Ghost in a Shell: Stand Alone Complex

So...what's this anime about then?

I hear it's a fairly bad anime, but the high tech stuff is pretty cool. I like the concept of it...well at least according to the way my friend told me about it. It's something about how everybody has high tech robotic brains? And the phenomenon known as 'stand alone complex' in which they attempt to conform around an ideal that doesn't really exist? Can anyone explain this thing further?

As a side note...you all should go watch Trigun, it's a fantastic anime.

1) it's old where did that come from
and 2) adam has them [trigun that is]

1) I know it's old, but it SOUNDS interesting, even though I'm told it sucks.

2) Watch Trigun, it's teh kickass.

dude that anime doesnt suck. Whoever told u that must be a moron cuz they cant understand it. You have to think in order to watch this anime. It literally makes you think about the subjects they bring. Itz a really good anime. WATCH IT. on the side note..........blew my turbo manifold gasket =(

Good to see you're alive Russ. And yeah, everyone's opinions differ. Some people still like Naruto, personally I absolutely cannot stand the filler episodes crap.

It's like watching Pokemon, only with more ninjas. It's just so utterly cheeasy and over-happy and positive it makes me wanna puke...I demand violence!

But I'll give it a shot, although out of curiosity, what subjects DO they bring up Russ?

And it sucks to hear about your manifold gasket. It seems like the Rx-7 has given you a WHOLE bunch of trouble in the past few months.

the subjects are more made up but they do have quote acutal books and people from real life. Thats what makes it good. And my car is easy to fix. Just a 2 hour job and a 8 dollar part.

Watch the origional movie, it doesn't suck. It's better than Akira.

i have only seen the first 5 eps in think and i didn't mind it i just forgot to keep watching. oh yeah el trigun is what i was talking about when i said adam had it and it's old.

That's good to hear. It's been a real pain in the ass just to switch out steering rack bushings on the old Subaru.

FYI Manji, if you ever do get whiteline rack bushings (definitely a worthy investment) remember to unbolt BOTH driver/passenger side brackets before working on those bushings. Oh yeah, and grease is your friend, power steering lines are not.

Original movie? I wasn't even aware there was a movie. And what the heck is Akira?

The characters in there are so conflicted, I love it, plus the fighting is realistic and badass. Nice and short, no drama, but entertaining.

Watch the last episode, the fight between him and Knives is the stuff of legends.

Yeah, the movie is just "Ghost in the Shell". And Akira is probably the best known anime in the world, not my personal favorite, but it is hella good.

Never even HEARD of AKira....what's it about?

i can understand you not seeing it, because i haven't, but not knowing is a crime.

Meh, might as well download it next. In about 30 seconds I will have completely finished downloading Ghost in a Shell: SAC botht he 1st and 2nd gig. And by the end of tonight (after i sleep) I'll download the movie as well.

But then again, my download of 1st gig started this morning and it said it would finish in '3 hours 45 minutes'. 9 hours later it's at '0 minutes 30 seconds'.

Just finished watching the first ten episodes of Ghost in a Shell 1st gig. It's okay so far...no real solid plot line though. I'm really into all the high techness of the place, but seriously, each episode is just a new mission or case. The only real underlying plot is the Laughing Man Complex thing, but it's moving at a pretty slow pace.

I've yet to see any of these deep underlying thoughts that Russ mentioned.

there is this one ep, the whole ep is them sitting at a table talking. Best ep IMO. Really technical. Makes you think.