>Transhumanism and eugenics are the only hope for mankind’s survival.
We aren't even going to survive the Social Media Era. Just that amount of interconnectedness has doomed us all, let alone cyberbrains.
Eugenics might not be a bad idea but I don’t trust humans to do it properly. Plus, men are obsessed with passing their own genes, even if they aren’t great.
I have a theory that when you pass down your not so great genes you are reborn with the same conscience into that new body. God will keep you stuck until you fix the mistake.
Reminder that the Major is effectively a government slave, because there's no way a full cyborg could ever save up enough future monies pay off the debts it took to become that in the first place.
The Major and Batou griping over a beer about the taxes and upkeep that they have to pay for their cyborg parts is one of my favorite parts of the original film.
you're fricking morons for thinking it's advocating for transhumanism. it's just showcasing it and telling us this is the future we're heading toward and can thwart if necessary.
if you think it's advocation then you're agreeing with the MtF trannies who also misunderstand it.
no you just got spooked by the spooky music and subject matter that you didnt understand, it's okay, the plot is convoluted and the translations are shite.
>the plot is convoluted and the translations are shite
the german translation is so shit, they translated 'illegal alien' with 'Illegaler Außerirdischer' (illegal extraterrestrial)
If Shirow drew these sex goddesses now they would be getting gangbanged by 8 foot tall black muscle men.
>feels bad man
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I'm still holding out hope that we will one day see an accurate GITS adaptation, that uses Shirow's design and comedic tone they way PS1 game did
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>I'm still holding out hope
I don't, but may your wishes come true
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That man's trajectory mirrors the trajectory of anime in general. He used to be tastefully restrained (webm related, from Black Magic M-66) but then devolved into the most base coomer pandering.
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I can tell it's Shirow Masamune just by the style, but which anime? Nice tomboy
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Black Magic M-66. 47 minute OVA, plot reminiscent of The Terminator. Extremely good, I highly recommend it.
How? It represents the holy union of feminine and masculine both overcoming their inherent limitations and transceding to a higher state of being.
It's Paul on the way to Damascus.
The scene's about revelation and Oshii was raised a Christgay so it's actually deliberate Christian symbolism.
The scene's about her realizing just how vast the puppet master's offer to her is, which she underestimated earlier in the film.
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Finally someone adressing the Christian symbolism and not muh transhumanism. My interpretation is that the whole theme of the movie is the transformative effect love has on the sould. Read the passage referenced in the movie.
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>implying that Christianity isn’t transhumanism
Que?
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It is just not in the basedence sense that everyone interprets the movie through. It's a spiritual transfiguration.
I think this has become the common opinion and it's a result of everything being catered towards casual viewing and it's true of live action too. There's a reason marvel movies all have extremely boring flat cinematography, there's something off-putting about heavy atmosphere when you've been conditioned to easy watches. Modern anime all looks very soft and clean in a way that doesn't demand you sink into it's atmosphere like GITS
Not a weeb but like some anime, I don't think I can watch any series made past the 90s, the cringe is too overpowering and the style and animation are horrendous.
This is why I can't take any modern weeb fanatic opinion about this seriously.
>I don't think I can watch any series made past the 90s
Cyberpunk Edgerunners is one of the few exceptions for me. And even Edgerunners by the admission of the crew was an intentional love letter to 80s-90s cybepunk anime like Cyber City Oedo, Bubblegum Crisis or GITS in a modern wrapping.
Agreed, it's pretty clear.
That part where she rips her own arms off is still stands as the most beautiful scene in Anime. An entire story told and the commentary/question on the essence of existence and spirituality that forms the central theme of the movie laid raw and bare in a few seconds of imagery without a word spoken.
>>They don't make animation like that anymore >"The number of people within this country able to work with such high precision is less than five per cent. The younger generation is more individualistic, and while the world appreciates how good their art has become, they’re unable to do exhausting work like their older predecessors. The biggest reason why I’ve stopped making anime is because the people who I can do [anime] with are disappearing.”
-Mamrou Oshi
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Reading things like this makes me incredibly sad. I love seeing absolute flexes of draftsmanship in old animation like fully rotating a vehicle in perspective, completely hand-drawn. Nowadays they can’t even be bothered to trace over a 3D model, they just slap a cel shading renderer onto it. Someone needs to get these guys to codify their skills before they die.
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The death of cel animation is an absolute tragedy. I have a small collection of anime cels, nothing super fancy or expensive, but each one of them is literally a piece of physical art. Now anime production has become like everything else: fleeting and expendable.
most of the great directors also died or fizzled out
for me the point of you can't go home again was the sudden and early demise of satoshi kon
>demise of satoshi kon
good point
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I love real anime cels, but I don’t think going digital is necessarily the problem. Ghibli have been doing their animation digitally for years at this point, I think even before Spirited Away. It’s about mentality and how you choose to use a tool, and sadly for many current anime studios that seems to be to cut as many corners in production as they think they can get away with. Thank god we still get shows like Megalo Box from time to time.
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most of the great directors also died or fizzled out
for me the point of you can't go home again was the sudden and early demise of satoshi kon
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>owari da
-mamoru oshi
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I can see now why Mamoru Oshii always looks like his dog just died.
She is using the full extent of her corporeal form. To the point that it destroys her since she is devoted to her mission and cause. Also, it is sexy AF!
I feel like this casting would have worked had she been 10 years younger.
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Still no. She has to be a stunning dreamwoman because self-sacrificial attraction to her is the motivation of the antagonist.
Also Asian.
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Would have worked, and actually been good, are two different things in terms of casting, anon.
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I am absent of that element of resignation.
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Scarjoe being bad casting had nothing to do with her race. Most western kids watching anime automatically believe every character is white to begin with.
What went wrong was that The 1995 Major is a role which requires someone with absolute confidence, yet no arrogance. Scarjoe has submissive and self important streaks to her that people can smell from a mile off.
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The Major's shell is literally Caucasian because Shirow has a massive fetish for white women.
