Ghost in the Shell: Tachikoma Days
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Tachikoma Days (タチコマな日々, Tachikoma na Hibi; also known as Tachikoma Specials) are a series of comedic shorts attached to the end of episodes of Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, featuring the antics of the Tachikoma think tanks of Section 9 and usually involving plot points from the episode it accompanies. The average Tachikoma short takes up a little over a minute, and one is attached to every episode. Ghost in the Shell: S.A.C. 2nd GIG (the second season of the TV series) also has Tachikoma Days at the end of each episode.
Tachikoma Days is not aired on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim programming block, of which Stand Alone Complex and 2nd GIG aired on. However, they are shown on Adult Swim's webcasted programming block Friday Night Fix. (Australia's Cartoon Network's Adult Swim Tachikoma days are broadcasted "correctly" with each episode)
Purpose
It has been speculated that the purpose of the Tachikoma segments is to provide (often a humourous or ironic) summary of the philosophical point(s) (if any) raised in the episode proper. Occasionally, a counterpoint is raised instead. This may be an attempt by the creators to engage less sophisticated (e.g. younger) audiences in the philosophical dialogue raised by the Ghost In The Shell subject matter.
It has also been suggested that the segments are an attempt to raise the overall humour level of Stand Alone Complex to the level of the original Ghost In The Shell manga, as the series tends to have more of the serious tone associated with the movies. It might also simply be an attempt to feature the Tachikomas more, and in an environment outside of the main plot, since they have quite developed personalities for a bunch of walking tanks.
Episodes
- See main article:List of Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex episodes
Trivia
- On Episode 16, one of the Tachikomas holds a book called "Anti-Oedipus". It is a reference to Gilles Deleuze's and Felix Guattari's book Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia.
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