“...the Oragami episode “The boy who folds Cranes’ if I remember the title right) had to be the deepest of the bunch.”
Yeah. There’s a bunch of sort of wistful stories with GitS. And tasteful cyborg uber-violence. It’s amazing they got made with as much skill as they did, animation over here is pretty much shrek. I do think that WALL-E was a tremendous sci-fi story.
Freegards
What really get me with a lot of anime (not the Hentai/Tentacle porn stuff) is that it’s what Hollywood should be. Great, “Adult” stories, plots as deep as the ocean, characters you can forget are nit real with the greatest of ease...
But over there, they don’t write to the lowest common denominator like we do here. At least not to the same degree. Sure they do the wild and wacky stuff and the porn. But their GITS style stuff is better than most anything we have done for a long time.