MentalEdge

It looks and sounds great.

But it turns Motoko, who is just a common full conversion cyborg, if a hypercompetent military grade one, into a just another generic chosen one. Yet another “first” and “only” one. GitS is about what happens when posthuman science has gone so far that the kinds of things it enables are “normal”.

The movie completely misses that and is left with literally nothing narratively worthwile. It mashes together a bunch GitS moments with no respect for the original message, while simultanously butchering Motokos characterization and also glorifying her into literally the most important person in the history of cyberization.

FFS the originals make a point of Togusa being the “special” one because he’s the only actual “human” on the team!

The franchise is everything that exsists.

No-one is claiming it’s the same.

You really leave no room for tastes to differ, huh.

The hollywood “adaptation” shits all over GitS, because it misapplies and mixes the themes of the franchise in ways that defeats the purpose of exploring them.

Despite how cool it looks and sounds, it’s a far greater insult.

Changing the tone, colors, or sounds, doesn’t have to stop a series from being about the things GitS is supposed to be about.

The point of GitS was never the style. It was the themes about posthumanism, information infrastructure, and augmented society. That’s clearly still here.

It’s not for you. But its hardly offensive to the franchise.

I’m not sure yet, but this might actually land next to Dungeon Meshi for me.

It’s just so full of charm.

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I am in love.

It’s delivering on everything the PVs made me hope for.

They added kawaii to my kakkoii and I’m happy about it.

Netflix doesn’t make anime.

“Only” publish it. Their involvement here is much, much smaller than with their live action shows.

There are excellent memes about this type of thing and now I can’t find one.