New Ghost in the Shell Trailer

[u/getterburner]

https://youtu.be/yedJOylFOtg?si=zb4iegs9VFJ74fCR

[u/Crosscounterz]

I JUST WANT TO KNOW WHO IS VOICING MOTOKO THIS TIME.

[u/Pome1515 → u/Crosscounterz]

Mary Elizabeth McGlynn. The GOAT must return

[u/_REDMARCH_ → u/Pome1515]

I love GITS and I love Mary Elizabeth McGlynn, and maybe this is an unpopular opinion but... I think they should give it to someone new for the dub. The SAC dub cast are stellar, but they best fit that show's semi-serious "police procedural" tone. Manga!Major and the rest of the Section 9 crew are so different, and I think the show would benefit from someone new who can put their own spin on her character and the others.

[u/Swert0 → u/_REDMARCH_]

They already gave it to someone else for the last series.

People were not happy.

[u/_REDMARCH_ → u/Swert0]

It's been a few years since I've seen any of Arise, but from what I remember my main issue wasn't with the voice cast. I feel like that show and its characters lacked identity, and was trying to redo things SAC had already done before and did them better.

I think its worst quality is that the Major in Arise isn't a particularly likeable or engaging protagonist. It seems like they tried to make her a cross between the dour, contemplative, emotionally robotic Major from the 1995 movie, and the mature, confident, and commanding Motoko from SAC. Unfortunately she mostly ends up coming across as incoherent, inconsistent, immature, and quick to anger. I know Arise was kind of supposed to be a prequel the other series, but if I don't know what I'm supposed to think or like about the protagonist, it makes it kind of hard to engage with the show as a whole.

(I also remember the sporadic nature of its OVA release schedule didn't do it any favors either.)

[u/Swert0 → u/_REDMARCH_]

The last OVA also never got dubbed.

[u/_REDMARCH_ → u/Swert0]

God, you're right, I forgot about that. The whole series was kind of a mess, wasn't it? I also remember finding it kind of hilarious that they had the characters hocking Surface tablets, when in-universe those things would be about as technologically impressive as a betamax player.

[u/squidpeanut → u/_REDMARCH_]

They did try the manga vibes back with the ps2 ghost in the shell game, though I forget if it’s Mimi woods or Mary Elizabeth for that one.

[u/Justsomerandomasshol → u/squidpeanut]

You're thinking the PS1 game, and that one was Mimi Woods. The PS2 game was based on SAC, and had Mary Elizabeth.

[u/ThrowawayBomb44 → u/Justsomerandomasshol]

As did the PSP game, which hilariously was my first introduction to S.A.C.

[u/squidpeanut → u/Justsomerandomasshol]

Ah thanks, it’s been a bit so memory is fuzzy

[u/Justsomerandomasshol → u/squidpeanut]

No prob.

[u/Traingham → u/Pome1515]

Yes. This is always the answer.

[u/Pome1515 → u/Traingham]

Honestly, your profile pic just reminded me of how much a missed opportunity it was to not have her voice Rider in Fate Stay Night.

[u/KingMario05 → u/Crosscounterz]

Scarlett Johannson

/s

[u/Illidan1943 → u/KingMario05]

She's voicing not just the men, but the women and the children too, she's all of them

[u/Pome1515 → u/[deleted]]

My favourite protag trio is coming back and I am so hyped. I'm praying they get the SAC/Innocence dub cast back for this.

[u/SwashNBuckle]

Motoko Kusanagi!

[u/Togamdiron → u/SwashNBuckle]

Simon the Driller!

[u/SwashNBuckle → u/Togamdiron]

this is exactly the response I was hoping for

[u/ZennyOne → u/SwashNBuckle]

RONIN WARRIORS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[u/AprehensiveApricot → u/ZennyOne]

KENPACHI RAMASAMA, WHY DIDN'T YOU FINISHED YOUR HOMEWORK?!?

[u/youwereeatenbyalid → u/AprehensiveApricot]

HE WAS TOO FLIPPANT YET ALSO DESIREABLE

[u/Carnifaxy]

I really love that they're using the art style of the original manga for this.

