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Just Motoko admiring one of her gfs at work
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Does acab include cyborg lesbian cops
On one hand, they're executing alleged criminals and inconvenient politicians without any sort of due process and on the orders of a government shadow organization. On the other hand, they live in a world where any rando can hack your brain at seemingly any moment using back alley ChatGPT.
Not hygienic clothing for laboratory
They're all cyborgs those legs are probably entirely metal in a silicon liner
Very well, proceed 
But those legs and the rest of those bodies have still been outdoors. They're not clean.
Also they still sweat and have all the sexy body functions.
they probably sweat isopropyl alcohol or smth idk
Love the square screenshot, it feels very 90s television anime.
How is this. I love ghost in the shell and am afraid to even consider this. Should I check it out or nah
So far I have enjoyed it immensely, it has some of the best animation I've seen in a while seamlessly mixing 3d into 2d in a way that is almost impossible to spot unless you're an ulremovedd looking for it.
By all accounts it is closer to the manga than the films and SAC.
Interesting. I only have seen the films and SAC. I guess in a vacuum, pretending these other things don't exist, is it a good anime?
Imagine not watching the worker uprising of the Fuchikomas. Do it for them.
It hews to a dense and busy scifi manga from 1989 very very closely, the making of which precedes the popularization of anime/manga and SF in general in the anglophone mainstream, which gives it a niche feeling. You'll either love it or bounce right off of it. The animation, color palette, and music are sumptuous though.
the making of which precedes the popularization of anime/manga and SF in general in the anglophone mainstream,
Sci-fi wasn't mainstream in the anglosphere by 1989?? Maybe not cyberpunk, but sci-fi generally was very mainstream.
There was much less effort on the part of most speculative fiction writers to be legible and respectable to squares back then. Outside of the giants getting their Star Trek scripts picked up, these authors never expected anyone outside of a limited but passionate scene from seeing their work. Subcultures still existed and the wall dividing respectable fare from genre trash was crumbling but intact. Nerd stigma didn't really fade until the Web got big a full decade later.
I know about nerd stigma and all that, my thing was that there were a number of huge movies -- especially Star Wars, of course -- along with lots of other media, that had huge mainstream acceptance by them. Even Twilight Zone ran in the late 50s to mid 60s, was mainstream, and frequently had genre Sci-fi episodes, many of which are pretty famous to this day, e.g. To Serve Man.
Like, I know that pulp has increasingly been oriented toward the mainstream slop trough in the past few decades, I just think Sci-fi not being mainstream in 1989 is overstating the case.
What I'm trying to get at is that wonky shit that throws you in the deep end hoping to make sense of it in the margin notes like the GitS manga wasn't then, and arguably still isn't now, mainstream. Star Trek and Twilight Zone generally posed one or two troubling questions at a time. Their purpose was to render sci-fi's challenges legible and digestible to a primetime audience.
The uncut stuff by and for the stigmatized throws it all at the reader at once, drops some key clues, and counts on the readers to work out amongst themselves how social reality in the story has become so freaky and foreign to the world we know (yet hauntingly plausible if the same forces played out here), because the intended reader is into that shit and wants it in ever stronger concentrations.
Being digitally psyopped and possibly depersoned in real time is increasingly relatable to regular westerners, as is being materially exposed to international geopolitics, and watching anime is pretty normal there now, so I guess if the crank otaku GitS manga was ever going to be broadly legible, it's never been closer to being so.
its got a really cartoony/goofy element that doesnt really fit the vibe of the previous anime.
im still kinda on the fence.
Thats the point of emulating the original manga
thats great but i was referencing the previous anime entries.
So is the new GiTS anime just a slice of life about a polycule of cyborg lesbians? Not that it's a bad thing.
It's mostly just flawlessly executed cyberpunk action, but it does briefly show that Kusanagi spends her free time having cyberspace orgies with her GFs. In fact, i view these moments as the most character development she's gotten so far, it's very telling to see that in spite of her tough facade, the right girl can melt her within seconds.
this post was submitted on 23 Jul 2026
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