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Nana Komatsu · weak sauce Joined: 17 Jul 2006 Posts: 1293

People were interested in the Tachikoma Figures that I bought. I got mine from J-list before they sold out, and I know other people wanted some too. This store, which seems reputable enough, has the full set in stock (and cheaper than I paid too):

http://www.hlj.com/product/MOV30918
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Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

I saw these (a little too late on my way out) at my local comic shop. They're $5.99 each. Is that a good price?
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Nana Komatsu · weak sauce Joined: 17 Jul 2006 Posts: 1293

I paid $5 for each but since they came from Japan there was mad shipping. That price sounds fair!
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the drunken samurai · . Joined: 02 Dec 2006 Posts: 30

these are great! coincidentally i just finished watching SAC for the third time yesterday.

dessgeega · Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 5:46 pm Post subject:

i am watching it now since nana sent me the dvds. she enclosed a tiny blue tachikoma. it is currently guarding my keyboard against villians and ne'er-do-wells.
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the drunken samurai · . Joined: 02 Dec 2006 Posts: 30

isnt it the greatest show ever?

Dracko · . Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 2613

It's one of the better and interesting, genuinely worthwhile, animes being shown at the moment.

The game is actually pretty damn good as well.
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GSL · Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2007 1:53 am Post subject:

I'm a fairly big fan of both (or all three, now?) manga series as well as the two movies; I've also got the first SAC DVD which I have yet to watch the whole way through. How's the series, as a whole? My impression of the three episodes I've watched so far has been fairly positive--it feels a lot like the manga in its blend of science, humor and the philosophical, rather than drifting into the all-out, cyber-existentialism of the movies (not that I dislike thw movies, mind you). Does the series keep up the same general pace through to the end? And isn't the second series completed on R1 DVD as well? Is it any good?

Nana Komatsu · weak sauce Joined: 17 Jul 2006 Posts: 1293

The first season is excellent. I think it's some of the best science fiction i have seen in a long time. It definitely keeps up the pace, I think this is helped by the idea of the "stand alone episodes" which are self-contained and interspersed between the major plot episodes.

The second season (which yes is all out in R1 DVD) is pretty good, but it focuses a lot more on action sequences to advance the plot (whereas the first had a lot more character drama) and so I didn't like it as much. I still liked it a lot.

I will say that while the first season explores the ideas of technology's influence on society, the second focuses on a more real-life type situation that wouldn't have to take place in 2034.

There is a third season or movie, something, called Solid State Society that is coming out this summer in R1 which I am highly anticipating!

Personally I didn't like either of the movies really. I thought they tried to cram far too much story into the first movie, and the second was a misdirected (albeit very pretty) mess. I haven't read the manga but I figure I'll get around to it eventually.

Still, the TV series fixes everything I didn't like about the movie and I highly recommend it.

And it has Tachikoma!
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dessgeega · Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2007 4:26 am Post subject:

i am about halfway through season 1. chat! chat! chat! is great, as is most of the laughing man stuff. and tachikoma runs away.

the protagonist is a poly dyke but her homelife is treated the same as every other character's. i am glad.
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Dracko · . Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 2613

The first movie was pretty good, and beautiful to watch, with a fairly solid posthuman philosophical grasp. Unfortunately, the second one jumped the shark in that respect. The films were less obscure than the mangas in any case, but I far prefer the animated series on the whole.

I have no idea what you mean by poly dyke, dess, but she's certainly less blatant about her sexuality than she ever was in the mangas, which is more to the series' credit, I find.
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Nana Komatsu · weak sauce Joined: 17 Jul 2006 Posts: 1293

I like how they subtly hint at it.
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Dracko · . Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 2613

I just don't get that definition.
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dark steve · . Joined: 17 Jun 2005 Posts: 1110

Polyamorous, maybe?
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Dracko · . Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 2613

That's what I initially thought, but I figured that was too simple.
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dessgeega · Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2007 8:31 pm Post subject:

masamune is a grody shit and the movie is gross.

the series isn't gross though. the serial killer episode was hard for me to watch however.
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Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

I saw Ghost In The Shell. Some dude's heads blow off. Then some people do some dumb talking. Then some chick goes invisible. If you've read Isaac Azimov's wikipedia article then you've explored the themes of this movie in as much depth as the film does. Perhaps more. Except there's more emotional involvement because Isaac Asimov dies at the end.

I liked the sequence which was just a bunch of shots of buildings, though.

GITS:Innocence is one of those 2D movies which has 3D backgrounds. If I wanted to watch two movies at once I'd buy two TVs.

Dracko · . Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 2613

Also, Innocence is horrible.
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Dracko · . Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 2613

I won't deny that. It's nice to look at (and has a lot of dogs), but the plot is pretty damn weak.
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B coma · . Joined: 06 Dec 2005 Posts: 279

I was looking through my stuff couple of months ago and discovered that I owned Innocence, which really shocked me for a moment, because I had completely forgot that I purchased it. and it's not like I have a large DVD collection. I actually only own around 7 or 8 movies...

I liked seasons one and two of the series pretty well, but like most anime made for TV I feel like they would have benefited a lot from being more compact. The episodes that focus heavily on character development of Section 9 people were usually among my favorites.

As for the movies, I liked the first quite a lot when I was young (and still do!) but the sequel didn't do much for me either. Beyond a few neat moments and Batou's relationship with his Beagle.