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Ghost in the Shell 2, Matrix Revisted, Daft Punk
NeoCode sends tons of juice starting with "Ghost in the Shell creator, Masamune Shirow, has talked about a sequel to GITS in a recent interview. The director of the original is working on GITS2.
The Matrix Revisted is essentially a prequel to the original Matrix movie. My guess is that the anime story might be along the lines of the Matrix comics that are on their website. Anyways, here are some tidbits about the Matrix anime.
And lastly, CartoonNetwork has a interviewed Daft Punk about their anime video and their anime" I saw the Daft Punk (as well as all 3 Gorillaz!) videos on Toonami last friday. Had to immediately hit Cheap CDs and buy the album. (Yes, I'm buying CDs again. I ended my boycott now that Napster battle is over) I thought it was just Gap commercial soundtracks, but those are sweet videos.
I've also forgotten all the cool lines, such as "Trinity I've got r00t on j00r b0x3rs"......or was that some other movie?
Acting stupid isn't much fun when there's someone around who knows better
Help stop russian hackers and wicked pirates.
Sorry to flame our mighty mentors here, but I really think Slashdot would do better if there was not personal commentary on story headlines. Most of the valid complaints people have about this site is the biased or foolish comments added into the headlines. It is quite frustrating.
Acting stupid isn't much fun when there's someone around who knows better
(Yes, I'm buying CDs again. The Napster battle is over)
So whats that for a comment?Is it necessary? Is this now a political tension of slashdot? You're admitting you used napster just of piracy?
Honestly I really broke one of my CD's and downloaded the mp3. Really honest I had bought it befor, so it was 100% legal.
Taco gives his impression of the way the humanity should tread musical values just as a side in brackets?
Pleh now why I am reading slashdot at all, for such smartass side-comments?
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Karma 50, and all I got was this lousy T-Shirt.
Anything that deprives me of my freedoms is bad. Boycotting takes away my freedom to buy CDs. Therefore boycotting is bad.
Hah!
You can't even agree to put together an army to stop a piss-ant war on your own continent.
Look at the economy of countries like Italy, Portugal or the eastern Europe. Pure crap.
Your space program sucks. Every now and then your rocket blows up or a satellite ends up on a wrong orbit. You haven't even walked on the moon which we did in the 1960s, for chrissake!
Your nuclear deterrent consists of what? Ten warheads in the UK? Even after all the reductions we've still got thousands.
Your navies are pitiful. You can't even project power cause you don't have proper aircraft carriers.
Do I need to go on?
Why would you buy CD's just because Napster was destroyed? You can use Limewire for Gnutella, Aimster (though i would recommend it), audiogalaxy, imesh, etc....
come on man...
"(Yes, I'm buying CDs again. The Napster battle is over)"
So presumably you stopped buying CDs because the RIAA was picking on the little guy and you were showing your support by boycotting their products... but the RIAA won, so now you're going to suppot them again? What the hell kind of stance is that. I'm personally pretty displeased with the RIAA still. And the MPAA! You buying DVDs Taco? For shame... I personally have vowed never to support these tyrants again.
BTW: The latest GAP ads are just a rip-off of the video for "Around the World" - directed by the great Michel Gondry.
Cheers,
-Ugo
Gorillaz is so hip!
I know it's true becuase the TV told me!
And we all know the TV don't lie!
The 3D rendering with the superimposed hand-drawn characters worked out well, and I think only he could have pulled it off to make them look good together.
I haven't even gotten half way through the book yet (I've just finished the full color pages in the first part), so I'm just touching on the appearance of artwork. It seems that Shirow has also expanded and fleshed out details of his vision of virtual navigations (the brain dives).
Needless to say, I highly recommend everyone to go get a copy! (Although, I'd recommend all of Shirow's work)
I have GITS - great sound, great story. Looks more like Hong Kong than like a futuristic Japan.
I was pleasantly surprised to see that it was free of CDD encryption. Making it much easier to play on my Linux desktop. Any idea anyone if GITS 2 will also be CSS-free? I am certainly going to buy it, if it is.
Michael
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I'm surprised there hasn't been more discussion of the Daft Punk music videos here. The recent ones are from their latest album 'Discovery.' The videos are animated by Leiji Matsumoto, otherwise famous for anime such as Space Cruiser Yamato (aka Star Blazers), Galaxy Express 999, Captain Harlock, and Queen Emereldas... it's great stuff! Especially since Matsumoto himself is more than seventy years old now!
:-) A Quicktime file of the first video is available in three sizes from 'http://the-raft.com/pieces/daftpunk/movies/one_mo re_time_m.html'.
I had originally heard that only the first four tracks from the album would be animated, but the fourth video (which I saw on Cartoon Network's 'Toonami' the other night) doesn't resolve anything. Has anyone heard for certain how much of the album will be animated?
