Ghost in the Shell Arise: Border 3 - Ghost Tears |
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Japan • 2014 • 55m •
  • Directed by: Kazuchika Kise. • Starring: Maaya Sakamoto, Ikkyu Juku, Ken'ichirô Matsuda, Tarusuke Shingaki, Shunsuke Sakuya, Takurou Nakakuni, Yôji Ueda, Kazuya Nakai, Miyuki Sawashiro, Tatsuhisa Suzuki, Aya Hisakawa, Chad Horii, Mayumi Asano. • Music by: Keigo Oyamada.    Posing as lovers on vacation, Motoko and Batou work to try to stop a terrorist organization whose symbol is the Scrasath. Meanwhile, Togusa investigates a murder of a man who possessed a prosthetic leg manufactured by the Mermaid's Leg corporation.
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However, this third episode lost me 100%. The Major's character is comprehensively assaulted, being shown now with a serious male partner who she acts naive and submissive with, leading to an inevitable "surprise" betrayal of her affection by this inexplicable love interest.
If you want to see a heteronormative Major defer to a two-dimensional bishonen, or have spent all your time watching prior GIS material thinking "you know, what this show really needs is for the Major's entire personality to be spun around 180 degrees so she's totally unrecognisable!", then this is definitely the episode for you.
If however you prefer Kusanagi as a strong character, then I suggest you skip over this episode or just read a brief synopsis before moving on to #4. This will prevent you damaging something when you start throwing things at the TVlaptop screen, after you witness the Major smile sheepishly when she gets slapped on the thigh by her banal boyfriend instead of ripping off his hand and shoving it down his throat.
Overall, Arise is "fine". The quality and talent on show is too poor for a continuation of the GIS franchise, fortunately this show is a prequel and that allows it to get away with a lower standard of writingdesign than previous instalments. By contrast, "Ghost Tears" is a crime against the Major's character and should burn in a fire.
Review by casbyness from the Internet Movie Database.
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