Ghost in the Shell- Sniper Scene (Saito) 

In the grim darkness of the far future, there are no smoke grenades.

"A SNIPER! TAKE COVER!" *takes off helmet two seconds later*

the key to fighting a sniper is removing an article of clothing, one at a time. begin with your helmet, work your way to the harnesses, then eventually your shirt. that way all those clothes don't impede your movement. that's what I learned from this video

"Thinks he's bloody Rambo" XD The British dub voices here are even better than Hellsing

"The key to surviving on the battlefield isn't courage or weapons, it's caution."

I love how self aware this episode was towards the end. "I saw this in a movie once with a similar plot".

This scene has a slight "Full Metal Jacket" feeling to it.

Ah yes Just how I learned in Basic. "If under fire from a sniper, first thing you need to do is take off your helmet."

That guy sure took his sweet fucking time rescuing his squadmate.

Funny how Motoko casually undresses while relaying her plan.

I watched this before graduating high school in 2006 and immediately after becoming an infantry Marine at the middle of the Iraq war with imminent sniper threats aside form IEDs. Whenever we went out and there was a sniper threat, remembering this scene gave me comfort some how. It's unrealistic entertainment, but Queen Kong will always be a bad ass. Too bad the clip was cut short.

@2:55 this is exactly why 1. Medics are taught to stay behind cover until fire is neutralized. 2. To perform no interventions aside from a hasty tourniquet at the point of wounding. 3. To get away from the point of wounding ASAP. 4. Why modern combat medics don’t wear symbols denoting them as such.

SNIPER, QUICK TAKE YOUR HELMETS OFF!

For English dubbing, this is really well done tbh

1) The sniper was using .50 cal, the hip of that first man getting shot should have had shattered and exploded. 2) The whole squad doesn't have a single smoke grenade? 3) Shooting randomly at windows without knowing where the enemy sniper is isn't "covering fire", it is completely ineffective. 4) The sniper should have set up some kind of booby trap on the decoy sniper rifle.

I remember I was in Chicago back like in 04 in the hotel. And this came on late at night. I watched the original Ghost in the Shell as a kid, but seeing this episode got me hooked. Then ten years later I ended up watching it again. Now I just happened to find this clip on RU-vid. Ha Crazy, but this scene has stuck with me for years since I saw it on adult swim the first time

It's funny how just about any Japanese military anime paints American soldiers as pigheaded and unprofessional, there is military doctrine for this exact situation. It is super interesting though, that they have a left handed sniper.

So how did Saito get into section 9 if he's an insurgent responsible for the deaths of numerous coalition personnel probably including Japanese forces during the War? Do they even know that it was him?

I love GITS so much. I had watched this first before ever hearing about saving private ryan. And just this afternoon I saw saving private ryan and their sniper stand off. I was thinking, "hey, i saw this somewhere before" and then i remembered GITS. I laughed, and then i started re-watching all of the GITS episodes because it made me want to watch it hahaha.

Everybody Else: Sniper! TAKE COVER! Japanese: Now it's time to strip off all of my protective gear becaus I am more intelligent than the rest.

"We're under fire, quick take off our helmets"

to all the people wondering, this music is called "somewhere in silence".

Real Rolex watches actually have a sweeping second hand, not a ticking one. ;^)

The Full Metal Jacket inspirations are strong in this scene.

Damn, I've never watched Ghost in the Shell, but they did my US Boys dirty with this one.

never even heard of this film before, but this began with my curiosity and by the end it had my attention. amazon here I come

4:22 This operation will require the removal of my jacket (clishee).

Major Matoko: "You're good with that rifle you son of a bitch. From now on, you're mine!"

"SNIPER GET DOWN" *immediately takes off head protection*

I still want this to be a series for every relativly major Section 9 member.

this is one of the best EPs that I enjoyed, simple yet in-depth of story-telling about the relationship between the Major and Saito.

A sniper is firing at us? QUICK! TAKE OFF YOUR HELMETS!

POV: nobody in the team memorized smoke locations, they are all running toward site A while bomb is at B

Anything special ops team worth their salt would deploy smoke. Pretty sure they were said to be special forces just to make this sniper character sound like he's good.

This is why snipers are hated by the enemy and, as they say, aren't often taken prisoner, or at least not for long.

If he knew they were going to come after his unmanned 20mm, then why not place charges so anybody checking it out gets taken out. Placing a few claymores at the points of entrance is the oldest sniping trick in the book.

Man, Kakashi's new jutsu is terrifying.

Damn, Kakashi has turned into a badass sniper.

Shout out to the algorithm pulling a post from 7 years ago onto my recommendations

"Why me?" You'd be so annoyed if you were the first one to be snipered and everyone else was ok

This series pays quite a lot of attention for details. you can see the US army, the SAS and the Japanese all using their own main rifle and strategies which are used in real life

The song at the beginning is From the Roof Top, starting at about 3:00, and then Flying Low for the end. xP Also, the scene with the stand-off with the major's song is Torukia, although it's not featured in this video.

This is exactly the same as full metal jacket

This actually catches my attention

Classic series! Highly recommended for those new to the franchise

This scene already made me want to look up the entire series and watch it all.

One of my favorite songs of the series and my fav origin stories of members of Sec.9

Calling Batou a rookie never gets old

I love the music choice for this scene. Great soundtrack.

The music in the series is so beautiful.

This is my favorite scene of the series.

Honestly this was my favorite episode

Sees sniper and takes off her helmet (1:35)

“Look out , a sniper just shot one of our guys!” “Time to take off our helmets then.” 😂😂😂

Having read Mr.Smith's huge essay about this scene's "rookie mistakes even infantry wouldn't make," as a former infantryman I'll tell you right now, I knew this was gonna be cliche hollywood action right away. How? Because we don't even walk that close together.

i love finding anime like this through youtube recommendations

I like how nobody had a smoke grenade, to recover casualties.

