Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, Volume 02 (Episodes 5-8)
by Kenji Kamiyama
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Actor: Daisuke Egawa, Hikari Yono, Natsuo Tokuhiro, Ry?ji Saikachi, Shiro SaitoDirector: Kenji Kamiyama
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); English (Original Language); Japanese (Original Language)
Format: Animated, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 120 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-09-28
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Manga Video
Movie Reviews of Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, Volume 02 (Episodes 5-8)
Movie Review: No Japanese stereo track
Summary: 1 Stars
This DVD is an outrage. I always watch my anime in the original Japanese with subtitles. This DVD's cover says that it includes a Dolby 5.1 Japanese audio track. THIS IS A LIE!!! Whoever at Bandai was responsible for making this DVD should be smacked in the head for this fraud! The only audio track available is the English stereo track. The Japanese is in DTS format which renders the DVD sound unplayable in most conventional DVD players, even my upconverting DVD player. This forces you to either watch the DVD in dubbed format (I hate dubs!) or get a high def DVD player capable of playing DTS sound.
By the way there is nothing wrong with the actual episodes, which are great. But the presentation is an outrage!
Summary of Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, Volume 02 (Episodes 5-8)
Major Motoko Kusanagi, Batou, Togusa, and the other officers from Public Security Section 9 battle crimes involving hackers, data tampering, and cyber-drugs as the broadcast series based on Mamoru Oshii's Ghost in the Shell continues. In "Missing Hearts," they pursue a gang of medical students involved in the black market sale of human organs--an unusual subject, as transplant surgery is much rarer in Japan than in America. The character of Batou is more entertaining in the TV series than in Ghost in the Shell II: Innocence. He's action-oriented and engages the other characters in coversation, instead of endlessly quoting Eastern and Western philosophers. Tachikoma, the crab-like robot with the cutesy voice, is an improbable presence in a show that features so much blood and hard-hitting action. The interstitial adventures involving multiple Tachikomas feel like scenes from an unrelated children's program. Extras include interviews with composer Yoko Kanno and the Japanese voice actor who performs the role of Aramaki. There's also a two-disc deluxe edition that boasts DTS 5.1 soundtracks in English and Japanese, plus a CD of Kanno's music from the series. (Rated 13 and older: considerable violence, grotesque imagery, nudity, alcohol and tobacco use) --Charles SolomonAnime & Manga DVD Video
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