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Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex (TV Series)

Kôkaku kidôtai: Stand Alone Complex (Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex)

2002

Kenji Kamiyama

Animation

7.8

3,488

TV Series. Animation. Sci-Fi. Thriller. Action TV Series (2002-2005). 1 season. 26 episodes. Based on the manga by Masamune Shirow and directed by Kenji Kamiyama, "Ghost In The Shell: Stand Alone Complex" takes viewers to futuristic society where technology has saturated citizens' daily lives. Along with the new technology comes new types of crime that exploits it, but female cyborg Major Motoko Kusanagi and her team of police, Section 9, devote their lives to chasing criminals, ... [+]

	Author	Review
United Kingdom	Phelim O'Neill The Guardian	"If only all sci-fi was this good"	POS
United States	Emily Yoshida Vulture	"The animation is a peak example of how to meld CGI and traditional animation - it's deployed just enough to make those car chases more thrilling and those Fuchikomas more lifelike."	POS
Australia	Jim Schembri The Age	"Even though I've seen the 1995 anime film and all the Matrix films it inspired, I couldn't make head nor tail of what was going on here."	NEG
United States	Toussaint Egan Paste Magazine	"There's always a risk when taking an iconic movie and transferring it to television -- often it loses the scope and ambition of the original (...) Stand Alone Complex is one of the exceptions to the rule."	POS
United States	Andy Patrizio IGN	"It retains much of the original film, including the characters, while offering a familiar police story plot."	POS
Australia	Sydney Morning Herald	"This spin-off is strictly for anime nuts. From the utterly perplexing opening script to the bizarre plotline and bad American dubbing, this is not the genre at its best."	NEG
Canada	Hugo Ozman Screen Anarchy	"One of the best anime series ever made, and ranks above other classics such as NEON GENESIS EVANGELION and COWBOY BEBOP in my personal list of all-time favorite animes."	POS

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