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Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
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| Title: | C: The Copycat will Dance; MEME |
| Episode Number: | 6 |
| Season: | 1 |
| Season Episode #.: | 6 |
| Original Airdate: | Sunday December 12th, 2004 |
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Section 9 attempts to arrest Nanao, but the room they had thought that Nanao was in turns out to be a dummy room. As they realize this, Nanao releases a modular, delayed action virus just as a press conference with the Superintendent-General is about to begin. The Major along with Satiou and Pazu are at the conference to make sure that the Laughing Man does not make good on his threat to kill the Superintendent-General. With the virus being able to manifest at the last possible minute, the Major and her team have their work cut out for them.
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| Japanese Title: 「模倣者は踊る」 - 「Mohōsha wa Odoru」
The DVD translates the title as 「The Copycats Dance」
| Kanji on Nanao's Computer:
送信完了 (Sōshin Kanryō) - Transmit Complete
| Kanji on Wall Next to Major:
従業員専用
立入禁止
Jūgyōin Senyō
Tachi'iri Kinshi
Employees Use Only
Entry Prohibited
| Kanji on Daidō's Hospital Room:
面会謝絶 (Menkai Sahzetsu) - No Visitors [The sign literally says Interviews Declined]
To the right of the door, under his room number of 802, is his name in Japanese, 大堂義一 or Daidō Yoshikazu.
| Kanji on Daidō's Medicine Container:
内用薬
大堂義一様
Naiyō Kusuri (Internal Medicine)
Daidō Yoshikazu-sama
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| | Artist | Song Title | Played When | | •Ilaria Graziano | 「Velveteen」 | | | •Origa | 「Inner Universe」 | | | •Scott Matthew | 「Lithium Flower」 | | | •Yōko Kanno | 「Stamina Rose」 | | | •Yōko Kanno | 「Surf」 | |
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| Motoko: I wonder who's going to show symptoms. What kind of farce would it be without something like this?
| Aramaki: Dead men tell no tales.
| (An old man, wearing a baseball cap turned sideways, approaches a security guard at his post)
Old Man: Uh, hello? You see, how do you get to the hotel where the Superindentent-General is going to be assassinated?
Security Guard: Huh?
(The old man smiles and his face looks just like the picture on the Laughing Man's logo)
| Aramaki: ...It's simply specuation so take it for what it's worth, but I believe there may never have been an actual criminal at work in the Laughing Man affair. What happened this time around might have just been caused by a seed of some kind that was planted six years ago. The threat was what made it sprout. As for the copycats, they're a stand-alone complex resulting from this phenomenon. Nothing but copies without an original. But like I said, it's all speculation.
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| The hotel where the conference takes place is spelled in Latin characters as the "Nihama National". The spelling of the city's name is incorrect as it should be Niihama. Most English speakers, however, usually pause on the first syllable of three-syllable words (which for Japanese words is correct in some cases and incorrect in others) and this reason may indicate why the extra 'i' was left off the Latinised version of the city name.
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| MEME
The English title can be read in two different ways. First, it can be read as "meem", which is the term coined by Charles Dawkins to theorize a mind transmitting information to other minds. The other way to read "MEME" is the Japanese word Meme, pronounced "may-may". In kanji, it is written either as 目々 or 眼々and means "eyes". More information on Dawkin's meme theory can be found here.
| MEME: "VIRUS>IMMUNE"
The modular, delayed-action virus that is first mentioned by Motoko at the end of "DECOY" and is shown in action in "MEME" along with the events that take place in the latter episode are inspired from Chapter 4, "VIRUS>IMMUNE" in the 2001 manga Ghost in the Shell: Man-Machine Interfacep by Shirō Masamune.
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