SAC is my favorite anime ever. This isn't a criticism, but I feel like it's just a product of the era it was made in. Same goes for the movie too. There were a lot of similar anime in terms of pacing and tone around that time. It wasn't all that was being made, obviously, not be a long shot, but there were definitely more of that type of thing.
Similarly, while you get that type of anime made today, I feel like it's fewer and farther between than they used to be.
This is not me waving a cane and going like "the animes were better in the good old days!" I'm just saying that back then, you had the perfect conditions for something like the og movie/SAC to get made, but times have changed. Hell, they keep making the major look younger (I know at least in Arise's case, the time the story takes place justifies it...), but everyone else looks about the same as they always have. And I'm willing to be bet that's no accident because younger Major specifically is an easier sell to your bosses because it'll probably appeal more to what anime fans are into these days. And that decision probably leads to other decisions being made about these new shows as well.
Couple that with the actual people making it going through whatever changes they go through emotionally, creatively, etc. and suddenly recapturing that magic is a pretty hard ask.
Sadly, happens with a lot of shit. Some things can keep transitioning and stay relevant. Others had their time and made their impact, and their legacy will live on for however long it lives on. As much as I wish otherwise, GiTS is absolutely the latter.
This isn't a low-key review on that new Netflix joint btw. Haven't seen it yet, but heard it was a fun action thing with some GitS shit sprinkled in and thats good enough for me right now. I'll probably watch it today or tomorrow.
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