Ghost in the Shell ARISE “Looks Amazing” “Maaya is Perfect”
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: May 12, 2013 15:12 JST
- Tags: Ghost in the Shell, Movies, Production Controversy, Production IG, Seiyuu
A new trailer for the highly controversial Ghost in the Shell ARISE movie series has been released, and the scepticism of GitS fans disturbed by radical changes in both character design and voice casting appear to be evaporating rapidly.
The latest trailer:
An updated site also reveals old school Tachikoma, although it is hard to see Tsumugi being the object of much more than ridicule:
Online there has been an significant reversal in opinion after the trailer’s release:
“I thought Maaya’s voice would be too light, but she carries it off perfectly!”
“Maaya’s doing great. Though apart from Togusa the rest do sound off.”
“This is awful!”
“When they changed the seiyuu this ceased to be worth watching. Hurry up and make another proper sequel!”
“Saito’s new look is atrocious:”
“Please tell me this is a joke…”
“Maya really carried off Tanaka’s vocal style nicely. Not too sure about Batou though…”
“Did you guys forget Maya played loli Motoko!”
“I remembered, so I was concerned. But the preview is great.”
“The real problem here is that the movie and SAC were so good they are seriously tough acts to follow.”
“This PV is seriously promising. I didn’t think wooden Maya could pull off Motoko but she did it. She sounds like a young Motoko. I don’t think the seiyuu changes are a problem now.”
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The chara designs still look bad, especially the derp-face Motoko wears nearly constantly. And to make matters worse, it also looks cheap...
So this is going to be a reboot and reimaging of the series? Ignoring the already released masterpieces in the series for a fresh start that couldn't possibly live up to the original stuff?
I wish they could have just made an all new anime going off the inspiration of GitS rather than this. Then we'd have a whole new series to potentially love as well and not have to feel like the past things we love have been "erased" in a sense for modern times. The anime world needs a NEW anime in the vein of the 90s megahits like GitS and Eva, getting the same thing regurgitated isn't acceptable enough to me.
It looks good standing on it's own, sure, but it still pales next to anything we've seen before from this series.
GITS was essentially a reboot and the Original movie also is quite different from the manga... People seem to forget this series has proven it's more than capable of retooling itself very successfully
Yes, this is true.
Except for Innocence.. that movie sucked.
You're technically right, so just change the first sentence to "So this is going to be ANOTHER a reboot and reimaging of the series?"
This so far seems to be lacking in reaching the levels of anything previously seen from GitS. It would really have been better for them to use the opportunity to have made something new instead.
Yeah i fully agree with you anon.
SAC > ARISE
It seems that the childish, asshole downvoter is on the loose again.
>be cyborg woman
>choose to be ugly lesbian
why?
To avoid unwanted attention.
xD
The designs are still too flat and boring. Reminds me of Masashi Kishimoto's stuff.
The Suzaku kick must be getting popular again...
i have bets on poplar. but guess she is out of the horse run.
Spinzaku never stops.
Design is crap, no matter what, doesn't come close to the original.
I'm now okay with this.
Oh look, it actually looks pretty frikkin good.
Remember, people who downvoted me in the last GITS Arise post: you are supposed to hate this. Don't go changing your tune now after watching the trailer.
Old School Tachikoma = Fuchikoma///
The only response I honestly have to that video... is that this is the first time watching something with the "Ghost in the Shell" name and not getting chills. Maybe it's the music, maybe it's the change in style, maybe it's the lack of subtitles and understanding what they're saying, maybe it's just that I'm too "stuck in the past", or all these things, lol. But I'll still check it out when it releases.
There's not a lot of passion in the PV. The original GitS, SAC, and Innocence all had very dark emotional undertones that were well communicated. This PV fails to do that. Hopefully it was just a single misstep by the producer.
i didnt know machines can look creepy until i saw this.....
this makes me want to run away!
Standing on it's own, sure, it looks great, especially next to most other anime today... but considering what series it's from, it doesn't look like it's going to live up to that prestige. They should have just made a whole new series inspired by GitS.
Windows 8 tablet in the future? No. Fucking no.
Oh well, it looks fine other than that.
Well still better than iPad
well, i'm pretty happy with my ipad. when i need windows 7 I just use my laptop and for everything else my ipad does everything else. BTW, anime looks really good with a retina display
This was written on an android tablet.
This comment was written on a Celeron desktop running Ubuntu Linux 12.04. :D
this comment was written on a 486sx running freedos 1.1 using the arachne web browser.
This comment was written on an ipad
I own a Ipad I can play Street Fighter IV.
This was written on a linux tower - go home you fancy tools.
umad cuz you poor?
he is mad because you ask stupid questions.
I'm still not a huge fan of the art style. I've long been opposed to the standardization of style in Anime that seems to have become a trend.
That aside, content looks excellent.
Looks like she got an ultra tight little ass this time. Best I can tell, whats it matter?
Never doubted Maya. She's an awesome VA. Just look at Kara no Kyoukai.
At least it's not some abomination of low-quality rotoscoping.
I know that doesn't say much.
Well, I'll hold my judgement until I've seen it. The new voice actors are fortunately pretty good, though I still don't get what was the point of changing them.
New Motoko = No. Just no.
The SAC/2nd GIG designs were perfect across the board. These new designs look like a throwback to the '95 movie, which was awful. I have zero interest in watching this new series.
VAs aren't the problem here, but i still grin my teeth everytime i see the new character designs.
and all the idiots realized they were fucking idiots.
no kidding, i'm wondering if there's a way to reduce the pissing and moaning from fanboys every time something gets tweaked from source materials.
This includes super hero movies and tv episodes. the purist are really starting to piss me off.
i do think the "evil rainbow" and the colors of the television are partly responsible. but this is way outside my league allready...
The ARISE may turn out to be good, but theres still no getting around the fact that Motoko looks terrible.
They like the Young version of Motoko.
Ok... now this is a good. Producers had me worried for a minute.
Still concerned about those tablets in a world where you can link brains..
To be honest, this will be better than every (future?) Hollywood adaptation of GitS (if there's one that is), especially having watched this latest trailer.
I don't understand... Whats with 90% of the comments get thumbed down to at least -0.6? o_O