Up next, so, you have a human trafficking operation under Japan's nose and are doing great? Great! Just don't go do something stupid like...oh...yoinking a former Prime Minister's kid?

Yeah, funny thing about your new pick up... "Embraced by a Disguised Net – CAPTIVATED!" #GhostInTheShell

Time for Tachikoma Days and it looks like we're seeing 'em in Heaven as they got halos on their heads. #GhostInTheShell #StandALoneComplex

...and this questions is more revolved around the sins of the father and the link between father and son. #GhostInTheShell

This is one of the reasons I keep saying half the philosophy of this os from Oshii's movie. This ep questions the soul, shell, and identity almost the same way. While The Ghost In The Shell is doing the same thing with The Puppet Master, the approaches are very different... #GhostInTheShell

Also folks it happens! For example I'm one of the few folks that watched the entire run of Kekkashi on adult swim and Monster on SyFy. Certain shows I just missed the boat on!
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It's always funny how I completely missed out on Ghost in the Shell airing on Adult Swim Action/Toonami so this is my 1st dedicated watch!
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So, the col. didn't mean TO do this to his son, but the way the son downloaded everything from that device caused the ghost to jack his own kid's body...and now there might be a new person entirely. #GhostInTheShell #StandAloneComplex

Only turns out THAT was a fake, an implanted fake memory to keep him KO'd and possibly fix his brain from there...except the gestalt personality might be someone new from both father AND son. #GhostInTheShell #StandAloneComplex

Well, looks like the Gestalt knew section 9 would over think things and made the snipe a fake threat as he's now dressed as a school boy and is making a B-Line for the official, only for the Major to stop him in time...

*BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM*

...so he went with plan B. #GhostInTheShell

Over at the memorial, the event's starting...but the crowd is flooding in too fast and our team can't keep track! #GhostInTheShell #StandAloneComplex

Yes, I'm still watching. But with GiTS I like to give episodes my undivided attention so I don't miss details on things.
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...except when the kid learned the truth, well, teenage anger and all that military training actually caused a new imperfect GESTALT personality and the dad side is telling Aramaki one thing: I can no longer tell if it's me or my kid doing this, stop me. #GhostInTheShell #StandAloneComplex

Aramaki is feeling the weight on what he might have to do to the kid...just when dad, from the kid's body, calls him. See, we have a problem...the old man just wanted to archive everything and it's tied to how the official had something to do with his wife's death... #GhostInTheShell

It turns out the way in was a terminal that Yu wanted, his dad's, ever since he was a kid. Well, dad put his ghost in the machine and thus it moved into Yu. Yeah, we got bad parents here, of course, but jack your own kid's body's pretty dang low. #GhostInTheShell #StandAloneComplex

"Isn't that right...Yu?" Yeah, I think given how this show explained Ghost Dubbing, hacking, and that sentence, I can one two skip a few...somehow, Yu's dad downloaded his own mind/ghost hacked his own son and is starting to override him to attack the Chinese official. #GhostInTheShell

So, with the okay for the Chinese official to visit, a lot of people are up in arms over everything, including a death threat, and the team narrowed down who it might be.

Unrelated, Aramaki is learning Japan is a small town...it's sonny boy. #GhostInTheShell #StandAloneComplex

"You don't think Yu got mixed up into something?" Well...what's the cyberpunk version of an exorcist? #GhostInTheShell #StandAloneComplex

Shortly after the boss leaves, Aramki sees his friend's daughter and she's got a bit of an odd request. See, turns out baby brother has been messing with something and is resembling their dad...TOO DAMN CLOSE resembling their dad. #GhostInTheShell #StandAloneComplex

Meanwhile, Aramaki and one of his bosses pay tribute to a mutual friend who I'm sure will can NEEEEEEEEEEEEEVVVVVVVVVEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRR bother anybody while dead. #GhostInTheShell #StandAloneComplex

"I only wear this to keep the men at bay."
Translation: Aramaki go GET you some!
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