Ghost In The Shell 2: Innocence

timbloid writes "I spotted on Ain't it cool news that Mamoru Oshii's new anime Innocence Ghost In The Shell 2's website is now open! The trailer is beautiful! But I can't help thinking a translated version is some time off from the 2004 Japanese release... Maybe it would be faster for me to learn Japanese?"

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echo 'Slashdot == CRASHDOT';

[Anonymous Coward]

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Anime Sucks..

[Anonymous Coward]

what's with the continued fascination with japanimation?? Aren't you people too old for this now?

I got over it once I learned it was a lot more fun smoking, drinking, and fucking, than watching some big-eyed orange spiky haired cartoon getting raped by tentacle monsters.

grow up.

Re:Translations...

[Repugnant_Shit]

In summary:
Subs: good
Dubs: bad

Guess what

[Anonymous Coward]

Anime is for fags, and the little boys they molest!

A Friend Suggested GitS as Example of Good Anime

[avdi]

So I watched it, and yeah, it was better than a lot of the anime I've seen, but it still sucked by any conventional film standards. Animation was horrible (I don't care how good of a painter you are, this is *animation*, the pictures are expected to move fluidly). The dialog was unremarkable at best (yes, I watched the subtitled version). The plot was cliched and confused (not confusing; confused). Animation still can't show fights worth crap; fights are always broken down into a montage of "scenes" - a girl rolls, a kick connects, a gun fires, a wall cracks. Worst of all, like all anime, it was way too wrapped up in it's own visuals. Note to anime filmmakers - I'm impressed when a live action film achieves an iconic visual style, because I recognize how difficult that can be given the realities of lighting, camera limitations, physics, and acting. I'm far less impressed when an animated film achieves a similar style, becaus by definition it's a completely controlled environment where (at least theoreticaly) anything is possible. So when Our Cloaked Hero stalks away, wreathed in steam, through a downpour, in perfectly noir-lit streets, I'm not going to oblige you be saying "wow". It's not like you had to arrange for the damn fog machines.

Also: anime depictitions of "angst" are as laughable as they are ubiquitous. Downcast eyes and hunched shoulders do not a Tormented Hero make. Don't think that a few seconds of canned backstory footage is a substitute for decent acting when trying to drag some character sympathy from the audience.

I get the impression that when fans sit down to watch anime, all the standards which they might otherwise apply go right out the window, because it's ANIME!!!

WTF are you talking about?

[Anonymous Coward]

You showed GitS to people to convince them that the genre is worthwhile? GitS is a piece of crap. It's the exact same as 1,001 other anime features:

* Big-titted broads
* Things blowing up
* Guns and stuff
* Lots of pseudo-philosophical bullshit straight out of a freshman dormroom.
* A spacy, ambiguous, intended to be profound but actually just plain stupid ending.

GitS is pretty much just Akira updated for a new generation of easily-impressed otakus with a shallow grasp of narrative structure and meaning.

Re:Ghost is great non anime lovers.

[DNS-and-BIND]

What's the draw? Seeing teenage girls being raped by tentacled monsters, perhaps? C'mon, this isn't flamebait...name one anime fan YOU know, moderator, who DOESN'T have a SINGLE tentacle porn. Yeah, that's what I thought.

The stereotype you quote is correct, to a degree. The anime target consumer is a child. The reason full-grown adults in America flock to anime is unknown at this time.