I love the Japanese portrayal of US soldiers lol. so far from the truth that it's funny but at the same time upholding the stereotypes lol.

My question is why the hell did she take off her helmet?

God this isn't how people would act in any combat scenario, especially when dealing with snipers. I don't care what technology you have or what TV show you're in, Ghost in the Shell is trying to take this seriously but everyone's reactions (yes, I know some of them are robots) are surreal. "This is not how you act in a combat situation. This requires caution." It sounds like I'm watching an episode of Rescue Heroes.

Did no one else notice the homage to Full Metal Jacket's sniper scene? Even some shots are identical!

If you know you're under "Sniper Fire" you should never allow anyone to expose themselves even to allow your Medic (or Corpsman depending on which branch of service you're in) to care for the wounded. You don't know where s/he is but he sure does know where you are. The best way to deal with a sniper is stay under cover and wait for heavy armour, that or use your own Sniper to locate and kill him/her.

Anyone else notice the sniper was voiced by the guy who did Kakashi in naruto

Okay, this is real friggin' reminiscent of the sniper scene from Saving Private Ryan.

This episode is called "Ghost in the Full Metal Jacket"

this show made my childhood aha

You know if he had shot them while they were walking, in order of back to front, likely none of them would have ever noticed.

I love the clear FMJ influence for this scene

They could always talk the sniper to death.

This is Saving private ryan

This was the scene that got me int ghost in the shell. Back then it blew my mind cuz I hadn't seen anything like it.

Just now realizing where my military fascination stemmed from. GITS is amazing

2:50: instead of dragging him staying low. nope staying up high so sniper can spot you even more easily. Also he should stfu and start pull him from a safe place.

Man this reminds me of Full Metal Jacket

One of the best eps of the season !!!

One of the best episodes from the 2nd gig

The key to survival on the battlefield isn't courage or weapons, it's caution. And by the way, when there's a sniper in the area, take off your helmet immediately.

So, here's what I think. He made the ending up, and a few other parts since it followed a movie (to deliberately throw off the other person), but the rest of it is true. Since Saito is a sniper, he thinks like the enemy, and thus imagines the story as himself in the sniper's shoes. That's also why he's so good at poker, since he can think like his enemy and knows what they are doing and how to prepare for it; a person wouldn't suddenly gain that ability after one fight with Motoko. And how did he know the conversations the people on the ground, for instance? But it's all speculation.

Wow just like saving private Ryan with a touch of futuristicness

IMO one of the best written portion of GitS one of my fav episodes

lol I've been looking for this anime for 4 damn years... finally found it!

What I don't get is why the full fledged cyborgs didn't go out and retrieve the body since they could afford getting shot, or why they didn't pop a smoke grenade to conceal their position at that moment.

The sad thing is that if this platoon was all American, the moment Saito killed Doc, that entire grid square would've gotten leveled, and the Geneva Convention would've gotten a few new entries.

This episode is on my top 5 of ghost in the shell

I love this scene just like all the rest of S.A.C. I see no need to criticise it, I just accept it. If you are in that frame of mind, you could question everything that happened in the whole series. This is just how it happened; it could have happened any multitude of other ways, but this is just how it played out.

the first shot and scene that happens after is a nice nod to Saving Private Ryan, gg gis creator

He shot to wound. Forces a full stop and weighted squad.

I love this flashback, it has the three best characters; plus The Major!

Where did you learn when and how to use smoke grenades?

I wish they'd bring this type of anime back.

Love the music! Haven't seen this in years.

Another thing that was always weird to me, at the end was, he supposedly guessed incorrectly that she wouldn't have mid range targeting software. So, okay, wut? Why wouldn't she already have mid range targeting software? Why would she be downloading it from a satellite? Is this something soldiers usually do, not keep the targeting software on them? Because as a combat soldier, you would presume this targeting software would be among the first things you downloaded, even if you had to keep it on external memory drives. Apparently, it's common enough to not download it to make him think that she'd download it in the middle of combat. And she shot the bullet out of the air? With that kind of accuracy, why not just shoot him a dozen times earlier when he exposed himself? Why not used infrared to spot his location, why didn't he switch to a semi auto weapon, at least a pistol so he'd have more than one shot? Instead he used a slow moving weapon just ot allow her to do that. Most snipers will use at least one back up weapon, so, why would she expect him not to? None of it really made any sense. I'm supposed ot believe that it's usual enough to be predictable that people don't just have targeting software on them all the time, and that she could bluff that she didn't? Wut? There's a thousand different things you could have user there. It was a cool episode, but the more I go and look back at it, the stupider it seems to get.

This scene is really cool but any American leader in charge of a British SAS operator is going to at least be at his level. The US wouldn’t send anyone lower then tier 1 ( DELTA or SEAL TEAM 6) to command a unit like that. And Japan damn sure wouldn’t be anywhere close to involved 😂😂

this is one of my favorite EP!

Occasionally Ghost in the Shell shows its age and the added CGI elements, while appropriate for the story, also help make this film feel more dated than it might have otherwise.

My favorite GITSAC episode.

As a country who's been at war for most of its existence, you'd think American soldiers would be less shit at shooting things and avoiding being shot.

Thats why i carry smoke grenade for those conceal revive in battlefield 2042 as angel medic / logistics.

aw man the best part is the stand off between major and saito.

>Fires at moving target >Doesn't lead the shot >Shot hits anyways 0/10