in the shell

In "Selecon," Ishikawa (or perhaps it was the Major, I forget which) stated that Kawashima was in fact found to be infected by the Individual Eleven virus. I think Gohda and company spread false intel to Section One so that they'd whack Kawashima before our heroes could interrogate him.

Why was it so important to erase the tachikomas' memory of their creator? Were they afraid of someone hacking the tachikoma and using that data to track down the scientist? Very gloomy closing line from the Major--reminiscent of the first movie where she and Batou contemplate whether their gov't fun...

Dean? Do you mean Dave Wittenberg?

(googles Dave Wittenberg and finds lengthy entry on him at Anime News Network) Yeah, I guess I do mean Dave. Don't ask me who this Dean person is.

Oh, a dilemma:Would you sleep with Motoko, or Batou?!?! :'(] MARTO IS SOOOOO CONFUUUUUSED?! >_< I say both.... Also give reason why!!! Batou maybe--always a sucker for a guy who can make me laugh, and as they say in Spanish, "el hombre y el oso, cuando mas feo, mas hermoso"... Motoko's a ...

Per the March issue of Anime Insider it's an Evangelion "wherein getting a date for the weekend is more important than destroying the Angels." (If you hear a loud noise emanating from Northern California, that's my poor little brain exploding...)

However that fact that Togusa's and Saito's voice actors made it in is news to me!

I don't know about Dean Wittenberg, but Crispin Freeman has been in a lot of anime productions: Howl's Moving Castle, Wolf's Rain, Samurai Champloo...

It's interesting that this is the only ep besides "Missing Hearts" where the English language production has characters using anything besides mainstream American accents. I just about fell on the floor when I heard them call that one guy "Pickles." The first time I heard it, I t...

Sort of a "pushmepullyou" in reverse really...

Big friggin' WMV file but worth it:

http://www.bostondynamics.com/dist/BigD ... 6-2006.wmv

A bit noisy, but otherwise perfect for transporting your giant economy-sized picnic basket on those day trips to the uncanny valley! (yes, she spends way too much time trolling MeFi for these things...)

She killed the original bar's owner and stole her identity, after noticing, that Paz spent long times in that bar. It was the original owner's braincase, that she dumped in a trashbag during that episode.

(goes and watches episode again) Oh yeah, now I remember.

I'd seen both movies, so I thought a TV show based on those characters might be interesting. It took me a while to get into it, but once they started the Laughing Man storyline, I was hooked...

I usually wait until the DVD to see new episodes, but I went ahead and watched this one. No Tachikomatic Days at the end???? :cry: Very weird episode really, in that it supposedly focuses on Pazu but we really don't know much more about what's going on in that guy's head at the end of the show than ...

And to follow the suite: "It! It!"

AAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!! He said The Word!!!!!!

Ni!

So Gouda's true motives are to put a stop to Asain Refugee coming into Japan? Thats a bit dissapointing... I was expecting something big... I got more of the impression that Gohda just plain wants to destabilize the country so that he can wield more and more power from behind the scenes. But I supp...