Affection

Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex 2nd GiG Romance Story. Motoko listens to a tale of a boy who continues to search for the first girl he ever loved.
The (beautiful) Italian song that plays three minutes into the clip is called "I Do" with vocals by Ilaria Graziano, and composed by Yoko Kanno. Translated lyrics can be found here:
www.animelyrics....

[@animagi6844]

animators: how much do you want us to animate hands folding origami? director: *YES.*

[@animagi6844]

@Shin Shaman not as corny as your face or overused as your ass

[@pabloandresdiazabarza3300]

@@animagi6844 damn

[@deportationbot5224]

@@animagi6844 While I disagree with it being "corny", he very much has a point about it being overused. But that's just how KZbin comment formats work anyway.

[@w_ldan]

@@animagi6844 damn dude, you just kill him lmao.

[@rubycr306]

Back when I was in school, there was a day every year when we made a lot of paper cranes until the whole school made at least 3000 of them. It was because of a girl of Hiroshima who died after being diagnosed with leukemia. With every crane we made, 1€ was donated to the hospitals. This remind me of that, It was so beautiful seeing the school full of paper cranes.

[@lesteryaytrippy7282]

I know that story. The thousand paper cranes

[@rubycr306]

@ok yesss that was her name!

[@Celeste333]

Awh omg

[@ononchng28]

Oh I know about this story.

[@JeromeProductions]

nice

[@erisunflower]

Everything about this video is beautiful, touching, heart-warming, heart-wrenching and of course, stunning with the animation. I would catch GITS late nights on adult swim years back which brings back the good ol' times.

[@0000syuable]

「左手だけでツルをおる」。 そんな難しい作画をした（しかも的確に）だけでも、このアニメ･シリーズは突出していると私は思います。

[@けい-v4f]

脚本　演出　音楽　作画　声優　 全てにおいてここまで完璧な作品は中々ない

[@takaradmilk2635]

これを観たらクゼが少佐に言った 「ずっと探している」が すごく重くなった…切なすぎるよ…

[@パヤパヤ2]

サキ二イクヨ

[@のりたま-h7b]

ね、切なすぎるね・・・

[@IDOLMIX8]

わかるよ。

[@TheStateOfEarth]

Its back story like this, which is interesting in and of itself, but also contributes to the larger narrative that makes the second season really good. The first season had interesting stand alone episodes, but they didn't play a part in the lager narrative, and thus detracted from what could have used more elaboration. The excellent story telling is why I find GITS so compelling.

[@gaabduberal]

Hi person 8 years ago.

[@rocketman-766]

@@gaabduberal man youtube algorithm is really something

[@gaabduberal]

@@rocketman-766 Ikr

[@privaterizk4936]

@Shin Shaman Looks like you too. Seeing how mocking someone still amusing for you.

[@JotaP1n]

One thing always amaze in Stand Alone was the relationship between Motoko and Kuze, because until this episode you know there is something going on between them in the past, but not much. After this, beautifully narrated, you have the story but even so there is still mistery because it is not clear when or how they lost the memories between them and if they totally recognize themselves. It's pure poetry.

[@theinventiveidiot]

Whats recornaice?

[@atariartoria2207]

Shit happens and natural brain often don't remember / put aside traumatic memories (but the scars never leave). Or maybe she taught the boy never went into surgery as she never came back to the hospital.

[@MIDORInoKYURI]

折るシーンの描写すげぇな

[@みずおりりん]

DVDを持っているけどこのシーンだけを観たい事もある自分にとって、この動画は有難い。お酒を飲みながら観てしまう。

[@飛び付きマフラーホールド]

ああ、youtube始まったころに見た動画だ 十数年ぶりに見れてちょっと感動した

[@underambii8388]

このコメントを見てからふと投稿日時に目をやったら2006年って書いてあって感慨深いものがある、、、なんてこった

[@coelacanth666]

KZbinはじまった年に生まれた世代が今高校生なの感慨深いよね

[@サンカヨウ-c3i]

え、なんか自分が生まれた年なのがそこはかとなく嬉しいです

[@okeihan777]

懐かしいですね。Googleが買収する前のKZbinってCMも無かったし(多少あったのかな？)日曜なんてサーバー込み合って見れなくなってましたね〜

[@tomt3961]

これ2004年の作品かよ。作画は当然、音楽や演出までレベル高いなぁ

[@けい-v4f]

Monsterと攻殻機動隊が特に良かった2004年は　他もレベル高いし黄金期や

[@高屋敷景太郎-u8m]

ガンダムシードデスティニーやエルフェンリートや舞HIMEの時代ですね。 あの頃本当にすごかった。 あの頃だけの味わいがありました。

[@ネブカドネザル2世-o6l]

昔の作品だからレベルが低いなんて考えは昔は手作業だから昔の茶碗は良くないとか言ってるのとおんなじことなんだよなぁ

[@gotoosan6085]

2004年を舐めるな（笑）

[@texan-american200]

This is such a fascinating and touching episode... I was equally fascinated in this particular scene (2:27,) where Kuze made the paper crane with one hand. Both the hand motions and the making of the origami crane was realistic and accurate.

