Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex Trailer
tetsuo13 writes "Bandai Entertainment Inc. in conjunction with Production I.G. has acquisition of the home video and broadcast rights in North America for the highly anticipated anime television series - Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex. Created by Production I.G., original story by Masamune Shirow, directed by Kenji Kamiya, and music by Yoko Kanno Stand Alone Complex is the television series sequel to the animated film that redefined Japanese animation, Ghost in the Shell. A trailer was released a few short days ago for those that just can't wait!! Get it here (45 MB download)."
Click the link below the trailer header: http://www.sa.sakura.ne.jp/~straydog/oshii/gits-sa c/index.html
As I recall, actually, the movie was ORIGINALLY produced in English, and later dubbed into Japanese. I've seen both versions, and they're both pretty inpenetrable. Make no mistake, though. I loved it, and I love Masamune Shirow.
As for the Major being naked, if you read the comic, she spends a lot more time naked there. (Well, sorta. There are some deleted scenes.)
There's a copy here: www.daedalustech.co.uk/gits-sac-trailer.mpeg (I must be insane)
Take it easy with the server though... I'm not sure how much load it can take...
I've got it on Gnutella too (same filename - gits-sac-trailer.mpeg), so only use the link when absolutely necessary... please.
I'll take it down if you guys kill the server too much...
Dont mind me, anyways... I'm just karma whoring.
Was the book Japan: Profile of a Nation? It is indeed published by Kodansha and appears to be close to what you described.
From the description on Amazon, it also appears to be a condensed version of their large encyclopedia: Japan: An Illustrated Encyclopedia, which is an order of magnitude more expensive.
.. I can't think of a better use of college bandwidth :)
;)
All of them here
I have 3 versions that I've mirrored:
A 34.8 MB mpeg
16.2 MB wmv
and a 2.4 MB wmv
Enjoy
I've re-encoded it with DivX and halfed the screen size. It's just under 7 MB and mirrored it here
There is a ((slightly) more) acceptable compromise featured on the Excel Saga DVDs. ADV calls them "vid-notes", and what they are is pop-up-video-style notes that explain the nuances that got left out. When Excel pulls some gag that makes absolutely NO sense in English I can at least read the note that says "This is a hilarious pun in Japanese" and know what I'm missing.