Audience reviews
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AGGREBEE
SAC_2045 is a profoundly terrible sequel and conclusion to the venerable Stand Alone Complex continuity of the Ghost in the Shell franchise. It can't be recommended to newcomers, leaving it only to exist to disappoint fans who were looking forward to it after so many years. While it isn't AS bad as it could possibly be, it's close, especially compared to its predecessors. SAC_2045 is massive downgrade in all regards. From its gaudy 3DCGI art style, bad music, poor to downright horrific treatment of respected characters, comical fight scenes, and so on, 2045's legacy will be "that sucky 3D one where a naked guy backflips up a flight of stairs dodging automatic gunfire".
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I don't know why people hate this so much. It could be the 3dcg, nostalgia blinders, or something else entirely but honestly it's not that bad. I'd even call it pretty good, I think I like it better than Solid State Society.
My biggest problems are:
1 - Oh god Togusa my boy what have the done to you? Everyone else looks pretty good but someone on the design team didn't like him. Also he has a bad time in the timeskip between the end of old school SAC and the start of this.
2 - This is really obviously half a season. Netflix just list it as a single 24 episode thing.
3dcg is a bit of a jarring switch at first but honestly it looks pretty good. Sometimes it even gives me "holy shit that's pretty" moments. Dub is still solid as hell, VA's are killing it. Action is just as good as ever.
The…
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Watching this series without first seeing the 2 seasons of Stand Alone Complex and the Solid State Society movie will leave you feeling disoriented. Character building and backstories are all handled in those, so without the investment of watching those (quite good) anime, you likely won't have a clue who any of the characters are.
The opening of the first episode is similar to the opening of Balde Runner 2049 - there's a large gap between the prequel and sequel, and there are events just casually mentioned which are not fully explained until the 2nd season of 2045. We also are greeted with fast paced action which is bewildering - our Section 9 team has become mercenaries and they're in America of all places. We're also greeted with the most controversial element of this series - it's full…
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Hey guys, big anime fan here ^u^
I rlly loved this show! It reminds me a lot of my favourite American TV shows like 'Family Guy' and also 'American Dad', who could forget Netflix's 'Big Mouth' too. I wish however there was maybe an extra sex scene or two? Something else to really stimulate the senses with powerful visuals and audio design. But alas, I'm sure Stewie Griffin (my favourite character hehehe~) would have something not so wonderful to say about this show so I will instead only review it a 6 out of 10 in his honour.
Thank u for reading my animeh review guys >.< <3
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What happens when you milk a franchise dry? This.
Ghost in the Shell SAC_2045 is yet another attempt to cash in on the ever so popular Ghost in the Shell franchise. Based on the 2002 Stand Alone Complex series, this installment is meant to be a continuation to 2nd gig, once again following the hardened, no-nonsense folks over at Section 9 as they attempt to uncover and resolve yet another crime. This time concerning the rise of posthumans, cybernetically engineered humans that are capable of possessing super strength and limbs that can explode heads with one single swing. When it was announced, the fanfare was tremendous. It would be produced by the same studio, Production IG, with CGI provided by Sola DigitalArts, the same guys behind the Ultraman anime. Kenji Kamiyama, the director for…
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How far the mighty have fallen.
The Ghost in the Shell franchise used to be pioneering. It created new visual iconography, new visual language and cyberpunk tropes. In SAC_2045 we witness a franchise flailing about in a last gasp attempt at being relevant. It's a show that has nothing to say about anything. I found the many references to the Wachowskis Matrix series during the 2 seasons of this show profoundly pathetic.
As mentioned above GitS used to create iconography that influenced cinema and animation, and now it has devolved into blatantly ripping off the Matrix, with no grace about it. Instead we just get straight homages to Agent Smith, the burly brawl, the highway chase, along with the obligatory and lazy homages to previous better GitS movies and shows (how many more times wil…
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There is a stigma against fully 3D anime amongst the western anime viewing audience. To a shockingly large number of this audience, anything that is not 2D animation (or to their naivety cleverly done 3D animation that is rendered and presented in a way that looks 2D) is an “insult” to anime. I can somewhat see why they have this view due to the fact that is most situations, 3D is used as a tool of cutting corners in TV production rather than a purposeful aesthetic design choice. You see bad 3D scenes in TV anime all the time nowadays. However, to hate 3D animation just because it is not 2D hand drawn is, in my opinion, quite silly.
