A lot of anime deal with iden­tity, but in dif­fer­ent ways: whether it is the all-encompassing, driv­ing force behind the movie and series extra­vag­an­zas that are Ghost in the Shell and Evan­gelion or as an under­cur­rent to more pre­val­ent themes like with Guts in Ber­serk or Faye in Cow­boy Bebop, it is fair to say […]

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Organised with care and attention into:

• Anime,
• batou,
• berserk,
• cyborg,
• evangelion,
• ghost in the shell,
• ghost in the shell standalone complex,
• identity,
• kämpfer,
• meta,
• motoko,
• ranma,
• ranma half,
• self,
• shinji,
• simoun

Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Com­plex
The news of a Ghost in the Shell tele­vi­sion series was met with a mix of joy and trep­id­a­tion; highly regarded in the West and being helmed by a then unknown dir­ector, the assump­tion would be that the themes and del­ic­ately bal­anced char­ac­ters of the Mamoru Oshii movie as […]

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Organised with care and attention into:

• Anime,
• anime of the decade,
• aramaki,
• batou,
• ghost in the shell,
• gits,
• individual eleven,
• laughing man,
• major,
• motoko,
• network,
• sac,
• society,
• solid state society,
• stand alone complex,
• technology,
• togusa