Hello all you happy people! It’s Ghost In The Shell day today, with the first episode of our new series! I will be live blogging every episode as they come out, along with Ghost In The Shell 2: Innocence and episodes of Ghost In The Shell: Stand Alone Complex. One new piece of GiTS love every day, so stay tuned!
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On with the show!
Ah, good old command line interface
I see we’ve gone from offensively American bad guys to offensively Russian bad guys.
Apparently, Aramaki doesn’t appreciate being called a socialist
Briefcase guns. Never made any sense but they are cool
Holy shit they even added Masamune’s liner notes to the show? Goddamn but that’s so cool
And you thought American cops lacked trigger discipline
Okay, surprised there’s no dialogue or anything for this sequence
Our new opening theme. Of course it can’t hold a candle to Yoko Kanno but what can?
Aramaki may start this show with brown hair, but it will be grey by the end of it.
Fuchikomas! As we all know, ‘komas are the best tanks in all of fiction, and Fuchikomas are the granddaddies of all ‘komas.
So we’ve seen the Major, Batou, Togusa and Ishikawa so far. I don’t think we’ve seen Paz, Borma, or Saito.
ProZD is voicing Aramaki and he’s doing pretty good so far? Motoko’s voice actor sounds way too young and we haven’t really heard anything from Batou or Togusa yet. The rest of the gang has been totally silent, too.
The Fuchikomas voices are going to take a little getting used to too.
Yep, the twenty-four hour cherry blossom guard is taken straight from the manga
For people used to the hyper competent Major from previous adaptations, this goofball Major will take some getting used to.
Um, okay, why was her mouth just hanging open like that
Sadly, this is not much of exaggeration of how real refugee camps and organizations work. Palestinians in particular have had a horrible time with the UNRWA, but their story is not unique.
Remember that GiTS started out as a blacker than black comedy. We’re about to see just how horrific the GiTS world can get.
Spider-tank, spider-tank, does whatever a spider does…
A-yup, Major She-Kong. Among Masamune’s many, many, weird interests, one thinks he has something personal against apes.
Inflatable body armour?
Togusa, watch where your going
Is Batou voiced by Steven Blum?
Should’ve listened to Ishikawa
Yeah, this version of Section 9 is a lot rougher around the edges than the other versions we’re used to.
Getting your ass beat by the cops has to hurt.
Oh right early Major is a major asshole.
Minister Jabba strikes again. Christ, he’s even uglier than in GiTS: SAC
Yeah, I miss Lithium Flower
All right, English voice cast! We got:
Motoko: Suzie Yeung
Aramaki: SungWon Cho
Batou: Bill Butts, doing a good Steven Blum impression
Togusa: Nick Apostolides
Ishikawa: John Bentley
Saito: Tony Weaver
Operator: Xanthe Huynh
And the Fuchikoma: Lizzie Freeman
Well, that was pretty darn cool. Can’t wait until next week’s episode!
Until tomorrow, then. And remember,
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