I agree. I once got blind drunk, and went to the theater to watch it. I ate a bucket of popcorn, and got really backed up. The next afternoon, I shat copious amounts of bright red blood. It was like a cup or so.
Always thought about this since I first watched the film. I thought that the blonde dude was Lucifer making a pact with the MC to evolve humanity through magick / transhumanism.
>this world is getting so noisy and polluted, I need an off switch for my ears and a filter for my nose and mouth
The human doesn’t need to be fixed, the world needs to be fixed.
I liked the film but no way is it superior. They excised all of the philosophy and cerebral discussion from the plot. They did the same to ender's game.
They also made the Major refuse the Puppetmaster's offer to merge instead of accepting it like in Oshii's movie, completely butchering Motoko's acceptance of change and letting go of that fear of change. One of the best exchanges in the movie:
Motoko: You talk about redefining my identity. I want a guarantee that I can still be myself.
Puppet Master : There isn't one. Why would you wish to? All things change in a dynamic environment. Your effort to remain what you are is what limits you.
But Hollywood writers either thought that Western audience is too dumb for that kind of reflexion, or they were too dumb to appreciate it themselves.
>GITS >Akira >Bladerunner
What other big true Cyberpunk movies are there? It seems like there are so few but all of them are among the best movies ever made
It's worth watching although it's a little moronic at parts
It’s hot dogshit but it’s entertaining enough
>Keanu Reeves stars in a cyberpunk story as a character named Johnny about having an important data chip implanted in your head that will kill you if you don't address it in time
Weird to find out there's two of these
you're fricking morons for thinking it's advocating for transhumanism. it's just showcasing it and telling us this is the future we're heading toward and can thwart if necessary.
if you think it's advocation then you're agreeing with the MtF trannies who also misunderstand it.
>MtF trannies who also misunderstand it
This happens a lot with Serial Experiments Lain too, I think that's fine though people can get whatever they want out of a story
It isn't cyberpunk but it's 'nipland is getting scary again' kino. It's honestly great.
I accidently torrented it without nip subs and it was still clear what was going on.
Animation looks really nice here but it still lacks the cyberpunk atmosphere that's present in every frame of the movie, especially in the city backdrop out the window. Can't be easy to pull that off on a TV budget but Trigger did a pretty good job with edgerunners
>satanic
If you watch the film it's ultimately hopeful that the internet (and its vast store of real human memories) will defeat corporate monoculture.
Something resembling humans will inherit the future, not the machine.
I've started a small Oshii kick. I saw GITS 2 Innocence recently and have been thinking about it for two weeks. I guess it just really stuck with me. I recommend it!
I also went and saw Sky Crawlers. It was a little slow at points but over all I enjoyed it, despite it feeling like a hopeless movie. Very melancholic and existential. It looks like no one talks about it and has been forgotten by and large.
I hear that a 4k restoration is being worked on so I feel like there's a good chance of this movie making its way to the indie theater circuit, which is probably the ideal way to see it.
Jin-Roh is written by Oshii but directed by someone else.
Patlabor 2 is directed by Oshii but written by someone else.
Maybe that can help you make a decision.
Ha, this is a funny way of putting it. There are pros and cons to both approaches!
People used to say Avalon was good. I am suspicious about Japanese directed live action. Does it hold up?
Kazunori Ito wrote most of Oshii's stuff since Urusei Yatsura with the notable exception being Angel's Egg. GITS and GITS 2, a lot of the difference is Ito quits collaborating with Oshii between those two films.
If you want to see a good illustration of the opposite, what Ito does when he's not subordinate to Oshii, the TV version of Patlabor is pretty much that. Much lighter stuff.
Jin-Roh is directed by GITS' animation director, who thought GITS was way too high minded and abstract at the expense of characters not really being human.
Patlabor 2 is one of the best political thrillers ever made.
Jin-Roh is good, but it's not as spectacular and nuanced as Palabor 2. (Patlabor 1 is good too. Much brighter and more "fun" than the sequel.)
I watched Pat1 a while back and remember liking it but being unfamiliar with Oshii I wondered why there wasn't more of the spunky redhead with the robot armor and why most of the movie was two fat middle aged detectives investigating a suicide of a civil engineer.
Quite the opposite actually, but if you want to go that road. She is unsure if her soul and memories are actually hers. Considering in the movie they can digitalize someones soul and memories that is a valid concern and I guess you can make a connection between having a cyberbrain (which in GitS most people have) that makes you more efficient, but at the same time you are at danger of losing your soul to some glowie fed or incel Cinemaphile hacker.
But then again that is applicable to today as well and no one cares. All your understanding of love, friendship, family, community etc. Do they come from experience? Or do they come from all the adds, videos, tv shows, movies, stories and books that you have consumed as a kid, while still in development ?
Do yourself a favour and read Shirow’s original manga. It manages to simultaneously have a lighter tone and not be afraid of some humour while frequently going into much greater depth on the implications of a transhumanist society. The 1995 film is good, but it’s typical Mamoru Oshii: relentlessly bleak, morose and political with very little levity to break things up.
>Cinemaphile - never has good threads about live action tv or film >Cinemaphile - never has good threads about anime >Cinemaphile - has consistent high quality threads about anime
What causes this? Regardless of the original post being moronic this is a good thread
During elitist era Cinemaphile, now over a decade ago, Cinemaphile lost the art of taking a shitty troll or just dumb thread and running with it until it became a good thread. Instead what became culturally engrained was shouting the thread down and reporting it until it disappeared.
It’s kind of complicated. Masamune Shirow (not his real name) is one of the most reclusive manga artists in an industry of recluses operating under pen names. Also unlike a lot of other artists he stayed in his native Kobe throughout his career instead of relocating to Tokyo. His studio was destroyed in the Kobe earthquake of 1995, taking a massive amount of his original art and all his notes for future stories (like a conclusion for Appleseed) with it. He never seemed to recover from that and switched gears to producing pornographic art books with heavily computer-assisted art. There’s also some wild unsubstantiated rumours ranging from most of his family dying in the earthquake to he himself dying in the earthquake and all the later digital stuff being his old assistants keeping the brand alive. The one thing that is known for certain is that he was a fine arts painter who pretty much accidentally fell into making manga for a living, so despite being one of the all-time best it was never a primary calling for him.