[@darkhorseman90]

after watching this scene some years ago, i too tried to fold cranes with my less-dominant left hand only. it was hard but i did it and boy did it feel like too much work.

[@rpauchi3363]

SACのなかだとこの「草迷宮」と「左目に気を付けろ」が特に好き

[@わびさびぃ]

私はS.A.C. 2話 ささやかな反乱と12話 タチコマの家出 映画監督の夢が好きです

[@lukesmith5169]

15 years ago I watched this moment and understood love for the first time as an adult would. It was something I have never found but I'll hope for and something I'll never forget. They don't make them like this anymore.

[@sorarouge6351]

And now I own this on DVD.👍🏻🍁

[@samimari7986]

@@sorarouge6351 0

[@goblinman3010]

Yeah no man look at your pfp

[@longjawnsilva8877]

I almost fell for a woman I hurt badly. She tried to get $2,000 from as an apology for us to continue talking. I now realize that she was never going to love me

[@moahammad1mohammad]

Yeah noo... adult relationships are not that straightforward. You can be selfless for someone, they can like you back, they will flirt with you, they will treat you special, they will love your company, they will call you the best person in their life, you will swear to yourself that it's a match made in heaven, and then even after months of knowing and talking to eachother, when you finally ask to be with them I wouldn't be surprised if you got rejected. I wouldn't be surprised if what you thought was all the signs of love were actually assuming false, I wouldn't be surprised if everything you did for them didn't earn a ounce of trust from them, if you never knew anything about them in the first place, and that all the talking you didn't wasn't flirting, it was just a friendship to them, and all it ever will be. Relationships are an uphill battle and can be really simple and straightforward or very, very deep and complicated love. But adult relationships never make sense, no matter how close or how long you knew the person. It will always be that way... I would know.

[@--baphomet]

Funny enough..this is the only part of gits that I remember as a child because of the detail of the hands folding. I thought this was so cool I started doing it myself and it still is cool too me now..those frames are insane.

[@ayane5161]

医者は折り鶴踏みつけてるのに少佐はちゃんと折り鶴拾ってんのくそエモいな

[@橘未央-b6e]

人物の所作で、無神経なのか細かい所に気が付くのか性格が一目瞭然の描写がこの作品の凄みですね。

[@yatonarakumi9800]

One thing I like about animes back then was that they really put a lot of effort into animating even for something that's not really important to the story such as folding an origami. Most animes now I find that they love focusing intensely on animating the jiggling physic

[@horuho245]

folding an origami was very important to the story, excuse me?

[@outis918]

Ghost in the Shell is one of the greatest pieces of art mankind has ever created

[@notti2501]

なんとなくお互いに気づけた感じが泣ける、、、

[@user-ch5pi5fh9m]

i do は本当に名曲だと思う

[@konnotakafumi1248]

何度見ても涙をおさえられないエピソード。

[@inaco9999]

鶴を折る 手偏を示す偏に変えると、祈る 折り紙は祈りに通じる

[@CitronCoffee]

音楽の使い方もいい。さりげなく、適切に、寄り添って。

[@今日の令和]

草迷宮 この話ほんと一番好き 歌も合いすぎてる

[@GipGip55]

義体で鶴を折る不慣れさの表現がほんとすごい

[@robindscarlet9805]

Right..

[@christianfaux736]

I had a stroke a few years ago and that scene reminds me very much of having to learn how to use my right hand, and learning how to walk again.

[@IDOLMIX8]

I DOが聞きたくてきました。永遠に田中敦子さんの声は私たちの中で生きています。 菅野よう子さんの音楽や神山監督の演出、脚本。声優さんたちやアニメーターさんたちの素晴らしさ。攻殻機動隊は本当に永遠です。

[@AlexOrozco-Social-Pariah]

I cried rivers with this, one of the reasons why I see GITS universe as a masterpiece, especially SAC.

