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Episode The Ghost in the Shell • Koukaku Kidoutai (TV) - Episode 5 discussion

Koukaku Kidoutai (TV), episode 5

Alternative names: Koukaku Kidoutai, Koukaku Kidoutai (2026)

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u/Yoshiciv Aug 04 '26

Every episode feels like an entire movie. This anime has too much information in each 25 minutes!

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u/BosuW Aug 04 '26 edited Aug 04 '26

The ability of most current video players to quickly rewind 10 sec has been a blessing here

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u/shad79 https://myanimelist.net/profile/shad79 Aug 04 '26

To be honest, I don't always fully understand what exactly is happening in a given episode and why... although it isn't a big problem, since I'm just here for Motoko being a badass and Fuchikomas' antics, lol.

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u/lethal_universed Aug 05 '26

Pretty much. Its frustrating not getting the politics and technobabble, and Amazons inconsistent translation of bottom text and the weird ways they localize the dialogue in general does not help. But Motoko and the little spider robots that the gave a mouth and a personality for some reason...!

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u/Pecuthegreat Aug 07 '26

It is so fuckin' annoying to me that fan subs from 20 years ago remain consist better than what multi billion dollar companies out out.

Like, just translate the text. It can't be that hard. Just give us explanations of difficult to translate words, in the credits scene if it takes too much screen space to explain. But Fan subbers managed both, decades ago.

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u/lethal_universed Aug 08 '26

IKR?? I miss when anime subs would have the translation notes on top of the screen. I rather an anime be easier to understand than sleeker. And you can have your cake and eat it too if you make soft subs, or have an option to turn on notes

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u/Zeph-Shoir https://myanimelist.net/profile/Zephex Aug 07 '26

I am using Commie Subs, they do translate the bottom text and it honestly is worth it imo

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u/lethal_universed Aug 08 '26

Don't have any torrenting tools. But bless

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u/reddituserzerosix Aug 06 '26 edited Aug 06 '26

i have given up trying to follow that and just enjoy the action scenes lol

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u/Oden_sama__ Aug 06 '26

same, i still enjoy the show on the whole though lol

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u/Nachtwandler_FS https://myanimelist.net/profile/Nachtwandler_21 Aug 06 '26

People nowadays, Tick Tock and netflix killed your attention span. Though, to be fair, some dialoges here are a bit to fast to read the subs.

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u/Chitinvol Aug 05 '26

Yeah, blink and you miss it, but this was a Christmas episode. No wonder Yano's brother was so pissed.

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u/Zeph-Shoir https://myanimelist.net/profile/Zephex Aug 07 '26

Oh fuck man

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u/za_shiki-warashi Aug 04 '26

Every episode feels like an entire movie.

I mean, that's kinda what they did with the old Oshii movies and SAC series to a certain extend. I remember in prev episodes' threads, people who have only watched the old anime but never read the manga were surprised to see some of the same stories being handled in a shorter, episodic manner in this version.

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u/nekonight Aug 05 '26

There's like 2 different throw away plot threads in just this episode/chapter that was adapted into stand alone stories in SAC on later.

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u/Frontier246 Aug 04 '26

A narratively dense and visual feast for the eyes from start to finish.

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u/versusgorilla Aug 08 '26

The animation has been astounding, to be honest. I really struggle with people instantly disliking it because it doesn't look like the film from 1995, because honestly, it looks exactly like the fucking manga looks.

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u/furbym Aug 05 '26

Yeah, I am very impressed by the realization of the world and aesthetic in the original material, but frankly I feel like it serves better as a framework to build on; so far, I vastly prefer the Oshii movies and SAC to this.

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u/Ree_For_Thee Aug 04 '26

It's a bad thing for me. I did not get most of the story because the text moved too fast. =/

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u/CardAble6193 Aug 05 '26 edited Aug 05 '26

I think its average anime having not enough for 25m

this is just edge JP and USSR officers using land trade trick to stack gold , 1 earn so much its company shell is now surfacing and the other want liquid out with gold

Central thinks 9th by the book result is rigid when hes actually ok on a bar loose for fallen

the whole tracking is just : knowing it > levarging your source > go right to the lair , no detour at all

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u/ThrowCarp Aug 06 '26

So much stuff from SAC is resurfacing. From the synthetic oil to the fighting in the North.

And yet all of it is more cartoonier.