Ghost in the Shell Innocence

Gauss_chan · Post by **Gauss_chan** » Tue Jul 06, 2004 7:57 am

Yep, it's right! It took five years, but finally Ghost in the Shell Innocence is out.
They were showing it in Cannes too.
Rumour is, that nobody understood what it was about.
Now I wan't to watch it even more.

There are a few trailers on the net.
You guys can watch one of them here:

http://www.gofishpictures.com/GITS2

Post by **Taurec** » Tue Jul 06, 2004 1:50 pm

that site is great .. tnx for the pointer ...

Circle · Post by **Circle** » Tue Aug 31, 2004 4:43 am

Saw the short English trailer and the 5 min Japanese one. It reminds me of Blade Runner except more robots to exterminate. I'm interested. =)

terran empire · Post by **terran empire** » Tue Aug 31, 2004 6:34 am

*pounds his head in to a wall*
i have been waiting forever for this and the closest it shows is boston

HELLFIRE · Post by **HELLFIRE** » Wed Sep 01, 2004 7:43 am

....any hints as to the story? 1st movie was the main storyline in the manga
condensed down (the Puppetmaster arc), I've yet to sit down and see SAC,
but I heard the Fuchikamas made it in...

Regards

Circle · Post by **Circle** » Wed Sep 01, 2004 9:24 am

I haven't seen any of the TV series either.
The official site has a synopsis but their flash annoys me. I took this off Ain't It Cool News (and ignored the spoiler section).

The year is 2032, three years after the events of the original ‘Ghost.’ Bateau still works for Security Police Section 9, his job all but consuming every moment of his mechanized life. He is lonely, going home only to his savagely cute little hound dog, on whom he dotes (at one point we see him holding his dog’s oversized ears up so they don’t fall in his food). He’s haunted by the mysterious fate of his former partner, Major Motoko Kusanagi, and even though he hasn’t seen her since the Puppet Master incident, he still considers her to be his guardian angel,.

Bateau’s partner is now Togusa, who he is willing to accept only because it was Maj. Motoko who first scouted him for Section 9. There have been a string of murders perpetrated, it seems, by gynoids (sort of servant cyborgs) against their masters. Everyone is struggling to understand why these gynoids, seemingly devoid of ghosts, are revolting against their masters. Bateau discovers that these gynoids are actually a new breed of robot called sexaroids (yeah, that’s right). These sexaroids, manufactured by an organization called Locus Solus, are absent of any organic material, yet appear to have ghosts that enable to them to serve their sole function of sexual pleasure.

The enigma of these murderous sexaroids (honestly, there wasn’t a better translation for this word?) forces Bateau to consider just what it is that distinguishes his organic ghost from these artificial variants. Not much, as it turns out.

It's been a long time since I saw the first movie so I don't even remember any of the other characters' names or what they looked like other than the Major and the Puppet Master. I'm gonna have to watch it again before I see this sequal.

Post by **Taurec** » Wed Sep 01, 2004 11:45 am

Batou is the dude with the eyecaps ...

i suggest watching:

Ghost in the shell standalone complex.
The tachikoma's (how they are called now) .. have a show of their own ... (bleeping amusing)

imho the TV series comes closer to the manga character wise.

sexaroid ... sigh .. pleasure dolls .. would be a better word ..

HELLFIRE · Post by **HELLFIRE** » Thu Sep 02, 2004 8:08 am

@Circle
Thx for the info. Pretty sure that story wasn't in the manga.... unless it
was GITS2, which I have yet to get my hands on.

As Tau says, Batou is the guy with the eyecaps -- and the resident idiot in
the manga, Togusa -- think a domesticated Kurz with a strong(er) sense
of justice. The manga and 1st anime movie portrayed him with brunette
hair... of all things

Regards

Forse · Post by **Forse** » Sun Sep 19, 2004 3:48 pm

I downloaded dvdrip and...well it looks great. Also promotion dvd leaked a while ago containing 30min of music videos from Gits2 ost mixed with scenes from movie itself.

I have yet to see Gits2 as I am waiting for weekend when my friends will gather in front of my wide screen tv to watch gits2