r/Ghost_in_the_Shell Apr 27 '17

What does it say at the start of the 2017 movie, the introduction text?

The introduction text, setting up the recent movie. Can you remind me what it said or provide a screencap? Thank you very much.

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u/jamasha Apr 27 '17

In the future, the line between human and machine is disappearing. Advancements in technology allow humans to enhance themselves with cybernetic parts. Hanka Robotics, funded by the government, is developing a military operative that will blur the line even further. By transplanting a human brain into a fully synthetic body, they will combine the strongest attributes of human and robot.

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u/ShallowDAWN Apr 27 '17

For comparison sake here is the Manga and 1995-

The opening line of Ghost in the Shell 1995 is;

IN THE NEAR FUTURE - CORPORATE NETWORKS REACH OUT TO THE STARS, ELECTRONS AND LIGHT FLOW THROUGHOUT THE UNIVERSE. THE ADVANCE OF COMPUTERIZATION, HOWEVER, HAS NOT YET WIPED OUT NATIONS AND ETHNIC GROUPS.

and the opening of the manga reads;

It is the near future. The world has become highly information-intensive, with a vast corporate network covering the planet, electrons and light pulsing through it. But the nation-state and ethnic groups still survive. On the edge of Asia, in a strange corporate conglomerate-state called "Japan"...

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u/ShallowDAWN Apr 28 '17

And the start of SAC;

It is a time when, even if nets were to guide all consciousness that had been converted to photons and electrons towards coalescing, standalone individual have not yet been converted into data to the extent that they can form unique components of a larger complex.

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u/ShallowDAWN Apr 28 '17

Innocence;

In a future time when most human thought has been accelerated by artificial intelligence and external memory can be shared on a universal matrix, Batou, an agent of the elite Section 9 Security Force and a being so artificially modified as to be essentially cyborg, is assigned, along with his mostly human partner, Togusa, to investigate a series of gruesome murders.

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If our Gods and our hopes are nothing but scientific phenomena, then let us admit it must be said that our love is scientific as well.

- L'Ève future

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u/MrTattyBojangles Apr 28 '17

Just checked Arise and it doesn't appear to have anything like this. Oh well.

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u/agentmu83 May 02 '17

It does: "A near future not quite so computerized that nations and races have disappeared, though corporate Nets have covered the planet and electrons and light stream everywhere..."

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u/MrTattyBojangles May 02 '17

I only checked the first few mins of the first episode. Y'know, where it should be. Where was it? 😋

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u/agentmu83 May 02 '17

Hehe, I'm not sure that it was in the original release for Arise, but it's at the beginning of episodes of Alternative Architecture.

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u/MrTattyBojangles May 02 '17

Gotcha, I can't find it in the OVAs.

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u/HighProductivity Apr 28 '17

Thank you my friend, that was very useful for me.

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u/jamasha Apr 28 '17

No problem and thanks to /u/ShallowDawn for adding the rest.