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.
Microsoft have announced they will be co-opting Ghost in the Shell: Arise to promote the Japanese launch of their Surface line of tablets, with plenty of product placement in the offing should anyone get the mistaken impression a futuristic cyberbrain is any replacement for a 2012 Microsoft tablet.
someone should !!"rule" this. right?... More
I would totally watch this. This is not even such a big deal, it's mostly because of people like you that some new productions have to resort to product placement. I'm glad they didn't resort... More
Ghost in the Shell Arise’s controversial decision to redesign Motoko and company and scrap all the old seiyuu seems to have been contentious even amongst the production staff – Production IG’s CEO has said he was dismayed when he first say the new Motoko, and even her new seiyuu has said she will “have to try to adapt” to the new Motoko.
If she's fully prosthetic, she should be able to change her voice at will. It makes sense that they would initially give her a voice and body that more closely fit her age, and... More
This is true. They should have made Dante look like this.... More
Ghost in the Shell Arise’s new trailer joins news that not only will the OVA be getting entirely new character designs, but also an entirely new voice cast, in what is proving an exceptionally controversial new direction for the series.
“Anime” and “cool” in the same sentence may still strike some yokels as oxymoronic, but that has not stopped anime fans from voting for what they believe are the coolest anime of all time for this latest ranking – which not only again manages to include “that” anime, but even manages to see some recent blockblusters displaced by venerable classics…
>Tiger & Bunny >cool HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!... More
Star driver? make a robot look totally gay is cool? lol wtf happen to this world. Pd: I remembed Scryed more to the opening who looks like a Ricky Martin song... More
Anime fans have been polled as to which anime they think have the most spectacular and well produced battle scenes – providing plenty to please fans of giant robots and SF, and for once even including “that” anime…
A new anime in the Ghost in the Shell series has just been announced, Ghost in the Shell Arise, although there look to be some very dramatic changes to the franchise in store – including a new design for Motoko.
A Japanese-developed cyber-attack warning visualisation system has lately been earning massive praise for its beautiful graphics, and almost as attention again for its unmistakable similarities to a certain cyberpunk anime…
A visual interface that can auto-detect a problem and troubleshoot is better than reading a line of code any day... More
XD well whats wrong with basing technology being based off fiction as long as it works, now i want a guyver... More
Even in Japan, many dismiss anime as being no more than cartoons for kids – Japanese anime fans looking to challenge this prejudice provide 25 anime titles they would unhesitatingly recommend to those poor souls who might otherwise languish under the terrible misconception that animation consists of nothing more than Disney flicks and Saturday morning cartoons…
yeah, seriously over a decade, some folks speak before they know lol... More
You're fucking retarded. It's "They're." "They (anime) are for kids who can't grow up." "Their makes absolutely no sense in that sentence. I hope English isn't your first language, or you seriously are a fucking... More
Anime watchers share what by their estimation are the coolest anime girls, providing a rather solid list right up until number 7…
Major Motoko Kusanagi from Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex is set to receive a rather unusually posed figure by Kaitendo, due July 2011.
Ghost in the Shell is finding itself in dire need of a shorter title with the announcement of a 3D remake in the form of Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex Solid State Society 3D, to be presented in stereoscopic 3D, whilst One Piece is actually getting a fully CG edition.
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