Enter Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045, a show that, in some of its scenes, looks like absolute amateur dogshit while in the others, looks honestly quite amazing…
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I guess Netflix has done wonders again..They took a beloved franchise and turned it into the most hideous mess that brings me memories of another beloved franchise that got the "fuckitintheass" treatment...Namely Berserk.
Netflix it seems wants badly a piece of the anime money and decided it would be nice to get some exclusives..That's all nice and dandy but if you think about it..There are already way too many options for legal streaming..But it's ok cause more competition means more options, right?
As it turns out no..Cause Netflix as it seems has the habit of taking already established titles and fucking them. And that is also true for new titles as well. In fact i think there are only 2 titles worth watching..The rest of them? Holy fucking balls of Satan...Speaking of whom Devilman C…
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I will not claim im a fan of Ghost in the Shell and the only one I seen before this one was Ghost in the Shell movie from 1995. For me it has more been Appleseed and Patlabor when it comes to future ish animes.
But I will say I fairly enjoyed it the art style is not ground breaking but it´s not bad sure there is allot of stiff movements and such so it´s a cheap use of a old but good art style. It is easy on the eyes and looks good I seen far worse in my 25 years of loving anime. Honestly even allot of the newer anime styles are bloody bad compared to this(Knight of sedonia is rely bad.)
The story is cheap and nothing to write home about but it´s just up my ally of cheesy action/crime movies/shows. I mean I grew up with Van dam and Steven Seagal so I seen far more cheesy and mediocre st…
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"War is peace, ignorance is strength" -- George Orwell (1984)
Ghost in the Shell's aesthetic visuals were something it was always known for and SAC_2045 just ruins that totally, the visuals look like that they came from a decade old PS2 game and animation itself was nice but when looking to it's predecessor "Solid State Society" which was released in 2006, I am saddened to say that the animation is straight up bad.
Story 6/10
The story takes place 11 years after the events of Solid State Society movie, and it's the year 2045 where the world is evolving with high production and use of AI while being ignorant of the results and consequences that are to come with the great amount of AI and it's powers. The writing itself was pretty basic when compared to previous titles of the franchise, it…
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I was approaching 2045 with fair share of unease, in the end it's a sequel to one of my favourite series. This iteration of SAC isn't as bad as people had painted it, and what I grew to be afraid of (the first scene I saw was from a GIF with one of the characters cartwheeling his way out during the mansion scene, That scene looks silly in a very negative way). GITS anno domini 2020 goes along with its antecedents' tradition and tackles issues of future society (and throws into the bundle couple accurate comments towards our, contemporary, society). This season's schwartz motif is too much power in hands of entities concerned with income at the same time trampling over regular citizens, as well as onset of a new evolutionary avenue (it yet remains to be seen whether it was natural or artifi…
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Ghost in the Shell 2045 is.. weird. It’s clearly written by the same staff (especially Kamiyama) and seems to be building up to something more substantial (it certainly deserves props for the timely commentary on mob justice), but.. often it’s like watching a long string of juvenile, unconvincing cutscenes. Stand Alone Complex had its silly moments—it’s a Japanese cartoon about a hot cyborg chick with purple hair crushing and humiliating people—but those were accompanied by skilled tension, painful beauty and eerie prescience.
Whatever this is, it’s.. sort of Stand Alone Complex, sort of trying too hard to appeal to a broad streaming audience (and moe otaku too?). The second arc is showing a lot of promise; season 2’s payoff as well as a few more “stand alone” pieces might genuinely be wo…
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*This review was written in brazilian portuguese.
Ghost in the Shell SAC_2045 começou errado por não manter o mesmo padrão de animação das outras temporadas da Stand Alone Complex, trazendo uma animação CG que tem seu méritos, mas não é das melhores. Por esse motivo, grande parte do impacto que essa nova temporada poderia ter tido, foi anulada. Mas isso não significa que o anime é ruim, longe disso.
História
Segue o mesmo padrão dos arcos "Homem Risonho", "Onze Individual" e "Estado Sólido" em sua narrativa. Oculta fatos e desenvolve assuntos complexos, tratando o telespectador como alguém que sabe ligar os pontos. Nesse ponto, essa temporada é tão boa quanto as outras. Uma pena que foi dividida em duas partes, pois ao final desta fica a sensação de vazio, já que a trama estacionada na…
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Well, I love GITS and I will always love it. I hate the live-action movie adaptation for almost everything (destroying and mixing characters, a new story for Motoko and Kuze, actors, literally everything). It sucked horribly. In contrary, I like SAC Motoko most even though I started with the original GITS movie when it released and I do not like the New Architecture series equally as I do not like the live-action, which has been already stated.
