I saw it last night with a friend. First off I’ll just say the movie was excellent. I literally don’t see how Oshii could outdo himself anymore in respect to animation and storytelling after watching this. I won’t write a lengthy review on this or anything until I feel I for the most part understand the material. This is one of the movies you’ll deffinetly have to watch at least 3 or 4 times to begin to truly grasp everything.
If you thought Ghost in the Shell had alot of philisophical undertones this one tops it tenfold. There are quotes out the ying yang literally in almost every scene. The animation was spectaculr I couldn’t keep my eyes off it for one second. Most of the scenes have a CGI background with traditional cells on top giving it a very unique and surreal style. It was understandably hard to follow in the beginning, which I wasn’t suprised with, but it kept me paying attention for the whole thing.
After the events of Ghost in the Shell Batou is struggling to keep himself together after losing the Major. He is now teamed up with Togusa in Section 9 Police. There are cases of prositute cyborgs murdering specific patrants and then basically self destructing. Batou and Togusa are assigned to uncover the truth behind these assasinations and who is behind them. I don’t want to give away any details to the story, but yes the Major does make an appearance to deliver some butt kicking...in one form or another.
Anyway if you liked the first movie, you’re prepared to read,(it’s subtitled not dubbed)and think a little by all means go see it, you won’t regret it.
"You can't sit on the fence when it comes to Jesus, Satan owns the fence." Mark Cahill
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