworld
Just a reminder Shirow is obsessed with drawing BLACKED shit, to the point that ALL his modern stuff that isn't yuri is straight up big tiddy white girl BBC gangbang. No shade on the guy, he's allowed his fetishes and his drawing style is still one of the best, but dude is obsessed with niggers fucking white girls.
>>65318075>konoko - bungie's oniI loved that game.I'd add Nilin - Remember Me as well.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPrUsT4hQU8You're pretty much just listing every female protagonist from a cyberpunk-ish genre though.Trinity is kind of a stretch and Selene is an entirely different genre to Motoko.
>>65318075>PS2 shovelware Motokosfor me, it's Ice from Cy Girls
>>65318090I hope this is just bait
>>65318090Proofs?
>>65318131>Cy Girlsoh right I forgot about that onethats the MGS at home but with max payne dive and cover shooting with no time dilation
>>65318147>Proofs?Literally just google "shirow porn"
>>65318170Wtf lmaoJapan is finished
>>65317749apparently endless isekai trash isn't as profitable as the industry had hopedhttps://automaton-media.com/en/news/kadokawa-cites-excessive-reliance-on-the-isekai-genre-as-one-of-the-major-causes-of-the-decline-in-profitability-in-its-domestic-publishing-business/>Last week, Japanese manga, anime and game publishing giant Kadokawa announced its consolidated earnings results for the fiscal year ended March 2026. According to the report, the company suffered a 51.3% decrease in operating profit compared to the previous year>Specifically, the company has acknowledged a recent bias towards “proven genres,” such as isekai and narou-kei, inevitably leading towards market saturation and worsening profitability. According to Kadokawa, the formulaic approach and a clear lack of depth of content diversity is what’s been preventing its domestic publication business from exploring new genres and taking on innovative projects.now if only all the gachaslop whales would run out of money or stop giving it away for temporary access to pngs>>65318147go to danbooru or gelbooru and search the following:shirow_masamune rating:explicit
>>65318116most of these list GITS as a primary inspirationtheres other cyberpunk adjacent things nowhere near the influence gits had, like patlabor, aeon flux, robotech, outlaw star>>65318131also partly why I didnt mention cy girl/cool girl, cause its "TOO" generic cyber punk and the japanese character is a MGS ninja and Ice is less major and more Cynthia rothrock at home a la Nina williams, christie and Sarah Bryant
>>65318131Pretty gutsy of them to put a woman with big, sagging boobs into their video game, I say. That's the level of realism that will push your product into manbaby youtube vids.
>>65318195the ninja has bigger booba and does backflips off walls
>>65318075>Naomi Armitage- Armitage 3/polymatrixArmitage is a Replicant-type robot, no?>Trinity - matrix seriesHas no function or character beyond diluting the % of seamen in that submarine.
>>65316929>HIGH IMPACT FUCKTICAL SEXPIONAGE ACTION>>65313693Gavel or Gavelia a newly industrialized Soviet-Latino country that was thought up because the author didn't expect the USSR was going to collapse as fast as it did IRL. >>65313781The 90s darker more formal take did indeed legitimize the series and cyberpunk in general and has it's place, arguably above the original manga style. I had a deep autistic interest in the SCAR-H/M60/Galil hybrid battle rifle Batou used in this scenehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oI-ASO-ypxk>>65313865>>not cgi slopa for once>GoodSOMETHING HAPPENED. Enough of the buying market is back to thinking cheap hand drawn simple yet emotive stuff is cool over hyper produced slop. We've come full circle
>>65318222early concept art she was originally supposed to have an under cut bobwhich Majors hair is interepeted as, either a ridiculously unkempt bob or Ramona flowers undercut
>>65318208That's my secret, major: I'm always autistic.
>>65317769the manga shells have spinal cords in sac major is a tiny little brain in a jar cuckbox
>>65318141>>65318147https://gelbooru.com/index.php?page=post&s=list&tags=shirou_masamune+sexI wish, dude is a fucking top tier artist and a legend.
