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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.

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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.
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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.
one of the greatest anime series of history of human kind
With the recent GKIDS announcement that they acquired the rights to GITS 2, I hope we see a much better print of Stand Alone Complex.

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04-18-2024 at 02:13 PM.
04-18-2024 at 02:13 PM.
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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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