Ghost in the Shell SAC Complete 1st Season Collection Box Set
by Kenji Kamiyama
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Actor: Akio ?tsuka, K?ichi Yamadera, T?ru ?kawa, Takashi Onozuka, Yutaka NakanoDirector: Kenji Kamiyama
Brand: GHOST IN THE SHELL - S.A.C. - SEASON ONE (DVD
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); Japanese (Original Language); English (Subtitled)
Format: Animated, Box set, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 750 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-10-31
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Manga Video
Movie Reviews of Ghost in the Shell SAC Complete 1st Season Collection Box Set
Movie Review: Tachikomatic!
Summary: 5 Stars
Contrary to what the editorial review says, SAC is not an offshoot of the Oshii film but a complete reimagining from the original Shirow Masamune manga. In mid 21st century Japan and after wars which have splintered the world and the people, complete cyberization is now possible thanks to technological advances and cyberbrains and memory/sensory augmentations are commonplace.
SAC manages to be an excellent thriller/police procedural in a future that we can recognise. In a society where most people have access to cyberisation, this man-machine meld opens a wide horizon of possibilities but it also beckons hackers, intrigue, agents opposed to established power and plain old sadistic criminals. Humanity, in a word, is still humanity. This is the world cyber-crime specialists Section 9 move in daily.
For those coming from the movie, SAC is lighter on the mood but doesn't lose the philosophical and puts it all in a contect of conspiracy. It can be quite a change of pace and it took me a few episodes to adjust. The GITS movie was an exercise in mood and ambience, much like the great Kenji Kawai music it has. Most of SAC's music is a mixture of rock/electronica and its driving beats establish the mood. Fortunately for us, the music is done by the amazing Yoko Kanno who is quite frankly one of the best, most innovative artists working in Japan today. If you've ever heard the quite different soundtracks to Cowboy Bebop, The Vision of Escaflowne, Earth Girl Arjuna, Wolf's Rain or even the one-off Magnetic Rose, you'll know what I mean. It's one of my favorite anime/movie soundtracks.
Philosophizing is just now mostly done by little-girl voiced sentient spider-shaped tanks. It's AIs pondering of what makes human human. It's also humans living in machine bodies and how weird (or how natural) it can be. Very interesting stuff.
On a final note, as a woman I couldn't help but notice that the world of GITS: SAC is violently a world of men. As a rule with very few exceptions, all people in power are men, all sex objects (whether flesh and blood, machine or both) are women. Most women who appear on the series are either victims, foils for the men or are there to play second fiddle. There is only one woman in power who appears on 2nd Gig (the second season) and she's widely held to be a puppet of her hawkish party.
There is, of course, Major Motoko Kusanagi, the focus of the series, prime hetero male eyecandy and main gal whom the camera loves to watch lounging around her workplace in leotards and thigh-highs but who can pull back a helicopter with her bare hands. She could be much more but GITS can't shake its seinen roots ("geared towards males 18-30 years of age") most of the time.
Still, it's a classic whom anyone interested in the current future of science fiction should watch.
Very recommended.
Summary of Ghost in the Shell SAC Complete 1st Season Collection Box Set
The Smash First Season Anime Extravaganza in one complete set! Major Motoko Kusanagi is a beautiful but deadly cyborg that is squad leader of Section 9-the Japanese government's clandestine unit assigned to battle terrorism and cyber warfare Surrounded by an expertly trained team Motoko faces her ultimate challenge- the Laughing Man- a terrorist who orchestrated a kidnapping and extortion plot many years ago and has suddenly reappeared. In order to discover the identity of this enigmatic criminal Motoko and Section 9 are drawn into a deadly labyrinth and they ll have to use all their expertise to survive This acclaimed anime series is from Production I.G (Kill Bill) and features the amazing music if Yoko Kanno (Cowboy Behop) with stories by Kenji Kamiyama (Blood Jin-Roh) and Dai Soto (Eureka SeveN) Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: ANIMATION/ADULT SWIM Rating: NR UPC: 669198252655 Manufacturer No: DV25265The 2002 broadcast series based on Mamoru Oshii's landmark film Ghost in the Shell (1995) takes place in a parallel world, where Major Motoko Kusanagi didn't vanish into The Net. Although its production values are lower, and director Kenji Kamiyama never matches Oshii's inspired camerawork, Stand Alone Complex does an impressive job of recreating the setting and characters. With the help of the other officers from Public Security Section 9, Kusanagi moves through a deadly city of mecha, cyborgs, humans, and human-prosthetic hybrids. Batou emerges as a more complex and compelling character in the TV series than he was in Ghost in the Shell II: Innocence: He engages the other characters, instead of endlessly quoting philosophers.
Politics and cyber-espionage collide in a somewhat tangled plot that centers on the pursuit of The Laughing Man, an ?ber-hacker whose pseudonym is linked to J.D. Salinger's 1949 story of the same name. The master cyber-criminal leads Kusanagi and Batou into a web of murder and deceit involving bogus cures for "cyberbrain sclerosis" and?corrupt government ministers. In the secondary story, the Tachikomas, crab-like robots used by Section 9, develop personalities and an awareness of their existence. The Tachikomas recognize some of the implications of their growing consciousness, but their childish voices--modeled after the performance of Japanese actress Akiko Tamagawa--sound odd discussing philosophical questions. Not surprisingly, the story ends with Kusanagi, Batou, et al. tackling a new case that leads into the 2nd Gig. (Rated 13 and older: considerable violence, violence against women, grotesque imagery, nudity, alcohol and tobacco use) --Charles Solomon
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