well the movie had the shell just not the ghost.

LASTOLYMPIAN You guys are the worst 😣

clap hand* Hand over suicide solution in syringe.

LASTOLYMPIAN 🚪

LASTOLYMPIAN Terrible.

Mauricio Mendoza i do now and forget he's a tall giant

asking the real questions here.

Mauricio Mendoza As a British person I hope he's got pants on. Not bothered if he's trouser-less.

Mauricio Mendoza uh, no

😂

I think it translates to western philosophy pretty easily. An essentialist soul vs. mechanistic mind. Something is retained as the 'ghost' but many times the memories and 'personality' are erased, so what is retained,...or what is changed when a personality inhabits a new body... is the whole question...but maybe we miss a little of the reference and connection to this culture- particularly the music is related to folk songs, but then its not just japanese- that's bulgarian folk music! this anime film already mixed up parts, much like Blade Runner or Neuromancer is set in a melting pot of nationalities, i think GiTS was meant to be that too.

Excellent analysis

Thank you for sharing that.

This still confuses me lol maybe I’ll never understand it , The message is clearly for a certain person , I’m still utterly confused

Weeeeeeeb

Doing that now lol

@@DavidLee-ll9vq seven months after doing the same lol

me too

RELATABLE!

STUCKMANIZED!!!!!

SamuelJackson i did

SamuelJackson to be honest i skiped to the end to avoid the spoilers and went to the grade. when I see the movie I'll be back

I did

Same here

Saw it as a preview tonight, and he's right it's definitely good. Scarlett did a great job and it was well made. There is a mix of languages, but one guy even only speaks in Japanese which was a nice touch.

Bissy even worst than some spy kids movies? lol I haven't seen speed racer

Bissy I love the Speed Racer movie actually

Agreed, it's a pretty fun movie.

I think it will outlive Dark Knight, because it's actually insanely well shot, cut, designed and it's original. I mean, all the verticality, mixing two timelines in one picture, car construction scene, the part where villain is explaining what will happen, but at the end of scene you realize it actually already happened, final scene where reaching finish line morphs into some space odyssey space travel transcendent shit, there's a lot to love.

A beautiful acid trip of fun.

Wow that really sucks.

It's downloadable for free. But I can't find the source right now. But if you look up the composer's name and then ghost in the shell soundtrack, you'll find a post where he himself released it.

Cool

Lmfao they are very nice people just like the Canadians

The people who were angry in the US were Asian Americans. There's a difference between a Japanese person born and raised in Japan and a Japanese person born and raised in the west, one is exposed to racism. Asian Americans wanted to know why Hollywood insists on remaking Asian films while excluding Asians from them....anyway, the movie was a big flop

@jeppemichael 1. It seems that you might not know what cultural appropriation is. 2. We non whites care greatly about the appropriation of our cultures and we don't mind when people appreciate it but sadly many people prefer to be ignorant. Please watch Madonna's Nothing Really Matters music video and then Michael Jackson's Black or White music video and see if you can spot which one is cultural appropriation and which one is cultural appreciation.

@jeppemichael Cultural appropriation is when a dominate group take a custom/practice from a minority group, removes the cultural meaning, and redistributes to the masses as an original idea while profiting from it. So no...I will stay logged in thanks I will log off for good tho when white people stop using Coltan.

@jeppemichael Why you gotta belittle anyone who has different life experiences than you?

Light Novel actually and it was pretty low profile. And the movie is actually better than the light novel.

theres also Preist.

chris Plissken lady snowblood was also good

Well that movie wasn't all that great lol

Harry Thomas Pictures huh

Jack Rose Presents Really😃?

Jack Rose Presents Cool, he did a great job😉!

I lost my shit when i first found that out lol

I know! Literally mentioned that in another comment talking about how Chris probably grew up with her. That was one of the first DVD's my family got probably and I still have it... I could not count the number of times I watched that movie. It was one of my go-to movies to watch when I was home sick so a lot. And I have another friend who grew up with it too... Actually, it really weirded me out when I found out. She's only 12 and a half years older than me, and I only really knew about her as more than a name I heard when the Avengers came out, and so she did that film as a teenager.

