I had trouble getting into the series and was wondering if it was just me, but this makes me want to go back and try Stand Alone Complex again. I really did enjoy the movie. It had really good world building.
The show is divided into 2 types of episodes; about half are one-shot episodes that are only loosely referenced by the main story arc (but they usually explore an interesting theme). If you watch the episodes in the order they were released it can be hard to follow the overall plot.
(For German readers I recommend the German sub, the used the same people who dubbed the Stargate series which did a really good job in both cases.)
That being said the English dub is pretty good too.
Unless SAC is one of those incredibly rare pieces of Japanese animation where the voices were recorded prior to the animation being completed, the Japanese voiced version is just as much a dub as the English version.
>https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dub>dub verb (2)
>dubbed; dubbing
>Definition of dub
>(Entry 4 of 5)
>transitive verb
>1 : to add (sound effects or new dialogue) to a film or to a radio or television production —usually used with "in"
>// They dubbed in the music.
But for my money, I think GitS has been one of the most prescient pieces of futurology. It's depiction of the impact of omnipresent telecommunications and technology on society is eerie.