>>65318285
https://youtu.be/gQXl9gaeNLQ?is=MchyXXBm1tEWgk6K
>>65318355>tracking enabled URLThe fuck are you doing?
>>65316903yes>>65317716i fucking hate marxist
>>65318359Huh?
>>65318445Remove the query mark and everything that comes after it.Ask /g/ if you really need to be told why.
>>65313693>Demo is still aliveheh
>>65318445>correcthttps://youtu.be/gQXl9gaeNLQ>?is=MchyXXBm1tEWgk6KAll tracking data
>>65318222>Has no function or charactershe cracked the ISD base
>>65313601ur wife doesn't have a womb, let alone a vagina anymore. I hope you know that.
>>65318537>she cracked the ISD baseThe IRS DBase.At the time, DBase was short for database. We say DB now though.
>>65318539its funny how them all being hackers never really comes up again after the first act.
>>65316641>being so degenerate that it takes an act of God to cure you
>>65318572>its funny how them all being hackers never really comes up again after the first act.Yeah, that irritated me too a bit.It comes up a bit in one of the video games though.Oh, Trinity does a little hacking in #2 as well, from inside the Matrix after breaking in to a power station I think.
>>65318585>it takes an act of God to cure youCure?
>>65318495Didn’t know that. Tech illiterate
>>65318652
>>65318585Ha ha my brother Shirou is so far down the rabbit hole there's no cure for him. If anything he's gotten worse.
>>65313601If this is a faithful version of the manga.Are they going to include the lesbian scene?Still regret not getting the one print dark horse did where they included it, instead of the censored version every other version got. It goes for like $200+ now.
>>65318075Bitch is unmatched
>>65317047Self lubricating and self cleaning
>>65318950does she have a Wombforce?
>>65314836>they're
>>65318652here's a handy guide
>>65315023>all he did was porn with eerily shiny womenhe's got pigeon brain
>>65318090>>65318147Shirow went kinda insane after the 1995 Kobe Earthquake that destroyed all his shit and made him move in with his old ass dad, who was barely functional until his death.
>>65316953You see that hair? I'd be a smug bastard too.
>>65318300Some of them look like rock monsters
>>65318986>they'reIs this an ESL trying to pull an ESL gotcha and failing?
People here like gits because of the cool operators operating operationally. This adaption offers nothing, when it comes to that, that another adaptation hasn't done at a higher production value.
>>65315023I hate to tell you this, but every artist is a pervert at heart.
>>65319594This looks terrible. Like "cheap 80s Saturday morning cartoon terrible".
>>65313601>>65313605>>65317761It looks like it more manga-accurate rather than based on the 1995 film and GiTS:SAC series. RIP old Makoto. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzXrMlPts88
>>65320049you obviously didn't watch it with a shit take like that
>>65319594she never brushes/straightens her hair outside of 2045
>>65320155I have and the art style is crap. Everything looks like a caricature.
>>65320195thats what the OG 89 stuff looks like
>>65320202Yes. I have the manga here and quite frankly looks like utter shit in some parts. Aramaki's design is one I have the most gripe with since it's lazy doodling time whenever he shows up.
>>65320208just say you aren't a fan and leave the thread ffs
>>65320216I like the lesbian sex scenes. Is that enough?
>>65320216to be fair 1995 and SAC have such wildly different artstyles actually reading the gits and man machine interface mangas can be jarring if you never saw them or the PS1 game
>>65320224it's enough
>>65320247Not to mention the difference in tone. At least it's not as bad as trying to read Appleseed and discovering how dogshit the pacing is.
>>65320049Idk I like seeing the manga Major animated, she cute
>>65319131This can only work if there’s lots of guns
>>65320590all she needs is a seburo or CZ 100 if theres more skintight cyber suits
>>65318988>>65318652>>65318495>>65318359>>65318355Also can't a dedicated autist dox you from the tracking URL if you do it with a YT account active?