That reminds me of Tsutomu Nihei's interview where he sounds depressed about editors asking him to make his characters sexy and more colorful. There was another interview where either him or another mangaka had his daughter criticize their working saying they wish they drew Attack on Titan instead or something. That and all the talks about how they don't get paid much thst must be a nightmare industry.
Man, whatever truly happened, losing Shirow Masamune was one of the most terrible things for manga and anime in its history. The guy had a unique drawing style and good sense of humor. He also described lore in such a detailed, almost autistic way. What a tragedy.
I absolutely agree. I’ve gotten into his work in a way I never did before in recent years. You can tell he was an outsider who didn’t come up through the normal channels because his art style, compositions, pacing and writing are completely and utterly different to anyone else at the time. On top of that he supposedly did this all in his spare time because he was holding down a job as a high school teacher for much of his early career.
>read Shirow's works >ocassionally tittilating content makes pp hard as diamonds >''I wish this guy drew more pron, he seems to be good at it'' >all of this happens
Most of us are old and aren’t obsessed with consuming whatever FOTM seasonal shit Japan is currently churning out as a surrogate for having a personality.
In theory the anons here are film forward, not anime forward. Anime is just another medium of visual storytelling/art. If your entire worldview on cinema is based on Jaapanese cartoons you aren't going to have much perspective.
Cinemaphile is full of weirdos who simply CONSOOM it because it's anime
They're obsessed with the medium and always go on about HAVING to watch the latest popular seasonal animes
Here on Cinemaphile we watch what's kino regardless of the medium >you watch anime? >no sir I watch Kino
If this dropped today, this board would flooded with threads saying she looks like a man with boobs. And they'd be right. It's not a bad thing, she looks about how I'd imagine a female soldier to look.
Don’t get me wrong, I think it’s a great movie in isolation, one of the absolute best animated films ever made. Unfortunately my appreciation for Shirow has grown in leaps and bounds over the years and I don’t like relentlessly depressed Major as much as chuuni alcoholic floof-haired gremlin Major.
Same. I really love her design and personality in the context of this film. It really wouldn't work well outside of it like in a 40 episode long anime. It would get old and tired as frick if she took herself so seriously all the time and was constantly spouting off philosophical mumbo jumbo.
Don’t get me wrong, I think it’s a great movie in isolation, one of the absolute best animated films ever made. Unfortunately my appreciation for Shirow has grown in leaps and bounds over the years and I don’t like relentlessly depressed Major as much as chuuni alcoholic floof-haired gremlin Major.
No way.
I don't exaggerate when I say this movie is the absolute peak of sex appeal.
Motoko is a literal perfect woman and the audience (You) are about to worship her body for 4 minutes and 30 seconds.
I believe its main statement is: >if you throw enough complexity at something, then that thing becomes conscious and self aware
It's clean and matter of factly. Nothing ebil skydaddy about it. You're kind of a pleb.
If anything, it predicted how our current AI is possibly at a point of achieving a similar result. If anything, it could have functioned as a warning if we collectively we didn't want that to happen. But that's not how it went.
Miscast but still better than just about any chink. I give the director a modicum of props for that. I never saw her as one (Shirow drew caucasians most of the time)
Miscast but still better than just about any chink. I give the director a modicum of props for that. I never saw her as one (Shirow drew caucasians most of the time)
I actually didn't mind the casting. Costume director should have given her grey contacts.
All the dialogue and pacing was just complete trash.
Fun blog post:
I went to the opening of this movie and met the director and a few of the American cast and people from Manga Entertainment aka Manga Corps? Fandom was mixed and many of the boomer/genX people really believed in transhumanism and the promise(warning) that the future internet(technology) would bring.
So jealous. I found out about the screening near me (original Manga Ent run) like 3 days after it finished. I've seen it in theaters a few times now, but it's not the same as seeing it on 35mm during that initial run.
>The next coming of the Aryan will not be in biological form.
I think Elon Musk actually phrased it best: "We might be a biological bootloader for AI"
Also, not everybody notices it, but Puppetmaster's and Motoko's bodies are variations of the same model. Same face, different hair color and skin tone.
Electronic Gaming Monthly would always promote anime and dragon ball figures in the back of the magazine in the 90's. The poster for gits was always prominent and it was alluring because of her hair style and naked form.
Oshii's Motoko was already dead inside and had no joy in her life, merging with a free AI and becoming basically a God of the Net sounds like a decent alternative.
The irony is that being emotionally dead inside is the one thing bad actors can actually sell, so yeah it would probably be fine considering Oshii's version of the character just sort of glazes over things with long stares and doesn't talk too much.
There is a soul and we can also be programmed. MK Ultra and North Korea make that evidently clear. The guy who created marketing was literally trying to hypnotise the world into doing their bidding.
It's not that, it's that moronic contrarians (and evangelical christcucks) are so frightened by anything they don't agree with, or understand (or try to understand) that they have to assign it as the product of some unknowable, malevolent cosmic entity as a pure coping mechanism so they can continue to shut their brain off.
>this movie/genre asks big questions about the meaning of life???? >what's this funny feeling in my head?! >eeeeek it must be Satan trying to corrupt me!!!
I never said i agreed or disagreed with you i just said you’re boring. You’re exact thought has been posted a million times on this board alone. You’re such a spaz you cant even greentext correctly. That’s all
I'm sorry you're bored, I'll try to keep my thoughts limited to more exciting and fresh discussion subjects like "why I hate israelites and the nigra in tv" and "is this a humiliation ritual?"
is cyberpunk dead? i liked conceptually what nihei tried to do with biomega and blame! but i feel like the entire thing died in the late 90s, i guess peaked with the matrix movie.
If you want to be one of the cool kids, you don't even need to worry about questions like that because you already agree with Gibson for calling out cyberpunk being dead thirty years ago.
