in the shell

However, my points still stand in relation to it. That is true, so please take the following as expanding or corollating with your views, rather than arguing with them. And I believe, that their view of the soldiers' society is already gotten a bit old - stuck to the terms of the World War IV. I th...

They're techno-savvy, yes, but not good at dealing with social changes I'd describe it more as their being attuned to a different society - the society of soldiers. As highly skilled and proficient soldiers they are trained to react in ways that are often directly opposite, or at least fundamentall...

Thanks. While I think your reading of Batou emotional state is a bit darker and depressive than mine, your explanation for his reactions helps greatly. I think that one of Batou's character traits, crafted deliberately to make him a slightly deceptive character for viewers, is that despite his quirk...

I mean, its bad enough, and kinda silly to walk around in her undies all day with "the boys" I get the distinct impression that the Major deliberately uses her (prosthetic) body as another weapon to distract, manipulate and disarm. Thus her standard mode of dress. There's an episode in se...

So I just finished watching the first season vol.4 DVD, and I really feel like I missed something in "Ep.16:Chinks in the Armour of the Heart". Or at least like there were important story details that weren't obvious. At the end of the episode Batou is quite upset at how things turned out,...

I'm totally new to the forum, so please excuse me if there are disagreements around the various GITS translations that I'm unaware of, but here's the sub-title version of most of the Tachikoma's dialogue from that scene, as it appears on the DVD I just watched: "And you know that "existenc...