August 29, 2006
Ghost in the Shell: Solid State Society - Sept. 1st
A new movie in the Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone Complex series is coming out in Japan on the SKYPerfecTV! satellite television network on September 1st. Production IG is going to release this on DVD on November 24, and plans to release it in the US sometime in 2007. Ghost in the Shell: Solid State Society was made for 3.2 million dollars, and supposedly has high quality theatrical production values. Here’s the trailer:
Interestingly, the distributor, Bandai Entertainment, is planning to crack down on Fan Subs. We’ll see how well this actually works, but it seems to me a better solution would be to do a worldwide release instead of doing the Japan-only DVD release followed by a subtitled version later.
From Production IG, the plot is as follows:
A.D. 2034. It has been two years since Motoko Kusanagi left Section 9. Togusa is now the new leader of the team, that has considerably increased its appointed personnel. The expanded new Section 9 confronts a rash of complicated incidents, and investigations reveal that an ultra-wizard hacker named the Puppeteer is behind the entire series of events.
In the midst of all, Batou, who was stalking the case on a separate track, encounters Motoko. She goes away after saying, “Stay away from the Solid State Society.” Batou is left with a doubt in his mind. Could Motoko be the the Puppeteer?
The series of intriguing incidents that Section 9 faces gradually link together almost artistically. Who is the Puppeteer? What will happen to Batou’s relationship with Motoko? What is the full truth behind this carefully planned perfect crime? And what will the outcome be? Mysteries surround the Solid State Society…
Hopefully, one of our posters from Japan will be able to watch GITS SSS and at can give us a nice review of it.
Comments
August 29, 2006
species said:
lets just hope Production IG doesn’t screw this one up and add hearing impaired subtitlesand no english soundtrack like with Innocence.
Netsui said:
SSS, YESS happy. !!
Any comments on what you think the full relation of the title will be in reference to?
Also, common thought is that the torrents are also self advertising and that ppl. like Bandai benifit from it? thoughts?
how much of this “crack down” will affect the single user, or do you think this is more for sub groups?
and is this a friendly warning, LOL.
Either way I cannot forsee any company completly halting torrents, it’s currently too big to destroy all together, and you would Have to destroy it all, other wise something will sqeeze trough, and probably this.
SAC, was prime! I really hope it holds the bar.!!
SAC The PS2 game is F++king awesome!!!
ETM said:
I must get my hands on the music… I’ll check if Yoko Kanno is doing this one too, but that song in the trailer is definitely a new one by Origa, just like on the series OST - the lovely Shanti Snyder’s voice is unmistakeable.
September 1, 2006
Kenho said:
Ahh this will be super, cant wait!
September 2, 2006
zuzu said:
ZOMG, simultaneously world-around instead of only in Japan. …and if the DVDs didn’t cost US$30 per two-episode disc! $30*13~=$400 just for one season!
Furthermore, fansubbers do for free whatever it costs Bandai to delay from producing and including English subtitles in the initial DVD release. Too bad Bandai cannot learn to work with fansubbing communities instead of against them.
Anyone know if LMF will pick up this series as well?
zuzu said:
Woah, my comment got mangled in submission! There were about two paragraphs between “zomg” and “simultaneously”. Now that text is lost forever. :/
Netsui said:
The Tachikomas look brown this time.
anyone want to comment on the SAC, Tachikoma conciousness and the many reasons “why” they rescued the humans? and how that was beyond having a ghost, but a…
meet me in meatspace we can talk there.
N
September 9, 2006
mrb0y said:
I watched it last night, it was all japanese so I didn’t follow the story as well as if it would have been subbed. It was awesome, I’m so happy that the series and the story is being continued on and with such quality, truley entertaining. Now I’m spending much free time searching for a subtitle file for it!!!
September 22, 2006
boiss007 said:
any1 found some subtitles for the raw??? I watch it but it kill me not to understand the plot….. :’(
abcd190888 said:
hi everybody, can someone send me a mail with the subtitles if they have been made, cause I don’t find them at all. Thanks a lot, I don’t understand japanese, so I won’t see this great anime if you don’t help me!!
