Originally posted by Stryke 9
Seriously. If you honestly think there's a really major distinction there at all, you're at the stage of anime nerdism where it's basically futile for you to have conversations on the subject with anybody not a rabid anime nerd, so you might as well just be quiet now anyway.
And whenever did producing a good movie ensure that all movies produced by the same guy would be good? That's just stupid, and can be disproven pretty solidly by actually looking at any director in the entire history of moviemaking. Or cartoonmaking. Whatever.
Have you read the Appleseed mangas? Have you seen Wonderful Days? I've done both, now if you wanna talk about something, check it first. geez, those peoples who think they're right when they don't even ****ing know what they're talking about

. It's as similar as startrek is similar with starwars or dune. One deals with ecology and pollution ( Wonderful Days ), the other is 100% ficused on man/machine stuff ( as usual with Shirow, in fact ). But I forgot you know everything even w/o seeing it, my bad. It seems. It looks like. Yeah right, strong arguments there.
And as for producing movies: Shirow produced none. He created the Apple Seed manga and the Ghost in the shell manga. Since your comment was about "whoever thought up that name is doing some bad freaky ****", and since Shirow is responsible for his mangas names, and those animes are just adaptations of the manga, I wonder what the hell you're taking about. Shirow named Appleseed, and yet all the stuff ( mangas ) I've seen from him rocked.
I'm pretty well aware that coz it's adapted from his works won't means the anime will rock, since the first apple seed OAV was crappy as hell.
Are you tired today?