Forum - View topicHello [anime like GitS?]
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Liquid_Entity
Posts: 3 Location: Sussex, UK |
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Total n00b here of Anime etc
Just watched Ghost In The Shell 1 & 2 and fell in love with it all. Always new Anime was about but never really got into it. Anyone recommend some good films in the same vein as G.I.T.S ?? [edit - topic changed to reflect subject -b] |
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The Frankman
 Posts: 1160 Location: Binary Culture HQ |
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I think Appleseed applies, and so does a couple of eps. in The Animatrix. If you mean the struggle of man vs. machine and the like, I feel they are good choices.
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kusanagi-sama
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The Matrix series was inspired by the original Ghost in the Shell movie. So you might like the Animatrix since you like GiTS.
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Liquid_Entity
Posts: 3 Location: Sussex, UK |
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Thanks for info guys.
Have already got the Animatrix  loved that too !!
Will check out a few other titles Cya Mat |
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Kruszer
 Posts: 8015 Location: Minnesota, USA |
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If you like the two films by all means check out the series GITS: Stand Alone Complex it's great.
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ShellBullet
 Posts: 1051 Location: I hit things, with my fist. |
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For a few movies in the same vein as GITS;
Jin-Roh : not really a man/machine movie, but it has alot of the the same feel and psychological aspects. Patlabor: Alot of mecha (if you liked that) involving a futuristic police force. Armitage III Polymatrix: another futuristic tale about interaction between humans and androids. |
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KirklandVR6
 Posts: 50 Location: Spokane, WA |
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Neon Genesis Evangelion is a little different from GITS, but if have not seen it, it would be a good series to see. I would also recomend Gasaraki, which is a very good series as well
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The Frankman
Posts: 1160 Location: Binary Culture HQ |
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Forgot about that good call, and throw in Armitage: Dual Matrix while you're there. Also, can't go wrong with most anthing else Masamune Shirow has done. |
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one3rd
 Posts: 1820 Location: アメリカ |
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And forget Polymatrix and just go with the original OVA that was the source material for Polymatrix. Also, perhaps try Bubblegum Crisis. I've only seen the original OVA, and not the TV re-make, but the remake is supposed to be a more fleshed out version of the original. |
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Kruszer
Posts: 8015 Location: Minnesota, USA |
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Yeah, I'd also recomend anything in the Bubblegum Crisis universe, Bubblegum Crisis, Bubblegum Crash, Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040, AD Police, all good stuff.
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Dagwood
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Everyone's thinking it, I'm just saying it, Cowboy Bebop. Number one in my opinion.
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Dagwood
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Everyone's thinking it, I'm just saying it, Cowboy Bebop. Number one in my opinion.
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Craeyst Raygal
 Posts: 1383 Location: In the garage, beneath a 1970 MGB GT. |
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The problem with Cowboy Bebop in this circumstance is that it's not "hard sci-fi" in the vein of Ghost in the Shell.
Ghost in the Shell was the best of the breed born out of Japan's love in the early to mid 80's of sci-fi films like Star Wars and Blade Runner. The theme of technology fusing and altering people's lives, beliefs, and perception of themselves became omnipresent in topflite anime. Cowboy Bebop, on the other hand, is an example of the eventual backlash against that ideal. Bebop deals with the individuals in the stories and how they react to each other. It's neither better nor worse, but Bebop is much more inwardly focused and personal from a philosophy standpoint. Also, from a setting standpoint, Bebop's sci-fi setting is practically window dressing. Ghost in the Shell is absorbed in the technology of its world, so much so that its characters are a part of that technology. Bebop instead is inspired by the world of today, and lets the science fiction of its world allow for a fantasy playroom for the writers. Two very different concepts. As it stands, the suggestions of Jin Roh, Patlabor, the Armitage movies, and Shirow's other works (like Black Magic M-66 or Appleseed) are very good. I'd also suggest Battle Angel Alita, Gundress, Macross Plus, and Akira. All would be good films/series to watch. |
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Liquid_Entity
Posts: 3 Location: Sussex, UK |
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Great stuff everyone, now I just gotta find the time to watch all these films.
CHeers for the help, should keep me going for a while. Mat |
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Dagwood
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Cowboy bebop can fit into many catagories, including phycological, but it is still sci-fi too. Yes, I agree that it's not strickly like the sci-fi's mentioned in this forum, but it's still worth checking out.
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