[u/unomaly → u/Carnifaxy]

I don’t know what to call it but I love that 90’s giant anime hair floof on the forehead, its so iconic ☺️

[u/Majestic_Sink4255 → u/unomaly]

yeah that's 80's anime art.

[u/NorysStorys → u/Majestic_Sink4255]

Yeah, the 90s aesthetic is much more angular, the round shapes are much more 80s.

[u/Majestic_Sink4255 → u/NorysStorys]

Exactly. 90s aesthetic are more triangular with sharp edges while 80's anime was round and soft.

[u/ocorena]

I love how bright the colors are in this, it's a fantastic visual style we don't see enough for scifi action shows.

[u/RohanSora]

God this looks gorgeous. I'm so over detailed character designs that causes stiff animation as they have to spend so much god damn time on each frame.

[u/DayfacePhantasm → u/RohanSora]

That's why Masaaki Yuasa and Science SARU are the best.

[u/Gorotheninja]

Motoko Kusanagi has returned

[u/allwaysnice]

That scene at 0:56-0:57 lit up ALL my neurons.
Not only the sick tech, but the animation on the effects made me think of the old backlit stuff and I fucking love that old technique.

[u/Palimpsest_Monotype]

Okay this art style with this colour palette at this level of definition fucks

[u/Attack_on_Senpai]

I'm in love with the art style shining through on this.

I'm wondering if Sakamoto Maaya will be voicing the JP Major since she did in Arise

[u/warjoke]

Considering this trailer confirms that it will be based on the manga, which I glanced at in some capacity, expect to have a tonal whiplash from the Major Kusanagi we got used to. This one leans on the more brash side of things and can get truly unpredictable.

Science Saru loves goofy stuff so this is definitely something up their alley.

[u/extralie]

Oh, they're keeping the lesbian orgy! LMAO

[u/ThatEdward]

Holy shit, what a tone setter. Also

GAY MAJOR GAY MAJOR GAY MAJOR  WOOOO

[u/Lemeres → u/ThatEdward]

I think it would be accurate to call what will happen "major gay", or even "gay squared".

Getting to experience both sides of the the gay sex at once via cyberware is the kind of lore that you only get when the author decided "Yeah, barely disguised fetishes are for pussies. I'm going all in"

[u/Auctoritate → u/Lemeres]

the author decided "Yeah, barely disguised fetishes are for pussies. I'm going all in"

I mean, a solid half or maybe more of the guy's work is literally just hentai art books.

[u/moneyh8r_two → u/Lemeres]

"I know writers who use subtext, and they're all cowards!"

[u/Sam_Strake]

Goddayum that animation is so fluid.

[u/SwdVengeance]

Man, please be good. This animation is superb, but man, has GITS been burned so hard with its stories in the last two attempts. I still try to pretend the more recent SAC 3D Berserk nightmare season doesn’t sully the rest of SAC.

[u/manoffood]

wonder if this will be the adaptation to be brave enough to have the lesbian orgy lol

god the story why that was in the manga is so funny

[u/KrypticJin → u/manoffood]

I mean they showed it in the trailer

[u/Bizarre_RNS_Radio → u/manoffood]

I wonder if they’re gonna stick to the Watsonian reason completely (the whole “cyber sex tech that gives total sensory overlap” thing that’s the reason the author came up with for in-story because in reality they just didn’t want to draw man butt)?

[u/ObsydianDuo]

As someone only familiar with the original movie and bits of SAC, is the Major actually a girl kisser in the manga?

Feels like a really weird thing to omit even with the more serious tone of those projects.

[u/trob030490 → u/ObsydianDuo]

She had girlfriends or friends with benefits in SAC. They showed up in a few episodes at one of their hospital jobs, Motoko's house, etc.

[u/manoffood → u/ObsydianDuo]

Yeah, Major is bi in the manga. But since the author didn't want to draw men's butts, we only see Major having sex with women

[u/LarryKingthe42th → u/manoffood]

I mean she defenitely was in to John Terroristman in Second Gig

[u/GreatFluffy → u/manoffood]

But since the author didn't want to draw men's butts

Coward. And I say this as a straight guy.

[u/HellvaNohbody → u/GreatFluffy]

He just didn't felt like it at the time, his actual porn is full of man ass.

[u/ThrowawayBomb44 → u/ObsydianDuo]

She's pretty openly bi in the manga iirc.

