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Oh hell yeah! I'm in!

I only got into Galaxy Express 999 a couple of years ago, but I grew to really love it after watching most of the original 70s series as well as the 80s Rintaro films. It's a fundamentally great story about what it means to be human in a world of technology, and I think that message is really important for modern times.

I'm glad to see that Rintaro is writing the script for this. We don't seem to know who is directing this, but my dream director for this probably very out-of-left-field and maybe controversial, but I'd love to see Takeshi Koike take a stab at it since I know that he was a huge fan of the original film.

It's really hard to say... I don't think I can pick just one to be honest...

I love the romantic beauty and natural charm of Ghibli. I love the realism and details of Otomo, Satoshi Kon. I love the wild, colorful, and chaotic nature of creators like Tsurumaki, Imaishi, Koike, and Yuasa. Then you have shows like CITY, which was an incredible fusion of Arawi's cute, simple and colorful artstyle backed by the animation prowess of Kyoto Animation. There are just too many great art styles out there to pick just one!

I will say that I mostly feel that anime peaked in the late 80s and 90s. Of course, nice looking stuff is still being made, and today colors are brighter and frames are cleaner, but there is just something textural about painted cels on top of painted backgrounds that we have lost in the transition to digital.

My prediction for the future of high-quality anime is that many creators will want to return to more physical media based pipelines, due to the perceived cheapening of digital art brought about by generative AI. Because ultimately creators want to stand out, and viewers want to be impressed.

Lupin The IIIrd (Fujiko Mine series and subsequent films)

Have you seen Redline?

If not, you really should! Takeshi Koike is a genius animator and Redline is one of my favorite anime movies. :)

The first episode of the new series is basically a panel-for-shot adaptation of the manga in both story and style. It's definitely a lot more cartoony than the previous anime films and series.

Fair enough, I suppose.

I have my issues with it, and I basically had to watch it twice due to the very fast pacing and difficult dialogue/subtitles. But as a fan of these characters and this world, I did enjoy it and I'm glad to be seeing it.

For better or worse, the intent here seems to be to make a faithful adaptation of the iconic Shirow Masamune manga, both in terms of storytelling and stylization. Whether you think that's a good goal or not really depends on how you feel about the manga, and whether it's worth adapting in such a direct way. But that's clearly what Science Saru is trying to do, and it hasn't been done before with this manga.

As a fan of the Masamune's manga, Oshii's films, and Kamiyama's SAC series (at least SAC, 2nd gig, and SSS), I see these all being threads of the tapestry that is Ghost in the Shell. Very different in style and substance, but all of them work together to create an interesting world and a set of great characters exploring interesting themes where humanity and technology coverage. I didn't think one detracts from the others.

In that sense I disagree that this is "shitting all over something that you like", and it's probably more accurate to say that it's being overly faithful to a manga that you don't care for.

Why?

If big tech corporations (the richest companies on Earth, by far, by the way) value these works enough to use them as part of their AI training datasets, then maybe, just maybe, they should value the creators enough to pay them what they are owed for the rights to use the data.

Copyright law was made by those in power to protect the idea of intellectual property, but clearly they are willing to ignore their own rules at the first convenience.

Yep, exactly my experience at basically all the grocery stores near me.

Self-checkout used to be quick and easy, now it's just an exercise in patience and being treated like a crook.

I prefer self-checkout. I'm fast and I don't really like small talk.

What really sucks is that modern self-checkout requires so much babysitting and cashier assistance, because they assume everyone is a criminal. The supermarket has become the panopticon.