Indeed man. I had never seen the anime until after I had to watch part 1 and 2. It's definitely so close to the source material and they nailed this one. A lot of my friends hated it but it was good.

I'm glad, Hollywood needs to stay the hell out of anime.

@@sleepwalking117 No, they didn't. The story is a total different one, a mere revenge plot. The original story was so much more and revolved around so many more topics. In the original they were literally hunting a ghost in a shell! In this they hunt some angry teenager. The final fight scene against the spider tank made no sense at all in the new movie. Why did she fight it? In the original one she had a time limit, hence she chose to engage it in a david-vs-goliath battle and failed in the end, only to be saved by Batou. As much as i am a sucker for great visuals (and it had amazing ones), the new film fucked up every grander theme of the original and as such is a shell without a ghost.

@@badoli1074 she fought it to survive, like what! and whats the fucking point if you gonna watch the same movie, i actually liked the refreshing plot alot and it was very well done.

@@sleepwalking117 This movie visually hits, it matches the original film. Where it missed the mark for me comes into some theming. Its not a bad film. And its not the worst entry ive seen in the ghost in the shell franchise. And if if this is gateway for people into the franchise. Im all for it.

I felt it was better then the anime. In a lot of ways. The puppet master felt absolutely none existing in the anime. I honestly forgot he was the main objective. This movie did a better job recreating the character and I felt it made wise creative choices that fit the plot and gave it more resolve rather then a cliff hanger that lead to another film where major wasn't even in the second film. So I think it did a better job and gave closure to the story where even if it didn't do well it's a stand alone film and at the same time they could move forward with other plots from the show. So it's a great start. Alita battle angel was the next anime movie that hit a home run in following the story and giving a compelling visual and dialogue.

Sonny Etchell So that's it huh? We some kind of Ghost In The Shell - Movie Review?

Sonny Etchell invalid opinion

+Riley Smith probably the worst use of that meme ive seen 👍

Oh my god you guys, I grew up with this comment chain.

monsterhunterfan10052--dammit i agree

TheGreesh Rotten Tomatoes is at 72%.....that's the dead smack middle so I don't know what to think at this point

Nicolas Villegas so it's pretty good . B is a solid ,an A is wow go watch it

Probably means some people liked it a good bit, others not so much.

TheGreesh you mean opinion

I really think the answer is the source material. If you liked the original and "get" anime, then you will enjoy it. If you are a person who thinks anime is for kids or a meat head that doesn't understand it, or only give good ratings to Oscar bait, then you will not enjoy it.

I think many critics of this movie have a pretty much opposite view. This movie sometimes tries to remake certain scenes from the roiginal shot for shot, and many (myself included) felt that this is something that held the movie back from being a truly original entry in the series. It's a bit similiar to the criticism the new Lion King got. It's a nostalgia bomb (to a degree), but it doesn't have the same depth as the original because of that.

Amen @Gin.

My main criticism is that they ditched most, if not all, of the original themes and basically remade Robocop almost beat for beat. Again. Visually they nailed the look of GITS and I love the movie for that, but it was really predictable.

@@awandererfromys1680 What specific themes do you feel were jettisoned and not present in the film. "Remade Robocop" is hyperbolic at best. Come on good sir.