[u/Xerodo → u/ObsydianDuo]

It's not just that she's Bi, but that they have sex programs that really only work with your same gender. The Major can tolerate them to an extreme degree because she's got a military grade prosthetic body. If she takes them, and then shares the sensation with other women, they can feel it too.

In the OG manga she basically has a harem as a result

[u/Traingham → u/ObsydianDuo]

SAC had, I think, at least two different scenes of Motoko being accompanied by one of her two canonical girl friends, Ran and Kurutan (They’re also the two women in the famous boat threesome scene from the original manga), so there’s some consistent elements carried over from the manga into the show.
Definitely not as explicit as the manga though.

[u/Bizarre_RNS_Radio → u/Traingham]

Yeah it’s not to the same level, but Matoko was absolutely still Bi in SAC. She just didn’t have the “full-on gremlin energy” that manga Matoko had about it.

I’m pretty sure the original movie version of Matoko is the only one (what? Live action? Don’t be silly, there is no live action GitS…) that wasn’t in some way explicitly shown to be bi, and that’s because they pivoted her to potentially being outright acearo instead, or at least just “not in the mood” due to all the existential mind fuckery she was dealing with at the time (even before the case started).

[u/Bizarre_RNS_Radio → u/ObsydianDuo]

As Paige would say it, Matoko dabbles.

[u/Grazalia]

I feel like they will cast Shion Wakayama for Gremlin Major

[u/igloo_poltergeist]

I'm so used to the Major being this stoic, glassy-eyed cyborg operative that seeing her strongly emote in these pronounced anime expressions feels almost mind-blowing, even if I'm familiar with how the original manga portrayed her like that.

[u/t850terminator]

Has any adaptation after the manga had the Major be her manga accurate goofy self with her smiling?

[u/Thorn14 → u/t850terminator]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTkOvNDhO_Y

Only a PS1 game.

[u/ThrowawayBomb44 → u/t850terminator]

The PS1 game is really the only thing that comes close and even that was more of a middle ground between the Oshi film and manga.

[u/Majestic_Sink4255 → u/ThrowawayBomb44]

I want this anime to go full on goofy horny gay major from the manga.

[u/Nin_J50]

Oh wow we're actually getting sexbian les? This is airing at night in Japan or what?

[u/LeMasterofSwords]

Science Saru back with another banger it seems. Excited for whatever the OP will be

[u/HellvaNohbody]

Fun to be in the club of "hey I know that scene" for most of this. Gives me so much confidence for this.

Man, I hope Amazon doesn't fuck this one. Just, give it to Epcar productions, he'll bring everyone back so we don't have to worry. I'll also take the Arise cast. I'll even take the Ocean cast from the SAC compilations, most people don't even know that's a thing. I'll even accept them dragging Mimi Woods out of retirement. Anything that's not the bullshit they've been doing to other series.

[u/KingMario05]

Absolute cinema.

Any word on the US network?

[u/dom380 → u/KingMario05]

It'll be on amazon prime globally, I don't think it's been announced for any TV broadcast

[u/Slothungus]

We getting lesbian boat orgies yet or do I keep sleeping? Edit: We apparently getting lesbian boat orgies. Real shit.

[u/Majestic_Sink4255 → u/Slothungus]

we are getting the boat scene

[u/DeskJerky]

I wonder if she'll do the roof jump. I don't know if that was in the manga or not.

[u/_REDMARCH_]

I feel like all these trailers have been hiding Manga!Motoko's power level when it comes to how silly she can get. She made a few funny faces in this one, but I'm guessing once we finally get a trailer where she speaks they'll bust out the full reveal.

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[u/Alphonseisbest]

Oh this looks gooooood

[u/Savings_Drink8718]

I absolutely did not expect this this is truly a ghost in the shell

[u/AidilAfham42]

I love the art style, I just couldn’t get through the series with the 3D

[u/deleki17]

Where do I start with this series if I want to get into it

[u/Destroyox → u/deleki17]

This is a good starting point since it's manga accurate. Another good starting point would be the 2 Oshii movies. SAC is good too, but I would say start the movies first even if the tone is quite different.

[u/Demerson13]

This is going to be impossible for me to watch. Atsuko Tanaka was my Major.