Hello all you happy people! We’re here with another GiTS live-blog, this time taking about the newest episode from The Ghost In The Shell (2026)!
As this blog is going to be all about cyberpunk and cyberization for the next few months, I’m going to have a post later on the Jacobian Conjecture and the very silly responses I’ve seen about it from both A.I. doomers and the pro-A.I. guys.
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And we’re back! This time to witness the most famous fight scene in anime history that they inexplicably cutoff last episode.
The assassin in the movie looked vaguely South America; this guy looks more generically Japanese. You know, for an anime guy.
Flyin’ Majors!
Machine pistols suck
Well, that broke the hypnosis, dumbass
Oh my Godzilla, they’re going to kill our hero in only the third episode! Bahahaha no, I’m kidding.
Ah, it is so hard coming from Yoko Kanno to this. No offence to other composers, but Kanno just blows you all out of the water.
Togusa shows up just in time!
The assassin is bleeding from his guts. Your definition of ‘fine’ is different than mine, Major.
Those are some ugly ass crows, man.
The concept of hackable ghosts is one part of the GiTS worldbuilding I never bought into, personally.
I think, character wise, this should be reversed. Togusa is the ex-cop; he should be one the concerned about leads and investigations. Motoko is the experienced counter-terrorism soldier; she should be the one taking about terrorist reprisals and showing people who’s boss.
I’ve never understood this sequence, either here or in the manga. The Major already knows that Togusa thought she was going to die; that’s what that earlier goofball sequence was for. So why are they discussing it again here?
80’s hair, man. One of the defining failures of humanity.
Do electric cars still need spark plugs?
Ah, our first look (sort of) at the mysterious super-hacker
The Puppet Master is much less hammy in the original manga.
I believe this qualifies as breach of contract, Puppet Master.
Aramaki could give Batman lessons
Sucks to be you, Batou.
Ishikawa’s voice is really low and growly in this show.
I’m glad the poor garbageman’s plight is treated a little more seriously here than in the manga.
Okay, so I’m going to be blunt here: the likelihood of AI’s rebelling against humanity Terminator or The Matrix style is pretty low. A greater problem, as we’re seeing right now with generative-AI, is people offloading all of their cognitive functions to the machines. They already do that with TV and Facebook memes and AI is just going to make it worse.
People are born stupid; AI will (at least in the short-term) make us even dumber.
A whole movie on a floppy disk?
Also, much like Shirow Masamune himself, I’m not sure AIs would understand the concept of free time.
This is also played a little more seriously than in the manga.
Ah, The Making of A Cyborg… but in true, Shirow-Masamune-data-dump-while-also-being-porn, style.
Whyfore is the nurse wearing panties instead of pants? At least put a skirt on, damn.
I do not remember the goofy security bot from the manga.
That is one horny ass cyborg
…I can’t believe this is being aired on TV in Japan. The Internet is less horny than this show.
In the manga, this scene was just Motoko and the nurse.
Autoplay must die a horrible death.