[@byakuhaibara]

この動画のおかげでまた泣く事が出来ます

[@Dmitrisnikioff]

Holy smokes, hearing that soundtrack again is bringing back memories. I just listened to What's It For while driving a few hours ago

[@horirong]

i do のタイミングが最高すぎる

[@ぱさ-r7t]

店主がこの話をしてるって事はクゼが話をしてたシーンもあったんじゃないかなっ？て想像してしまう。 それを思うともっと涙が出てくる 大好きなシーン。 何回でもみてられるし、聞いてられる

[@橘未央-b6e]

このエピソード、攻殻機動隊の中でも個人的に白眉の場面です。 ワンカットまるまる使って、巧みに片手で見事に鶴を折る動作。そして義体の両手でのぎこちない折り紙。 名前も知らない、聞きもしなかったけど大怪我を克服する共通の目的を持って戦った「戦友」がまさか敵として再会するとは。任務中の凛々しい表情とはまた違う、柔和な表情が印象的でした。 新作はフルCGでは無く、手書きで見たかった。表情のきめ細かさはCGではまだまだ荒さがあります。

[@ああああ-y5f]

この話ほんとすき

[@captainw0w]

Love this scene, the story, the perfectly paired music. Just pure meloncholy

[@tsaak3935]

折り鶴を踏みつけ歩いてくる病院の大人と、折り紙を拾い上げる少女の対比

[@gabe_liu9095]

after episodes of frustating Individual Eleven's case, then this sweet-sad story came up. That paper-crane moment in the end :' ) after years both of them barely remember their young self, its destiny if two of them could meet again

[@Genshiken2006]

abdalminator they do meet again in the worst possible way....

[@Ghost7065]

@@Genshiken2006 and then the boy never knowing who he meet, faded into the pages of history never to be remembered.

[@RadicalAkira]

Serendipity

[@darkhorseman90]

@@Ghost7065 or rather, he ended up inadvertently testing out his theory of whether or not cyberized "souls" could exist in the net after their physical death.

[@MasonPayneJericho]

@@Ghost7065 It's not easy to say for sure, but I think in the end, they both knew who was the other. During the helicopter scene, Motoko was suprised at the captured Kuze and says "You are...". Now this could mean (since he bite that apple) that Motoko realized that Kuze will start his "revolution" and upload his ghost onto the Net to "create a new world" (even though he and the refugees were not really in lethal danger anymore...) But imo, it could also mean that he managed to reach out to Motoko with his cyberbrain (even though they attached a cyberlock to his head, so he won't escape...) and told her "telepathically" that he was the boy from the hospital. And before the helicoper scene ends, we get a close shot on Kuze, smiling. He was probably happy that, while he didn't know what kind of fate awaits him, at least he managed to meet his childhood crush again after all those years :) Either way, to me it's kinda sucks that after seeing how hard Kuze worked and struggled to help the refugees reach freedom and independency, the sequels (Solid State and 2045) didn't show us what happened to Dejima. Did Kuze (if it's possible that he actually didn't die and uploaded himself to the Net) manage to bring that 3 milllion people into cyberspace and the artificial island (some time later) became a ghost town? Did Dejima become an independent state and started to prosper the way the people who lived there (including that 3 million who may not went into cyberspace) wanted? I've heard rumors that Solid State was suppose to be a full lenght Third Season, but Production I.G. didn't have the budget for it. If that's the case, I wonder if Mr. Kamiyama would've planned to show us some post-2nd GIG Dejima scenes. I actually would've loved to see a scene where Motoko goes to Dejima after the events of 2nd GIG and visits a memorial/statue of Kuze (built by the refugees) and leaves a paper crane there, while in the background showing us some developments/improvements building up for the island.

[@グムトリアン田中]

女の子が自分の正体を明かさなかったのは多分、女の子が全身義体になった過程が問題だったのかもね 全身義体の技術が普及し始めた当初、子供の義体化にはやはり倫理上の問題があり世間では当然受け入れられず、その上女の子は保護者である両親を2人とも事故で亡くしてるから義体化手術は病院か大学なんかの研究機関が秘密裏に行った完全な違法行為だったんだろう そんなの命を救うためとはいえ側から見れば子供を使った生体実験と言わざるを得ず公になれば国際的にも重大な人権問題に発展しただろう 女の子が消えてから再び現れるまでの2年っていうのも女の子のリハビリ期間もあるかもしれないが子供に対する義体化手術の法整備が整うまでの期間だったのかもしれない そう考えると自分が”飛行機事故の女の子”ってことを明かすのは「自分は法施行前に義体化されました」って明かすようなもんだから当然そんなこと言えなかったんでしょう

[@cd1427]

少佐が折り鶴を破いちゃうとこ涙が止まらんかった。

[@raku-h3r]

あの少女が少佐って事?

