Amazon has Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex (Blu-ray) on sale for $8.99. Shipping is free w/ Prime or on $35+ orders.
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Major Motoko Kusanagi is a beautiful but deadly cyborg that is squad leader of Section 9-the Japanese government's clandestine unit assigned to battle terrorism and cyber warfare. Surrounded by an expertly trained team, Motoko faces her ultimate challenge- the Laughing Man- a terrorist who orchestrated a kidnapping and extortion plot many years ago and has suddenly reappeared. In order to discover the identity of this enigmatic criminal, Motoko and Section 9 are drawn into a deadly labyrinth and they'll have to use all their expertise to survive.
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Amazon has Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex (Blu-ray) on sale for $8.99. Shipping is free w/ Prime or on $35+ orders.
Thanks community member phoinix for sharing this deal
About this Series:
Major Motoko Kusanagi is a beautiful but deadly cyborg that is squad leader of Section 9-the Japanese government's clandestine unit assigned to battle terrorism and cyber warfare. Surrounded by an expertly trained team, Motoko faces her ultimate challenge- the Laughing Man- a terrorist who orchestrated a kidnapping and extortion plot many years ago and has suddenly reappeared. In order to discover the identity of this enigmatic criminal, Motoko and Section 9 are drawn into a deadly labyrinth and they'll have to use all their expertise to survive.
Our research indicates that this deal is $3 less (25% savings) than the next best available price from a reputable merchant with prices starting from $11.99 at the time of this posting.
Model: Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex Season 1 [Blu-ray]
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This Blu-ray release is highly flawed. No English subtitles (of the Japanese, just CC of the English dub in all-caps), chapter breaks, or extras. Get the DVDs or wait until this gets an actual release.
Don't sacrifice a viewing of this masterpiece with such an abysmal presentation, even if they paid you.
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This Blu-ray release is highly flawed. No English subtitles (of the Japanese, just CC of the English dub in all-caps), chapter breaks, or extras. Get the DVDs or wait until this gets an actual release.
Don't sacrifice a viewing of this masterpiece with such an abysmal presentation, even if they paid you.
This Blu-ray release is highly flawed. No English subtitles (of the Japanese, just CC of the English dub in all-caps), chapter breaks, or extras. Get the DVDs or wait until this gets an actual release.
Don't sacrifice a viewing of this masterpiece with such an abysmal presentation, even if they paid you.
dang. wish I knew. funny part is that I have 1080p Dual Audio rips of the show already I just wanted to double dip to try and support the show.
To be fair, the english dub of this show is pretty good compared to most other anime dubs.
This Blu-ray release is highly flawed. No English subtitles (of the Japanese, just CC of the English dub in all-caps), chapter breaks, or extras. Get the DVDs or wait until this gets an actual release.
Don't sacrifice a viewing of this masterpiece with such an abysmal presentation, even if they paid you.
It's only $9. The alternative is ridiculously expensive and not easy to find on eBay.
I also bought the complete series on VUDU few years ago.
This release had a lot of hate for the errors already listed -- but for a complete series of an anime, on blu-ray, for under 10 bucks? it's not as awful as it could be, and the dub isn't bad.
For whatever reason, the Ghost in the Shell releases on DVD/Blu-Ray seem to have always had some sort of issues, whether it's the movie or the series, it's had issues with the Audio, Video or Subtitles. Video on some releases was letterboxes with a black frame around the top, bottom, left and right.. the 4K release had a song swapped, others had missing or duplicated subtitles/audio, this release had the dub subtitles, I believe another one had interlaced video issues? The GITS series is just the worst of luck whenever a release happens!
To be fair, the english dub of this show is pretty good compared to most other anime dubs.
You're welcome! (I'm in the credits.)
My guess is that they had access to the closed captioning files, which are text-based. It's simple to generate a new subtitle stream from that to drop into a 1080p Blu-ray disc authoring project. However, the subs for the DVD releases were image-based, meaning hundreds of 720x480 TIFF files per episode, each one a page of subtitle text made up of 4 colors. I know because I was the one who made them.
They might have had access to those but thought it would be too much trouble to run them through OCR. Or more likely just didn't realize that they were two different things, so they didn't bother to compare them.
If you watch anime on Netflix and see subtitle selections for "English" and "English SDH", that's the difference. The former is the translation of the Japanese, the latter is the closed captioning for the dub.
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Don't sacrifice a viewing of this masterpiece with such an abysmal presentation, even if they paid you.
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Don't sacrifice a viewing of this masterpiece with such an abysmal presentation, even if they paid you.
Don't sacrifice a viewing of this masterpiece with such an abysmal presentation, even if they paid you.
To be fair, the english dub of this show is pretty good compared to most other anime dubs.
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Don't sacrifice a viewing of this masterpiece with such an abysmal presentation, even if they paid you.
I also bought the complete series on VUDU few years ago.
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For whatever reason, the Ghost in the Shell releases on DVD/Blu-Ray seem to have always had some sort of issues, whether it's the movie or the series, it's had issues with the Audio, Video or Subtitles. Video on some releases was letterboxes with a black frame around the top, bottom, left and right.. the 4K release had a song swapped, others had missing or duplicated subtitles/audio, this release had the dub subtitles, I believe another one had interlaced video issues? The GITS series is just the worst of luck whenever a release happens!
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Shipping is free. You can also use code "HAPPYANNY15" for 15% if you have already used the 20% off code.
Season 1 https://www.gruv.com/product/ghos...et_blu_ray [gruv.com] ($10.99/~$8.79)
Season 2 https://www.gruv.com/product/ghos...et_blu_ray [gruv.com] ($12.99/~$10.39)
Shipping is free. You can also use code "HAPPYANNY15" for 15% if you have already used the 20% off code.
My guess is that they had access to the closed captioning files, which are text-based. It's simple to generate a new subtitle stream from that to drop into a 1080p Blu-ray disc authoring project. However, the subs for the DVD releases were image-based, meaning hundreds of 720x480 TIFF files per episode, each one a page of subtitle text made up of 4 colors. I know because I was the one who made them.
They might have had access to those but thought it would be too much trouble to run them through OCR. Or more likely just didn't realize that they were two different things, so they didn't bother to compare them.
If you watch anime on Netflix and see subtitle selections for "English" and "English SDH", that's the difference. The former is the translation of the Japanese, the latter is the closed captioning for the dub.
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