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Not to be terribly gate-keepy, but are they *really* "fans" if they haven't once had an interest in the decades old manga that spawned whatever their favourite adaptation happens to be?

Aren't fans usually disappointed when an adaptation *isn't* panel for panel accurate? This is literally the realest deal this series has ever had, it feels like it's mostly exact line and panel reproductions. I had to check that the bladerunner reference in Togusa's house was a Science Saru original

i think we've left the era of the knowledgeable pedants being the screechiest nerds and now it's all chuds who don't even know anything about the media they claim they're defending for reactionary street cred (well, social media feed cred anyway) witchsky.app/profile/spen...

I've seen this take and I will have to wait and see cause I haven't watched the movie yet, a lot of criticism does come across as pure opportunism without any appreciation for iron age theatre tho, true I am tempted to challenge the rejection of "historical accuracy", but I don't want to ramble

The Major fucks. Always has. Both virtually and physically.

Im still waiting for the weebs to freak the fuck out becsuse the cannon of GitS basically confirms gender dysphoria is a thing. Batou gets physically ill when his cyberbrain gets flooded with the Majors nerves system feedback. I would have to find the dialog that supports it.

Baffled?! Watching Major make Batou punch himself in the face is something I've waited to see for 30 fucking years! Watching Aramaki pootle away on his scooter like a boss is a moment DECADES in the making!

Hottest take: Standalone Complex was way more perverted, and in a skeevy way, partly because it pretends not to be leering at a very dehumanized Kusanagi. No, what bothers creeps about the new show isn't the "horniness," it's a woman with agency and the existence of female orgasms.

The OG Ghost in the Shell manga isn't "raunchy," it's an action sci-fi series made for adults that treats sex as a normal thing adults do. It has, at most, 1-2 sex scenes over the entire series but because they're queer and about a woman just having a Normal Time of her own volition, it's a Problem

Literally just the odd single panel where its like "Motoko has fun when she isn't working" lol

Side note: how did I not know before now this was the same magazine that serialized Akira around the same time frame

thinking for no reason about how i couldn't get through reading Dragon Ball/Z because it was so thick with Sexual Harassment Humor at every turn but we all gotta freak out over one consensual lesbian threesome (this is not to say that DB is wholly terrible, i just like. personally couldn't deal)