Twenty-five years ago, I was becoming dissatisfied with Japanese animation's focus on characters and stories at the expense of environments. Suddenly, the world I vaguely imagined appeared in front of me. I felt overwhelmed--but at the same time I realized that what I was attempting was not wrong at all.
The two-page spread of "The Blade Runner Nexus" beginning on the same page doesn't mention Ghost in the Shell (or Innocence, which, of Oshii's films, seems to me to draw the most from BR). Nods are given to Akira and Battle Angel, though.
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