@@therealchickentender Well, X is fatally wounded in a traumatic event, and officially declared dead. In secret, X is taken by Evil Corporation, has their memories wiped, and is rebuild into an experimental cyborg with superhuman combat capabilities. The public mission statement is "to protect the innocent" or something similar wholesome sounding, but in reality Evil Corporation wants to gain more power and control over society. And more money of course. Anyway, X slowly regains their memories and identity, figures out what is going on, and rebels against Evil Corporation. After a few obligatory action scenes against a formidable foe where X almost seems to fail, Evil CEO is killed and X triumphs. X can be either Murphy or Major Killian. Same story, different visuals. In the manga Kusanagi isn't "the first of her kind," she's an old cyborg. Although she's filled to the brim with state-of-the-art military cybernetics, she looks like a standard factory model. That's why she occasionally sees copies of herself on the street. It's hinted that she became a cyborg in a similar way as in the movie, but her memory was never wiped or manipulated. The Mira Killian alter ego is completely made up for the movie's plot. Kusanagi's personal conflict is her questioning her own humanity after spending decades in an artificial body deep-diving into neural nets and other people's "ghosts." Up to the point where she starts to believe that she's fully synthetic, with artificial memories, and without a ghost of her own. The copies aren't helping either. This is why she is also a raging, foul-mouthed alcoholic who illegally prostitutes _herself_ to other women. To feel something... real. Anime Kusanagi is more brooding and stoic, and far less promiscuous. But otherwise pretty much the same person. Ghost in the Shell is about the meaning of humanity and identity in a transhumanist world that's on the brink of technological singularity. And our main protagonist is quite a mess. So is the world she lives in. Is it even ready for what is happening? In the movie there are a few moments where Major questions _what_ she is, or is becoming, but as soon as she starts to remember _who_ she is, the what becomes mostly unimportant. Her story arc is regaining her identity and autonomy, not transcending the human species and what that would mean. Now I'm not a "purist," I love the movie for its visuals, and Scarlett made a good Major. And I can easily understand why they ditched the manga persona of Kusanagi. But as soon as I figured out what was going on, the movie just became very predictable. I mean, it really is... Robocop.

midnight here lol

7pm here

9:15 am here.

Owen Krauss lol

Owen Krauss Not even good enough to be a guilty pleasure.

FancyLlamas

Owen Krauss thank you for having the same opinion as me

Owen Krauss Ranma! So rare I see people who know about Ranma 1/2 and how awesome it is.

Very underrated movie

No no and hell no. the whole thing the keeps the movie selling is skin suit of scar jo , They made the whole plot and make it so shitty. They copied scenes why can't they just copy the original movie, It's just a live action. With original plot it would have been alright still not might be close to original but decent. They just took a theme and sprayed hollywood style action movie shit on it. Major's struggle wasn't about some external man but herself. It was so internal. damn they spoiled a good plot

@@tnaithani1 It looks good tho

@@LuisSierra42 i know scarjo really looks fine af and design was good but a good plot changes everything atleast for me

I’m an old time fan of GITS since the manga, I’m an Asian (HongKonger), ain’t a big fan of Scarjo, and I still agree that this movie is beyond decent, it capture the main themes of the story and add a bit more of drama to help the “uninitiated” to enjoy.

Mark Parkinson we’ll noted lol

I'm confused. Did you mean "well noted'?

srbarkerchan so did I. who cares

+member berries you must be new here

lurk moar

Chris Stuckmann saying " they are gonna treat it like 'that's japanese, that's not for the united states' " meanwhile anime and manga are more popular in the US than in Japan.

Is that fucking Silver Fang?!

GONNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

talanock speed racer was my childhood

talanock THANK YOU. How dare he talk about speed racer in the same breath as dragon ball evolution.

Yeah, that's what I was thinking when he showed that clip of Japanese people reacting to the casting. Obviously, Japanese actors living in Japan have no shortage of roles for playing Asians, so it's no surprise that they don't have an issue with a white woman playing the major, but it's very different for Asian-Americans and other non-white actors living in the US.

KAGEHOSHI that is such a good explanation thank you so much. I'm so tired of white boys pointing at a single asian commentor or japanese creators saying it's okay as ""proof""

its still a stupid criticism. Americans are americans and thats about it. Pick the person who looks most like the role, and Scarlett fits perfectly

Claudia Blake if the Japanese are fine with it then is it really that big a deal

Claudia Blake / American movie.

