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Sequel to Ghost In The Shell
News for nerds writes "Innocence: Ghost In The Shell as the sequel to Ghost In The Shell, anime film directed by Mamoru Oshii, has been announced. Due out in spring of 2004 in Japan, with Mamoru Oshii as screenplay/director, produced by Mitsuhisa Ishikawa of Production I.G, and co-produced by(!) Studio GHIBLI."
The original Ghost in the Shell was probably one of my favorite anime movies, period. The art, the soundtrack, the story were all masterfully created. The producer is going to have a tough time topping it! I sure hope they pull it off well though, as I'd be the first in line to see it.
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Maybe if we're lucky we'll get to see it in the theater here in the US. I'd hate to have to fly all the way to Japan to see it in a real theater!
I'd rather be a conservative nutjob than a liberal with no nuts and no job.
> GiTS [...] Virtual Light, Blade Runner [...] paint a world we want to live in [...]
It may be just me, but I considered the above creations (manga/books/films) as slightly distopian. Not in the "Orson Wells" sense, but more in a "grand-pa" sense. It is a future, where we probably are the grand-pas saying, "In the old times, everything was better", but everything is just different.
Or do you consider a future, where people are subject to the whim of large companies (Blade Runner/Do Androids Dream of Electronic Sheeps), surveillable by miniature implants (Stand Alone Complex), hackable like MS Brain '98 (GitS),
or the total fragmentation of the US and commercialisation of the national and regional goverments (Virtual Light) as desirable futures?
They are trying to paint a more or less realistic image of the future (Well, maybe except "Virtual Light"), without judging it.
"Between strong and weak, between rich and poor [...], it is freedom which oppresses and the law which sets free"
Also, I'm glad they're finally coming out with a sequel, the first one just leaves you hanging and cussing out the tv/vcr/dvd for ending just when it was getting interesting. I'm suprised that they havn't done a sequel already.
Studio Ghibli, eh? Those are those great people who did Princess Mononoke, Kiki's delievery service, and Spirited away (which was taken and released here by Disney...) I wonder if Mirimax (which is part of Disney) will be behind the release on our coasts.
Of course that would all depend on how successful Spirited away was. Anyone know when it's coming here?
In case anyone wants to subsidize my Amazon.com christmas shopping ;)
Ghost in the Shell
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Patlabor 2
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Urusei Yatsura - Vol. 2 (Episodes 5-8) (1982)
Urusei Yatsura - Vol. 3 (Episodes 9-12) (1982)
Urusei Yatsura - Vol. 4 (Episodes 13-16) (1982)