All that being said, this show isn't as bad as it's described. The art and 3D is ok, it looks ok, not great but ok. I even liked this style - not only it didn't break anything for me but I really enjoyed watching it. Don't despise it, get used to it and it has its own character and charm.
The story is nothing new, characters are much worse than or…
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Minor spoiler warning ahead!
If you're reading this you've been warned!
Look I like the Ghost In The Shell series and I really wanna try appreciate everything about it but the Stand Alone Complex's run of the franchise just doesn't cut it from me...
I apreciate this one being a single current line of story with very little fillers but i do have to ask: W H Y the 3D!?
Some animations seem crappy, characters are too glossy sometimes and have slopy walking animations (you can see it right in the beggining with the major in like episode 1 and it continues through the whole series if you're carefull enough to notice, not to mention the lip sync which is so bad they can't barely move their lips sometimes, the cars don't seem to go into the decor, they seem to be not too well rendered into the…
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Minor spoilers!!!!
I am a massive Ghost in the shell fan and SAC is my favourite anime and I inhale anything ghost in the shell related (except the manga for now). I even watched the rubbish live action movie.
From the first announcement for this Anime i was keen to see it. The the trailer dropped i was still open to the idea with the whole CGI animation. Now that I've seen all of season one i can say in my opinion that it is the weakest Ghost in the shell entry to date. All of our classic characters seem wooden and uninteresting. Not even the original english voice cast coming back ( i love the ghost english dub) could save this show. I feel like there is almost no further character development except for Togusa who ((((SPOILERS!!!!!!)))) gets divorced thats about it.
We also get int…
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Final Impressions
THE UGLY
Art, Design and Animation- Of course this would be the first to pop up here on popular demand. There isn't much to say on the environment design since the exposure to the cyberpunk nightlife was limited. The 3D doesn't work: It is plain, and simple as that. Although it facilitates some of the action set-pieces, it is not GITS. Facial movements aren't synchronised, and the plain artstyle takes away the gritty feel of the franchise entirely. Motoko Kusanagi's redesign is probably the worst redesign in history as her now petite high-school figure doesn't even keep up with her movements; her boxing challenge had an entirely comedic tone to it, and doesn't do her 'Queen Kong' nickname justice either. She feels like a Barbie Doll in the wrong place. Togusa's redesign…
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Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045
I was texting my friends between episodes ( at least for the first episodes) to give them my first impression on the show. Those messages can be resumed as such: " Wtf dude" "Not that bad" "Wow" "Why does this character exist" and then I stopped texting them.
"Wtf dude" was about the first episode and the first scene, giving a taste of unachieved CG and the same with the story. The newly introduced character ( we'll call him A) makes no sense at first but he's then improved in next episodes, giving a comic relief and revealing the seriousness of the squad through his external point of view, giving a smile without falling in the cliche. A is new in the squad and not quite prepared for what's happening to him, showing that not every soldier can be in the squad,…
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I want to make one think clear at the start of this review, I have seen all other Ghost in the Shell anime’s series at some point before the release of ‘Ghost in the Shell SAC_2045’ and I have watched them quite a few times as they are among my favourite anime’s of all time (especially Stand Alone Complex). With that said I going to try to be natural on this. Just a heads up.
Animation – By far the biggest change in the series and a topic no-one can avoid. In brief it’s good. The animation of the 3D models is on level with the use within video games with it’s smooth appearance and natural motion, it stands out more than other as it is one of the best and highest quality I’ve seen in recent anime (AAA video game level work we’re talking about here). All character motion and animation are g…
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Section 9 is back, and I didn't know how nostalgic I would feel when writing that.
Let us settle a few things first:
-2045 is a direct sequel to the original Stand Alone Complex anime, following a decade or so after 2nd gig.
-The character designs were revamped by Ilya Kuvshinov, and the entire series moved from 2D to 3D animation.
-This show will be compared unkindly both to the movies and to the other animes, and maybe even the manga. All of these have passionate fandoms that have little sympathy for new, fresh takes of their beloved world, but I do believe this new entry in the canon has earned its spot and should be given a fair chance by all. After all, GITS as a series has been around for long enough, and taken so many forms, that the people working on it now grew up with it as a f…
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