Fantastic work!

Thank you! ^___^

She's got a look in her face to better not get in her way ... and the attention is paying me right now is not exactly what I was hoping for. LOL Great work!

Thank you! Indeed, Kusanagi is a rather stern character who rarely smiles. But I don't think they chose Scarlet Johansen to play her in the last movie because of that. LOL

Hey, it wasn't me! Really! 😲

This is great! I love her wet-look, and that look on her face would have any bad guy thinking twice (at least) about crossing her.

Thank you! The wet look was inspired by Blade Runner, the dystopian world where it was eternally raining (because wet pavement looks great on camera?). 😁

The irony that in the original manga, the Major smiled and laughed. It was the theatrical anime that depicted her as dead serious at all times which carried into later adaptations. She even had a male romantic interest (though she did "enjoy the company" of females, at least in a VR environment, 2 pages initially removed from the first English translation).

Ana and Unipuma from "Dominion Tank Police" have a cameo in the manga, suggesting they exist in a shared universe.

You have some good points there - Motoko was indeed more "human-like" in the original manga than she was in later theatrical releases. But I think I understand why. In the first "Ghost in the Shell" movie (a masterpiece IMHO), the director wanted to emphasize the philosophical side of artificial existence, which is symbolized by the very opening sequence, where her cybernetic body is constructed. In later scenes, Kusanagi would submerge herself in water as a connection to the moment she was constructed, and an analogy to how human babies are born out of a sack of water. It's deeply philosophical and thought-provoking in the lines of Isaac Asimov robot novels. Although Kusanagi was not a robot, she suffered from the same kind of psychological existence crisis that gave the manga its title. That's by bet on why she was depicted that way in the theatrical releases. ^___^

As for the puma sister's cameo, I am always happy to see them! 😁

Please don't think I'm claiming one is better than the other. (A "one to one" adaptation is usually impossible, not always, just usually.) I just wanted to note the two were somewhat different in their depictions of the Major. I will agree that Kusanagi's "existential crisis" in the film and her somewhat "detached" personality in later versions (like "Stand Alone Complex 1 and 2" (my personal favorite)) is more likely how a person in that situation would react, if not suffering full blown "cyber-psychosis".

Don't worry - I understood exactly what you meant, and I love this kind of discussion. 😁 You might remember the full blown "cyber-psychosis" theme was widely explored in the Robocop movies, where trying to transplant a human brain into a cybernetic body often ended in total emotional breakdown, insanity, and even suicide. In that aspect, Masamune Shirow's manga was way more optimistic in comparison. What we saw in Robocop was way closer to reality for what could happen, but Shirow was more interested in exploring the psychological existence crisis in the same lines as Isaac Asimov robot books did for decades. Susan Calvin would have a handful with the Major. LOL