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New Collaboration Between Ghost in the Shell Creator and Animators Announced
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Column by Scott Green
Production I.G, the studio behind the Mamoru Oshii Ghost in the Shell movies and the Stand Alone Complex series, has announced that they will working with the franchise's creator, Shirow Masamune, on a new, original anime TV series called "Real Drive". Real Drive is co-produced by Nippon Television Network Corporation (NTV), and will premiere in Japan on NTV April 2008.
OVERVIEW
2061 AD. Fifty years have passed since mankind developed the Network society. It was anticipated that this new infrastructure would realize a utopia where people connected with each other at the level of consciousness. However, new social problems such as personal data leaks and proliferation of manipulated information began to surface.
Nevertheless, people still relied on the Network to exchange information, and proved unable to opt to abandon it.
In due course, a new Network realm with more effective security measures was developed. This was called Meta Real Network, usually abbreviated as "the Metal."
The Metal accommodated personal memory data within protected virtual stand-alone organic cyber enclaves called bubble shells and eventually pervaded the everyday lives of people.
However, people gradually learned to release and explode their instincts within the secure environment of the Metal. The unleashed instincts pushed each individual's consciousness to drown in the sea of information and to be exposed to the pressures of desire. Meanwhile, norms and regulations continued to bind their real world lives. Thus, strange friction between the two worlds began to manifest themselves as aberrations beyond the bounds of the imaginable.
Experts who challenged the deep sea of the Metal to investigate and decipher such aberrations were called cyber divers.
This is a story of a cyber diver, Masamichi Haru, who investigates the incidents that lie between Reality and the Metal.
STAFF
Original Story: Production I.G / Shirow Masamune
In collaboration with: CROSSROAD
Director: Kazuhiro Furuhashi (Le Chevalier D'Eon)
Series Composition: Junichi Fujisaku (Blood+)
Character Design: Tetsuro Ueyama (Metal Guardian Faust)
Animation Production: Production I.G
© Production I.G/Shirow Masamune
© 2008 DNDP, VAP, Production I.G
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quality man
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huge fan of GITS, loved the second film enormously, and SAC is a great series. This should no doubt turn out a good production.
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but it will be pretty.
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or two
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Will def give this a try. Smartest anime out there.
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But I hope they don't go too heavy into the metaphysics.
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Anime tried to destroy the metal, but the metal had its way.
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Can't wait!!!!!
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Wow, I'm glad to hear this. The most animes made by Production I.G. were really cool. I hope, Mamoru Oshii will collaborate.
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SHIROW DID!!! The original Ghost in the Shell manga was so far ahead of its time it is almost scary!
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I cant stand 1 more movie of his where the characters drone on endlessly without animating much, then at the end if your lucky you get a bit of 'action' (same formula from Patlabor movies right thru to GITS)
He completely 'didn't get' the feel of GITS from the manga, which had alot of ironic humor & lots of action. His movies are rather dull & lifeless. Im not faulting the production values of I.G. though they are fantastic..but we need someone to do justice to Shirows work & spirit. Its NOT Mamoru Oshii thats for sure.. -
Nov 05, 2007 4:31:52 PM CST
JOHNNY MENEMONIC was based on a short story by William Gibson
by godoffireinhell
aka the dude who a couple years later published NEUROMANCER. And NEUROMANCER isn't the be all, end all either. For starters it's essentially a re-write of Alfred Bester's THE STARS MY DESTINATION and Gibson freely admits that! Reading the science fiction classics from the decades leading up to the publication of NEURMANCER will significantly lessen your opinion of it. Which isn't to say that it's a bad novel or to deny how colossally influential it was.
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shirow
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Damn, that's a great book! I'd love to see a faithful anime version of that one. Let's hope the upcoming live-action movie will be worthwhile. As for this new collaboration, I'll certainly give it a try, even though it does sound a bit derivative. Other titles from these artists have been very good/classic, so the odds are it will be worthy.
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Sounds great. I still want more news on whatever the new GitS:SAC project will be.
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Nov 06, 2007 12:51:52 AM CST
I'd like some more anime based on American SF classics
by godoffireinhell
Not just THE STARS MY DESTINATION, there's tons of books that I'm sure will never get made as live action because they'd simply cost too much money and would have not nearly enough mainstream appeal to justify the investment necessary to do them right. Yes, I'm aware that there are least plans to do a live-action NEUROMANCER but I'd much prefer an anime version.
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Animation in general allows a lot more visual freedom for the directors and other artists. Anime in particular has made some really mind-blowing sights that I dont think would be possible in any but the highest budget "live-action" movies. I'd love to see an anime of Asimov's Foundation and Saberhagen's Berserker series. Also, Niven's Ringworld would be an amazing thing to see!
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and Mamoru Oshii made a terrific anime version of it, it's rawness and imperfections only made it stand out from anything made before or since causing it to come across like an old black and white film that can never be duplicated.
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