009 Re: Cyborg [Blu-ray]

The is a follow on to the orginal series by the another person. The orginal creator did not live long enough to see this final work completed but it is really good and I highly recommend it. Excellent quality and a very good story line.

The case was cracked while still in it’s shrink rap.

this is a good anime- wish they would release the earlier one - but redone

Having watched the (I think) second release of the anime when it came out I couldn't help but get this. This was one heck of a romp bringing back favorite characters with a new look and a new story. Watched it with a bunch of friends and we all loved it. I'll watch it again and again. They did a great job with this one.

Top notch artwork and music. The approach made with the original 009 series is not what I found here. There is no "fan service". There is a complex story line. I found it to be worth the money.

The amount of extra features including the booklet make this worth the 20$,and the action maked story. The story is Fantastically animated minus some slight studery animation at the early quarter of the moviefor like 5 seconds in the bar scene. You'll enjoy the more mature take on the Cyborgs:)

I've come to expect Mr. Kamiyama's work to be "deep", and never entirely without unanswered questions, but... I'm left wondering how much of this story is based on Shotaro Ishinomori's Cyborg 009 unfinished "Angels" manga story arc, which was never completed when the comic Monthly Adventure King was cancelled, and his "God's War" arc, which remained unfinished at the time of his death. At least the Guidebook included with the movie seems to imply that Kamiyami's story for the film was based on this plot. It's important to read the Guidebook which comes with the Blu-Ray/DVD combo, because it addresses many of the questions viewers will probably ask. I know that's no real excuse, and that a film should not be dependent on the director's "crib notes" for the audience to be able to dechipher. Japanese audiences viewing the film for the first time probably brought a lot of first-hand knowledge of Ishinomori's work with them. That's going to be next to impossible for most American viewers, with only the 10-volume original Cyborg 009 series translated by Tokyo Pop, and the 2001-02 anime series "CYBORG 009: The Cyborg Soldier" dubbed for English-speaking audiences. Both of the manga arcs which this movie draws its subject matter from were created after the stories that take place in those series concluded. The film seems to make a lot of the fact that regardless of having defeated Black Ghost in the original series, and the cold war having ended between democratic capitalism and socialist communism, death merchants like Samuel Capital still continue to exist and exploit international tensions and human suffering in order to amass obscenely huge heaps of personal wealth. The main difference now seems to be that the most effective method of fomenting wars isn't through encouraging paranoia over political ideologies. In the post-9/11 world of international terrorism, the most effective means of fomenting war is by heightening tensions and fears based on divisions in people's religious ideologies. Perhaps a better title for this film (and one that points out the main theme) would have been "CYBORG 009: Holy War". All of a sudden, people are increasingly hearing "HIS voice", but what different people are hearing they should do in carrying out "God's will" is different depending on how each one has processed information as filtered through his own personal beliefs -- but extremism is still extremism, regardless of whether it's Muslim fundamentalism or Christian fundamentalism. Someone must be made to suffer as punishment for their sins, and so the holy wars begin. Here is an international climate in which 9/11 seems to have had the domino-like effect of touching off wave after wave of copycat terrorism on every side. The implication is that Samuel Capital is behind it somehow, but the mechanism for the increase in "altered mental states" in which people are experiencing a kind of epiphany -- the result of which is to escalate violence (in God's name) is never quite explained. Perhaps some kind of "information virus" is being distributed via news, entertainment, and social media which acts like a computer virus to alter the victim's mindset to a quasi-mystical state, and then the individual components of the 'brain virus' which had been delivered separately are assembled and activated. It would have to be less accurate in its end result than a computer virus, because each individual processes the same information differently, depending on the sum total of their prior life experience. At least, this is the best guess I can come up with as an explanation for "God's Voice". When Joe Shimamura hears it, the end result of his information processing is a very different message from what the same "Voice" is telling Jet or GB or Pyunma.Other than providing no real explanation for the sudden spread of "God's Voice", the other main downfall of the film is that there are two distinct types of scenes in the film: objective (things that are happening exactly as they are seen), and subjective (things that are happening from the POV of a specific character, and we are seeing things as that character perceives them). The problem there is that there's no obvious cinematic trick or effect to alert the viewer when a scene switches from 'objective reality' to 'subjective perception'. Tinting, soft focus, or some other obvious effect should should have been employed to alert the viewer when we are suddenly placed in the shoes of one of the film's characters, and seeing things from his perspective. In the Guidebook included with the film, Kamiyama admits that he had been spoiled by his time working in the long-form of television animation, where the density of information conveyed to the viewer can be somewhat spread out over the course of several episodes, giving the audience time to process that information and reflect on the significance of what they had viewed. Here the the film delivers the information in a steady stream, where the viewer is carried along with action, action, and more action -- and has no time to digest and correlate the various bits and pieces of plot information that have been delivered.Bothersome as how to interpret the main plot may be, that's not the only thing that isn't working here. The concept that the zero zero cyborgs have indeed been around, having all of the adventures they did since 1964 in real time, seems unworkable. I don't think Ishinomori ever conceived of the 00 cyborgs as immortal full-body prosthesises (as for example Major Motoko Kusanagi is, in Ghost In The Shell). Even if they were, that doesn't explain how Dr. Isaac Gilmore, who is only a mere human and not a cyborg, wouldn't be about 100 years old by 2012 (he seems to be in his fifties in 1964). Even more questionable is that, if their entire bodies (except for their brains) are cybernetic, then why would Black Ghost have given Ivan Whisky the cyborg body of an infant with an adult's intelligence? Regardless of the fact that he may indeed have been less than a year old in 1964, it makes no sense to give him a cyborg body matching his true age, if you're stimulating his brain to adult maturity along with his psychic abilities. And if it truly was a cyborg body, then why would 001 need such prolonged periods of sleep between using his powers? The idea of putting Joe Shimamura into an endlessly-reset looping of his high school years is just as ridiculous.The end of the film where Joe and Jet burn up in the atmosphere is straight of out Ishinomori's 009 "Yomi" manga arc's ending, but then Kamiyama just gets to hit the reset button and everything returns to normal (or as normal as anything gets for a 00 cyborg). The angel skeleton is taken from Ishinomori's unfinished "Angels" story arc, and the rest of the main plot from his "God's War" story arc (which was also uncompleted at the time of the author's death).

i like it and how it looks but the ending wasn't much sense

とにかく音が小さい。普段の倍Volumeレベル上げないと聞こえず。他のディスクでは通常音量で視聴できるのでこの製品特有の問題かも(T_T)

okay movie good animation story was a bit err

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