How to get into ghost in the shell?

>>149620647

Watch the movie, the manga is decent but I found it weak compared to the rest of the other entries in the franchise, good artwork though.

>>149620647
read the first manga, movie, SAC anime, Solid State anime, second manga, second movie, arise, lastest movie

>>149620647
Watch the the original movie then SAC and 2nd Gig.

If you're not into the movie for any reason, just keep in mind that SAC/2nd Gig have far better story and character, though not nearly as impressive art / animation / atmosphere, obviously.

The manga is good but not required. Every version of GiTS should really be taken as its own thing.

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>>149621649
>The manga is good but not required

FUCK YOU, it's not.

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What's the best version of the movie?
Is the 25th anniversary blu ray decent?

>>149623584
I'm sure any version is fine. Just avoid the 2007(I think its 2007)"remastered" version that uses the absolute most terrible cgi you will ever see.

>>149623626
A lot of the reviews on Amazon are saying that the subtitles are fucked up, so I'm not sure what to do.
It is on Hulu but it's the dub only IIRC.

>>149623714
The 25th anniversary addition is the best version if you want HD.

Honestly, I prefer the movie in English and the show in Japanese.

>>149623584
>>149623751
Isn't the audio fucked up for the 25th anniversary version? i heard there are bunch of missing sound effects and other stuff.

gits
gits2
sac
sac2
sac movie

>>149623584
whichever is the top one on bakabt

>>149623804
Not that I ever noticed, but then again, I haven't paid that much attention to the original enough times to notice all the little sounds that would be different.

>>149620647
just wait for the movie to come out. they had the guy who worked on the anime in one of their promo vids and he said the movie was going to be amazing and that scarjo is going to be great in it

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>>149623877
>and that scarjo is going to be great in it

>>149620647
The two movies, ghost in the shell and innocence are in a different continuity from the tv series Stand Alone Complex, which is also in a different continuity from the manga and Arise.
Just pick something and watch it all. Trying to skip back and forth like >>149620688 will be confusing, as the characters change a lot in each version.

>>149623877
>they paid the guy who worked on the anime to be in one of their promo vids
Fix'd.

watch the first movie and dont watch anything else

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So which Major is the best Major?

Second from the left.

>>149623985

1 > 4 > 6

>>149623626
>>149623751
>>149623804
>>149623843
I looked into what >>149623827 said and the first result for the movie was a version that apparently fixed some problems with the Blu Ray version.
https://bakabt.me/details.php?id=172528&page=0#comments

>>149624454
WAIT A MINUTE!
I didn't look at the date. I guess they're talking about the Blu Ray version that isn't the 25th Anniversary version.

this thread every day
why is it so hard to look up the release order of a popular anime franchise on wikipedia.org

Are /a/ are bunch of entitled autistic children or what? Eh.

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>>149625330
Yeah