>>65320619The si/is component yes, because that identifies the source that created the Share link.https://bbaovanc.com/blog/youtube-url-structures-you-should-know/#privacy-parameters
>>65320055You can go to /ic/ to see what artists are like. Some are like the Walter White of porn - they study female anatomy in excruciating detail and figure out stuff like what amount of subcutaneous thigh fat makes gets the monkey brain really going. Coomers are addicts, and there's more money in giving them the next high than the rest of art combined together.
>>65316479Damn this sounds retarded. Glad this twitter/bluesky slop was cut from the consequential media.
>>65321097based
>>65318090Based jap monkey! Nippon Banzai!!!!
This is going to be spice and wolf but worse: seeing what absolute schlock your childhood goats were and how hard they were carried by the studios and your own young imagination bridging the gap
>>65321158>your childhood goatsI can't relate, Muhammed
>>65321158It's a good comic, but the very liberal use of SD characters certainly does date it.
>>65313601Isn't the author a blacked gooner?
>>65322385Aren't you a poop-scented Paki? Rhetorical.
>>65320079That's from a Stand Alone Complex filler episode/homage to Cat's Eye
>>65317843In the manga Motoko gets caught on camera shooting a kid (A terrorist kid, natch) and there's a big scandal and she's taken to court
>>65317852Arise was fine. Not as good as the movie or SAC but still pretty good.
>>65322401Ah, thank you. I was afraid it was from the reboot.
>>65318222Trinity is also clearly a knockoff Molly Millions.
>>65313698Millennial here and it definitely appeals to us too, most people who got into anime in their teens around '00 watched a lot of '80s and '90s stuff since it what was available and a lot of us got into anime through older Gen X friends or people on forums, at cons, etc. I haven't had a good time to sit down and watch the first ep yet but I'm pretty stoked, the original manga was always my favorite and I preferred other Shirow works like Tank Police to GITS because I really prefer that artstyle and tone. I got mostly out of anime nearly a decade ago but I'm pretty excited for this one.
>>65316903That was because of me getting stoned watching 10,000 Macross clips while playing Kerbal Space Program You're welcome
>>65314108Picture is good until the bottom right gooner coded one.
>>65324498>gooner coded >shirrowno shit
>>65320135The web is vast and infinite, she's still out there
>>65324363nice, how many mods do you have installed?
>>65325256It's bizarre, do people not realize that Kusanagi is coombait incarnate?
>>65325419her aura transcends normalfaggotry aversion to anime's appreciation of the female form
>>65325419>do people not realize that Kusanagi is coombait incarnate?It's not exactly a new concept either.
>>65325473>normalfaggotry aversion to anime's appreciation of the female formI always did think the GitS:SAC leotard was silly and wondered why the chief never complained about it.
>>65313605Hopefully this is the cut for marketing. On the face of it it doesn't look like it has the soul of either movie. And I say that as somebody who truly watches nearly zero anime.
>>65325497actually I thought it was a bit retarded toobut I didnt like the 1st season of SACit was like a boring cyberpunk law and order but mariska hargitay is walking around without pants on with no one mentioning it
>>65313856First episode was pretty much line for line faithful adaptation. As a fan of the manga for over 20 years, I liked it very much.
>>65325488at least post one of her catsuits or her iconic skintight Mod Dressesthey even made one of the NPCs in destroy all humans after her in the dress with the triangle earrings
>>65325516Shut it, call of duty.
>>65325546gits is the one who made a shitty call of Dut clone
>>65325419This new generation is very skittish around sex, Cyberpunk has always been a horny as fuck genre. Shame that big game 2077 was such a boner killer after the Witcher 3 handled sex so well.>>65325497>I always did think the GitS:SAC leotard was silly and wondered why the chief never complained about it.I don't think the leotard was a bad idea but it was poorly handled. They gave the Major a bit to much of a my work is my life (serous face) personality so you didn't feel like she enjoyed being ogled or having hookups, she needed to be a bit hornier to pull it off. Also that style of dress wasn't shown to be common enough in the world that it would avoid comment from randos. They should have had a lot more men and women showing skin in revealing outfits so that Mokoto did not feel as out of place wearing it. If they weren't going to commit to the bit then they should have just gave her regular clothes.>>65325516>it doesn't look like it has the soul of either movie.And it shouldn't. Those movies don't have the soul of the original manga. You can like the movies and the TV show based off them better but you already have those, they exist, you can watch them right now. This is a faithful adaptation for the people that want that instead.