[@cd1427]

@@raku-h3r そうだよ

[@cd1427]

でなきゃ話成り立たないでしょw

[@raku-h3r]

見たいんだけど、見れてなくて

[@cd1427]

@@raku-h3r そうなのね

[@phase866]

Get into the fetal position... try not to cry... cry a lot.

[@MmeAdmin]

I said to myself I wouldnt cry; now I'm sobbing. And I'm wondering what ever did they (writers, directors and actors of GitS 2017) do to screw up a perfectly amazing story

[@dmchunter7772]

Bruh who would’ve thought after years of being apart from each other they would meet again but against each other. Well if he hadn’t tried to search for her he wouldn’t have become the badass legendary Kuze we know and admire; probably why he connected to a lot of people is due to the fact that he was searching for her ghost that has long eluded him, on the way becoming an inspiration for others. Damn now I know what the major was saying in the final scene of solid state society. In the words of Batou “ Major you sound like a arrogant teen that found the man of her dreams.”

[@雅-m9v5w]

良く出来た大人のためのアニメ作品である

[@josefranciscoalvarezquintero]

Some of the most beautiful love stories in anime, just flawless.

[@Fjallderall]

Still makes me cry. Thanks for uploading!

[@littlewitchling535]

The fact this video is from 06 really tells me that I'm old and I'm forever going to miss the nostalgia. Watching this back on adult swim hits me like a bus.

[@ziyasu0017-XENA]

このエピソード好きです。

[@thevagraunt]

The animated series works under the assumption that the events in the first movie never have nor will transpire. If it weren't so, there'd be other oddities like how they ask Togusa about his affinity for revovlers in the movie as well.

[@8terminusmaximus8]

I disagree, there are still tropes and running themes to Gits, but the 2501 incident doesn't negate or contradict anything- it simply augments Kusanagis power

[@jase276]

@@8terminusmaximus8 Dude, that comment was 15 years ago

[@8terminusmaximus8]

@@jase276 and?

[@EnderGradRPC]

@@8terminusmaximus8 True sigma

[@rogeriojunior9459]

this comment is older than my young bother who is now taller than me

[@09050894]

定期的に見たくなる

[@どう見ても病]

この話まじでなんか…良かったな〜 クゼが実際この男の子だったのかは、なんかあんまり重要じゃない感じする。いいな〜ほんと。攻殻機動隊。いいね神山健治

[@PersonaofWill]

This series and SAC & GIG is the best and most satisfying series in anime and outside of that

[@JotaP1n]

I stood up and clapped at the end, yeah alone in my house. I think was the first time I felt that.

[@Togusa]

I agree. It's one of my favorite episodes of GITS 2nd gig.

[@STOUNKK]

15 лет назад

[@blackraven3436]

This scene taught me how to do origamis. That one shot of the folding really was helpful

[@tanya-789]

Why do I always find great things to read/listen/watch right when I have exams coming up??

[@chiryuz33]

I love this episode the most! On top of that the song is so beautiful.

[@kimmirandaart9909]

This had me crying as a teenager at midnight watching Adult Swim on a saturday night 2004 ish

[@murasakibebeby3127]

..... I remember seeing this episode..... And I also remember not expecting my heart to have a frikin blade shot all the way through it too.....

[@_alex9914]

このふたりが、どうしてもお互いをしっかり認識して出会うシーンがないのがなんとも苦しくて、切なくて、でも、 どうしてか、それでいい気がする…本当に不思議な関係で、 見ててこの動画の話のところと 最後にクゼと素子が話すところ、すごい涙出た記憶ある。

[@sayanidas258]

KZbin works as a time machine itself, you can talk to people now who commented on an old video years ago. It sure feels nostalgic seeing their comments and going back in time to feel what they felt watching the video. And if they reply back? Bingo! You are now with them in their future

[@SACfromsachi]

💧 💧 この回､大好き。

[@リタっち]

この話は店主のセリフを全部言えるくらい見直したな

[@lupinthe3rd629]

唯一アニメ版での彼女の過去が描写されたシーンか 男の子は久世英雄だという繋がり･･･

[@kolusola]

thx

[@frederickjohnson7123]

I love that your into this show and this scene

[@たこす-f3k]

ぜひ東のエデンも観てほしい

[@てんてん-d5v1q]

泣ける

[@dynhodepressao4010]

Just watched this Ep. Very emotional. :)

[@IceHibiscus]

A lot of people think 2nd Gig was inferior to series 1, but for me-personally-2nd Gig was the peak of 00s dramatic anime. It is a benchmark with which I probably still compare everything else.

