Rybit

Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone Complex 1st GIG

Total Episodes: 26 (26 x 25 mins)
Genres: Action, Mecha, Science-Fiction
Year Published: 2002
Studio: Production I.G

AnimeNFO User Rating
8.9/10.0

Description
In the future, life between the digital and physical world has been blurred. The boundary of technology and humanity has been stretched beyond imagination with lives being led in both the electronic and physical worlds. With the melding of man and machine, a new cybernetic level of existence is being created--an existence that continues to redefine mankind. (In short, humans can become machines.)




Awards and Accolades

Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex Wins Canadian Enterntainment Network Award

Best Animation Award - Anipike

SAC was voted Best Overall Anime, Best Animation, Best OP/ED Combination, Best OST, and Best Sci-Fi/Mecha Anime for 2003 by the members of the AnimeReactor forums.

Rybit

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Roliel

Awesome, thanks Rybit.

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fildien

Those of you who like this series, I highly recommend you watch the movie too. It is much better than the series.

Cloudwalker21

Excellent. Thanks Rybit!

Gemini

fildien, the first movie was incredible, but i hear that the second one pretty much only makes sense if you've watched the series inbetween. I know I had some troubles with it. If nothing else I didn't enjoy it anywhere near as much as I did with the first one. I'm going to watch the series now and then re-watch the second movie and see.

fildien

hmm I haven't seen the second movie yet.

I did buy the first DVD of the series and wasn't impressed so I stopped. But if the second movie is as you say perhaps I will start watching them again. The first movie was awesome!

Damnit I need more hours in the day, playing EQ2 and working is getting the way of me watching TV.

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Thormir

I'll always have a soft spot in my heart for GitS, since I saw its US debut in a little theatre somewhere in NYC when it first hit the States. It's also one of the only animes for which I've read the manga (which is both very good and illuminates the movie's events), but I've not been keeping track of SAC. Good to have the opportunity to do so.

Rybit

I wonder what existentialists and Nietzschian philosophers would say about cyberbrains, cyborgs, et al. Do they make us more human? Or when we have machine in us, we become less human? I believe Nietzsche would say that cybernetic implants would make us more human, because the human race depends on extensions of their body (we're losers in society, we don't have claws, we can't run particularly fast), such as guns, fur, etc.

Some might argue that having machine in us makes us less human. I think it would make for an interesting debate topic.

Thormir

Interesting, yes, but one first has to bridge the hurdle of defining just what "more human" and "less human" mean. I think we can look at a machine and say, "This machine is 'more human' than this other machine, by virtue of capabilities x, y, and z." But comparing humans to each other on that level seems difficult (usually such comparisons refer to a human's involvement in some atrocity or other -- i.e., "Dahmer was inhuman").

You might have more success saying, "That human is more machine like than that other human" if you quantify certain attributes of machines (mathematical acumen, cold rationality, and the like). But this might ironically foil Rybit's proposed debate, which asks, "Can human-machine complements be "more human" than unmodified humans."

How's that for a non-starter?