creators of Ghost in the Shell made this beer ad for UK in the 90s

Jul 23, 2026 6:32 PM

Sweet.

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I am disrespectful to thirst! Can you see that I am serious?!

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From cyber punk, to samurais, to Western saloons. *Hold my neck from the whiplash while I take a shot.

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I hate to admit this... But the original GITS was my first fap.

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Let's be honest. There are WAY more shameful first faps.

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I enjoy Murphys, almost impossible to find in Sweden tho.. Beamish is also nice, but that one is truly impossible to find in Sweden.

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Beamish was my favorite Irish stout during my beer drinking days, too

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I remember seeing this, it was real!

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And now we have 'content creator' hacks and cheap ai pumping shit ads at us.

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We also have adblockers now too

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Oh shit, a JoJo reference in a cyberpunk beer ad for the UK made by the animators of Ghost in the Shell

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The Magnificent Six (it's not seven, I counted) don't care if it's the Edo Period or the far future. When they get thirsty, they will not compromise.

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Even the Magnificent Six are less likely to cause mass casualties than the Individual Eleven.

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Are you a Midnight Sumo fan?

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Get it? Because it's beer (spirit) in a can (shell).

... Or maybe not, but what the hell, let's roll with it.

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That was a stretch, but I like it.

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Are there any youtube videos that have a done a deep dive into what was lost when anime transitioned from hand-drawn to digital? One feels compelled to say that there was a lot more detail back then, but also certain abstractions that let the imagination fill in the gaps.

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Note that this was done by Production I.G who got some real animation powerhouses together to make this. I don't know the exact chronology but it seems to have come out after they finished End of Evangelion in the back half of 1997. https://www.productionig.com/contents/works_sp/72_/index.html

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Those drawings had soul. I miss the 90s Anime.

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There is a gorgeous timelessness about this earlier style of anime.

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Cyberdrunk

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The new "The ghost in the shell" TV show is really good so far. It's based on the manga so it's a lot goofier, and.. it has lesbian action lol.

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So who exactly? Hedgear?

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Anyone seen the new GitS? Any good?

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Havent watched it myself yet, but been hearing good things. I guess its much more faithful to the original manga for what thats worth.

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Thematically it's the same, but fleshed out. The show follows the first movie loosely, but you get more context, which is appreciated. But, it's also a lot goofier, and sexier lol.

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A lot closer to the manga I hear, in good taste. :D

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It is an accurate adaptation of the manga. If you liked the other anime adaptations, it might not be for you—unless you liked the manga and know what to expect.

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I strongly recommend not using this as a reason to avoid it. Yeah, it has some difference in characterization, and is 100% reading the source material very closely, but it's 100% hand drawn and has so much of the spirit of S.A.C. in its portrayal of things. I say if you liked GITS in any form, you should watch this. Just be aware of the increased... "comical" nature of the character personalities and set your expectations right.

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Isn't Murphy's from Cork?

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Best Stout going

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No. It's tasteless pish like guinness. Try Orkney Dark Island, Tim Taylor's Ram Tam (now Landlord Dark), Port Townsend Strait Stout, or indeed anything that isn't mass produced garbage over-chilled to be sold to lager drinkers who want a different coloured glass of asinine, tasteless bollock-water.

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Yes? But it was after Murphy's was bought out by an international brewer. They were set up in direct competition with Guinness...which had its own range of high end UK TV adverts....
https://youtu.be/rE1lIdtDs2g?si=Uplha6DesP4IKh9-

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Dude if you're from the UK any impression that something as Irish as Murphy's is British is gonna cause an international incident. You know they hate that stuff. Have a little diplomacy.

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Im not saying Murphy's is British. Im saying Murphy's is owned by Heineken (has been since 1983). The ad was produced for the UK market in response to the Guinness ads which were trying to repositioning stout away from the entrenched image of an "old fellas" drink.

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That's fine. But you did start your comment with "yes?" as if you had no idea of the sensitivities around it.

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Damn right, OP needs to correct the title!

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More animation work in this one beer ad than the whole of season 3 One Punch Man.

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Outstanding

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Murphy's? Lol. I was trying to guess what it was going to be and it wasnt that.

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There's a new ghost in the shell series on prime video now

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... and other places... ty for the heads up.

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You know with as many ads as are forced into every aspect of our lives these days, it's weird when I find out about a show I would care about, from a random comment on a random tangentially related thread. But thanks for the heads up.

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Have to add that to my binge list

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The new "The ghost in the shell" TV show is really good so far. It's based on the manga so it's a lot goofier, and.. it has lesbian action lol.

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Can-eh-dah!

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Tetsuoooooooo

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You got me. Good +1.

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Dammit this is actual perfection.

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I love this

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She is an alcoholic. It would be fun to hide her beer, or stare her down as you pour it down the drain. Lol

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Lol the one pedo we are all ok with 🤷

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I've actually gone over Eva many times with my buddy, he thinks she wasn't actually trying to do anything with shinji, and that she was trying to motivate him as she presumed a teenage boy would be. I haven't watched it again since this talk, I'm open to it, but my memory doesn't see it

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In the End of Eva movies she basically tells him she'll make him a man if he comes back alive which is both in line with her attempting to manipulate him and it being really questionable to begin with, and in that way. The whole Mitsuragi/Shinji relationship as well as Kaji/Asuka was probably intended to be uncomfortable.

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(Spoiler) In fairness she’s literally moments away from bleeding out when she says that and as soon as Shinji leaves she mentions Kaji and asks the air if she did the right thing.

I think her relationship with him is intentionally uncomfortable, because she’s also very maladjusted, but mostly I think it’s her manipulating him with what she thinks he wants.

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Anime in its hayday was not at all mainstream and targeted at non mainstream or Japanese. Not like pedo-policing was such a trend back then. Shin Chan was a cartoon for kids ffs.

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The funimation dub was definitely not for kids tho, but in terms of the original theres maybe something to be said about not all nudity being sexual.

Not to get all weeby about it, but it seems like western culture has completely abandoned anything even vaguely sexual as ever having comedic value, and not that stuff like Benny Hill and American Pie hasnt very rightly aged terribly, i think somebody completely accidentally falling face first into someones boobs or crotch can still be funny.

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It's kinda weird how pedo stuff has been quite present all throughout recent history, but we are the first generation to publicly raise a critical eyebrow at it.

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