The first three videos are available in RealVideo format from 'http://www.animedream.org/movies/matsumoto/'. The third video is my favorite.
I'd love to see QuickTime or MPEG versions of all four videos; anyone know if such is available?
Wow. It seems that the carefully constructed arguments of those that say "No, we only use Napster for fair use only" have been undercut by a throw-away comment by a Slashdot editor.
There are people (I'm one of them) who ^might^ think that "hackers" are bad people like they are shown in the media. "Hackers" are the ones that come up with worms, virus toolkits, and remote exploits designed to make life miserable for others, and are generally dickheads. But after reading Slashdot for a few years, I realized that "hackers" can be legitamite people with legitamite concerns about copy protection, security holes, freedom of information, the centralization of power in one corporation in Redmond, the "fair use" provision in law, protecting the littlr guy against the big corporations, and other such issues.
These last few stories have shown your efforts in a new light.
We may think that lawyers are slimy because they sue for little reason hoping to fish for some settlement money. The reason the lawyer might give would be "I'm just protecting my rights", but under it all, it's for the money. It's disheartening to find out that the reason behind some supposed "civil rights" actions is merely greed in a socially acceptible form. It's frustrating to find out that the political party you support because they back a certain issue only back that issue so they can get more votes to promote a hidden agenda (Insert major party here). And it's frustrating to see a major player in the Linux news community admit in print that the reason they support "fair use" is to shield their illegal activity long enough to that they can get as many mp3s as they can.
Once you lose your credibility, it's hard to get back. Hardly anyone listens when it's said that Clinton pardoned Rich as a favor to Israel leader Barak, because they are used to seeing Clinton lie about other things. They assume the worst when it come to motive. Also, because the public feels that Condit has not been truthful and has been more concerned about reelection, he has already been tried in public opinion. Nothing he can say now will be seen on the context he may want it to be seen, even if it were sincere.
So what's the point of this comment?
Once you say, "Well, yeah, actually it was about getting music for free", when for MONTHS you have been saying otherwise, well, why should those who are not necessarily "hackers" see this site as anything but a fraud? Perhaps the real reason you want the DeCSS file propagated is as the first step to pirating DVDs? Perhaps the reason you want the DMCA overturned is because it stops people from cracking encryptions and giving away other people's material for free? You can say, "No, we want to view DVDs on Linux, and the DMCA is too broad", but it's hard to see your point of view when you admit that a previously held position was only held for greed.
I think that there is a good community here (then again, I browse at +2). I think that people here have things to say that don't get said many other places. And I think that for one of the admins to undercut one of your main messages just to put in an ad for CheapCD.com says a lot more about this board than one hundred well meaning posters can ever do.
This comment might be redundant, but only because it takes a while to type.
"...(Yes, I'm buying CDs again. I ended my boycott now that Napster battle is over)"
Ah, I see. Of course the battle is over! It must be. Because Fanning and company sold out like the little whores they are, we shall all now stop trading mp3's and gladly throw away our fair-use rights to music and literature. Please RIAA, saddle us with watermarks, encryption, and subscriptions! Please, publishers, lock us out of reading the books we bought and paid for! We don't mind. Because if CmdrTaco says the battle is over, then it must be so.
-Kasreyn
Kasreyn: Cheerfully playing the part of Devil's Advocate to hairtrigger
He changed his comment without providing the usual "Update" note in the post. The original post said that he's buying CDs now that the Napster battle is over". The only meaning I see from that is that since Napster has been shut down, he needs to buy music since he can't get it for free.
/. editing lately has been changing their original posts when they make foolish comments without saying that they changed the comment. When people that haven't seen the original story see the original posted comments of others replying, they think these original posters have rabid squirrels in their pants. That is disappointing.
One thing about
Instead, the editor is not boycotting the RIAA anymore because Napster has been shut down? Does that even make sense? It's a convenient boycott when you can get your music for free.
It's like saying that if Microsoft should come up with some (supposedly) uncrackable anti-piracy distribution of Windows, then he would end his "boycott" of MS products by actually buying the software instead of borrowing it from a friend. A boycott is a moral stance against some company or product because of some stance or issue they support. A boycott is not simply stealing things for free and saying it's for some moral reason.
I wonder how long it will take before the editors change the post again. It didn't used to be this way.
As a tremendous Masamune Shirow fan, I think it's really important to point out that the comic (which Shirow did) is very different than the movie (directed by Mamoru Oshi). Important because the interview is with Shirow, who wrote quite a different work than the movie.
