in the shell

I know what part you're talking about, Lightice. I might get around to watching that segment again to check. Need to watch that episode again anyway, see if I can find the japanese version of the song the Tachis were singing.

*hands out fireproof suits to Lightice, Elmo, and Jeni* Hoo, getting crispy in here!

As far as I know, only Saito's left eye and right arm are cyberized. Of course, he also has a cyberbrain (that's gotta be a given.) Togusa and Aramaki only have cyberbrains, as far as I have been able to glean. Borma has the eyes and cyberbrain, and the extent to which Paz, Borma, and Ishikawa are c...

I feel a couple of things need to be pointed out. first off, the new green thinktanks are called Fuchikomas. Read the subtitles. Second off, I would say that the ending of the 2nd gig is a leadin to the manga. Thirdly, the Tachikomas have AIs, and their ghosts are a result of the development of thei...

it seems to me that the movie wanders so far off topic it ends up to not be in this solar system.

it doesnt really matter, because the movie and Innocence are a different timeline from GITS1&2. there is no relation between the two other than characters and locations. The plots are completely different.

A bit of gun info for you people. Movie: M-22: http://www.poseidon.co.jp/5F/9wepon/9wepon_1.html - Used at the end of the GitS1 Movie by Motoko against the tank. SAC: Seburo M-5: http://www.poseidon.co.jp/3F/M5/m5_1.html - This appears to be the standard issue pistol for S9. You can see it in use in...

Damn, they 'borrowed' Bioroids from Appleseed

Try Richard K. Morgan sometime. His Takeshi Kovacs series of books are similar, somewhat, to GitS.

A little browsing through that site also shows this:
http://www.livescience.com/humanbiology ... rface.html

The relevant section is the Monkey See, Monkey Do section.