Mr. Tines#857768 wrote:Sufficient of the SEELE/GEHIRN/NERV activity was public enough for Yui's fate to trigger a public scandal -- remember the newspaper articles shown in one or other of the flashback sequences (episode 16?).

Aha!

(who made the FGC btw that stuff is solid gold)

With good actors that get into the essence of their characters (and a real life Pen Pen) (I just noticed this) PEN PEN IS NOT REAL. He's a 'hot springs penguin' - he's a hypothetical cross breed between a penguin and the famous Japanese macaque So there it is right there. SFX barrier. Um, actually,...

I am referring to the White House Staff knowing Hillary. As indeed they certainly did. The H-Rod became famous because she was the most politically active first lady since Eleanor. Bill couldn't have run an administration of people who had never met her. Project E was a secret. Seele is a secret. Mo...

non-essential staff that knew Yui previously. She was one of its most famous scientists, a daughter of a Seele member, involved in its most famous lab test to date, and married to the guy still in charge. That would be like President 41 starting his second term by removing people who knew Hilary. A...

As for a Live Action version...people talk about an Akira one too, but are there any examples of anime trying to go mainstream in the west through live action, besides the new Ghost in the Shell? Makes you realize what an exceptional idea it really is. Going by Akira , it's an adaptation that veered...

GITS:SAC isn't supposed to be just 'awesome'. It's supposed be WEIRD awesome. Like Evangelion. I'm not asking for 11 individuals to go FULL YUKIO MISHIMA all over the police headquarters. Just some good honest cyberpunk would be nice. I'm feeling at this point the 'aesthetic choice' of a future ...

How many people would remember what Yui looks like by the time Rei is fourteen? Much of the staff of NERV? Yui was a top scientist until she got vaped. Ritsuko literally just left the room before Rei was strangled. A. Most of the Gehirn staff that would have known Yui vanished over the years. (Nerv...

I think the other 'Asuka Academy' argument is that Seele were planning for Eva pilots since the first contact experiment. As long as the best conditioned child is better than the gnarliest jarhead, so it will be. Frankly child soldier warfare is would be the least of their crimes.

^Epigenetic differences also explain an apparent 'plot hole' - Naoko recognises Rei-Yui on first sight at the age of four. If it's not obvious when she's fourteen then everyone must be pants wettingly scared of Gendou because that is one hell of an open secret. It could be her 'epigenetics' took her...

^ OTOH, the cloniness of Rei is more emphatic and arguably the parallel nature of Rei and Kaworu (which I've always said must not be taken for granted). The dad thing can be explained, like the New Creation gospel, as a literal example next to a metaphorical one. The Mad Scientist is the Father of t...

^^ Any credible GITS:SAC adaptation would be the cops who are going after the presentable teenagers of Hackers

^ Likewise,

^ That writeup seems a lot more positive than the link.

I'm watching 2nd Gig first. It's looking more likely to be the basis of the movie.

Seeing them pick over the invisible beatdown scene, the robot geisha scene, etc. makes me wonder if this whole thing is just going to be 'Ghost in the Shell's greatest hits' compilation strung together by a risk-free general issue plot. It would be a real shame: I've been re-watching the GITS:SA...

The first image in the book is a fun crossover. It’s a two-page spread of Rei and Pen Pen hanging out with characters from other titles such as Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water, FLCL, and Gurren Lagann. I would like to have seen that but I guess amazon.co.jp has gotta make some money someday (hah, l...

Depends on what you like. I'm there for the way sci fi dramatizes man's relationship with modern life. Modernity couldn't be stopped but it became pathological. Mankind really felt like that in the '80s. The Judge Dredd and Robocop like sense of the mighty city as a dirty engine, smothering mankind ...

I'll just add that the Toji character in the proposal was identified as a person who doesn't like to play sports

Could it not be, like, a...winter gym outfit? You can't wear shorts and a shirt all year round.

I don't whether to call it mythology or folklore or superstition or something else. But the claim that the serpent was Lilith is on the Lilith page right now even if the sources its from seem a little obscure. And the Serpent, the Woman of Harlotry, incited and seduced Eve through the husks of Light...

I thought he'd ascend to ani-heaven after his son finally 'waxed on' with Kokurikozaka kara . The old master can't die until us plebs
STOP
RUINING
ANIME

But... Shinji isn't female. ^well it would be the reverse. A female entity in a male role and then the other way round. Also, in case it wasn't apparent: Eva=Eve. I have to say I feel a certain degree of hesitancy, going and looking for Evas and Adams in these stories who are NOT the beings already...