Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I love Ghost In The Shell. Stand Alone Complex is one of the best sci-fi TV shows ever, and the Blu-ray that Anchor Bay/Manga USA has put out is a barely watchable release. All the extras are missing from the DVD release, and none of the episodes have chapter breaks. Those, I can get past and get along without. As long as I can watch a high quality presentation of the show, I can be happy with some stuff missing. However, the bare minimum of watching the show isn't possible on this release. Wait... I said all this on the season 1 review... That's because it's basically has all the same issues. On the Japanese side, the subtitles are actually a close captioning track for the English audio, not a translation. And look, the dub script happens to be extremely faithful and well-written but it is not a translation. It doesn't translate the music, the signs, and if anyone on the English dub is speaking off-screen, but they aren't speaking in the Japanese version, there's a random line onscreen when it's actually silent. On the English dub side: For some reason the English audio randomly cuts into the Japanese audio at random points in random episodes. I've even posted some examples on my Twitter feed showing this very error (and I'm including a video example on this review) and being very specific where they happened. Anchor Bay's response was to block me on Twitter. This is a release that many people were waiting for years, and even the bare minimum of effort wasn't put into this release. And rather than fix it, the response from the distributor so far was to ignore me. I would highly recommend reaching out to Anchor Bay and telling them about the issues about this release. Hopefully, their response to you is better than mine.