Well I have been remiss in my Anime posts of late. Since I just started on the 2nd season of Ghost in the Shell, I thought I should comment on the first couple of disks for season 2 of one of my favorite Anime series.

Season 2 starts with the reauthorization of public security Section 9 under a new government with a new female Prime Minister. The main issue facing the new government is a question of what to do with refugees from the last world war. The aid program that has taken care of the refugees is about to expire and is not to be renewed. So there is a lot of social unrest. The first few episodes included in disk 1 and disk 2 has Section 9 in unfamiliar territory. They are in a reactive mode as opposed to the proactive mode of season one. This does give the early episodes and different feel. The 3 or 4 remaining Tachikomas that were not destroyed are also back for season 2. (Woo hoo!)

The 2nd Gig also has new opening and closing sequences along with new songs. All are good, but the opening sequence is regular anime instead of the 3-D affects used in the first season.

So far so good. The story has been a bit slow for me, but it is beginning to pick up. I really love the rich detail of this series. The anime is great and the future vision of a truly networked world is cool. (Having you brain plugged into the Internet, now that's really wired. Can't get much more networked than that.) It is going to be tough to have to wait another two months for the next disk to be released.