>>65325641>faithful adaptationyeah and'word of god' shirrow says adaptations are adapted to the medium and dont have to be replicas of the source materialthe lite novels are full of gore and lovecraftian tier cyber horrors
>>65325663>and dont have to be replicas of the source materialAnd you got that, congratulations, you can go watch it right now. Now though, we get the faithful adaptation.
I just hope the Puma twins have a cameo, no matter how brief.
>>65325663>>65325700Both are fine, I think the issue here is years of shitty criticism using 'faithful' as a synonym for 'good' when discussing comic movies and shit.
>>65325701I wonder if /k/ will have a shit fit about that Rally doppleganger that gets murdered
>>65325663>>65325720No one is saying faithful is good and I doubt there's anyone contrarian enough to say that Oshii's version of the Major is bad or inferior. I love everything Oshii has done with her but I do find I also greatly enjoy seeing her manga personality on screen. Plus the writer is the guy who wrote Godzilla singular point so once we get to the heavy sci fi themes and metaphysics brainlets will get filtered.
>>65313693The '95 film definitely handled the exploding ammo effects better.
>>65325744Anon, for a month before this show even started airing, I've watched people drawing bullshit battle lines between versions of the Major.People are fucking stupid.
>>65325769>peopleWell when I say no one and people I mean sentient human beings, I don't consider those people.
>>65319377See that little faggot with the big boobed cyborg warlord? Yeah buddy, that's his own hair.
>>65318298God, Texhnolyze certainly was a show.
>>65325538>at least post one of her catsuitsI wanted a pic with a bigger gun
>>65316953He hacked your mom's cyberbrain last night.
>>65316496Batou understands.Tight jeans, tight groups.
>>65318075Misato Katsuragi.
>>65325641i think part of it is that people are oversaturated with low-quality sexual media but they can't articulate what the distinction is, so everything with sexuality or eroticism as a feature ends up taking flak. compare that promo image to the fanart, for ex
>>65326445The ubiquity and instant access to the most hardcore shit imaginable, to the point you can trip over it when you're not looking for it, probably has a role there too.
>>65325641>>65326445back when fap material was a physical object or a file on the household's single family PC that had to be kept hidden, it might have been more "special" to experience it being trojan horsed in for you by more acceptable entertainment media, but in the present day that's no longer a concern, and it's easier than ever to access pornography: if you want to see drawings of butts, then you can just go to danbooru or whatever and instantly get a functionally infinite supply, making it no longer necessary to watch a six hour long animated series for occasional shots showing off a character's assthat being the case, I would argue that sex appeal simply no longer has the same appeal it once did, and risks the audience feeling like the creator is just jingling keys in their face because they don't think the work is good enough to engage people by its artistic merit alone
>>65319333>>65316479>I hope he's not all that involved, honestly, whatever broke in his brain after the Kyoto earthquake went into overdrive after Fukushima and he's just locked himself in his apartment photoshopping metal textures onto moistened prostitutes ever since.That is such a waste, and i say this as someone who's very fond of shiny chicksEven if he doesn't want to do it himself, GitS has so much potential, just get one of the better cyberpunk authors and someone competent for the art and rake in the money big timeMaybe Tsutomu Nihei? His architecture autism would fuck hard in the GitS universe
>>65325534Ayy this reminds me of the "Stealth Pistol" from the original Deus Ex. Wonder if they took some inspiration from GITS for that.
>>65328422Without a doubt, anon.
>>65325256There is a difference between being sexy, and acting like a whore.
