Appreciate the higher volume for this!! The stylized english singing and her high-pitched notes especially last one was soo catchy and the action was soo good!! 0:59 Motoko's adorable exclamation at _"We Are Soldiers.. STAND or Die!"_ was very cool and cute with Section 9!!! 30.4.2023
Just watched the series after having not seen it since Toonami, like 15 years ago. Still so good. Wish the new Netflix show kept this animation, glad it’s still the same universe though
I'm a soldier, значит я ([I'm a soldier] which means I'm...) И ответчик, и судья, (...Both the defendant and the judge...) Я стою на двух концах огня (...I'm standing on the both sides of fire ('fire' or 'guns shooting', it's the same word)) Огибая виражи, обгоняя смерть и жизнь, (Manuvering by the steep turns, racing out the death and life...) Я бегу сразиться с тенью лжи (...I haste to fight the Lie's shadow) Сколько б нитей ни плёл обман, (Whatever the amount of threads that the Lie weaves...) Покажет лик света истина (The light's Truth will show her face) Save your tears For the day When our pain is far behind, On your feet Come with me, We are soldiers: stand or die! Save your fears Take your place Save them for the judgement day. Fast and free Follow me Time to make the sacrifice We rise or fall The "Save your tears For the day When our pain is far behind" always makes me emotional. It's a good advice, although I'm tired of waiting for the day when the pain is far behind. I've accumulated too much tears for that day, and the load is becoming to heavy to carry.
Gouda had an underrated satisfying villain death. It looks gross and gory but the whole time, he's manipulating and engineering so much of the nonsense that goes down because he wants to make himself out to be a genius. I remember that's what much of his motivation was: self-gratification. He had ideals for what he wanted and he used whoever he could to get it. So seeing him finally go down to the Major was satisfying.
@@clxwncrxwn Which sucks, but it's not some fairytale happy ending I guess. Like the first season. Spoilers for first timers: It isn't a totally happy ending. The real Laughing Man killed Serano so they wouldn't look into the Laughing Man with his word being effectively erased, so that case went cold again and while the prime minister was removed from office, the Laughing Man escaped and nobody learned who he was (it was Fukami). Gouda dies for all his schemes in 2nd GiG, but the CIA kills Kuze and gets what they want. The puppeteer is caught in Solid State Society and they learn his motivations, but never who he truly is or where he truly is. The endings are left more ambiguous and gray, which is a lot more realistic but not always all that happy.
@@damonrichardson1999 Well, in the 1st Season, they still put Yakushima (the PM's secretary general, who was basically the main mastermind behind the Laughing Man Case) behind bars, so even though Fukami escaped, the case is pretty much solved. Section 9 even arrested his money handler in 2nd Gig Episode 4. In 2nd Gig, the CIA and the CIS didn't really win much. They failed to replace Kayabuki with a more American Empire friendly PM (Kayabuki is more China and UN friendly) and with Gouda dead, they lost a "genius". Takakura, the leader of the CIS was probably put behind bars too... Also, it's not 100% that Kuze died. His last words were "I'll go ahead." It's possible that he uploaded his ghost onto the Net, before the CIA agent killed him with the micromachines. Although by the time of 2045 (or even SSS), he probably "lost himself" and became one with the Net... In Solid State Society, the Puppeteer was indeed a big mistery. I believe it was an entity born from the depths of the Net (like Project 2501) and it actually wanted to do good for the people and the future of Japan, even though the methods it used were bad. And I think the reason The Puppeteer took on the deceased Koshiki's form is so it can manipulate the Solid State Society Project freely the way it wants to. But we'll never truly know. In the end, The Puppeteer vanished as a "mediator" - would've been cool if it returned in 2045. Anyway the case didn't really got solved. Munai (the director behind the SSS Project) may have been put behind bars, but Section 9 and Japan's other law enforcements can only "hope" to bring all those stolen kids back to their homes. Japan changed forever...
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