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Jan 31, 2017 11:11 AM
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Ok so I was looking into anime to watching for some challenges and I noticed that on here that Arise was a prequel to the 2015 Movie - The site has then the 1995 movie as a alternate setting to the 2015 movie. However when you go on the 1995 page it has the 2015 as a prequel??

Is the watch order;

GitS Arise (Series has the extra stuff with Pyromania) ---> GitS (2015) ---> GitS (1995) or GitS 2.0 ---> GitS 2: Innocence?

How does Arise lead into the 2015 movie? I know the end of the 2015 movie leads straight onto the beginning of the 1995 movie (at least when I watched it, it looked exactly the same).

Thanks :)



Jan 31, 2017 12:06 PM
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ParsleyParsnips said:
Ok so I was looking into anime to watching for some challenges and I noticed that on here that Arise was a prequel to the 2015 Movie - The site has then the 1995 movie as a alternate setting to the 2015 movie. However when you go on the 1995 page it has the 2015 as a prequel??

Is the watch order;

GitS Arise (Series has the extra stuff with Pyromania) ---> GitS (2015) ---> GitS (1995) or GitS 2.0 ---> GitS 2: Innocence?

How does Arise lead into the 2015 movie? I know the end of the 2015 movie leads straight onto the beginning of the 1995 movie (at least when I watched it, it looked exactly the same).

Thanks :)


I believe Arise is a prequel to the Stand Alone Complex universe. The 2015 movie is a continuation to the plot of the Pyrophoric Cult episode of Arise, and ties up loose ends from that arc.
Jan 31, 2017 12:23 PM
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Yeah, the suckily titled Ghost in the Shell: The New Movie from 2015 deals with wrapping up plot elements from Ghost in the Shell Arise like the Firestarter virus and should be watched after GITS: Arise.

As for how you should watch them, personally I think the Stand Alone Complex series/movie are the easiest to get into.

1st Universe:
Ghost in the Shell
Ghost in the Shell 2.0 (remastered version of of the above movie)
Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence

2nd Universe:
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
Ghost in the Shell: The Laughing Man (compiles the above series)
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex 2nd Gig
Ghost in the Shell: Individual Eleven (compiles 2nd Gig)
Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone Complex: Solid State Society

Not sure where the Arise stuff fits in but:

Ghost in the Shell Arise OVA
Ghost in the Shell Arise: Alternative Archetecture (televised recut of the OVA with an additional arc)
Ghost in the Shell: The New Movie
KruszerJan 31, 2017 12:33 PM
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Jan 31, 2017 12:40 PM
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This link can help you to understand the order.
Jan 31, 2017 1:00 PM
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Is the fact that the 1995 page showing the 2015 as a prequel wrong then?



Jan 31, 2017 1:13 PM
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I highly recommend that you begin with the two main movies in the order that they were released.

Watch GitS (1995) > GitS 2: Innocence and then do whatever you want srs.
Jan 31, 2017 2:02 PM
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watching it in the airing order is for the best
most of the newest entry in the franchyse are not that good as a hook for the series
Jan 31, 2017 2:24 PM
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ParsleyParsnips said:
Ok so I was looking into anime to watching for some challenges and I noticed that on here that Arise was a prequel to the 2015 Movie - The site has then the 1995 movie as a alternate setting to the 2015 movie. However when you go on the 1995 page it has the 2015 as a prequel??

Is the watch order;

GitS Arise (Series has the extra stuff with Pyromania) ---> GitS (2015) ---> GitS (1995) or GitS 2.0 ---> GitS 2: Innocence?

How does Arise lead into the 2015 movie? I know the end of the 2015 movie leads straight onto the beginning of the 1995 movie (at least when I watched it, it looked exactly the same).

Thanks :)

https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/wiki/watch_order#wiki_ghost_in_the_shell

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Jan 31, 2017 2:59 PM
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ParsleyParsnips said:
Is the fact that the 1995 page showing the 2015 as a prequel wrong then?

Yes, it is wrong. Like other chronology things on MAL.

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