#anime:ghostintheshell

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There should be no shying away from how the influences left by our favorite works are not always good ones

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Casting Scarlet Johannson as Motoko Kusanagi is proof the live-action ‘Ghost in the Shell’ is as misguided a production as any previous Western attempt to adapt anime

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Twenty-five years on, one of anime’s seminal groundbreakers remains as alluring, intriguing, confounding, and problematic as ever

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Part three of ‘ARISE’ is an improvement on the first two installments, but the ineffable alchemy we saw before in the franchise still hasn’t quite manifested itself.

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A good live-action version of ‘Ghost in the Shell’ may well be possible, but can Hollywood do it without draining all the blood (and electricity) from its veins?