in the shell

Just found this
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thousand_origami_cranes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sadako_Sasaki

Haven't worked out any thoughts as to how it relates or anything but I figured you might be interested

Yes but at its basest levels what they hate in our culture is how advanced we are which is equated with how advanced our technology is. After all a culture in many respects can be well understood by looking at its level of advancement in technology. The fundementalists are just that old literal dog...

(do we have to hide spoilers somehow? I kind of assumed that most everybody on here has probably read or seen most of the media associated...?) From my understand neither Oshii or Shirow are terribly religious and so I think that the biblical quotations and references that pop up in series are meant...

with Batou wielding that cross at the end its pretty hard to deny the biblical thing. It was kind of strange the first time watched the series since most of it is devoid of those kinda references obviously it deals with her relationship to Kuze but personally I think it also relates to the deus ex m...

Only real evidence for this is that the machines at the beginning and end speak Cantonese. That and that, thinking back on it, the whole film looks kind of like a puzzle box - the idea is that Oshii, the director, inputs the information, which we are supposed to translate. Of course in some ways lik...