Flyovers are getting more and more insane as the days go by.
imagine how badly they’re gonna snap in November once the Cheeto moron loses
>Cheetoh moron
We literally don't care about him anymore, anon. He's just another israelitesucker.
Transhumanism.
Transhumanism and eugenics are the only hope for mankind’s survival.
God has given us the tools to reach him, yet we cowardly refuse to use them.
>Transhumanism and eugenics are the only hope for mankind’s survival.
We aren't even going to survive the Social Media Era. Just that amount of interconnectedness has doomed us all, let alone cyberbrains.
Eugenics might not be a bad idea but I don’t trust humans to do it properly. Plus, men are obsessed with passing their own genes, even if they aren’t great.
I have a theory that when you pass down your not so great genes you are reborn with the same conscience into that new body. God will keep you stuck until you fix the mistake.
It’s definitely the only way to fix the Black folk. Race mixing all of them even with 110iq chinks won’t be enough to pull them out of moronic tier.
Reminder that the Major is effectively a government slave, because there's no way a full cyborg could ever save up enough future monies pay off the debts it took to become that in the first place.
Yeah, little wonder she takes the Puppetmaster's offer.
>Be hard dying
>Get an offer to become one of the first full cyborgs
>Take offer, but now you're a government spook for eternity
The Major and the The Six Million Dollar Man would be cool spook pals.
>eventually you'll have your body leased to you barring government control and autonomy over you.
The Major and Batou griping over a beer about the taxes and upkeep that they have to pay for their cyborg parts is one of my favorite parts of the original film.
you're fricking morons for thinking it's advocating for transhumanism. it's just showcasing it and telling us this is the future we're heading toward and can thwart if necessary.
if you think it's advocation then you're agreeing with the MtF trannies who also misunderstand it.
When the major downloads to a shitty body in the 2nd movie it made my tummy feel butterflies.
It was always odd that as advanced the tech is, gynoids look very sparse in comparison. It seemed they were barely getting a foothold on the market.
no you just got spooked by the spooky music and subject matter that you didnt understand, it's okay, the plot is convoluted and the translations are shite.
>the plot is convoluted and the translations are shite
the german translation is so shit, they translated 'illegal alien' with 'Illegaler Außerirdischer' (illegal extraterrestrial)
name?
Ghost in the Shell
this.
Spirit in the Armour.
Yikes. Ancient anime art style is so cringe.
Still looks pretty good, has aged well.
Worst take imaginable
Good bait, here's your pity (You)
For me, it's the Puma sisters
If Shirow drew these sex goddesses now they would be getting gangbanged by 8 foot tall black muscle men.
>feels bad man
I'm still holding out hope that we will one day see an accurate GITS adaptation, that uses Shirow's design and comedic tone they way PS1 game did
>I'm still holding out hope
I don't, but may your wishes come true
That man's trajectory mirrors the trajectory of anime in general. He used to be tastefully restrained (webm related, from Black Magic M-66) but then devolved into the most base coomer pandering.
I can tell it's Shirow Masamune just by the style, but which anime? Nice tomboy
Black Magic M-66. 47 minute OVA, plot reminiscent of The Terminator. Extremely good, I highly recommend it.
Thank you!
Oh Shirow.
SEXOOOOOO
It's a good art style man.
>PS1 game
Best and most faithful GITS adaptation
I think her Shirow's style is my favourite.
Shirow loves his cop ladies
kek, who's the middle one, Deunan?
Yep
And yet the best characters in these mangas are Briareos, Batou and Buaku.
Now this looks like shit, I'm sure modern audience would love it
Take your bait and frick off.
In what way?
the feathered angel slowly descending towards her as she's dying, looks pretty Luciferian
How? It represents the holy union of feminine and masculine both overcoming their inherent limitations and transceding to a higher state of being.
you sir, sound like a troony
seek help Black person
It's Paul on the way to Damascus.
The scene's about revelation and Oshii was raised a Christgay so it's actually deliberate Christian symbolism.
The scene's about her realizing just how vast the puppet master's offer to her is, which she underestimated earlier in the film.
Finally someone adressing the Christian symbolism and not muh transhumanism. My interpretation is that the whole theme of the movie is the transformative effect love has on the sould. Read the passage referenced in the movie.
>implying that Christianity isn’t transhumanism
Que?
It is just not in the basedence sense that everyone interprets the movie through. It's a spiritual transfiguration.
I interpreted that as her actual soul dying in those moments, and whatever is left merged with the puppet master AI.
i had a friend that unironically believed this
his brain was wired not to understand or appreciate shading, lighting, or really anything artistic
I think this has become the common opinion and it's a result of everything being catered towards casual viewing and it's true of live action too. There's a reason marvel movies all have extremely boring flat cinematography, there's something off-putting about heavy atmosphere when you've been conditioned to easy watches. Modern anime all looks very soft and clean in a way that doesn't demand you sink into it's atmosphere like GITS
Personally I think all contemporary movies look like commercials.
bocchi the wiener
Not a weeb but like some anime, I don't think I can watch any series made past the 90s, the cringe is too overpowering and the style and animation are horrendous.
This is why I can't take any modern weeb fanatic opinion about this seriously.
You have correct tastes. Watch Dominion Tank Police.
>I don't think I can watch any series made past the 90s
Cyberpunk Edgerunners is one of the few exceptions for me. And even Edgerunners by the admission of the crew was an intentional love letter to 80s-90s cybepunk anime like Cyber City Oedo, Bubblegum Crisis or GITS in a modern wrapping.
did you try and make it look grainy and old? it still looks dull, flat to look at
pls delet.
Big fan of Macross.
Do you remember love, anon?
jinroh is good
Ninja Scroll is utter kino
m8, I fricking love Ninja Scroll.
I love cats
I love Lily C.A.T.
Who the frick doesn't love cats? Let me at them.
wtf you on about? it looks amazing. that is the style that garnered the moniker of "japanime" you moron
anime sucks when it isn't actually animated, which is most of the time. this isn't one of those times.
boku no pico
he's winning tho?