>>65328571she walks around in SAC season 1 like shes on the track on figueroa or Harry Hines
>>65327452>TSUTOMU NIHEI GHOST IN THE SHELL
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>>65328422Deus Ex is literally positioned to be a prequel for GitS and Appleseed, with a liberal dusting of the Illuminatus trilogy and Steve Jackson's work in the same vein.
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>>65330120Articulated main cannons that resemble mouths and can make moe expressions is definitely going to be on the road map for my think-tank.Not to mention a self-sealing hull that can be reinforced with some slapped-on kevlar/CF patches.
>>65316496Did they make it intentional for the robot to look like t has a giant ass?
>>65329893>>65330120I for one don't like them having mouths.
>>65330143Don't worry about it.
>>65330143It looks retarded I agree
>>65330143that's not the first time they've had them.
>>65330143>>65330143I'm pretty sure that was just for a bit. Actual models seem to have gun-mouths like every other spider tank.
>>65314578>Shirow thought drawing a straight sex scene would be gay because that would involve drawing a dick, no I'm not making any of this upI'm gonna need sauce for this, anon.
>>65318177>for temporary access to pngsI'm morbidly curious. Elaborate.
>>65325521I vote for SVU with a pantless Mariska Hargitay.>dude she's like 60Still would. Fuck Mariska Hargitay is hot.
>>65318585>cureAnon...
>>65320306Hey, Appleseed the manga was awesome (though frankly I treat it mostly as tech/visual inspiration fodder and the plot as secondary). It's the anime adaptations that are various flavors of bad.
>>65319333Death or insanity are about the only engames for manga artists.Unless you're Kenichi Sonoda, then you retire to run your family's 400 year old candy shop and draw cute girls for the menus and advertisements.
>>65327452Human Algorithm's by a different team and was pretty good. Nihei GitS would be rad, though I love his current fantasy series. The man draws great armor, and he's using ink again!
>>65314836Unfunny "jokes" deserve punishment.
>>65330583The difference between life and death clearly is having your own company managing your IPs.
>>65330462The plot in true Shirow fashion makes fuck all senseBut the man did have a great sense of style at least back then
>>65331340Threadly reminder that the Second Coming of Christ is canon in the Appleseed universe.
>>65316479Speaking of which, that scene was in today's episode. They went pretty tame with it. >>65314856I bet we're gonna get some entertainment when they get to the boyfriend, twitter types are probably already hyping her up as a strong lesbian woman who don't need no man and there might be some good meltdowns when they show her with a guy too.
>>65331567Anyone with half a brain and Google can easily find out that she's canonically bi. That said Twitter has a big overlap with Reddit types who aren't known for even basic intelligence, so it's quite possible.
>>65330462>this manga is great if you treat it as an artbookThen it's a shit manga.The worst bit of it is probably the finale to volume 1. It takes a great tense scene and halts it cold to waffle about philosophy, then attempts to start back up but it's too late because the pace has already been ruined.
>>65313605Looks cheap and like a joke, thanks I'll skip this.The 1995 movie is still the best and only Ghost in the Shell.
>>65332920They kind of cheated with the movie since it adapts the only part of the manga that ever made sense, and made it look good
Someone please post or discuss a gun
>>65330682thank God he remembered how to use blackbug armor men forever
>>65330432>I'm morbidly curious. Elaborate.That's pretty much how live service gacha games work. You spend real money to gamble for characters to put on your "team". When the server dies, your stable of trash waifus dies with it. Rinse and repeat for billions of yen.>>65334170Sure. Have a Posiedon Arms shell for an AR pistol
>>65334616That cool as hell ngl. Wish it wasn't airsoft though. I kinda meant real guns, or at least discussion of the weapons systems in Ghost in the shell. But still, I like where your heads at.How do we feel about the Model 36? I think it'd be cool to have The Laughing Man's gun. The only snubbie I own is a SP101 that I got because of Psychopass. I like it a lot, but I'm not sure that I like throwing 357 through it. It did give me a starting point for snub noses though, and I think I like them.
