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Those who want to see The Major promoting Microsoft's Surface tablet can finally see their wish fulfilled in the full Ghost in the Shell: Arise promotional short . Following some short commercials, the full three-minute short has The Major utilizing the tablet during a mission, …Read more »
Word from the February issue of Kodansha's Monthly Young Magazine has the Ghost in the Shell Arise anime scheduled for a 2013 debut. The series' chief director is Kazuchika Kise (animation director for the recent Evangelion films, Patlabor 2 , and much more), with supervising …Read more »
“…unusually intelligent and challenging science fiction, aimed at smart audiences.” The above quotation by Roger Ebert along with its “Two Thumbs Up” rating featured prominently on the VHS—and later, DVD—packaging, convinced a substantial amount of American cinema fans and casually interested “geeks” alike to watch …Read more »
It was tough to miss the loud accusations of whitewashing leveled at Dreamworks earlier this year when their live-action adaptation of Masamune Shirow's Ghost In the Shell was announced, placing Scarlett Johansson in the lead role of Major Kusanagi. The news this week is that …Read more »
Looking at Ghost in the Shell now, it's hard to see past that massive media franchise that's known so very well at this point. Thanks especially to the GitS activity of recent years—with the Stand Alone Complex series receiving meaty fanfare, spawning a follow-up and …Read more »
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