Children of teh Atom

Ninjadmin · Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2007 2:10 am Post subject: manga/anime reviews

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ok the manga i have watched recently have been

Spriggan:
where a scientific experiment goes horribly wrong and a mad scientist tries to destroy the earth with a timebomb that japanese scientists found buried in the ground, A special gentically odified commando (a spriggan) has to take him out
It was pretty good, the drawings were old fashioned, but modern at the same time, same with the animation, it was all done in the cartoony style but it was very slick, i enjoyed it, although it was really daft

Ghost in the Shell 2:
In the same vein as the first GITS, quite hard to tell you what goes on without revealing the plot. the crux of it is that a new type of androids are being introduced into the underworld which are deadly killers
to be honest i didn't follow the plot at all, i've seen it 3 times and it's so all over the place you lose track of what's going on, but the world that they have created is beautiful, there are about 5 sequences which are just breathtaking, i might watch it in a second actually

Professor H · trainee ninja Joined: 20 Dec 2005 Posts: 270

to really understand ghost in the shell 2 you need to have read the manga

as with the first movie it takes elements from the manga but then alters them quite dramatically

a lot of ghost in the shell 2 i belive was based on the "robot rondo" story from the manga but the main concept of the movie focuses elsewhere

in the first movie there was large elements about ghost hacking and what makes the self the self

in the second movie the fcus movs from the act of hacking to the experiance of being hacked and from how we understand the self to how do we determin what reality is

thus many section of the second movie rely on the diffrence between the real and unreal and multiple perspectives on the same scene... often highlighted by the use of diffrent animation techniques

Ninjadmin · Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2007 2:47 am Post subject:

see all i got from it was the set pieces like the elephant bit or the flying bits, i tried to keep up with the plot but it was pretty difficult

Professor H · trainee ninja Joined: 20 Dec 2005 Posts: 270

the actuall things that are happening arn't really what matter

what matters is how batou percives his enviroment... first you have the reality of the fight with the gynoid ... with the bodies of the dead showing reality yet the gynoid herself is quite unreal..

then you have thinitial slip between reality and unreality .... the fight in the store which was a hack

you have the festival which although real is all about gods and unreal worlds

then you have the compltly unreal situation of the dolls house.. although there are elements of reality injected injto it... mainly the major and the dog

Ninjadmin · Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 5:13 pm Post subject:

one to watch on my own i reckon

Professor H · trainee ninja Joined: 20 Dec 2005 Posts: 270

i think you also need to read the manga to understand the origin

it feels compleatly diffrent to the anime though

much closer to the tv series

the tv series are also really good to get more of a feeling to whats going on

Ninjadmin · Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 5:36 pm Post subject:

you mean stand alone complex? the ones about the tanks?

i saw a few of them, didn't really get into them tho

i think because most of the anime i like,the story is just more excuses for violence, when something like GITS is on with so many layers, I'm not expecting it

Professor H · trainee ninja Joined: 20 Dec 2005 Posts: 270

it's not about the tanks but the tanks are in it... they are strangely missing from the movies

humm random violence.... can't really help you on that one

maybe gantz ... not seen that one myself but aparently it's pritty violent