The techniques and that video are cool and everything, but aging and weathering a model isnt “Master Grade”, Master Grade refers to a sub brand of bandai plastic models, with the gunpla MG’s being 1/100 scale and to a certain degree of complexity. Differing grades come in at different scales*, complexities and price…

The only sex bots i recall were geisha models

really? you know the first thing i saw when looking up who that is was a thread titled “who the heck is maven”.

i almost forgot togusa, japanese family man and workaholic togusa, also his name is togusa

so no, no caucasians in the japanese governmental organisation “Public Security Section 9"

Now i’m firmly in the “kusanagi looks asian” camp but actually the name doesnt come into it. It’s a pseudonym, kusanagi is one of the three japanese treasures, the one thats a sword, it’s be like meeting somebody named excalibur.

As for the americans looking the same part, i mentioned in another thread about that being…

Let’s see:

Firstly the GitS setting is a lot more complex than androids and meat people. There are fully human unmodified people who do exist but the only ones we see cant function in setting and are homeless. EVERYONE else in that setting is a cyborg, whether they just have the basic cyber-brain mods that allow them to…

If thats the case the film would have had to throw out the entire political backbone of the setting, which is another concern for fans of the franchise

Thats a limitation of the art style, there are any number of styles used in any number of anime and manga where the physical depiction of asian and non asian characters is near identical.

.......A civilian model cyborg sold in asia would be asian in appearance, it doesnt say anywhere in there that the body specifically isnt asian, only that its a generic civilian model on the outside

“You can follow Stryder7x’s continued attempts to nail Peach%”

Boo for not spotting the “<blank> was a mistake”meme, in case the obvious troll wasn’t obvious enough

“Canon”

There’s no discussion being created here, or rather there is but it amounts to:

There’s a lot of pretentious nonsense in these comments regarding the Akira adaptation. Personally I prefer the manga version just like the rest of you but check your facts before you write off the film.

y’know most of those missing volumes didnt actually exist when katsuhiro otomo adapted his own work into the film

Hey look, it’s the RACKeteer

a word that means immigrant, emigrant and settler, that’s the word “migrant”

Also this episode is a gaiden to the giovanni fight in the origin

There’s a difference between censorship and an advertiser not wanting to be associated with you. I can’t believe that needs to be pointed out.