>>65334699Hell of a lot of GitS guns is Shirow reading nothing but Soldier of Fortune future-tech articles from the nineties. P-90/Calico/Bizon-derived high-cap magazines, ultra HV low caliber rounds, Izubuchi speed holes on all his handguards, more special purpose guns and less trying to cram shit onto the rails of a generalist one. And of course fat-ass APFSDS rifles for 'borgs to carry/be killed by>picThe FAMAS-Felin if it didn't suck ass
>>65334738I think that's really what makes all of these deigns stand out. They feel rooted enough in reality, but just tweaked enough to fit the timeline that the setting took. It feels natural, and its obvious there was a lot of love and thought poured into the designs. I love experimental weapons designs that look good on paper, but aren't quite there in practice, and Gits has tons of them.
>>65316903Is it zentradi, invid, or something else.I've always harbored more of a nostalgia for the invid saga. Even if the OG has roy(?) the badass with a fever for nubian pussy. Also wow I was halfway there with my memory, thought he was Roy Fawks/Focks it's Roy Fockker. But I liked the more varied cast and just the look of the invid to giants in power armor.>That david bowie guy would be transgender now instead of just a cross-dressing twink
>>65334837Also in retrospect I'm hit with the obvious difference that Macross was top gun jet/mech heavy while if I recall right jet/mechs were rare as shit in the Invid saga? Like I am vaguely thinking a big deal of Scot Bernard(?) and his misfits was finding one, but that they almost all just had the bike-power armor and just Scot had a macross jet-mech. Maybe someone else in the group too. Shame last time I looked it up again it aged like milk, whereas my beloved OAV Lodoss war aged better (but was also mostly still images).
>>65334738I came across an obviously unlicensed but pretty decent quality airsoft version of that gun years ago and I've always kinda regretted not buying it just to have around.
>>65334837>>65334843>InvidThat's not Macross. That's what Robotech renamed the antagonists of Super Dimensional Cavalry Southern Cross, the second of three shows of related production but unrelated story they squished together.The Zentradi also haven't been antagonists after the first show/DYRL, they're founding members of the post-Space War I unified government and New UN successor state.Sunrise and Big West are not producing a sequel to Robotech or Southern Cross, they're producing the fifth TV series in Macross, presumably set some time after 2015's Macross Delta.
>>65314578>because Shirow thought drawing a straight sex scene would be gay because that would involve drawing a dick,He's literally right.
>>65335095You do know Shirow draws huge nigger dongs by the fuckton nowadays?
>>65335166You sure do talk about nigger dicks alot, brownoid
>>65335088We see hostile Zentradi multiple times in later Macross series, from the battle suits at the beginning of Plus to the mutinous Marines in Frontier. Actual hostile uncultured Zentradi are much more prevalent in the books like VFMF, which has incidents like the Spica Shock (the UN colony on Spica getting genocided by an entire Zentradi fleet) as major reasons for Project Super Nova, because the next-gen fold-capable stealth VFs were supposed to be able to do point-blank reaction missile decap strikes on Zentradi main fleets before they could glass entire colonies, or take out rebellious colonial leaders before they could react.
>>65335331This is true, however I'm meaning this from the perspective of anon asking if it's going to be X or Y existing hostile species as the focus of a given series.It was also an excuse to explain how the Macross setting is significantly different from what he's thinking of.
>>65335246>coping this hard
>>65335342True. I wish we got more VF autism series though; hell, I want to explore the setting between FB2012 and Plus, stuff like the Spica Shock and all the little colonial conflicts in Isamu's service record. Watching the early Spacy take on another Main Fleet with much more technological prep time yet still expending 70% of humanity's reaction warhead stockpile in the process would be absolute kino.
>>65318208>>65318285>>65318310Wtf is autistic mode, why would they use that term?
>>65335365From what I gather, autistic mode is fully offline with no outside connections, usually in response to enemies who've infiltrated their datanet/cyberbrains. As to why they call it that, well, maybe they consider autists disconnected from everyone else?
