CGI racial makeup on a white person is still kinda gross.

Kusanagi doesn’t look any sort of Asian in that picture. She’s never looked Asian in any way. The only characters in any of the GITS series that looks Japanese are (possibly) Borma and Arimaki.

What kills me about this is how stupid the outrage is to begin with, seeing how the Major arguably wasn’t even Asian to begin with, but rather a non-ethnically defined brain in multiple robot bodies of various ages, races, and even genders. No single GiTS story ever defined her race, people just assumed she was…

Why would you cast Asian actors in the live action version of an Anime where no one looks Asian?

Let’s be honest, most of the characters in Ghost in the Shell don’t look particularly Asian anyway.

A few clarifications worth noting:

Can everyone just stop with this?

There is literally nothing in Ghost In The Shell that demands that Kusanagi be of Japanese/Asian descent. Hell, she isn’t even always female, as she swaps bodies all the time (she chooses to take on the appearance of whatever crowd she is mingling in. She uses a black male body at one…

I want to see this shit.

I was not offended when ScarJo was offered the lead role, especially when Oshii made Motoko’s shell so androgynous more masculine and in the comic, she was just a mass production sexbot to look “inconspicuous and normal.” We will never get a movie that explores the Ghost, regardless of backlash or praise of the Shell.…