October 3, 2006
Anonymous said:
Some open subtitles organization has a subtitle file (srt) for it ^_^; (the quality seems a bit low, however… -missing words, simplifications- but it still helps a lot, so thanks to them ^_^).
Don’t forget to buy the DVD, when it goes out ^_^
October 11, 2006
AC said:
Care to post a link to the srt made by this “open subtitles” group? Thanks in advance!
October 27, 2006
joe said:
dude they better have another series of ghost in the shell or ill go and suicide !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
November 7, 2006
limitless said:
Netsui, if you read the manga, you’d know why they are brown
Can’t wait to have my eyes on this!!
November 10, 2006
limitless said:
This was very good…..
Btw for who was needing subtitles, try this: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=BS6LPMDA
December 7, 2006
Evi1d33d said:
Thanks limitless!!! the dub works.
December 9, 2006
Zyro said:
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Give suggestions.
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December 13, 2006
Oturan said:
I just finished watching the subbed version. As always, GITS production quality is top line, the character profiles well thought out (and consistent with previous SAC’s I & II) Batou is till the hard-ass who is whipped on Motoka, Tokusa now carries an automatic but still loves his revolver, etc. . ) Personally what I find so attractive about both the series and this new condensed-format continuation (and the movies, of course) are the detailed, often politically oriented plots and the CONTINUITY. I don’t thin k I’ve ever noticed any inconsistencies. This seems to bring a element of realism that I’ve rarely felt with other anime. I would strongley suggest that you grab a fansubbed torrent now before they are shut down (unless you don’t mind waiting and paying). ADV has effectively stopped Gilgamesh torrent releases in their tracks, and with Ghost S.S.S. production costs and the fact that it is one of Pro. I.G.’s crown jewels, they are likely to expend considerable resources on keeping this one boxed up. 8.5/10
January 17, 2007
DarkFX said:
I have seen SSS. (Spoilers)
It was awsome. Great animation and music. The only thing I will sayis that it ends a little like the original movie.
P.S. regarding the tachikomas. They are alive because tey storeed their ghosts in the cyberspace that they originaly were going to store the ghosts of the people in dajuma. Then after she quit section 9 the major retrieves their ghosts and AI’s. In the end when the major returns to help Section 9 she restors the tachis bodies.
TIP: check ebay
Somebody said:
I have seen SSS. (Spoilers)
It was awsome. Great animation and music. The only thing I will sayis that it ends a little like the original movie.
P.S. regarding the tachikomas. They are alive because tey storeed their ghosts in the cyberspace that they originaly were going to store the ghosts of the people in dajuma. Then after she quit section 9 the major retrieves their ghosts and AI’s. In the end when the major returns to help Section 9 she restors the tachis bodies.
TIP: check ebay
February 5, 2007
novectors said:
Actually, it wasn’t I.G. that screwed the English-speaking market on this one, but Dreamworks (right here in the ‘States!); nearly every other country in the world has an English-Dub track available…
Despite repeated complaints to Dreamworks, it seems that Spielberg and company could care less about the vast GITS audience, only about the fast buck they hoped to make by releasing the film before the English Dub track became available to them.
February 6, 2007
YH said:
Personally, i think dubs take away the spirit of the japanese production. It just loses its feel. I’d rather watch a subbed version than a dubbed one. Also, to sync with the lip movement, much meaning is lost.
February 25, 2007
im that dam emo said:
omfg hell yeah this is gonna be the fucking best
June 10, 2007
Zohn said:
Heads up, this will be playing on the Sc-Fi channel this Monday at 11PM EST.
July 17, 2007
Rob said:
Hi all.
Just got my hands on a copy of Solid State Society 1H 43M long.
Great stuff & back with our old friend the Puppet Master.
Well worth waiting for.
Rob said:
Hi all.
Just got my hands on a copy (DVD-RIP) of Solid State Society 1H 43M long.
Great stuff & back with our old friend the Puppet Master.
Well worth waiting for.