Most scenes in the comic feature tiny personal tanks that have a shared AI called Fuchikomas... if you've seen the Playstation game, you'll know them. Also, Major Kusanagi is a practical joker, who has a rather crude sense of humor, goes in for quickie sex, and pisses off and is pissed off at her superiors. None of this is in the movie.
Of course, the ending and themes of "what is self when memory is fluid?" and "what makes a soul?" are explored in much more depth, with seriously long passages of text. I'm not saying it's comparable to Critique of Pure Reason, but it's an enjoyable philosophic entertainment. It's also full of classic Shirow detail in background art and sidebars and footnotes explaining the tech used and political structure of the organizations.
( BTW - ditto for "Battle Angel", which, in the comic form goes way way past anything in the OVAs, and I recommend to anyone who is a fan of Shirow ).
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Evan, who has been up for 48 hours now at a LAN party.
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..doesnt really seem to exist. Sure, a couple of years back it was hailed as revolutionary and it was supposedly going to change the face of animation. But what has happened since then?
Anime itself has stalled with few of the newer flicks progressing beyond a minor foray from the tried and tested. When GITS was released, I would have expected that its sequel would one day extend a complete revolution, but instead I now look forward merely to a couple of hours of quality entertainment.
Sure, you could name Final Fantasy to prove that I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure that a few years down the line, people will recall FF too as a really well-done movie instead of some kind of harbinger of a revolution in animation.
What a disappointment!
Posting messages for the betterment of humanity..
It isn't just this (/.) board. As someone whose only recently begun visiting more tech/nerd sites (/., Ars, etc), I've been disappointed by the number of misogynistic and homophopic comments I see posted on a regular basis. I'd like to tell myself its all the work of ignorant 14 year olds but, unfortunately, such sentiments seem to be broadly disseminated throughout the online/enthusiast culture.
has a interviewed, now that napster battle is over
Both these would pass a spellcheck. (Except for the word napster which is still spelt correctly)
I hang my head in shame.
Much like the men here and here
So, free music is more important to you than free speech? You'll boycott over Napster, but not over Felten?
Taco is my hero. Not.
Become a FSF associate member before the low #s are used
Although I suspect it will be edited, the Cartoon Network is premiering Cowboy Bebop tonight at midnight (Eastern time).
And the men who hold high places must be the ones who start
To mold a new reality... closer to the heart
(Yes, I'm buying CDs again. I ended my boycott now that Napster battle is over)
If you weren't buying CD's during the Napster battle, you're part of the reason Napster lost! Napster was a great resource for finding music, More often than not, I would find some obscure piece of music by one of my favorite artists , listen to the mp3 and then rush out and buy the cd. I would often also find more information on the people recording with these artists and end up buying more music by the people listed as working on the albums.
Now that Napster is gone, I'm finding the rate at which I discover and purchase new music is lessening because I don't have this wonderful database at my fingertips anymore.
The "I want everything computer related for free" crowd has really messed up my new music discovery process.
Pooty tweet
Maybe you found reading books was too difficult.
suck. The anime videos they have now don't even come close to the ones from the Homework album.
Around the World and Da Funk videos were just plain cool. Even though I have and enjoy the new cd, I was really disappointed when seeing the videos.
I could be wrong. After all I saw the Homework videos while I was in college and still got high. Maybe they just seemed better.
I'm still boycotting both the RIAA and the MPAA. I still listen to the radio, but I usually don't buy types of products they advertise, or can try to choose a competitor's. :-)
Really, it hasn't been so hard. But then, I like classic rock and have never purchased a DVD in my life, so the tempatation to buy the "latest and greatest" is somewhat diminished.
You know, a fundamental component of capitalism is the right NOT to buy something. Until I can purchase their products with cash, instead of my freedom and soul, then I think I'll do without.
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mod this up! this anonymous coward is completely right, shut up about napster for 10 minutes and talk about anime, i mean... MATRIX ANIME PREQUEL!!!!!!! jesus, say the word napster and everyone gets all indignant, there are more important things to talk about (the Matrix being one of them)
May you be touched by His Noodly Appendage. RAmen.
CmdrTaco joins JonKatz on my Slashdot filter list
I gots ta ding a ding dang my dang a long ling long
TMR is not a prequel. It's an upcoming DVD release that contains more supplemental behind-the-scenes footage and yet more extras.
Might as well toss this tidbit in, check your cartoon network listings. 9 and 9:30 CST.
Also check out this petition to get Disney to release some of Japan's greatest anime.
I like daft Punk, but every time I hear the name i start laughing uncontrollably as the name conjures the image of that Victoria's Secret Commercial, where she dances to 'One more time."
It's probably already been said, but Matrix Revisited is not a prequel, but a new DVD of extras.
On that note, is anybody actually considering buying it?