Carlos Chen i grew up with your comment

You don't realise the hate ,cause you have never seen the original.

@@phantomfire8228 I watched the original back in the day and fucking love it. It blew my mind. Still don't understand the absolute hate for this movie. It's a good translation from anime to live action.

I believe that the movie would not have financial success in the West if they cast an Asian actor for the lead. An expensive undertaking for the studio..they had to at least recoup. Business, you know? Just reality. Great film though.

Hollywood is a different place, Japan is a different place. I see no reason why it's bad that you put a white person or a black 0erson as the mc. Honestly, if you don't see race, why anyone should care.

Me too

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Looks cool!

I grew up in a robot neighborhood so I was interested when I heard they were making this movie.

I grew up with this comment so I was very intereste to see the first reply. I was disappointed.

Mark Mccallum i grew up with my left hand and im disappointed im right handed

I grew up with Likes so i was interested to see how many likes this comment will get

Mark Mccallum I grew up with existence on Earth and was very excited for this movie because of it's setting on Earth

#28 now

Me too. Also, most reviews (e.g. on rotten tomatoes) seem to repeat the same tantra over and over again. "This film has no soul... no ghost in this shell... bla bla bla"

RyeBreadFilmz well actually it really doesn't lol It's a cliche action flick with nice visuals and that's it

Same here, i went to not think about comparising the manga or anime..But such a rich fanservice there, and i had a great first IMAX Experience

People love to hate same oh she was breathing too much in the film just shut up and watch the damn movie.

RyeBreadFilmz it was 10x better than that disaster of a movie logan.

Eastern Visions more has been altered, clearly most of her memories have gone... she's pretty much a blank slate conditioned to be a weapon for Hanka robotics to sell to the government. In curious, if we do get a sequel... if she does start to remember more if she no longer takes that liquid that was supposedly to keep the brain from rejecting the cyborg body. i'm guessing it will just be fragments.

That's a good point, I guess because the whole movie was in english, and they had a lot of different ethics and cultures in there too they didn't bother?...I don't know I guess the director just wanted to make it more of a visual movie than anything. I can see what your saying

You're right it wasn't as deep and meaningful as the original, but I don't think the new one was suppose to be? the anime is wonderful, but it's quite heavy and complex for a wider audience and for people who aren't into japanese anime as the next person. So what they have done here is just simplified it, and mostly concentrated on the visuals. For such a ambitious movie, I think they did a great job. I don't even know if it would have translated as well if they completely copied it frame by frame, etc, I don't think the western world would have totally got it unless you're a hard core japanese anime fan. Having said that, it still wasn't liked by loads of people, and it was still classed as a flop, which is a shame.

Ephraim, no of course not, her mind was wiped clean. She has no memories (apart from that glitch)

Eastern Visions and yet it flopped and has overall terrible reviews lol

Anthony Sanchez Basically exactly what happened with the original Blade Runner LOL. Initially received mixed reviews, and as time passes reviews became more positive and is declared a cult classic Seriously, this is one of the most underrated movie of 2017. I still don't understand the hate for this movie.

No this movie fucking sucks

I liked it.

@@lMobiuscidl What sucks about it?

I doubt this random adaptation will be resistances and praised like The Cube.

Yess

Cokemonster go for it

James Smith 😧🙃

grimwatcher i left that out for a reason

grimwatcher to be honest the main chick would make anyone fap even more.

James Smith that's a good point

Fiction Maker He gave it an A-

Naufal Mahardhika I know. That's why I'm saying he gave it an A- haha

Why take an actress who is not ready to go full nude? They should have taken a Japanese actress and for star power added some Hollywood actors. I also think the anime was deep so much philosophy deep thinking. With Scarlett caliber actress this should have been the case but unfortunate. It is a niche movie and making it main stream screwed it.

Gaukur masterpiece lol

The movie is a masterpiece alright A masterpiece of shit.

