Ach. I really do maintain a bizarre love/hate relationship with anime. I've seen enough of it to know that it interests me stylistically, but I haven't seen enough of it to declare myself a serious connoisseur of it. My main issue with it has been that almost everything I've watched has been "strongly recommended" to me by folks professing to live and die for Japanese animation; but an awful lot of what's come my way just honestly hasn't impressed me all that much. Still, I persevere ...
In any event, the Superbowl trailer for the upcoming Ghost In The Shell (2017) adaptation has ended up on the Information Superhighway today, so I took a gander more out of curiosity than anything else. This is only a 30-second sneak (I suspect there's more as this doesn't really offer much in the way of excitement to the uninterested viewers), and it's the usual 'flash in the pan' editing one can expect from today's 7-second-attention-span consumers.
Interestingly enough, the original Ghost is one of those super-super-popular anime properties I just never 'got.' Interesting idea. Interesting execution. But at the end of it all I was just left 'meh.' Also, I know that there was some controversy involving Scarlett Johansson's casting (in case you missed it, this is 'Japan' and she's not exactly Japanese nor could she pull it off in a police line-up), but I tend not to invest too much time in fanboy politics as I rarely if ever find myself in agreement with the Comic Con crowd.
Check out the visuals below, my friends.
In any event, the Superbowl trailer for the upcoming Ghost In The Shell (2017) adaptation has ended up on the Information Superhighway today, so I took a gander more out of curiosity than anything else. This is only a 30-second sneak (I suspect there's more as this doesn't really offer much in the way of excitement to the uninterested viewers), and it's the usual 'flash in the pan' editing one can expect from today's 7-second-attention-span consumers.
Interestingly enough, the original Ghost is one of those super-super-popular anime properties I just never 'got.' Interesting idea. Interesting execution. But at the end of it all I was just left 'meh.' Also, I know that there was some controversy involving Scarlett Johansson's casting (in case you missed it, this is 'Japan' and she's not exactly Japanese nor could she pull it off in a police line-up), but I tend not to invest too much time in fanboy politics as I rarely if ever find myself in agreement with the Comic Con crowd.
Check out the visuals below, my friends.
As always, thanks for reading ... and live long and prosper!
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