It was alright. Great art, but the pacing made it very hard to follow.

My first exposure to GITS was through Stand Alone Complex. I don’t think anything’s gonna change my mind on which adaption I prefer at this point.

I found the anime being exactly like the manga and it make me a little sad. That’s my take anyway, it will be forgotten really fast

And I’m interested in your opinion

I’m quite enjoying it, since I like the manga quite a bit, and I think it looks great, visually, but the pacing is a bit difficult.

It’s not Anime of the year material by any means. each episode feels fast but also slow if you know what I mean, some shows can have nothing happen at all yet a 24 minute episode is over in the blink of an eye, and others can advance a story a dozen chapters and feel like a complete slog to get through the episode. this adaptation is a bit of a slog to watch, despite being as busy and fast paced as it is.

I know people always ask for more direct adaptations of manga to screen, but sometimes you do have to change things, skip things, add parts, extend scenes, slow things down, rearrange plotline timing, etc. to make it work on screen. this adaptation needed some more of that.

I would love to see a breakdown of all the differences between the show and the book. I’ve been doing a readalong to the show and I’ve noticed a few things. They took out references to the Soviet Union and fax machines but left floppy disks. The porn manufacturing on the virtual yacht was toned down a lot for TV, but not as much as the American version of the book. There’s a scene in Sagawa Electric where she makes a mistake and says “I’m such an idiot” in both versions, but in the book only she goes on to say “let me leave that out of my official report”, which is funny and humanizing. At one point Batou calls Kusanagi “hysterical” in the book, but it was changed to “violent” to the show, presumably to reflect changing views on misogyny in Japanese society. (Kusanagi had thrown a coffee mug at Batou’s head. In the book, she’s drinking coffee in one panel, and then you see Batou lying on the floor with a bump on his head and a coffee mug next to him on a separate page, but the show includes the mug in-flight, which, yeah, I struggled to understand what was happening when I first read it.) I could go on.