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Ghost In The Shell 2: Innocence in Theaters

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the can't-wait-to-see-it dept.

Lord Prox writes "The long wait is over, the sequel to Ghost In The Shell is here in theaters!. Titled Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence for the US market and seems to be available in a reasonably wide distribution for anime. There is also a trailer available."

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  1. Re:What was so great about Ghost in the Shell 1 ? by Masami+Eiri · · Score: 5, Informative
    Its hard to explain, but I'll take a shot.
    The movie's core theme was about what makes us human. Motoko and Batou were both cyborgs (meaning that the only biological part left was the brain), Togusa was fully human (may have had data jacks though, been a while), most of the rest of Section 9 were cyborgs (though not to the degree of Motoko and Batou), and the Puppetmaster was a computer program. All were fully sentient, so the question remains, what makes one human?
    Togusa was the only fully alive in a biological sense... but Motoko sure looked human enough. So, if instead, human is defined as having a human form, then we have Motoko and Batou. However, this then would include androids (dolls in GitS2)... and was the Puppetmaster not sentient? If he (she, it?) was sentient... should it be counted as alive despite lacking a biological body?
    Basically, where does Human end, and Human-replica begin?

    I hope that didn't just end up being more confusing...