How about this concept of a masterpiece - something that can be interpreted and analysed in many different ways.
I mean, I could base my review on the original soundtrack and explain how each song and each instrumental illustrates a certain motif in the story. I would sing praises to Yoko Kanno, because she is a genius like no other, and I would certainly say that I regret very much the death of Ms Origa. And here I would ponder what could happen if Ms Origa lived in the world of GitS and was able to reload her brain into a new prosthetic body...
The moment the tilt rover takes off accompanied by the lowering electro sound... It gives me more pleasure than many full openings I've seen.
The moment the tilt rover takes off accompanied by the lowering electro sound... It gives me more pleasure than many full openings I've seen.
Or I could start arguing how GitS SAC is a row of short stories exploring the issues of artificial intellect multiplied by artificial bodies, with the story of the Laughing Man and Individual Eleven acting as a unifying thread. Some of the stories were actually incredibly impressing and inspiring to think over something important.
At the same time, it's a mixture of life stories of several people, the main characters, with every new development making my heart skip a beat. The amount of nerves I lost during 'Solid State Society' is not something to be replaced easily. I think I haven't been worried this much for a while... I would also add how I found it so strange that I cried over the destiny of the artificially created mechanisms if not more than at least as much as I cried for real people in many other movies and anime I had seen.
And I could speculate how in so many situations the lines spoken by one character could be interpreted as having to do something with a different situation not mentioned explicitly but clear from the context, like when the reason why Uchikomas' AI didn't develop into the same one as Tachikomas' was explained, but at the same moment you realise it's also about the Major and her decision to start her own adventure.
And I could speculate how in so many situations the lines spoken by one character could be interpreted as having to do something with a different situation not mentioned explicitly but clear from the context, like when the reason why Uchikomas' AI didn't develop into the same one as Tachikomas' was explained, but at the same moment you realise it's also about the Major and her decision to start her own adventure.
I could also do some research and start digging into SAC seeing it entirely as an action-mystery series, finding faults in the plot and trying to justify - or blame - them.
Many contradictions would be actually found with the world they live in - the world of the future, but with strange rudiments of the past, where they use CD despite being able to carry portable memory devices suitable for storing the whole brain
or having to whisper secret information while others can communicate via something bordering on telepathy
or keeping important documents on paper
or using those 'Galapagos' flip phones
Picking another way of telling my impressions, I would mention that GitS is a work that puts too much questions on the table, not answering most of them.
Tying these two theories together, I would share my wonders and say how it is even more strange now that only 3 months are left before it's the 2019 they mentioned.
Some things do not change, however, like Tokyo freaks... And how can you possibly dislike an anime which has so many tiny details properly thought over, such as these people wearing weird stuff while it's already AD 2032
or the way the prime-minister wipes the wire with a small cloth after Kusanagi asked her to receive data directly. Or the way a small shop interior is meticulously portrayed when the characters simply run by. Why did they have to create even the mosaic above the door?
Sometimes it's almost scary how vast the scale of this anti-utopian world is and how far the imagination of the creators went. Ohhhh how did you know 20 years ago?
I say HOW_DID_YOU_KNOW?
How scary it is to watch 'Individual Eleven' when only last week I translated and edited articles on Global Voices...
I say, just how much did they think about the modern world when creating this anime?!
Oh yes sometimes it's scary. If it's what I think it is, then only a year ago I visited an observation deck here to see the prosperous city's night-scape and bought some souvenirs in the shop.
Now for the good part. By the way, GitS is slightly
only slightly ecchi sometimes
And I liked this side of GitS too. No, to be more precise, I liked that for the first time in a while I saw grown-up people making grown-up decisions, and most importantly - a young attractive AND capable AND dangerous AND strong woman such as the Major.
Seems that long before I began to feel satisfied at least with 'arrogant bitches' there were real women to admire... I have forgotten this feeling already. To say nothing of the voice acting, which actually set me back on track and reminded how real voice acting is supposed to be done.
I mustn't leave aside the humoristic aspects of the story. Right? Robots claiming due respect
misunderstanding the situations
giving high five to each other - was it a part of their AI self-learning system?
Some double-layered puns? A company president reloaded himself to a tin box speaking Osaka dialect which turns out to be not native...
Oh, this is a great idea - basing a review of GitS on how the 'stand alone' concept is used in so many different contexts, I think I could name 4 or 5 times it was used in the song lyrics on top of being simply a basis for some characters' actions (Inner Universe, The end of all you'll know etc.).
However, the fact I first mentioned to my friend dying to share my impressions with her in hope she'll watch it too someday, was how the team of the main characters was based around the idea I liked so much.
Teamwork and team spirit and soldiers in the same uniform and with the same hairstyle are all okay, but an organisation where individuality is respected and every one is given freedom as an acknowledged specialist with his own way of doing things - you don't know how much I envy this structure, oh no, not unless you are working in a dull governmental organisation with significant rotation and absence of initiative, like I do. Understanding all negative points of such structure I still think I'd be very glad to say 'my ghosts whispers to me I should do so' to my boss - and be allowed to do so immediately.
And then, how can I keep from praising the art and visual design when it creates such an inimitable atmosphere...
Who decided to portray the digital environment as this kind of colourful space? He is a genius isn't he? And who created this scene in the movie, he must know it captured my heart conclusively and irrevocably.
So now, what was supposed to be a short compilation of the thoughts that came to my mind while I was watching the series, evolved into a huge mess in the shape of this post. And I don't care.
Still, there is one thing I regret.
I hope this new society will not be bogged down in its beauty vlogs, live streams of something no one really asked for, street pranks, silly DIYs and, even though I myself watch them constantly, cute cats videos.
The net is vaster than ASMR and letsplay, right?
I mustn't leave aside the humoristic aspects of the story. Right? Robots claiming due respect
And then, how can I keep from praising the art and visual design when it creates such an inimitable atmosphere...
Still, there is one thing I regret.
The net is vaster than ASMR and letsplay, right?
