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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GITS : SAC

[strmcrw]

FYI: There is also a series - Ghost in the Shell : Stand Alone Complex.
It's currently aired in Japan - there have been some Fansubs, but most have stopped since it was licenced in the US.
I have seen the first few episodes and can highly recommend them.

Foreign Language and Computer Programming?

[bluethundr]

That language instruction link seems really freakin' cool! I've toyed with the idea of learning Japanese for a while now. Maybe I'll finally find the motivation to try it out with this.

I've recently had a conversation with a friend of mine who runs a tech staffing agency about foreign language study amongst computer programmers. Both programming and foregin languages have always been an interest of mine. I was surprised to hear from him that this is actually "not unusual at all", and that in his mind the two interests have always gone hand in hand. I was wondering if anyone else here might have noticed this correlation?

The very idea is not without a sense of irony.

[Ayanami Rei]

Watch 2 episodes of Excel Saga, and call me in the morning.

If you see yellow spots, then you should be watching Friends instead.

If you laughed yourself to sleep, suffered from insomnia, or threw up, then I can recommend a regimen of shows depending on your follow-up.

Really, most all of it is no better than the crap some might call "real shows" on HBO, NBC, FOX, Sci-Fi, UPN, etc. - drivel pumped into primetime that won't hold your attention until you get accustomed to it. Except it's animated, and not tied to a Mattel product line.
Remember the first time you saw Law and Order and thought it was boring?
Remember how you now can't stop watching it on TNT?

The freaks who buy Anime at Best Buy are just that, freaks. Everybody who shops at Best Buy are freaks. Even the people that choose to work in that hellhole. God damn that place makes me want to punch everyone in the face.