Prime Video: THE GHOST IN THE SHELL
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2029, a near-future Japan. The full cyborg Motoko Kusanagi envisions a task force that preemptively strikes emerging threats. She and her team are scouted by Daisuke Aramaki as Public Security Section 9, AKA the "Shell Squad." An international conspiracy hints at a hacker known as The "Puppet Master." What fate awaits Kusanagi? What is the hacker's endgame? A new era of cyberpunk action begins!

I thought the first two episodes would be available today but it looks like it’s just the first episode. New episodes will be added weekly

    • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      16·
      21 days ago

      I enjoyed it, but so far it’s no comparison to SAC. Felt a little off-balance.

      It was very fast paced, especially compared to Stand Alone Complex anime(s).

      A lot of the characters talk a big game, then make minor mistakes, and it feels odd. There wasn’t too much that felt like they were being outsmarted by a clever enemy, they just kinda fucked up. And then the mistakes ended up not mattering at all? It messes with the characterization I’m used to seeing for these characters, and it felt odd to have the mistakes not really have any impact on anything either.

      While I enjoy the animation style, it was weird to see the *-koma tanks animated like little creatures first and robot spiders second rather than “little metal spiders primarily, who are secondarily little creatures”.

      Overall, it feels like they’re going for more action/comedy than heady cyberpunk sci-fi show. Still good and fun, just not quite what I expected.

      And it’s literally just the first 25 minute episode. Who knows where it’ll go from here.

      • sbv@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        4·
        21 days ago

        I’d always pictured the fuchis as hulking tanks that somehow manage to be nimble. Not nearly as cute.

      • Hammerjack@lemmy.zipOPMEnglish
        3·
        21 days ago

        I totally agree. It’s more action/comedy than I expect from GitS but it’s also more accurate to the manga so I can’t really be mad about that.

    • sbv@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      8·
      21 days ago

      It’s been 30 years since I read the manga, but this hits most of the points I remember from the first comic or two. They even use that rainbow texture thing that was in the colour section of the comics.

      I distinctly remember Kusanagi jacking into the minister and making him punch himself in the face.

      From there, good is subjective. But it seems faithful.

    • this_1_is_mine@lemmy.mlEnglish
      21·
      22 days ago

      It’s just rehashing the original 5 mins of the movie and at that poorly … I really want to start screaming about individuals who are there who aren’t in the movie but maybe that’s just too much of a spoiler… Because it doesn’t make any sense later if it is?!..