in the shell

They've really got the potential for a great series of films in X-men, the wealth of characters availible to them is excellent. It's a shame many of the better ones would be too expensive to animate.

The ending to Jin-Roh is my favourite anime ending at the moment, ubersad

I'm still waving the banner for samurai champloo and samurai7

yeah, the dolls having souls idea is something that stems from the shinto concept of the 1000 gods; basically there is a god in everything and everything in the gods so if you treat something as human then in part it becomes human.

Firstly kicking us off. The mask worn by the guy batou interogates to get kims location in 'innocence' is an old venetian plague mask. I haven't got a clue if he was trying to suggest anything in particular by it's use though...

A thread for all the smaller references to history and other works in the GitS universes that don't justify a thread of their own individualy. I know I've picked up on a lot of them and I'm assuming you lot have picked up more especially marto considering the amount of times he's watched it...

I voted for a new movie even though I would love to see GitS return in any those forms bar the game. Even better if it was a Oushii work, I may need to hold him at gunpoint while he hand draws each frame himself.

what are your top all time faveourite five video game levels and why? This is my list as it stands; 1. SonicCD - 'stardustspeedway', the best music of the game in four different settings depending on the situation alongside the enforced flowing speed of the level just sums up the way the whole serie...

pfft... I'm away for a little while and you guys demolish the philosophy section again