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There're some Mamoru Oshii book lists on the Internet, but they don't have detailed explanations about the contents. My Mamoru Oshii book collection is far from complete, but I'd like to write some short summaries for each of those books.
I apologize in advance for grammatical errors and misinformation.
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title: ガルム・ウォーズ 白銀の審問艦
(GARM WARS: The Interrogation Ship of Silvery White)
release: 04/16/2015
publisher: Enterbrain
[contents]
Advent
Vocation
Inquisition: Khara
Inquisition: Skellig
Inquisition: Scathach
Inquisition: Wydo
Malak's Nest
terminology
[review]
This is a novelized version of Garm Wars. The plot is basically the same as the film, but some details are different. Oshii made several versions of the plot in G.R.M. project due to the budget problem. This novel is based on one of those variations.
In the film, Khara, Wydo, Skelling, Nascien, and a Gula traveled by tank. In the novel, they travel by an "interrogation ship" called Immrama. A captain of that ship is called Schathach. She plays an important role in the novel, so that's pretty different from the film version.
The novel comes to the same conclusion as the film, but the novel shows many deleted scenes. Those scenes are related to sci-fi gadgets and machines, so Oshii had to delete it due to the budget problem.
Plus, the novel shows that it originally had an interesting revelation scene. After the battle against aliens called "Malak", Khara and Skellig brought back a brain of a certain commander, but their memories were formatted after that. Wydo tries to find out what they found in the battle. That mystery leads them to the truth of demiurge.
I think it is difficult to appreciate the film version without the novel and the pilot film of G.R.M. I don't get why they didn't translate it at the time of the global premiere.
