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Originally Posted by squarejawhero
@Mel - I've no idea on the television series, but do check out the two movies. They're standalone in themselves so you don't really need to watch the tv show to understand it, only maybe the first film to truly get the second.
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The TV series is similar to but not related to the movies. They're like an alternate universe version. The elements are similar, the issues they cover are similar, but they don't occur chronologically with the events in the movies. Characters from the movies appear in the TV series, but they may have altered backgrounds, less powerful abilities and are fleshed out more broadly. Its still about section 9, information warfare and cybernetics but the effects of the high tech world on society is handled (slightly) less pessimistically. Especially the personal/introspective moments. Motoko isn't such a sad sack (well not all the time anyway) in the series, closer to Shirow's original comic version
Here is an excellent 6 part interview with Kenji Kamiyama, the guy behind the first and second series of SAC.
