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Ghost In The Shell: Stand Alone Complex GitS: Stand Alone Complex is a follow-up of the spectacle movie “Ghost In The Shell” which was released a long time before the actual series. The series itself carries a heavy weight on it’s shoulders – this of course would be called high expectations. The original movie was a really big hit, and people liked it a lot. GitS (I shall use this to shorten my burden of writing the incredible long name every time, so bare with me here) takes a look at an underground police station called “Section 9”. It works to preserve order in the country, yet doing it fully invisible to the public’s eye. It is an effective team built to survive any situation, and to provider each other with needed knowledge or help in gunfire. The office gets the most dangerous and complicated cases, which they have the best resources to survive from. They even complete cases the local police are working with. .jpg)
The team is lead by an old, yet cunning and calculative man named Aramaki Daisuke. He is one of he most efficient leaders in all of Japan, and does his job effectively. The team that actually does the work consists of several men, and even one woman. The team has many interesting people, yet they all don’t seem to act like humans. They hardly fear anything, and even in a very sticky situation they don’t seem to shiver, not one bit. They also have a very orthodox way of approaching things, and hardly ever think out of the box. Only one person in the whole team has the right stuff to work outside of the box – the only person who goes against cybernetic enhancers and is mostly completely human. The time the series is located in is a long way to the future. They lines between men and machines have been blurred a lot. Cybernetics are a part of every day life, and it seems to be the most common way to fix any flaws – even trading your body to a new one is possible. Because of this, the series also questions the line between the machines and humans, and humanity overall – when does a machine become human, and when does a human become a machine? The psychological aspect comes out of the anime at a constant rate, and thus the story is mostly controlled by dialogue and monologue. This of course is spiced with some really great action, where even the ‘super humans’ take damage and even have to retreat – they don’t just hack and slash their way out of the situation and stand on top of a mound of corpses. The story’s deeper meaning made me like it very much, but this time the action itself can also be of some attraction. .jpg)
The name of the series itself is rather complicated, since ‘Stand Alone Complex’ is a paradox. For those who aren’t educated in this matter, I shall explain it. The paradox in it is a saying “How can copies spawn even though the absence of the original piece, and even because of this there are copies and more spawn.” So in English this would mean that how is it possible for copies to appear, even without an original piece. The series itself embraces this paradox, and uses it in many senses – naturally I wont go explaining when and where this is taken into use, since in itself is a part of the storyline. You figure it out, I’m quite sure you are more than capable of doing it. A very frisky thriller like anime which does justice for almost everyone. For those who look for action, there is some, yet not as much as you could possibly want. For those who want something that goes under the surface, there is a more than thrilling storyline which goes and criticizes the political machine and how things can be manipulated with relative ease. The deep story was the hook-line and sinker for me, and despite my big expectations filled most of them. Should be something every anime fan sees, or at least has a look at, was that good. [85] + Action that works + Storylinetastic + Fulfilling |
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