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The Most Anticipated Anime of Summer 2026

meiam wrote:

Quote: (he's also known for Dominion: Tank Police and Appleseed, neither of which has retained quite the same cultural cachet) I think that's ultimately a good sign of the potential pitfall for the GiTS show, neither of these are worse than GiTS (I'd even say applessed is superior), the reason GiTS has cultural cachet is the Oshii movie.... which mostly threw everything about the Shirow version out the window.

The manga has been constantly republished since that time and had reach beyond just your typical manga audience of each era, so I don't know I'd say the original comic has 0 weight behind it. It was, and has been, reviewed positively on its own merits all the while, so I'm doubtful anything about it will outright tank its popularity to any meaningful extent.

Of course, I don't mean to be too dismissive of what you're saying here, since it is after all hard to say how popular GiTS would be without the movie, and SAC for that matter. There are parts of the manga's lore which I figure fans of those may see as violations of the GiTS worldview, funny as that is to say. Still, I'd imagine that'll probably just be more fun discourse football than anything actually damaging, so long as SARU doesn't uncharacteristically drop the ball somehow.

Glad to see Clevatess season 2 on the list.

No hype for Nanoha or is entry just too high/difficult for it now?

Its actually pretty easy to say how popular GiTS would be without the movie, we just look at how popular applessed/Dominion are (even those are overestimation since a lot of their appeal over time was "from the creator of GiTS").