>>65330120Yeah, 1995 and Gits was an improvement. It may be faithful, but the goofy ass, plushy shit like this is pure weeb faggotry.
>>65335365>>65335368The word for autism in Japanese literally means 'self closed disability'.Japan also used the word as a buzzword for antisocial youth in the 80's, which is how you get stuff like Kamille calling himself an autistic child. He happens to be kind of autistic anyway but that wasn't what was meant by that line.It's one of those things where I can see an argument that a direct translation of the condition name isn't really accurate to what's being said and meant. I don't think it's a potential offensiveness thing, they've been calling it autistic mode in official translations and even dub voice acting for decades and so few people even registered it that they didn't even notice the change.Translation is fun and I envy nobody that has to make these choices.
>>65335365>>65335368>The word "autistic" derives from the Greek word autos (αν̇τȯζ), meaning "self". Combined with the suffix -istic (denoting a state or characteristic), it literally translates to "being in a state of oneself".I wondered about this as well. Thank you, google.
>>65335365>>65335368>>65335396"Autism" had a very different connotation in the English language back when GitS was translated. What we now know as "high-functioning autism" was seen as a separate condition, Asperger's Syndrome, until the latter was merged into the former in 2013. If you said "autism" in the '90s or '00s people wouldn't think of an awkward dude with niche interests like they do now, that was an "Aspie" or "sperg" back then, while autism referred to the full-on low functioning nonverbal and unresponsive kind, so the term made total sense for the GitS use where it refers to a "safe mode" that blocks external connections.
>>65335458Correct, and that old definition is carried forward into the context of the setting, where constant network communication is such a given that shutting yourself out is the GitS setting's equivalent of becoming nonverbal
>>65334750>5.7>curved magIt's just about what they think is cool, there's no logic to it at all.
>>65335365It's nip autonomous mode.
>>65335365As others have said, it means you don't communicate externally--in this case, it means EMCON mode, your radios are shut down, so nobody can detect your transmissions or hack you with radio waves. It's a clever turn of phrase, actually, if a bit anachronistic at this point.I guess "Airplane mode" would have been a decent successor, but even that's anachronistic today given that in-flight wifi is a thing and Starlink is penetrating the airliner industry.Different topic: Which does /k/oma favor, Tachi- or Fuchi-?
>>65318236>author didn't expect the USSR was going to collapse as fast as it did IRLBut GITS 1995 came out in 1995. The USSR collapsed on boxing day, 1991. Was the author retarded?
>>65335697Keep in mind that GitS is part of a series originally concieved in the 80s. Both it and Appleseed are a branch timeline where the USSR held on a little longer. Instead of letting go of East Germany, there was a limited-exchange nuclear war between the US, USSR, and various third parties sometime in the 1990s that glassed most of Eastern Europe, almost all of the Middle East (see the Madhi storyline in Appleseed), and much of the Western US. It also melted the polar icecaps enough to drown a significant chunk of Japan - Poseidon is a sea arcology founded by Japanese and Oceanian refugees among others. Africa is mired in a massive Jihadi war with glowies everywhere, what's left West of the Rockies is Mad Max, the Euros are farming out mercs to all and sundry, and (at least) France, what's left of the US and USSR, and the UAS are all trying to infiltrate and subvert Japan/Poseidon for various reasons. The setting is cool as fuck in broad strokes. It kinda feels like Shirow had his own Twilight 2000 shitbrew and never stopped going. ...good bait, though.
>>65335745Appleseed and GITS are the same continuity? That's news.
>>65335826Sure is, Appleseed is about a century later.Stand Alone Complex begins pulling in some of the Appleseed worldbuilding for S2, stuff that wasn't actually specified or mentioned in the Ghost in the Shell manga unless I'm misremembering.
>>65335826>>65335860Most of the information linking them is buried in the manga volume notes, especially for Appleseed. If you can find scans of the Dark Horse releases they did the Appleseed databooks and extras for Ghost as well as translating most of the notes in the large-format releases. It's sparse, deliberately, but it's there.
