in the shell

Some guy in the old IG forums said this about that festival: Japanese believe that a soul(ghost?) dwells into a doll. Therefore, without throwing away a doll, it is burned and a memorial service is held for the soul of a doll. After Japanese die, we are burned. Everybody wore masks on the city in th...

I can tell u a couple. If you liked Full Metal Panic, FMP2 TSR is being released. And there's an ongoing anime named Jigoku Shoujo. I only watched 2 eps but it has an original concept and attracted me very much. I believe you already watched the animes in the Anime Classics topic.

Really? Are you sure it's region 2 Special Edition? I couldn't find it on Amazon or anywhere to buy...

I believe you're taking this ghost creation thing very lightly. In the first movie the central issue is the one that engaged Philip K. Dick in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, the 1968 source novel of Blade Runner. "What if a cyber-brain could generate its own 'ghost'?" wonders Kusana...

So what you're saying nearly suggests what I'm saying. Created ghosts by AIs is clearly an unexpected thing to happen. However I still believe everybody feared the possibility. Major was surely concerned about Tachikomas becoming uncontrollable, i na way they became. And I'm sure she thought the pos...

Well, I watched the Japanese version only and it's runtime was 83 mins. I searched IMDB and the Us version was said to have a runtime of 82 min. Didn't see much difference... So maybe that post was really really old or only applicable for VHS? The Europe version DVD I have also says 83 min.

Wow that's cheap for the SE!.. Unfortunately it's not released in Europe. :/

Sorry I organised them to the 8kb limit. It says so in the profile section. I'll send you more avatars again when I collect a fair amount. I'm so happy that I got my avatar

Thank you once more...

Well, I already did when you didn't answer I can resend if you didn't get it.

I must restate that I don't believe Ghosts developed by AIs are regular, in fact it is very irregular. That's why everybody gets suprised and that is the main plot of the manga and the first movie...Well I'll answer with the info I have from Slipstream . This is what I believe. Robotics forever chan...

Sad news Slipstream: YTV has responded regarding the episode of Ghost in the Shell that they skipped last week. "Episode 10 of Ghost in the Shell [Stand Alone Complex] doesn’t have an airdate scheduled on YTV. Our Programming Department just didn’t think the graphic content was appropriate for ...

want a sequel to the first anime that really feels like a sequel to it.

I agree with that and I also love Aramaki's political maneuver scenes.

By the way I never thought smone would vote for enough Gits...

Ghost = sense of identity. It's not any mystical "soul", but a thing, which can be gained through accumulation of data in proper pattern, as happened to Puppet Master in the original manga and movie. There is nothing in a Ghost, that would require organic frame to support it - an AI-syste...

No, that quote is not right... Proto says "You all must have ghosts". He just can't believe a tachikoma AI can do that sacrifice.

Well I'm sure everybody would like to see Ghost in the Shell in any form as long as it is Ghost in the Shell. However according to I.G. interview: Although I.G would like to produce a third Ghost in the Shell movie, Mamoru Oshii, the director of the first two GITS movies, is not interested in workin...