Apparition in the apron
Phantom in the carapace
Spectre in the walls.
Girlboss
Ectoplasm in the exoskeleton
dragon ball z
Fascist RoboBabe and the Quest for Sex
There is oddly something utterly gay and moronic about this OP.
There's nothing satanic about Motoko at least, she's an angel.
Agreed, it's pretty clear.
That part where she rips her own arms off is still stands as the most beautiful scene in Anime. An entire story told and the commentary/question on the essence of existence and spirituality that forms the central theme of the movie laid raw and bare in a few seconds of imagery without a word spoken.
She takes her work a little too seriously.
Is this supossed to besome muscle fetish shit? It always looked jarring to me.
take meds you schizo homosexual
It's supposed to be jarring. Her body is a machine and she treats it like one. It's not natural, it's not beautiful, it's cyberpunk.
Ask me how I know you are a porn addict
Beautifully animated on the sinew and muscle ripping. They don't make animation like that anymore
>>They don't make animation like that anymore
>"The number of people within this country able to work with such high precision is less than five per cent. The younger generation is more individualistic, and while the world appreciates how good their art has become, they’re unable to do exhausting work like their older predecessors. The biggest reason why I’ve stopped making anime is because the people who I can do [anime] with are disappearing.”
-Mamrou Oshi
Reading things like this makes me incredibly sad. I love seeing absolute flexes of draftsmanship in old animation like fully rotating a vehicle in perspective, completely hand-drawn. Nowadays they can’t even be bothered to trace over a 3D model, they just slap a cel shading renderer onto it. Someone needs to get these guys to codify their skills before they die.
The death of cel animation is an absolute tragedy. I have a small collection of anime cels, nothing super fancy or expensive, but each one of them is literally a piece of physical art. Now anime production has become like everything else: fleeting and expendable.
>demise of satoshi kon
good point
I love real anime cels, but I don’t think going digital is necessarily the problem. Ghibli have been doing their animation digitally for years at this point, I think even before Spirited Away. It’s about mentality and how you choose to use a tool, and sadly for many current anime studios that seems to be to cut as many corners in production as they think they can get away with. Thank god we still get shows like Megalo Box from time to time.
most of the great directors also died or fizzled out
for me the point of you can't go home again was the sudden and early demise of satoshi kon
>owari da
-mamoru oshi
I can see now why Mamoru Oshii always looks like his dog just died.
She is using the full extent of her corporeal form. To the point that it destroys her since she is devoted to her mission and cause. Also, it is sexy AF!
Did they do this in the scarjo film
>scarjo film
I almost deleted this movie's existence out of my memory, when somebody says "GITS movie", I always think of Oshii's 1995 anime
I feel like this casting would have worked had she been 10 years younger.
Still no. She has to be a stunning dreamwoman because self-sacrificial attraction to her is the motivation of the antagonist.
Also Asian.
Would have worked, and actually been good, are two different things in terms of casting, anon.
I am absent of that element of resignation.
Scarjoe being bad casting had nothing to do with her race. Most western kids watching anime automatically believe every character is white to begin with.
What went wrong was that The 1995 Major is a role which requires someone with absolute confidence, yet no arrogance. Scarjoe has submissive and self important streaks to her that people can smell from a mile off.
The Major's shell is literally Caucasian because Shirow has a massive fetish for white women.
the main villain, yes
not the MC though, she literally questions her humanity
>Technology… Bad!!!!!
You might as well have a nice day now.
I agree. I once got blind drunk, and went to the theater to watch it. I ate a bucket of popcorn, and got really backed up. The next afternoon, I shat copious amounts of bright red blood. It was like a cup or so.
I don't eat popcorn anymore.
>I'm going to rip off Neuromancer but make each half of Wintermute into a cute girl
omg such originality, truly anime is a cultural powerhouse
I met Gibson and he's a really nice fella
Fun fact: he wrote Neuromancer on a typewriter and had never touched a computer
That's sick. I also heard he'd never been to Japan.
Always thought about this since I first watched the film. I thought that the blonde dude was Lucifer making a pact with the MC to evolve humanity through magick / transhumanism.
yup, me too. creepy shit
I don't even remember this part of the movie
He probably means the android who gets taken over by the Puppet Master.
they literally depict lucifer in the part where they both get shot
absolute kino
So fricking cool
Better version and akshually has a plot.
You're a funny guy.
>this world is getting so noisy and polluted, I need an off switch for my ears and a filter for my nose and mouth
The human doesn’t need to be fixed, the world needs to be fixed.
>the world needs to be fixed.
We can try.
>Posting this washed out bland slop instead of the original
Ridley's Blade Runner? Haven't got any webms of that unfortunately.
They can both be good at the same time you dumb motherfricker
The world is as it is. It’s our attempts to shape it that bring us suffering. Go for a walk in a forest and tell me I’m wrong
I was talking about the current man-made world.
So was I
Top pic is better, it feels more claustrophobic.
Claustrophobic, uncomfortable and moronic. Why would she sleep on a slab of lights instead of a bed? She's not a robot.
>She's not a robot.
But she is.
She's incredible math
Just incredible math
Agree, superior in every way. Scarlett at the top of her game, made the character more attractive with her compassionate rendering.
I liked the film but no way is it superior. They excised all of the philosophy and cerebral discussion from the plot. They did the same to ender's game.
They also made the Major refuse the Puppetmaster's offer to merge instead of accepting it like in Oshii's movie, completely butchering Motoko's acceptance of change and letting go of that fear of change. One of the best exchanges in the movie:
Motoko: You talk about redefining my identity. I want a guarantee that I can still be myself.
Puppet Master : There isn't one. Why would you wish to? All things change in a dynamic environment. Your effort to remain what you are is what limits you.
But Hollywood writers either thought that Western audience is too dumb for that kind of reflexion, or they were too dumb to appreciate it themselves.
> they were too dumb to appreciate it themselves
This is the woke crowd, you know.
