Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, 2nd GIG, Volume 02 (Episodes 5-8)
by Kenji Kamiyama
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Actor: Hiroshi Ito (II), Katsumi Ch?, Ryuichi Horibe, Sukekiyo Kameyama, Yuji AokiDirector: Kenji Kamiyama
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; Japanese (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled)
Format: Animated, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 100 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-11-22
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Manga Video
DVD Reviews of Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, 2nd GIG, Volume 02 (Episodes 5-8)
DVD Review: What you would expect!
Summary: 5 Stars
This is what you would expect from the team that makes this awsome film and series! Visuals are as always, Top notch in the anime world, with thought provoking story lines, that make it so you can't wait to watch the next episode in the series. If you like you anime like i do with realistic looking charaters, and just alaround good damn movie. you have to have this in your collection, along with the whole series!DVD Review: LACKIES FOR HIRE
Summary: 4 Stars
Section 9 is used to being a covert offensive agency, but it seems more and more like they are the lackies of another intelligence service run by the hideously malformed Kazundo Gohda. He's turned them into errand boys and one luciously figured errand girl. When the new Prime Minister receives a death threat connected to the "Individual Eleven" terrorists who want more rights for the refugees in the city slums, Section 9 are called on as a protection squad. Togusa strikes out on his own to follow a hunch about a murdered worker that will lead him into the bombed out ruins of old Tokyo to a government secret involving long forgotten nuclear weapons, which will eventually bring in the rest of his comrades. All the while, the team is looking for any way to track down any of the Eleven, but it seems like forces in the government and military are trying to put a short leash on their investigation.
2nd Gig continues a much darker and less episodic storyline than the first season. Instead of being stand-alone episodes, these four installments help to build up a pretty epic plot which documents a conspiracy which seems to have Section 9 as one of its targets, while using urban unrest to further its secret aims. The awesome animation combined with even more realistic character designs than last season give GITS a filmic or live television feel that is at times humbling. There is a lot of character development, especially in an exchange between Togusa and Batou in which it is revealed that cyborgs can't even eat the same foods as humans anymore, which leads to a subtle discussion of what you lose when you modify your body. The only complaint I have about the show so far is that too much is happening at one time. This show will demand a second viewing when its run ends.
DVD Review: the question should be who do you think you are?
Summary: 5 Stars
this is a great series, its very intense and the story line is great. People complain about the long complicated parts and if you don't like that kinda stuff this isn't the show for you. Although the DVD could have a bit more extra's, but it doesnt matter to most since the show is so cool. The tachicomo robot things are kinda annoyingDVD Review: Getting better but there's still room for improvement...
Summary: 4 Stars
I like this installment better than either 2nd GIG Vol.1 or the last installment of the first season.
The potential of this series can be best illustrated by the use of Hideo Kuze in the "Inductance" episode.
Strangely, the scope of the entire season seems to be apparent by the 8th episode ( Fake Food ). This is reminiscent of the appearance of Aoi in the 11th episode of the first season. It makes me wonder: is the series going to meander in "stand-alone" type episodes for three installments or so, before finishing with the inevitable conclusion?
There are the usual bumps in the road... I don't know if it's the subtitle translation or what, but I sometimes feel like the script is contradicting itself. For example: a bunch of groups calling themselves the Individual Eleven, who never identified themselves as the Individual Eleven. Huh?!
One more thing: the huge amount of audio "hiss" during the character design features. I don't recall this from earlier chapters. Oh well.
DVD Review: its good but slow
Summary: 4 Stars
the fast pace of the first Second gig dvd has sorta hit a wall with these 4 episodes, while there a must to see to know whats going on in the story...theres alot of talking going on...however there are some action moments and the tachikoma mini series is still funney as ever...
Description of Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, 2nd GIG, Volume 02 (Episodes 5-8)
As the second season of Stand Alone Complex continues, the filmmakers keep the suspense running high. Numerous subplots arise that appear to be linked, as they were in the case of the Laughing Man in the first season. Kusanagi, Batou, and even Chief Arakami chafe when they're drafted to protect the Prime Minister from would-be assassins. Behind these threats and other incidents lies the Individual Eleven, a cell that may parallel the May 15th Incident, an event well known to Japanese audiences but unfamiliar to Americans. (On May 15, 1932, a group of junior naval officers and army cadets assassinated Prime Minister Inukai Tsuyoshi, ensuring that power would remain in the hands of the militarists.) But the devious and hideously scarred intelligence officer Kazundo Gohda may be the puppet-master behind actions of the Individual Eleven--and many others. Stand Alone Complex--2nd Gig continues the tight plotting, dynamic action sequences, and appealing character relationships that made the series a hit. The story points concerning the status of an impoverished refugee population give the show a depressing contemporary feel. The extras include a two-part interview with character designers Takayuki Goto and Tetsuya Nishio. (Rated 13 and older: violence, violence against women, brief nudity, alcohol and tobacco use) --Charles SolomonGeneral DVDs
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