Gaukur I love speed racer

Yeah... Like, I can understand why someone who liked the Wachowskis from Bound or The Matrix had problems with Speed Racer, but in terms of making a live-action adaptation of an anime *aimed at ten year olds* it was extremely well-done. The visual storytelling alone was amazing, particularly in the opening sequence. Plus, Roger Allem is SUCH an amazingly slimy bad guy.

I remember loving the movie - especially for its visuals - and didn't really see any problems with it (I was younger of course), do you know why people who watched the original anime disliked it?

candiigurl7893 xD

yay!!!

Actually...no they don't. They only good thing they did right was the visual appeal. Everything else is just plain wrong and a slap to the fan's face, ESPECIALLY towards how Batou acts to the origins of Major.

they got just about everything wrong.

candiigurl7893 Hollywood thinks hiring a jewish actor is diversity. They do this many times and never learn. *never*

Kitai105 good is relative. gorgeous visuals, soundtrack, and decent performances. however, the story, characters, and themes fall short or greatness. should've gotten a B or B-, but Chris is a fanboy so..

I WILL FUCKING TAKE IT! It's progress! Especially with the garbage we've had until now.

it wasn't for me. but i don't remember the anime, except 1 scene....and that part i loved. "solid base hit" is more like a bunt for a hit. he didn't get an out, but it wasn't that bad

Chris was right. Some philosophical parts got dumbed down for the mainstream audience, but that doesn't make THIS film bad. Overall, it's still a good sci-fi film and adaptation. Also, Japanese actors have more roles in this film than in every film released this year combined, so the controversy is beyond stupid.

kardez13 We care about your opinion why? The majority are liking it. Who gives a shit if you didn't like it.

Novablast55 same, it's fun dumb movie

Yep. Sure it was different and had a few slow bits but the characters had a lot of emotional pull and the movie was crazy, silly and fantastical just like the show was in the 50's.

idc what anyone says too, the Wachowski Speed Racer was dooope!

"Speed Racer" isn't for everyone, but I agree. I actually really like the movie as well. While I can be a huge advocate of having good acting and stories in movies, there are times I get swept up by the colorful landscapes, action and the theme that I can bypass that critiques and have fun with a movie. Sometimes I don't want to watch a "Godfather" level movie. Sometimes, I just want to enjoy an "Armageddon" level movie.

Mos ปฏิธาน I luv that's movie too

Welcome to the club, Susan.

ไม่น่าเชือ... มีคนไทยดูด้วย!??

inn - k ฮะ .... แฟนอิตา Chris สมัยแรกๆเลยครับผมเนี๊ย !

I'm glad I'm not the only one. I have loved Speed Racer for so long, I didn't even know that it was considered "bad" by other people. I have watched the source material, and I think the live action movie was an improvement.

SJWs killed the movie

It's nothing compared to 1995 movie

​@@ChopperSakura SJWs did nothing, KZfaqrs who saw the oportunity to make videos about a character been from a different race is what killed it. But I didn't see those same KZfaqrs talk about how The Edge of Tomorrow (The best Manga/Anime adaptation) change everything from race to age of the main character.

As someone who just watched a bit of it but didn’t finish it. I agree this movie’s visuals are great. But I don’t really see a need to watch it when the original exists, and I can just watch that.

@@punchforpound2808 I don't agree with that all, CG that was used here blended well with the story and I even adore the original. It's amazing for an American adaptation, it's depressing that Alita and this both didn't make profit back

because we needed another Zach Snyder apparently

Arjac I understand why paramount had chosen him. If this movie gets a sequel Ridley Scott should direct.

Arjac yeah man, zack snyder has the same problem

SrElvisCocho yet WB still wanted him for Justice League. Hmm? Did they forget about BVS?

Elektra they already had lots of material of Justice League when bvs came out, thats why he's not directing Justice League 2 or any other DCU movies that we know about

Yea ive noticed he always a personal connection to every movie he reviews, doesnt matter if its new, old... he has a story about his childhood to go with it

Steve Hoy because he's a genuine guy who doesn't bullshit the community. He speaks as a person. Reasons why his reviews are always on point. He knows his shit.

