Ghost in The Shell
I don’t even know where to begin or how to go about this, but I’ll try my best. To start this off, I first saw Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, the anime series, way back when I was 12 years old, from the opening to the rest of the show, it honestly blew me away, from the artwork to the soundtrack to the plot development, and characters.Years later, I finally got myself to watch the original film directed by Mamoru Oshii , and that was just as amazing, if not more so, with all the philosophical aspects woven into it, pondering the meaning of life, what it means to be human, and how technology affects humanity as a whole, and even just for a individual.
Flash forward to 2015, I watched Ghost in the Shell ARISE, and it was a lot better than what I was expecting, it was a prequel to the original story, basically before Motoko Kusanagi joined Section 9.
The OVA, the Laughing Man, from Stand Alone Complex, season one, it was a nice take on the story, focusing soley on the, Laughing Man case, where as, in the first season, it had fillers, in between the main episodes, the main episodes where focusing on the Laughing Man, where the fillers, where basically cases that had nothing to do with the actual plot.
With the second season also known as, Ghost in the Shell: 2nd Gig, that one expands on the first season, the art style is much more detailed, and along with the first season, with the second season, there is an OVA called, Individual Eleven, that focuses just on the main case, and not the filler episodes.
As we all know, in 2020, Netflix released a new show of Ghost in the Shell called, Ghost in the Shell SAC_2045, if I'm going to be honest, I saw the first season, and it honestly didn't move me, the art style was completely different, it took me way too long to get into the show, I couldn't relate to the characters, or empathize or sympathize with any of them. I don't plan on watching the second season. That's just my opinion, everyone's is different, for people who liked SAC_2045, props to them.
After the first time I saw Ghost in The Shell: Stand Alone Complex, I rewatched the original movie, and rewatched the OVA of the Laughing Man, the orignal film, and TV series, was one of the first things that got me into the sci-fi, cyberpunk genre, it actually got me thinking, deeply about life, possibilities of the future, now it's gotten me thinking about technology in a lot of aspects, and the possibilities of it for the future. I empathize, and sympathized with Motoko Kusanagi in the original film, then in the series they added onto her character more so. In the beginning, I only liked Motoko, but then over the years, I slowly started liking all the characters in Section 9.
I can honestly say that the film, and the series, the whole franchise, is something you need to rewatch multiple times, over the years, in order to understand a lot of aspects of the story. I can honestly say, without a doubt, that Ghost in The Shell was way ahead of it's time, in multiple ways.
Ghost in The Shell ARISE, did a great job as a prequel, showing Motoko, in the beginning stages of her career, even showing her growing into her skin, and growing into the character that we know today as the "Major". The series shows how, Section 9 team was originally formed, and how everyone first started working together. It was a nice twist to the story, and characters of Ghost in The Shell.
One thing I personally love, is whether it's the manga, the original film, or the TV series, they are all different interpretations of the universe which is Ghost in The Shell. There is something in the show for everyone, action, comedy, adventure, sci-fi, cyberpunk, mystery, philosophical ideas, sociology, psychology, humanity vs technology, how technology affects humanity.
To end this article off, as Motoko herself would say, "The net truly is vast and infinite."
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