> philosophy and cerebral discussion
Valid point but that stuff flies over the gamers and caped crusaders....you know how easily they get lost.
>Pork in the Shell
Give me your dictionary definition of what you think "Satanic" even means.
>GITS
>Akira
>Bladerunner
What other big true Cyberpunk movies are there? It seems like there are so few but all of them are among the best movies ever made
Johnny Mnemonic
I'd never heard of this. Kino????
It's alright
>Keanu Reeves stars in a cyberpunk story as a character named Johnny about having an important data chip implanted in your head that will kill you if you don't address it in time
Weird to find out there's two of these
>MtF trannies who also misunderstand it
This happens a lot with Serial Experiments Lain too, I think that's fine though people can get whatever they want out of a story
It's worth watching although it's a little moronic at parts
It’s hot dogshit but it’s entertaining enough
I like it :3
It's kino.
It's terrible but it's kino. I reckon you'll enjoy it, even if it doesn't really have the depth of the other cyberpunk stuff you touched on.
You tell me
video game variant of the same concept, released a year or so earlier
full of jank but it had sovl
Thanks for posting this, i thought about this for the longest time but couldnt remember its name.
What about Black Rain? is it any good?
It isn't cyberpunk but it's 'nipland is getting scary again' kino. It's honestly great.
I accidently torrented it without nip subs and it was still clear what was going on.
Alita
Never watched SAC but it looks really ugly
Both series are pretty good, the animation can fluctuate between great to average.
Fantastic soundtrack by Yoko Kanno though.
Love the intro.
Animation looks really nice here but it still lacks the cyberpunk atmosphere that's present in every frame of the movie, especially in the city backdrop out the window. Can't be easy to pull that off on a TV budget but Trigger did a pretty good job with edgerunners
It's gutsman!
I remember her promo was filmed inside Syndicate Wars.
>satanic
If you watch the film it's ultimately hopeful that the internet (and its vast store of real human memories) will defeat corporate monoculture.
Something resembling humans will inherit the future, not the machine.
Going to ignore how fricking moronic op is.
I've started a small Oshii kick. I saw GITS 2 Innocence recently and have been thinking about it for two weeks. I guess it just really stuck with me. I recommend it!
I also went and saw Sky Crawlers. It was a little slow at points but over all I enjoyed it, despite it feeling like a hopeless movie. Very melancholic and existential. It looks like no one talks about it and has been forgotten by and large.
What's next: Patlabor 2 or Jinroh?
Angels Egg
I hear that a 4k restoration is being worked on so I feel like there's a good chance of this movie making its way to the indie theater circuit, which is probably the ideal way to see it.
Ha, this is a funny way of putting it. There are pros and cons to both approaches!
People used to say Avalon was good. I am suspicious about Japanese directed live action. Does it hold up?
I prefer jinroh over patlabor but that's just me. Either way they are both real good.
Jin-Roh is written by Oshii but directed by someone else.
Patlabor 2 is directed by Oshii but written by someone else.
Maybe that can help you make a decision.
Kazunori Ito wrote most of Oshii's stuff since Urusei Yatsura with the notable exception being Angel's Egg. GITS and GITS 2, a lot of the difference is Ito quits collaborating with Oshii between those two films.
If you want to see a good illustration of the opposite, what Ito does when he's not subordinate to Oshii, the TV version of Patlabor is pretty much that. Much lighter stuff.
Jin-Roh is directed by GITS' animation director, who thought GITS was way too high minded and abstract at the expense of characters not really being human.
Thanks but I've already watched all Patlabor animated media up to WXIII.
Patlabor 2 is one of the best political thrillers ever made.
Jin-Roh is good, but it's not as spectacular and nuanced as Palabor 2. (Patlabor 1 is good too. Much brighter and more "fun" than the sequel.)
I watched Pat1 a while back and remember liking it but being unfamiliar with Oshii I wondered why there wasn't more of the spunky redhead with the robot armor and why most of the movie was two fat middle aged detectives investigating a suicide of a civil engineer.
Yeah, Noa gets even less screen time in Patlabor 2. Instead it focuses on Captain Gotoh, and Captain Nagumo to a lesser extent.
But it's really good 🙂
Watch the Patlabor OVAs and TV show, they have lots more Noa.
I finally bought the full BluRay boxset of all Patlabor media. It is making me very happy and very nostalgic.
Quite the opposite actually, but if you want to go that road. She is unsure if her soul and memories are actually hers. Considering in the movie they can digitalize someones soul and memories that is a valid concern and I guess you can make a connection between having a cyberbrain (which in GitS most people have) that makes you more efficient, but at the same time you are at danger of losing your soul to some glowie fed or incel Cinemaphile hacker.
But then again that is applicable to today as well and no one cares. All your understanding of love, friendship, family, community etc. Do they come from experience? Or do they come from all the adds, videos, tv shows, movies, stories and books that you have consumed as a kid, while still in development ?
Do yourself a favour and read Shirow’s original manga. It manages to simultaneously have a lighter tone and not be afraid of some humour while frequently going into much greater depth on the implications of a transhumanist society. The 1995 film is good, but it’s typical Mamoru Oshii: relentlessly bleak, morose and political with very little levity to break things up.
It's total shit, no material was ever elevated more than that piece of shit was by the film
You have zero taste, it's a great manga which oozes with SOUL, kys
No it's shit and the sequel is even worse, you're a homosexual
sssh
you are a humongous trog homosexual
The grimdark version is unironically funnier.
Anime girls were never hotter than when they had 80s/90s hair.
Op you are schizophrenic.
Unironically
>Cinemaphile - never has good threads about live action tv or film
>Cinemaphile - never has good threads about anime
>Cinemaphile - has consistent high quality threads about anime
What causes this? Regardless of the original post being moronic this is a good thread
During elitist era Cinemaphile, now over a decade ago, Cinemaphile lost the art of taking a shitty troll or just dumb thread and running with it until it became a good thread. Instead what became culturally engrained was shouting the thread down and reporting it until it disappeared.
