Stand Alone Complex : Solid State Society.

Jesus christ, Bandai... stop milking the damn franchise, already.

That's nice but when will the first two seasons get watchable DVD releases?

Solid State Society is confirmed to be a movie according to Bandai Visuals Japanese site.

Great news. This is a franchise I welcome to be milked: 1st GiG was better than the movie, and 2nd GiG was better than the 1st. If this trend keeps on occurring, I've got no qualms.

The 'first gig' of Stand Alone Complex was one of the worst anime series I have ever had the misfortune to see.
It was just like an average American cop show with some cyber-techno-bollocks grafted onto it.
All the intelligence and philosophy of the movie was replaced with redundant 'action' and pervy shots of the Major's ass.
I've been told the series is closr to the manga by Shirow but if thats the case then I'm very happy I've never read it.
Appleseed (2004) was just as bad. A visually sumptous but hollow and empty experiance.
My local anime society showed 2 eps a week along with other shows and that is the only reason I watched all of it.
If I'd been watching it on my own I'd have given up at around ep 8.

I suppose this is a horses for courses thing. If you want the philosophy go with the films, if you want the cop show+Major's ass go with the TV series. I like both myself. The whole point of Gits seems to me to be an elaboration of the original Shirow cheese cake art. If you start with a perfect body and then put a character in that body how would that person feel? Would they feel their image as a separate thing from themselves? Would they end up alienated from their body?
The TV show doesn't seem to explore those themes but the Major-Batou-Togusa character formation is a very flexible setup that can work in a number of narative situations.

Wow, someone actually wishes this to be milked? Doesn't sound like you've been a fan of Ghost in the Shell for long. Personally, I think first manga, movie, and first gig were enough.

Gabriel, it took me a while to give the TV series a try since I was a big fan of the film, but eventually it turned out to be a good decision because it felt 1st GiG had considerably more layers to peel off than the film (which, unfortunately, had its layers quickly diminish after a few viewings). But here's the trick: 2nd GiG was surprising, because I thought that was IT. The ending of 1st GiG was such that you didn't expect a sequel, but now that it's happened, it feels a bit incomplete without another season in my opinion. You don't come back from "death" for just one damn season, you have to finish that arc. I'd like to feel that sense of completion.

Hey, Voom, can you provide a link to where on the Bandai Visual website it says SSS is going to be a movie? I tried looking around on their site and didn't come up with any mention of the new project.

Never mind. The Japanese link that says it's going to be a movie is here: http://www.bandaivisual.co.jp/flash/

To denigrate Stand Alone Complex as merely a cop show is utterly missing the point. Where as the films are primarily philosophical commentaries, Stand Alone Complex is more of a deeply layered sociopolitcal commentary based on the postulated technologies.

yeh the satnd alone complex and the 2nd gig was really good and an intresting anime as is an anime called mushishi, anyways i hope the 3rd gig will come out on dvd cant wait for the relase in the UK! please visit my site, im a graphics desinger have a look at my work,

It's not a milk of the franchise. It's a story. If you new anything, you'd know that S.A.C comes before the movies. Solid State is what happens between 2nd gig and the origanal Gits.

not true xoki, the original movies 1 and 2 are in different universe from the tv series.. so what ever happens in those movie timelines stays there and what ever happens in the tv series timeline stays there, the new movie Solid State Society takes place in the tv series timeline just after 2 years after 2nd gig ends.all in all gits s.a.c doesn't come before the movies. so what ever happens in the new movie will stay in the tv series timeline, assuming if there's going to be another season ghost in the shell tv series after the Solid State Society is finished.

I agree with oz, there's more to gits than being a cop show. Blackzarak's comment is dumbfounded and typically applies to people that can't apply thinking and watching a great anime at the same time. Gits is a very good series if you have the brain to think about what they are really talking about. Though for me the TV season 1 is the greatest, tied the 1st movie and 2nd tv season in 2nd place and i'm still deciding if the 2nd movie really deserves a place.