History Anime / GhostInTheShell1995

* DesignStudentsOrgasm: ''Franchise/GhostInTheShell'' is well known for the incredible visuals and soundtrack in all its anime adaptations, but ''Innocence'' cranks it UpToEleven. At the arrival at Etorofu with the incredible plane scene, the film turns into half an hour of X-rated SceneryPorn.

* ArcNumber: "2501." Batou knows that [[spoiler:he's safe]] whenever he sees it. See DeusExMachina below.

* PresentAbsence: Though the Major is absent for most of the movie, her disappearance in the first and its ramifications on Batou, emotionally and professionally, are frequently mentioned. It's taken up to eleven in when [[spoiler:Motoko herself says that she is always watching him and has been protecting him for much of the film, with Batou himself calling her a guardian angel]].

* ThreeLawsCompliant: The {{gynoid}} [[SexBot geishas]]... [[spoiler:at least, until a shipping inspector trying to free Locus Solus's imprisoned girls tampers with their "ethics code", leaving them free to kill others and themselves]].

GreaterScopeVillain: While Locus Solus, as a faceless corporation, is something of an absent enemy, its tools and henchmen, such as the factory and Kim, act in its name.

* EvilCounterpart: While ''Evil'' is a bit strong, Chief Nakamura, as head of Section 6, is the direct counterpart to Chief Aramaki of Section 9. And Nakamura is presetned as being more rude and antagonistic compared to Aramaki, and while Aramaki is depicted as a force for good or at least isn't bad, Nakamura, and Section 6 as a whole, engages in particularly corrupt and skeevy methods, [[spoiler: such as taking Project 2501 from Section 9 headquarters through a false flag operation and then directly targeting Kusanagi, a fellow member of the government, for assassination]].

%%* DesignStudentsOrgasm:

* ZeeRust: Sentient AI and full-body replacements exist alongside satellite phones.

* [[ArtificialLimbs Artificial Bodies]]

* AuthorAppeal: Mamoru Oshii is very fond of basset hounds, even expressing a desire to be reincarnated as one. During the SceneryPorn scene in the first movie, a basset hound is shown. In ''Innocence'', Batou has one as a pet. The bible quotes above and references to Christianity in general are also a fondness of Oshii's

-->'''Major:''' "What'd you use?"\\
'''Batou:''' "Your standard-issue big gun."
** This example showcases the attention to guns as minor but significant characters in the movie. The irony of the "your regular old big gun" line is that the it's anything but: an obscure toggle-lock action turns it into an incredibly kinetic, clunky, dangerous, violently cycling beast that stops firing early when one of its oversized casings visibly jams the mechanism. Basically, it is a German Luger pistol upsized to become a mecha weapon — something a discerning gun nut would greatly appreciate.
* BottomlessMagazines: Averted. The characters are clearly shown stopping to reload frequently, and in the first movie, a thug being chased by Section 9 checks how many bullets he has left in his magazine. Motoko's strategy against the SpiderTank at the film's climax even involves waiting for its gun attachments to run out of ammo. Continued in ''Innocence'', with Batou frequently reloading during shootouts and almost running out of ammo [[spoiler:to hold off the rampaging gynoids while Kusanagi's borrowed body is immobilized]].

* CowboyCop: In both films (''Innocence'' in particular) Batou is unafraid to ignore orders and take the law into his own hands. In ''Innocence'' this puts him (oftentimes humorously) at odds with cautious straight-man Togusa.
* {{Cyberpunk}} / PostCyberpunk
* CyberpunkIsTechno: Significantly averted; the soundtracks to both films (especially the first) consist of moody, haunting pieces featuring traditional chants and instruments.

* TheFutureIsNoir
* GirlsWithGuns

* TechnologyPorn: Both films have lots of it. The gynoid assembly sequences at the beginning of both films, for example.

--->It's the uncertainty that perhaps something that appears to be alive actually isn't. On the other hand, it might be the uncertainty that what doesn't appear to be alive actually ''is''.

--> "''Ghost in the Shell'' opens with what might be the most technically impressive rendition of an exploding head in the history of Japanese animation, and if you know your Japanese cartoons, you know that's a hell of an accolade."

* CityOfCanals

* CoolCar: Several.

* {{Depower}}: [[spoiler:Subverted; Kusanagi may be in a child's cyborg body at the end of the film, but mentally...]]

* DoAndroidsDream

* EvilSoundsDeep: The Puppet Master. [[spoiler: Although he's not [[AntiVillain strictly speaking evil.]] ]]

* ExplosiveInstrumentation: Subverted. It seems like the Puppet Master makes the computer banks explode when it's recovered from Section 9 headquarters, but it's actually Section 6 {{mooks}} using thermoptic camouflage.

* FaceNodAction: The ambassador's two guards, just before firing on the police.

* AGlitchInTheMatrix

* GutFeeling

-->'''Puppet Master''': [[ContemplateOurNavels And can you offer me proof of your existence?]] How can you, when neither modern science nor philosophy can explain what life is?

* InfraredXrayCamera: Both types show up in the film.

* MentalFusion: [[spoiler:Kusanagi and Project 2501]].
* MindRape: "Ghost-hacking", or essentially hacking into a person's brain in order to force them to commit crimes. Some sequences indicate just how it looks to the hijacked individual - it's chillingly unclear where the individual's true perception ends and the hack begins until the connection breaks down. It's especially bad in that it can never be completely undone - the garbage man, for example, will always retain some memory of his false wife and child, even though he knows intellectually that they are fake.