I love extras. I don't mind The Matrix's extras I got on the CD, but I can't justify paying for a DVD of just extras.
About the only other Matrix extra I'd want is a new commentary by the directors, the original commentary was... mediocre, at best.
I just watched it. :), and they actually used the great Yoko Kanno opening ('Tank') and the ending ('Real Folk Blues') was unchanged and in Japanese.
I'm quite impressed - considering it IS CN.
There was little editing - people smoked, drank, got shot (WITH Blood), and swore.
The voice talent was not that bad (although showing subs would still make my day
Overall - it's about as good a treatment of one of my favorite, and definately one of the best series as I could hope for by a major cable network.
Anyone know if it will always be shown on Sunday, or is there a different regular time?
Sincerely,
Kevin Christie
Program in Neuroscience
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
crispiewm@hotmail.com
"So what if 40% of published work sold in japan are comic books. Why does everyone think if japanese people like it must be cool somehow. Actually most people don't think that. Socially challenged geeks with a warped sense of reality somehow think pop culture trash from japan is somehow cool. Spare me."
What measure would convince you that the Japanese are leaders when it comes to media rivaled only by the American entertainment machine?
Economically they are the second biggest market for entertainment. Go ask hollywood when their stuff bombs here where they pray they can recoup their costs. One might suppose they can suceed there for a number of reasons amoung them it being different and maybe because they want to see what we watch.
As far as what you call "comic books" there is a difference between a comic book and a manga. Even the comic book industry sees this and is looking at introducing a more mature product. Just because a book has pictures and uses them as part of telling a story don't trivialize it as childish. This is not about symantics. Some of the best manga tells of history, culture and such. One might also add the simple question of what qualifies you to bash anothers culture when your own has such a short one to draw upon. If the greatest sci fi novel was a manga would you still complain? That's the unique position that the Jpanese are in. They have so much of a head start in animation and graphical novels in presenting comlex stories. To not concede that point is laughable at best and likely the result of not being exposed to some of the best stuff. Not figures or toys but novels with a message as deep as the greatest western novel, stage play or art. Sure there is crap but to judge a whole segment on the worst rather than the best or even the average says that you won't give it a fair shot.
Finally the real reason I like watching anime and reading manga is believe it or not for the nuances of culture that are present and the method of telling stories that are often driven by characters and their developement rather than the situation developement found in many cartoons and comic books. I'm probably in the minority but I really find the best of their stuff refreshing as I do stuff from the west.
The central point I've tried to drive home is their are many different types of manga. It's not all stories or games or history or technical use of a pc and introduced via antedotes from professionals ect. It's about using the chosen medium to it's fullest. I see the Japanese doing that all the time and the west starting to embrace it on a larger scale. Perhaps if you had stuck to the topic or criticised Man Machine Interface rather than bashing broadly. Oh well maybe that anime catagory just isn't your cup of tea.
FYI the word "otaku" is japanese for "geek", "nerd", and the like... it has been used as an english word for someone who loves anime for some time. So yes, it is in fact news for nerds.
Hey, nice to see Daft Punk mentioned here as well as anime but... as was implied in a previous /. story Masamune Shirow's majority of works are hanging in limbo. I doubt very many other /.ers were lucky enough to accidentally receive HBO for free when they were kids but I can tell you I've been missing "Nausicaa: Valley of the Wind" ever since I was 8 years old. I can no longer even tell if I saw the crappy edited version or the original but either way this was something that impacted me deeply. So hooray for GITS2 and Daft Punk (honestly) but let's keep making some noise about all those old Masamune titles that apparently are not worth the time to distribute in the U.S.A.*flush*. Oh, and of course you should check out the various Shirow titles available in print (aka. graphic novels and comic books). They contain an artistry which even the authentic animations cannot touch.
Well first of all the first movie barely even showed the Real World, where Neo is mortal as can be. The war with the machines has to be won on two fronts, in the Matrix, and in reality. In the matrix the idea seems to be to turn Neo into a superhero character, while the fight in the real world is more and more resembling the rebels vs. the galactic empire theme we all know and love.
ok. pardon me. How the Heck did anyone get an interview with Masamune Shirow?! The man is a total recluse. Noone knows what he looks like(at least who's speaking anyway).
ok, mebbe by phone. But you still have to find a way to CONTACT him! Kodansha must still have some serious juice in order to even contact Shirow's publishers.
...this was probably uncalled-for. Sheesh, looking back on this I don't know why I was so angry at Taco over such a little thing. For all I know it could have been a slip of the tongue (keyboard?).
So, apologies for the overly harsh wording of the title there. Wownt doowit n'mower.
-Kasreyn
Kasreyn: Cheerfully playing the part of Devil's Advocate to hairtrigger
Otaku means House(as in your hose)