Exploring the Nature of Humanity and Existence
English dub: [[w:Garfield Morgan|Garfield Morgan]
] - Koga, Lin
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Exploring Humanity and Technology in Conflict
English dub: [[w:William Knight|William Knight]
] - Daisuke Aramaki
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The Complexity of Human Existence
English dub: [[w:Crispin Freeman|Crispin Freeman]
] - Togusa
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Exploring Identity and Humanity in Technology
English dub: [[w:Mary Elizabeth McGlynn|Mary Elizabeth McGlynn]
] - Motoko Kusanagi
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Exploring Identity and Humanity in Technology
Original voiceovers: [[w:Yoshiko Sakakibara|Yoshiko Sakakibara]
] - Haraway
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The Nature of Humanity and Technology
Original voiceovers: [[w:Yutaka Nakano|Yutaka Nakano]
] - Ishikawa
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Existence Beyond the Physical Realm
Original voiceovers: [[w:Tamio Ōki|Tamio Ōki]
] - Daisuke Aramaki
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Exploring Humanity and Existence in Technology
Original voiceovers: [[w:Kōichi Yamadera|Kōichi Yamadera]
] - Togusa
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Exploring Identity and Existence in Technology
Original voiceovers: [[w:Atsuko Tanaka (voice actress)|Atsuko Tanaka]
] - Motoko Kusanagi
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The Definition of Humanity in a Machine World
Taglines:
When machines learn to feel, who decides what is human...
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Innocence Represents the Essence of Life
Taglines:
Sore wa inotchi innosensu ('Innocence is Life')
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Investigating Protocols in a Cybernetic Future
Section 9 Department Chief Aramaki:
I ordered you to conduct an investigation. I never said skip the paperwork and act like vigilantes. I certainly don't recall ordering you to barge into any Yakuza office. This isn't the jungle and you're not Special Forces hit men.
[first title cards]:
In a future time when most human thought has been accelerated by artificial intelligence and external memory can be shared on a universal matrix, Batou, an agent of the elite Section 9 Security Force and a being so artificially modified as to be essentially cyborg, is assigned, along with his mostly human partner, Togusa, to investigate a series of gruesome murders.
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The Dilemma of Loyalty and Truth
Lin:
We got loyalty even in my line.
Batou:
There's loyalty that protects secrets and loyalty that protects the truth. You cannot serve both masters, so which loyalty is yours?
Lin:
They say there's no truth without secrets.
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The Weight of Memory and Obligation
Batou:
You sure have gotten informal, Lin. Since when do you skip the "Sir"?
Lin:
I haven't forgotten the debt I owe you.
Batou:
The less one forgets, the less one can remember?
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Navigating Challenges Together in Darkness
Batou:
What's up?
Togusa:
Narrow, dark stairs. What's the plan?
Batou:
We'll take turns, I'll lead.
Togusa: [walks up the stairs, thereby forcing the lead]
No, I'll lead. You're so damned big, I can't cover you!
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Literary References in a Philosophical Dialogue
Togusa:
His legions, angel forms, who lay entranced. Thick as autumnal leaves that strow the brooks.
Batou:
Now you're quoting Milton, but we are not Satan.
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Reflections on Memory and Knowledge
Togusa:
How great is the sum of thy thoughts? If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand.
Batou:
Psalms 139, Old Testament. The way you spout these spontaneous exotic references, I'd say your own external memory's pretty twisted.
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The Fragility of Life and Death
Togusa: [Quoting the writings on the wall]
Life and death come and go like marionettes dancing on a table. Once their strings are cut, they easily crumble.
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Reflections on Family and Loss
Togusa: [With his head between his hands, looking to the floor after a grenade explodes near him]
All I could see... were my wife and daughter's faces.
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The Nature of Understanding and Wishful Thinking
Chief Aramaki:
Understanding is in principle solely based on wishful thinking.
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Walking Alone in Silence and Virtue
Chief Aramaki:
Let one walk alone, committing no sin, with few wishes, like elephants in the forest. (Based on a Buddhist Poem)
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The Mirror's Role in Reflecting Evil
Major Motoko Kusanagi:
Who can gaze into the mirror without becoming evil? The mirror does not reflect evil, but creates it." Based on the Saitō Ryokuu quote: "There is something evil about several people holding mirrors, it is not that it exposes evil; rather, it helps create evil.
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The Value of Voice and Existence
Major Motoko Kusanagi:
We are saddened by a bird's cry, but not a fish's blood; Blessed are those with voices. If those dolls had voices, I bet each and everyone would scream "I don't want to be a human." (Alternate translation from one of the dubbed versions)
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The Value of Voice and Existence
Major Motoko Kusanagi:
We weep for the blood of a bird, but not for the blood of a fish. Blessed are those with a voice. If the dolls could speak, no doubt they'd scream, "I didn't want to become human.
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The Metropolis as External Memory System
Batou:
If the essence of life is information carried in DNA, then society and civilization are just colossal memory systems, and a metropolis like this one, simply a sprawling external memory.
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The Unseen Nature of Luck and Misfortune
Batou:
Just as luck appears in three, so does misfortune. Because you don't want to see it, you don't see it coming. Even if you notice it, you don't say anything. Even if you're told, you don't listen. Then boom, the end comes!
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Embracing Action in Moral Ambiguity
Batou:
When there is no right or wrong it's time to beat the drums and attack.
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The Importance of Commitment in Action
Batou:
A half-assed approach just won't cut it.
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When Words Fail, Action Becomes Necessary
Batou:
When talking fails, it's time to break shit up.
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The Consequences of Overreaching Ambition
Batou:
His downfall came when his reach exceeded his grasp.
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Transformation and Identity in Batou's Reflection
Batou:
But no matter how far a jackass may travel, it will never return as a horse.
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The Science of Love and Belief
Opening Quote:
If our Gods and our hopes are nothing but scientific phenomena, then let us admit it must be said that our love is scientific as well. - Tomorrow's Eve
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