[@Kuze12]

2nd gig, episode 11

[@dsarumonkey9152]

軽い気持ちで見てたら最後まで見ていたわ

[@samuraibobafett1118]

This had my eyes leaking

[@SHINKU93]

Rest in paradise Atsuko Tanaka

[@Depth867]

3:35　手の表現好き

[@MARS4018]

この話か？·····クゼと少佐との話しに出てくる片手だけで折り鶴を織る男の子の話は·····しかし、切ない話だな💧 でもさ、例え全身義体になってもその時の女の子を探して逢いに行くって言うのが良いなぁ🥺 そう言う想いが人と人との関係を紡いで行くんだよね👍

[@theclawyaww3740]

best scene and episode in anime

[@K486521]

I cry

[@Cyberium]

The animation in this episode is supreme.

[@TheReapergod36]

My eyes are leaking, guess this body needs a service checkup. ;)

[@ぷーま-d6n]

泣いたわ

[@chika7032]

これこそがstand alone complex

[@sugi3738]

微妙なとこで止めないで欲しかった

[@シオン-h2n1m]

やっぱり女の子は少佐で男の子はクゼだったのか

[@ChiriDarkrose]

I was just trying to find this song because I love it and I love this specific version. I haven't seen this at all so I don't know what all of this means, but I am deeply moved. And now I shall binge it.

[@josiahstoehr1297]

The song is "I do", sang by Ilaria Graziano and composed by Yoko Kanno for the GITS SAC soundtrack.

[@ChiriDarkrose]

@@josiahstoehr1297 I have since found it! Thank you though. For a long time I just kept finding covers.

[@littlewitchling535]

I realized the animation studio (Production I.G) loves the realistic art style. I learned this from IGPX and Moribito

[@JemZard]

And also the key animators are professionals like Hiroyuki Okiura, Toshiyuki Inoue, Mitsuo Iso, Takeshi Honda (maybe he's a animator on I.G), look up their animations, it's just beautiful and they're focused on either realistic rotoscoped-like movements especially Okiura's animations.

[@Kazuhi-u1x]

草薙素子は、全身義体に適応した世界初の事例だった筈

[@Winiarek]

This song is: Yoko Kanno & Ilaria Graziano "I Do"

[@SMGJohn]

I have to stop 3 minutes in, because I realise, why watch a clip on KZbin when I can rewatch the entire anime again? Its been too long, its time again.

[@FreakishAnimeFan]

Already watched it three times. Maybe another year or two I'll do it again.

[@javelinnia3203]

15 years... But it's like yesterday

[@harune6594]

Crazy, right..

[@HIDENORISURUGA]

曲の掛かり最高。

[@DaKrazedKyubizt]

the first time i watched this episode, i almost cried.

[@aldrin5382]

They don't make it like this nowadays GITS is alway number 1 for me no matter what.

[@nuisance1114]

yup, i'm gonna watch this anime

[@チョボパ]

2024年 未だこのアニメを越えるアニメは存在しない 作画 脚本 演出 音楽 声優 アニメの頂点

[@michaeltran9516]

My favorite episode. 🥲

[@ryugujiken6936]

i wasn't expecting to be put in my feels twice today. first was re-reading A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness and the second was this.

[@1314itaru]

僕はこれを見て命の本質を知る。　生きる本質　僕は　僕を好きな人がいないから、、「。

[@church113]

this is a very emotional ep of ghost in the shell, i like it.

[@Tokuijin]

It's kinda heartbreaking knowing that Major and Kuze are enemies, currently.

[@ifm74chu]

I do OST BOXで一番好きな曲。

[@superfurball89onyoutube52]

This episode almost made me cry back then

[@darkhorseman90]

He pursued a future while still thinking of the past, but already had let go of what he used to be. She pursued a past that she had forgotten about, never realizing it until it was too late to return.

[@青君-w6g]

涙が止まらない。 この回を初めて観たとき、左手で折鶴を折る練習をしたなぁ。 ちょっと練習すれば案外折れるもんですが、義体化した女の子 はそう上手くはいかなかったんだろうな...