Will there ever be a manga-accurate GITS adaptation? The 1995 movie is not really any closer to the source material than the new live action version.
Will there ever be a manga-accurate GITS adaptation...
No, and please no.
Shirow isn't that good.
Original Ghost in the Shell has quite a different flavor. The name is even different: it's "Mobile Armored Riot Police".
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Hopefully it opens with a hardcore lesbian orgy.
There's more of Shirow work that got adaptations and some are more close to his style and humor.
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Black Magic M-66 is too violent.
Appleseed and Dominion Tank Police are more like what I'd like to see in a manga GITS adaptation.
When we we see adaptations of his disgusting slippery porn?
Shirow wanted to call it Ghost in the Shell but the publisher wanted that instead and GITS was left as a subtitle. Everything in Japanese names of the franchise still has "Mobile Armored Riot Police" (Koukaku Kidoutai).
I think it really changes the way the readers think about it. Manga GITS feels more like a action series with moments of comedy and eroticism with a dash of philosophy thrown in. The animes are all really cerebral.