* NeuralImplanting

** Also, Director Mamoru Oshi, in toning down Kusanagi's very ebullient manga persona, envisioned her as a mature woman, hence her more soft spoken demeanor in the film. He speculated that she was older than the young woman that even her regular adult body suggested. Given her rank (unusually high for a woman who appears physically to be only about thirty), she may very well have been at least well into middle age.

* RevolversAreJustBetter: [[BreakOutTheMuseumPiece As Togusa finds out]]. Apparently an entire clip from a 9mm can't pierce a car's frame, but a single slug from a revolver can. Justified in that the trace slug was meant for the far softer license plate.
--> "With an automatic, you could have buried two trackers."

* {{Roofhopping}}: Section 9 does quite a bit of it, augmented by their cyborg bodies.
* RuleOfCool / {{Stripperiffic}}: Kusanagi goes into battle three times using her thermoptic camouflage bodysuit, which is tight enough to leave very little to the imagination. At the climax, it's revealed that she's not wearing anything underneath it.

* SayMyName: Batou, when Kusanagi [[spoiler: is shot by the police helicopter]].

* WetwareBody: See MindRape.

[[folder: Tropes Specific to ''Innocence'']]

* ArcNumber: "2501." Batou knows [[spoiler: he's safe]] whenever he sees it. See DeusExMachina below.

* DeusExMachina: Averted. The Major coming back from {{Cyberspace}} to save Batou might appear to be one, but if you pay attention it's obvious that she's been watching him at least since [[spoiler:the convenience store; her voice warns him that he's on a kill-zone]]. Also, [[spoiler:the little girl sitting on the floor in Kim's mansion is the artificial body that Batou placed the melded Puppet Master/Major in at the end of the first movie, and her final comments imply that she is everywhere, and always looking after Batou]].

* FateWorseThanDeath: The killer {{Fembot}} SexBot {{Geisha}} hookers are revealed to be [[spoiler: hosting copies of the ghosts of kidnapped young girls, in order to make them behave more like humans. Geez, no wonder they went berserk.]]

* MobileFactory: The ship building {{gynoid}} [[SexBot geishas]] [[spoiler: that are actually cyborg {{Sex Slave}}s]].

* ThreeLawsCompliant: The {{gynoid}} [[SexBot geishas]]...[[spoiler:at least, until a shipping inspector trying to free Locus Solus's imprisoned girls tampers with their "ethics code", leaving them free to kill others and themselves]].

-->'''Ishikawa:''' Toga got reacquainted with the tuna sandwich he had for dinner and headed on back with the corpse.
-->'''Batou:''' Maybe he should have had the chicken.

* AdaptationalPersonalityChange: Played to a extreme degree, and with several characters.

* AuthorAppeal: Mamoru Oshii is very fond of basset hounds, even expressing a desire to be reincarnated as one. During the SceneryPorn scene in the first movie, a basset hound is shown. In ''Innocence'', Batou has one as a pet.

* VagueAge: In the movies, at least. But Kusanagi especially. She suggests that if she were to retire from the service, she would have to give back her cybernetic body parts. "Which wouldn't leave much", in her case. This could mean that she has had a long career, she is chronologically older than she looks, or both. In any normal case, the rank of Major in an outfit like Section 9, seems like a rather high rank for a young woman who appears not much older than thirty.

* PresentAbsence: Though the Major is absent for most of the movie, her disappearance in the first and its ramifications on Batou, emotionally and professionally, are frequently mentioned. It's taken up to eleven in when[[spoiler:Motoko herself says that she is always watching him and has been protecting him for much of the film, with Batou himself calling her a guardian angel]].

* PresentAbsence: Though the Major is absent for most of the movie, her disappearance in the first and its ramifications on Batou, emotionally and professionally, are frequently mentioned. It's taken up to eleven in when[[spoiler:Motoko herself says that she is always watching him and has been protecting him for much of the film, with Batou himself calling her a guardian angel.

* MindRape: "Ghost-hacking", or essentially hacking into a person's brain in order to force them to commit crimes. Some sequences indicate just how it looks to the hijacked individual - it's chillingly unclear where the individual's true perception ends and the hack begins until the connection breaks down.

* CoolGuns: Many. For example, the thug the Major chases down carries a Micro Uzi while she uses a fictional submachine gun conceptually based on the FN-P90.[[superscript:[[http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/Ghost_in_the_Shell_(1995)]]]] The animators [[ShownTheirWork worked hard to get the details right]].

* FranchiseCodifier: The film did much to redefine the direction of later ''Ghost in the Shell'' material with its radical differences in tone compared to the manga. Trading out action-comedy for metaphysical {{cyberpunk}} philosophy, it ensured that subsequent installments would be similarly suspenseful police dramas with only occasional comedic elements that happen naturally through the cast's personalities, with Motoko Kusanagi in particular being much more brooding than her perkier manga counterpart.

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* FranchiseCodifier: The film did much to redefine the direction of later ''Ghost in the Shell'' material with its radical differences in tone compared to the manga. Trading out action-comedy for metaphysical {{cyberpunk}} philosophy, it ensured that subsequent installments would be similarly suspenseful police dramas with only occasional comedic elements that happen naturally through the cast's personalities, with Makoto Kusanagi in particular being much more brooding than her perkier manga counterpart.

* ActionPrologue: The assassination of a skilled hacker provides the film's ColdOpen.