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Stand Alone complex Disc 3 of 7

Advantages: Contains important plot information
Disadvantages: Has one very boring episode

...disc 1) http://dvd.ciao.co.uk/GhostInTheShellStandAloneComplexAnimated5930574 ------------------------------------------------------------- Ghost in the Shell, Stand Alone Complex - Disc 3 of 7. Episodes included. 09.CHAT! CHAT! CHAT! 10.JUNGLE CRUISE 11.PORTRAITZ 12.ESCAPE FROM This disc is a bit of a mishmash of odd episodes, one is chronically boring but deadly important, another involves a giant blue tank bot pretending to be ...
...sub~episode thats about two minutes long including only the tachicoma's. 09.CHAT! CHAT! CHAT! Doesn't this title sound truly breathtaking? This could be one of the most exciting episodes ever seen on Japanese television. Though sadly in reality it's not, it is in fact the most boring episode from this series. There is another nut cracking example of such tedium but only in the next series. In this awful episode of mindless gibberish we have the ...

Jon_Farrimond 21.01.2006 · Read full review
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Review of Ghost In The Shell - Stand Alone Complex - Vol.3 (DVD)

Existentialist Anime

Advantages: realistic mecha anime aimed at the more grown up audience, not to mention the themes by Origa
Disadvantages: Can't take a real Tachikoma home

...fantastic soundtrack. The Ghost in the Shell refers to the soul in ones body. It is the year 2030 and cybernetics has advanced to the point where not only can people opt for cybernetic enhancements, but severely injured persons can become transplanted into cybernetic bodies. This leads to the question of just when does a machine become a living being, acquiring a ghost in the shell, as society recognises that just as the scientific advances have ...
...arc, and the second season, Ghost in the Shell: SAC: Gig 2 has its own story arc, so viewers are left with a satisfying conclusion without having to breathlessly await arrival of the second box set. Kudos go to the studio for the presentation as well. We get a high quality viewing experience thanks to the compression rate not being too high, with the episodes spread out over seven discs. You can choose to view it in the original Japanese, with or ...

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Review of Ghost In The Shell - Stand Alone Complex - Complete Box Set (DVD)

"Smoke And Idiots Love High Places!"

Advantages: Beautiful animation, 3 superlative episodes, excellent sound, a fair wealth of extras
Disadvantages: 1 rather underwhelming episode, sound problems with the extras

The Ghost In The Shell franchise is an all-too-rare examples of anime that has been as successful outside of its native Japan as within. The reason? Well, much like Manga-stablemate Akira, the original Ghost In The Shell film (first released in 1995) proved a convincing alternative to Disney's films of the time which, good as they were, all tended to run in a similar vein. In its armoury were eye-popping production values, a genuinely thought-provoking ...
...spotlight here is (deep breath…) Ghost In The Shell: Stand Alone Complex 1ST GIG Volume 2 (GITS: SAC 1st GIG Vol. 2), which contains episodes five to eight. A sort of futuristic anime cop-show if you will, episodes five to eight expand on the characters introduced in the Volume 1 DVD. They belong to 'Section 9'; a public security sector that deals specifically with internet and cyberbrain-based crime, such as hacking and identity theft - all a great ...

tom1clare 01.06.2006 · Read full review
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Review of Ghost In The Shell - Stand Alone Complex - Episodes 5-8 (DVD)

Stand Alone Complex Disc 4 of 7

Advantages: Good episodes none of which are boring
Disadvantages: Not any really.

Ghost in the Shell, Stand Alone Complex - Disc 4 of 7. Episodes included. 13.NOT EQUAL 14.YES 15.MACHINES DESIRANTES 16.Ag20 ------------------------------------------------------------- Background information for this series can be found at; (Character, series, translation, dubbing, subtitle and general information is situated at the bottom of the review of disc 1) http://dvd.ciao.co.uk/GhostInTheShellStandAloneComplexAnimated5930574 ...
...allowed me to review an episode using Pirate speak and also some dodgy rhyme, which has lightened my day considerably. I got to talk about big blue robots which was also fun. Overall this DVD is pretty amusing, I enjoyed it. 13.NOT EQUAL Aha an episode all at sea! Quite literally. (Yarrrrrr Me hearties! Etc and so on...) There was a little girl from Yokohona, And her daddy did have a little moana, ... , about his robots company going bankrupt ...

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Review of Ghost In The Shell - Stand Alone Complex - Vol.4 (DVD)

Sometimes, Ignorance is bliss

Advantages: clever thriller, good story, well acted
Disadvantages: bit depressing?

Dont misunderstand my review title, this is a cracking film. You can nearly always say that about Nicolas Cage films, but this one really is! The premise is simple. There are many disasters happening on earth, for some reason, aliens decide to warn mankind about the upcoming disasters by "whispering" them to a little girl in the 1950's. Unfortuneately, that girl does nothing with the information other than write it down on a bit of paper and allow ...
...capsule. The capsule is dug up in the current day and discovered by Nicolas Cage's character. He soon discovers the code in the series of numbers written on the page and works out that the code tells of impending disasters, when they will happen, how many will die and the location. The story continues on along this path, with a worrying fortelling of the end of days. We don't know what will happen right until the end. I wont ruin it for you either, ...

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