What's better is that the creator now spends his time drawing blacked porn.
seriously? yikes
no they’re just tanned okinawans and horse people
It’s kind of complicated. Masamune Shirow (not his real name) is one of the most reclusive manga artists in an industry of recluses operating under pen names. Also unlike a lot of other artists he stayed in his native Kobe throughout his career instead of relocating to Tokyo. His studio was destroyed in the Kobe earthquake of 1995, taking a massive amount of his original art and all his notes for future stories (like a conclusion for Appleseed) with it. He never seemed to recover from that and switched gears to producing pornographic art books with heavily computer-assisted art. There’s also some wild unsubstantiated rumours ranging from most of his family dying in the earthquake to he himself dying in the earthquake and all the later digital stuff being his old assistants keeping the brand alive. The one thing that is known for certain is that he was a fine arts painter who pretty much accidentally fell into making manga for a living, so despite being one of the all-time best it was never a primary calling for him.
frick
That is all very depressing. Mangaka seem a little tragic in general.
That reminds me of Tsutomu Nihei's interview where he sounds depressed about editors asking him to make his characters sexy and more colorful. There was another interview where either him or another mangaka had his daughter criticize their working saying they wish they drew Attack on Titan instead or something. That and all the talks about how they don't get paid much thst must be a nightmare industry.
>they wish they drew Attack on Titan instead or something
Grim.
Man, whatever truly happened, losing Shirow Masamune was one of the most terrible things for manga and anime in its history. The guy had a unique drawing style and good sense of humor. He also described lore in such a detailed, almost autistic way. What a tragedy.
I absolutely agree. I’ve gotten into his work in a way I never did before in recent years. You can tell he was an outsider who didn’t come up through the normal channels because his art style, compositions, pacing and writing are completely and utterly different to anyone else at the time. On top of that he supposedly did this all in his spare time because he was holding down a job as a high school teacher for much of his early career.
I'm glad that wherever he is now, he at least left a big mark on both mediums, that people still draw fanart in his style to this day
>read Shirow's works
>ocassionally tittilating content makes pp hard as diamonds
>''I wish this guy drew more pron, he seems to be good at it''
>all of this happens
I'm so fricking sorry
He’s into beastiality
The manga artist not Oshii the director of the movie. Never get too deep into philosophy or you'll become an insane sex pervert
What's and okinawan
>What's and okinawan
Okinawa is a far south Japanese island that has a warm climate.
Why are Cinemaphile's anime-related threads usually better than Cinemaphile?
Most of us are old and aren’t obsessed with consuming whatever FOTM seasonal shit Japan is currently churning out as a surrogate for having a personality.
In theory the anons here are film forward, not anime forward. Anime is just another medium of visual storytelling/art. If your entire worldview on cinema is based on Jaapanese cartoons you aren't going to have much perspective.
Cinemaphile is full of weirdos who simply CONSOOM it because it's anime
They're obsessed with the medium and always go on about HAVING to watch the latest popular seasonal animes
Here on Cinemaphile we watch what's kino regardless of the medium
>you watch anime?
>no sir I watch Kino
I like that Motoko looks a little fugly in the movie.
Her slight "thickness" drives me crazy. I am slowly becoming a simp.
Anon, you are gay af
imagine calling someone gay, while actively jerk off to literal cartoons. homosexual
*ing
>t. seething gay homosexual
If this dropped today, this board would flooded with threads saying she looks like a man with boobs. And they'd be right. It's not a bad thing, she looks about how I'd imagine a female soldier to look.
Same. I really love her design and personality in the context of this film. It really wouldn't work well outside of it like in a 40 episode long anime. It would get old and tired as frick if she took herself so seriously all the time and was constantly spouting off philosophical mumbo jumbo.
My fav version of Motoko. In competition with SAC Motoko obviously.
%3D%3D
Don’t get me wrong, I think it’s a great movie in isolation, one of the absolute best animated films ever made. Unfortunately my appreciation for Shirow has grown in leaps and bounds over the years and I don’t like relentlessly depressed Major as much as chuuni alcoholic floof-haired gremlin Major.
No way.
I don't exaggerate when I say this movie is the absolute peak of sex appeal.
Motoko is a literal perfect woman and the audience (You) are about to worship her body for 4 minutes and 30 seconds.
The making of a cyborg really made me appreciate the artistic value of the feminine form
I don't want sex. I want to worship the female body.
I believe its main statement is:
>if you throw enough complexity at something, then that thing becomes conscious and self aware
It's clean and matter of factly. Nothing ebil skydaddy about it. You're kind of a pleb.
If anything, it predicted how our current AI is possibly at a point of achieving a similar result. If anything, it could have functioned as a warning if we collectively we didn't want that to happen. But that's not how it went.
Sinister is the entire point of cyberpunk.
For
Miscast but still better than just about any chink. I give the director a modicum of props for that. I never saw her as one (Shirow drew caucasians most of the time)
The overall look of the film I didn't mind, but yeah ScarJo was not a good Motoko.
I actually didn't mind the casting. Costume director should have given her grey contacts.
All the dialogue and pacing was just complete trash.
Anyone who complains about demons or Satan is always an 80iq schizophrenic moron
I really like the OST for the English dub of the first Dominion Tank Police series. Never properly released AFAIK.
A shame cause it fits the show really well.
For the longest time i didnt know the ost was different than the original.
Maybe I have a thing for police anime/manga.
>Ghost in the Shell
>Dominion Tank Police
>Patlabor
more like this please
Gasaraki
Hell yeah! Thank you man
I love a good cheesy amv.
Fun blog post:
I went to the opening of this movie and met the director and a few of the American cast and people from Manga Entertainment aka Manga Corps? Fandom was mixed and many of the boomer/genX people really believed in transhumanism and the promise(warning) that the future internet(technology) would bring.
So jealous. I found out about the screening near me (original Manga Ent run) like 3 days after it finished. I've seen it in theaters a few times now, but it's not the same as seeing it on 35mm during that initial run.
