My stroll down memory lane with Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex comes to an end as we reach Solid State Society, the final chapter in this version of the GITS world. Given it’s a film with a sub-two-hour runtime, it obviously lacks the depth and slow burn nature of the big cases from the two TV series, but it still has its moments, both with plot and some tense action scenes as well. Let’s take a look!
Here is my review of the next Dragon Ball Super blu-ray release, featuring the start of the “Future Trunks Arc”. It can be found HERE.
With Manga just announcing the Buu arc from Dragon Ball Kai to be released at the end of the year, it seems my blog will be full of product reviews for Dragon Ball long before I actually get to cover the show in detail!
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex’s “2nd Gig” comes to a close and manages to pull off a great ending to a both their leading (and intersecting) storylines. Unlike the previous season finale being all talk, this was very nearly all action, though it still made sure to have some of that GITS “makes you think” social issues in it. So let’s have a closer look!
The second season of GITS SAC gets off to a strong start. 2nd Gig has a reputation of not being as good as the first season, but I think it comes down to this season being more simple with its antagonist as opposed to being more cerebral and thought-provoking, but there are still some really good episodes to be found here. Let’s take a closer look at the first half then!
Can’t say a Chinese children’s film was high on my “must watch list”, but I’m not unhappy about sitting through the film, my review of which can be found HERE. It’s a visual treat, and its heart was in the right place, even if it was little overly surreal…
The first series of GITS: SAC (“Git’s sack”… unpleasant sounding!) comes to an end, in suitably talky way. Sure there is some action, including that old cliché of “secret organisation has their secret base attacked and raided”, but it ends with a philosophical discussion, the kind that original Ghost in the Shell author Masamune Shirow would have loved (or did love, he’s not dead or anything…) Anyway, let’s have a closer look! Continue reading
So this was all a bit sudden (and therefore it grinded my re-watch of GITS Stand Alone Complex to a halt, so a bit of a delay on Part 2 of that one!) but I’m happy I did the last minute covering of the series, because although it started off super generic, it really picked up! My review of the 12-episode series can be found HERE.
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex was one of the top anime shows of the mid-2000s, but how does it hold up today, over a decade later? Not to badly, as it turns out! Yes I was one of the people who spent nearly £100 on the 11 Blu-Ray boxset of the complete 50+ episode series and films (well, film really, I won’t be bothering to watch the OVAs that just recap the series…), so let’s take a look at the first 13, which are more stand alone than… erm, complex, I guess.
The third series in Gundam history is definitely when it fell off of a cliff, thankfully redeemed by the movie “Char’s Counterattack”, released later. Double Zeta gets off to a poor start, then manages to pick up a bit before falling again, though thankfully never as low as it was to begin with. I commend Tomino for trying something different, but… yeah. Different isn’t always good! Anyway, let’s take an overall look at ZZ then!
My review of the second half of the second season of My Hero Academia is now up on Anime UK News HERE. It’s definitely a series I will cover in more depth on this blog in the future, but for now, I’m happy to cover the physical media releases!
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