Which episodes of "GITS: Arise − Alternative Architecture" are covered by "GITS: Arise − Border" movies?


I recently watched _Ghost in the Shell: Arise − Alternative Architecture_
episode 3 and was dismayed to find that the episode was pretty much a repeat
of part of the _Ghost in the Shell: Arise − Border_ 1 movie. I’d rather not
re-watch the same content, so I was wondering

  * Which episodes of the TV series _GITS − AA_ are covered by the _GITS − Border_ movies?
  * Are there any differences between the repeated stories (IE. extra scenes/new content/changed plot)?




I haven't heard about the “GITS: Arise − Border” movies you are talking about
(I assume this is what the american licensee decided to call the Arise
movies), but the storylines of _Arise_ and _Arise: Alternative Architecture_
overlap. If you already watched the longer _Arise_ movies earlier, then you
can skip the episodes 3-8 of _AA_ which are basically the 4 movies split up
into two part episodes. I did not do an extensive scene-by-scene or frame-by-
frame comparison for all the episodes, but I watched them all in the order
they aired and didn't notice any new scenes being added in _AA_.

I started comparing both versions of _Ghost Pain_ yesterday in a video editor
(kdenlive, one of the free editors that supports to show individual frames in
the timeline) and got to about 13 minutes playtime until I gave up due to lack
of skills to compare both efficiently and provide a usable result. What I
found so far is that **scenes have been re-arranged and shortened for _AA_** :
some scenes have been left out, while some stills appear longer on screen. The
first scene in _AA_ for example with the major at the airport in _Ghost Pain_
was originally further in the episode/movie, scenes including dialog with
Aramaki (at the cemetery) and Kurutsu (in her office) have been shortened.

Comparing runtimes of the movies and _AA_ episodes it's `58m` vs. `2*24m`, so
you're likely to watch an abridged version of the movies, where roughly 10
minutes of content had to be cut to meet the length required for the
television broadcast edition. My guess is that the focus for creating new
content was on the episodes _Ghost Stands Alone_ (1, 2), _Pyrophoric Cult_ (9,
10) and _the new movie_ (see below).

If you haven't watched any of this, you probably want to watch in this order:
**Ghost Stands Alone** (AA), **Ghost Pain** (Arise), **Ghost Whispers**
(Arise), **Ghost Tears** (Arise), **Ghost Stands Alone** (Arise), **Pyrophoric
Cult** (AA), **New Movie**.

# Koukaku Kidoutai Arise: Ghost in the Shell

[22.06.2013 till 06.09.2014](http://anidb.net/perl-
bin/animedb.pl?show=anime&aid=9658), each episode is about 60 minutes long:

  1. **Ghost Pain**
  2. **Ghost Whispers**
  3. **Ghost Tears**
  4. **Ghost Stands Alone**

# Koukaku Kidoutai Arise: Alternative Architecture

[05.04.2015 till 14.06.2015](http://anidb.net/perl-
bin/animedb.pl?show=anime&aid=11023), each episode is about 25 minutes long:

  1. **Ghost Stands Alone, Part 1**
  2. **Ghost Stands Alone, Part 2**
  3. _Ghost Pain, Part 1_
  4. _Ghost Pain, Part 2_
  5. _Ghost Whispers, Part 1_
  6. _Ghost Whispers, Part 2_
  7. _Ghost Tears, Part 1_
  8. _Ghost Tears, Part 2_
  9. **Pyrophoric Cult, Part 1**
  10. **Pyrophoric Cult, Part 2**

# Koukaku Kidoutai: Shin Gekijouban

[This](http://anidb.net/perl-bin/animedb.pl?show=anime&aid=10824) is the
**_new movie_** with a new story set in the Arise universe




I haven't heard about the “GITS: Arise − Border” movies you are talking about
(I assume this is what the american licensee decided to call the Arise
movies), but the storylines of _Arise_ and _Arise: Alternative Architecture_
overlap. If you already watched the longer _Arise_ movies earlier, then you
can skip the episodes 3-8 of _AA_ which are basically the 4 movies split up
into two part episodes. I did not do an extensive scene-by-scene or frame-by-
frame comparison for all the episodes, but I watched them all in the order
they aired and didn't notice any new scenes being added in _AA_.

I started comparing both versions of _Ghost Pain_ yesterday in a video editor
(kdenlive, one of the free editors that supports to show individual frames in
the timeline) and got to about 13 minutes playtime until I gave up due to lack
of skills to compare both efficiently and provide a usable result. What I
found so far is that **scenes have been re-arranged and shortened for _AA_** :
some scenes have been left out, while some stills appear longer on screen. The
first scene in _AA_ for example with the major at the airport in _Ghost Pain_
was originally further in the episode/movie, scenes including dialog with
Aramaki (at the cemetery) and Kurutsu (in her office) have been shortened.

Comparing runtimes of the movies and _AA_ episodes it's `58m` vs. `2*24m`, so
you're likely to watch an abridged version of the movies, where roughly 10
minutes of content had to be cut to meet the length required for the
television broadcast edition. My guess is that the focus for creating new
content was on the episodes _Ghost Stands Alone_ (1, 2), _Pyrophoric Cult_ (9,
10) and _the new movie_ (see below).

If you haven't watched any of this, you probably want to watch in this order:
**Ghost Stands Alone** (AA), **Ghost Pain** (Arise), **Ghost Whispers**
(Arise), **Ghost Tears** (Arise), **Ghost Stands Alone** (Arise), **Pyrophoric
Cult** (AA), **New Movie**.

# Koukaku Kidoutai Arise: Ghost in the Shell

[22.06.2013 till 06.09.2014](http://anidb.net/perl-
bin/animedb.pl?show=anime&aid=9658), each episode is about 60 minutes long:

  1. **Ghost Pain**
  2. **Ghost Whispers**
  3. **Ghost Tears**
  4. **Ghost Stands Alone**

# Koukaku Kidoutai Arise: Alternative Architecture

[05.04.2015 till 14.06.2015](http://anidb.net/perl-
bin/animedb.pl?show=anime&aid=11023), each episode is about 25 minutes long:

  1. **Ghost Stands Alone, Part 1**
  2. **Ghost Stands Alone, Part 2**
  3. _Ghost Pain, Part 1_
  4. _Ghost Pain, Part 2_
  5. _Ghost Whispers, Part 1_
  6. _Ghost Whispers, Part 2_
  7. _Ghost Tears, Part 1_
  8. _Ghost Tears, Part 2_
  9. **Pyrophoric Cult, Part 1**
  10. **Pyrophoric Cult, Part 2**

# Koukaku Kidoutai: Shin Gekijouban

[This](http://anidb.net/perl-bin/animedb.pl?show=anime&aid=10824) is the
**_new movie_** with a new story set in the Arise universe