[laughing intensifies]

-Drew Silva Thank you! Someone who gets it.

Drew Silva I wasn't saying that in a bad way, I know why he does it, and that's great, I was just makin a joke :)

Fede Serra three words; google ad tracking

yes! certainly a visual masterpiece, similar to blade runner

Spider-Man Noir it was shit. Lol. Compared to the Anime it should've killed itself.

I also was very impressed. We've had good female led movies this year. I just saw Atomic Blonde and came to see what Chris thought of them

*HOW DARE YOU! YOU WHITE SUPREMACIST 😡!* JK 😜!

This is like someone saying that the COPY is better than the original, because they have never seen the real one before.

What'd you think of it?

Joshua W Some parts of it are a bit dumb but I didn't care because the movie's just too stunning to look at! Very unique universe and it's got this very "detached" vibes to it. Also, I don't follow the anime so I can't compare it to the live-action version.

lady comatose Hmm, overall it seems to be getting good reviews so far. If you liked the concept of the movie, I recommend you check out the original movie and/or the Stand Alone Complex series. If you aren't an anime watcher, I promise they are really well grounded and not over the top weird like most stuff. But thanks for your input! Makes me happy to know one of my favorite stories didn't suffer the same fate as Dragonball and Avatar

Joshua W I'd love to!! Which one should I see first? I used to watch anime a lot (my favorite being code geass, CANNOT WAIT TO SEE SEASON 3).

LuEightySix duuuuude thanks dude

Jas I have it...tee public I believe it was ( if not then redbubble) just search ghost in the shell on the site. Should come up if it is still available.

Maybe that's exactly why people didn't like it...

jamel7781 One reason is because the acting sucked ass

OhWowWeWoo i'm saying... the source material's characters spoke like Bone Thugs N Harmony.

Come back and read other people's comments. Speed Racer has a bigger cult following than you probably realize.

jamel7781 because people love to bandwagon. I read the speed racer manga as an eight year old and saw the show as an eight year old and then I saw the movie, and it's exactly how a modern version of the speed racer story would have played out.

you didnt miss much. cuz there wasnt that many there. ergo BO fail.

I made sure I saw it twice in the theater. It was amazing, from the soundtrack, to the visual effects and the cinematrography!

@@jperryhal Damn, I'll try and see it if I get the chance. Glad to hear you enjoyed it!

@@ruhurtin4squrtin34 Damn, that sucks :/

@@Hemuset what sucks is gits 2017 & weebaboobs who r stupid 2 like it

It's a bad movie, never mind the bad casting, the story is just not great. It's a hard thing to take a well know anime or maga and do it any justice in live action form, I will say it looks stunning though.

Hiroko Takashiro yea it's decent but not as good as he's making it out to be

it is a shit movie that goes against everything the original stood for

It is an american film for american people. Sorry if your filmmakers and studios think that you (regular american people) are idiots and can't understand less commom stories. And of course changing the final act of the movie they already set a nort american continuation, but it would be nothing like the Ghost In The Shell 2 Inocence, cause they need Scarlet to star this thing and made a lot of money. But aside the plot it is a quite good flick, and they took entire action sequences from the original one. What kinda make this a poor stuff, cause the better stuff is the stuff from the animation. Anywais way better than I've expected to be and probably the better live action north american adaptation that I saw from a classical anime.

It was a Light novel first.

andi2578 Ruruoni Kenshin, actually

+TheNecromancer That ain't American

truth well said. too bad ghost in the shell 2017 was mediocre at best.

It is but I still hope it does well. I give it a lot of points for staying true to the look of the original because honestly that is a major aspect of manga of anime is the style. With the story they did dumb it down, but it wasn't as a dumb as I was dredding it to be. I hope this allows for more material of this type to be brought to wider audiences. I know a lot of anime fans like it being their own little thing, but the fact is, like comics, this is primed to explode into the mainstream western culture. There are too many genuinely great stories for it not to.