Did you meet the original dub voice for motoko, heard she turned into a recluse after the 90s, right before anime and anime conventions exploded.
Kino art. from where is it from?
the ps1 game
Not him but it's from the PS1 GITS game's artbook
Was he one of the first to start using computers to shade his drawings?
Thanks, I have the game, only played a couple of times on the emulator. They definitely knew what they were doing offering cheesecake pics.
>there is oddly something utterly sinister and satanic about this movie
you're joking right?
>Save your tears
>for the day
>when the pain is far behind
>on your feet
>come with me
>we are soldiers stand or die
>Save your fears
>take your place
>save them for the judgement day
>fast and free
>follow me
>time to make the sacrifice
>we rise or fall
It's prophetic.
The next coming of the Aryan will not be in biological form.
That is a genderless lifeform with no race.
You seem to think you present a contradiction.
>The next coming of the Aryan will not be in biological form.
I think Elon Musk actually phrased it best: "We might be a biological bootloader for AI"
Also, not everybody notices it, but Puppetmaster's and Motoko's bodies are variations of the same model. Same face, different hair color and skin tone.
One of my favourite anime scenes
Based Batou to the rescue.
The lawless zone in innocence is an architectural splendor.
Things are just going to get worse, aren’t they?
>SAAAAR IS SATANIC
Shut the frick up
Hnnnnggggghhh
Great animation.
The soldiers give me serious Ghibli vibes, which I hadn't really considered before.
Yeah kind of.
that file name killed me
Motoko is really lovable because she's so uninhibited.
She does nothing but get naked and fight.
And the fluffy hair. God I love that funny little gremlin bawd
KMFDM 🙂
CHOON LEE
One of the best anime fist fights ever.
Also, probably the best game adaption anime.
It's a fricking great fight scene, and frick Vega always and forever/
Kylie has two hits out right now! Check them out, frickers!!!!!!!!!
I don't mind a bit of Kylie.
ive jerked off to this webm probably 40 times since I was 12
I'm not a footgay, but it's a good scene.
if you know any other vids where people get their faces stomped in lmk
are there any episodes where you can see her robo-pussy?
Literally the first (or maybe the second) chapter of the manga, my plebian zoomer friend.
Electronic Gaming Monthly would always promote anime and dragon ball figures in the back of the magazine in the 90's. The poster for gits was always prominent and it was alluring because of her hair style and naked form.
Oh no not Saaaaataaaaan
Great, now I have the kino choir music going through my head.
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEHHHH-AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!
EEEEEHHH-EEEH-EEHH-EH-AH!
the surrender of her identity to an intrusive psychotic AI that desired to merge with her was really creepy
Oshii's Motoko was already dead inside and had no joy in her life, merging with a free AI and becoming basically a God of the Net sounds like a decent alternative.
pretty much, she wasn't living, the puppet master ironically enough cut her strings.
What if Motoko really is a robot, and her emulation of sexual reproduction in digitial form is actually becoming more like a human?
They'll never show Motoko's true nature.
>muh satanic!
Look at the dead israelite on the cross that you worship, mongrel if you want satanic.
You subhumans are fricking in the head.
it’s her eyes
A young Daddario could have pulled it off, Oshii's Major and her have the same crazy eyes.
And she's a crap actor so you could sell her as an arnie type stacie playing an emotionally distant robot. Not bad anon.
The irony is that being emotionally dead inside is the one thing bad actors can actually sell, so yeah it would probably be fine considering Oshii's version of the character just sort of glazes over things with long stares and doesn't talk too much.
Religion cucks are so scared that there is no soul and we can all be programmed
There is a soul and we can also be programmed. MK Ultra and North Korea make that evidently clear. The guy who created marketing was literally trying to hypnotise the world into doing their bidding.
I think even inanimate things have souls.
>hard atheist takes the polar opposite argument with as much arrogant presumptive conviction as a stereotypical evangelist
wowie kazowie
It's not that, it's that moronic contrarians (and evangelical christcucks) are so frightened by anything they don't agree with, or understand (or try to understand) that they have to assign it as the product of some unknowable, malevolent cosmic entity as a pure coping mechanism so they can continue to shut their brain off.
>this movie/genre asks big questions about the meaning of life????
>what's this funny feeling in my head?!
>eeeeek it must be Satan trying to corrupt me!!!
You sound like a stupid person trying to be smart. It’s a pretty boring read
">You disagree with me, you sound so stupid and boring and i dont cate LALALALALALA"
lol
I never said i agreed or disagreed with you i just said you’re boring. You’re exact thought has been posted a million times on this board alone. You’re such a spaz you cant even greentext correctly. That’s all
I'm sorry you're bored, I'll try to keep my thoughts limited to more exciting and fresh discussion subjects like "why I hate israelites and the nigra in tv" and "is this a humiliation ritual?"
Why do so many troons want to be Motoko?
Probably because full-body prosthetics like the Major would be a dream come true for them.
Because
Because they want the trans part of transhumanism.
Satan was the good guy. He gave us knowledge and freedom. God massacred the entire human race. (to say nothing of the animals)
is cyberpunk dead? i liked conceptually what nihei tried to do with biomega and blame! but i feel like the entire thing died in the late 90s, i guess peaked with the matrix movie.
All of it's central tenets are plainly accepted now.
If you want to be one of the cool kids, you don't even need to worry about questions like that because you already agree with Gibson for calling out cyberpunk being dead thirty years ago.
what is the next cool genre? it's kinda hard to find the underground on the internet these days because everything is so mainstream and in your face.
I don't know but it's nothing with punk in its name.
nothingpunk
Robot parts homie
before this thread dies, is avalon worth a watch?
It's okay. If you like Mamoru Oshii, give it a shot.
Not his best work.
thanks, I will put it aside until I've seen all his animated movies
imo a lot of japanese live action... action movies are just kind of cringe
If you can do camp, Zeiram is pretty fun.
heh, I toku stuff is usually fun at least.
That reminds me, the animated Zeiram is great.
Best anime thread in a while.