Oh god that's so corny (but nicely done on spotting it)

@Pinkaugust "mirai" is "future", not "mira"

That's so stupid that it might be true

No one expects it to be exactly like the original. But then the derivative can be worse or better, and this movie is a case of former. Which you agree with it seems - and then you say you loved it?! There are parts that deserve A+, and ones that fall through into C territory, and A- is probably a fair rating overall. But somehow all good parts are the ones taken from original, and everything they have "added" in the movie only detract from what it could have been, which begs the question of what was the point of making it at all.

Hud dy I loved it too, but I wish they focused jus a little more on the team too, especially togusa, hes my fav besides batou

And Togusa always uses his revolver. They got it wrong in the movie.

Huddy : What score would you give it? I didn’t know the source material. I loved the movie, and my only criticism was that it wasn’t violent enough. Not for the sake of it, but the bone crunching assaults and the shootouts kept leaving me feeling like they’d bent over backwards to avoid letting us see any blood, for the sake of the certificate? And, this review should have mentioned Michael Pitt’s brilliantly ambivalent performance, don’t you think? His voice, movement, everything about him, as the antagonist, goes from dark, brooding and sinister, when we meet him, to little boy lost and rather a sympathetic figure by the end. I had no idea that Pit was even capable of such a nuanced performance! More blood, and it would have been an, “A+”, for me. That’s why I just give it an, “A.”

Huddy I agree. It was just missing the deep ideas of ghost in the shell but I agree with him it was good and had a blast watching it in the movies

Huddy I agree. It was just missing the deep ideas of ghost in the shell but I agree with him it was good and had a blast watching it in the movies

There's no real chronological order. The anime gets "rebooted" every time. The first film directed by Mamoru Oshii came out in 1995, the sequel "Innocence" in 2004. Then an entirely separate continuity Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone Complex, a TV series with 2 seasons and one TV movie wrapping it up. Then another separate continuity Ghost in the Shell Arise, 5 short films, 1 theatrical (this one, I believe is on Netflix, though not recommended as a starting point. Considered the weak link of the franchise). Stand Alone Complex and the Oshii films I believe are available on Hulu with dubs.

Wow, i see.. well in any case thanks! The TV serie is the only thing i havent seen yet, so i'll look right into it.

sean bowman Get syphilis.

Maybe they don't care because they already get enough representation in JAPAN? Maybe?

NO as there are no Japanese action actresses that could act the part as well as Scarlett Johansson , a box-office heavy-hitter. This naked lady kicks ass.

Irun Mon exactly! 😂

Why do you think that is? The reason there are "no Japanese action actresses that could act the part" is because Hollywood always replaces the roles of people of color in films with white people and/or just about refuses to cast people of color! If this role was given to a lesser known Japanese actress they would have had a chance to gain popularity and actually become successful. Scarlett Johansson is a very talented actress but part of the reason she was able to gain the success and fame that she has today because she had the opportunity to. If non-white actresses and actors were given that kind of opportunity there could have been a popular Japanese actress to play this part. @Richard Dodge @Chris Stuckmann

Jake G 2187 It's because the majority of Americans think it's cartoons. Cartoons = dumb kid shit.

Jake G 2187 I think it's becouse Americans refuse to expose them selves to other culture and mostly stay within their own because "It's da best culture"

I am not American, I tried giving anime a chance. I watched Death Note, I watched Another, I tried watching FMA: Brotherhood. First got repetitive very fast, second got a very shitty and anti-climactic ending, the last one was trying to raise very adult problems, while being childish as fuck. Other than movies done by Hayao Miyazaki, I am yet to meet anime that would make me feel as if it is art from start to finish, not just in some rare moments. Perhaps you can suggest a good adult anime?

it's because anime is gay m8.

Reminds me of the same attitude for stop motion animation.