Absolutely he does. And we all do. We see conflict and strife over these things in the news every day. And that is absolutely the world of GITS as seen in the originals.

Actually there are multiple issues. One is the idea that Asia, which is incredibly homogeneous, is going to transform into a future melting pot of all cultures and ethnic groups living together in harmony. It just isn't believable as an 'alternate future' scenario. Not to mention the idea that in this future Asia,…

That too.

Oshii is well known for making Anime full of layers of conflict from political, to military, social, ethnic and so forth. Patlabor is a good example. So those themes are common to his work and he doesn't avoid them. In his mind, the original work could definitely be translated into any ethnicity or identity. …

Actually this is a very very very shallow understanding of the story. First understand the world of GITS. It takes place after 2 world wars and Japan is one of the few nations surviving relatively intact because of its neutrality in the other conflicts and the "Japanese miracle" (ability to remove fallout from the…

Not really. They moved the whole story to the West. White washing would be leaving the story set in Japan or Asia and having Europeans in the main role. Even the live action Japanese version said there were multiple deathnotes all over the planet (don't recall that from the anime though). So in theory the story…

Actually the world of GITS is a world where there is tremendous conflict as a result of 2 world wars and Japan is one of the few still standing relatively intact and in many ways a lone superpower. That gives them a unique national perspective and why Japanese nationalism is a key part of the plot across all of the…

Funny enough this is exactly the primary final element of the plot in GITS SAC 2nd Gig.

Yes to your original point it does smack of a form of white washing in that sense. Oddly when the influence goes the other way they don't redo the original they just make something new and different….

I don't know how different it is going to be honestly but the original manga and anime had a long run and covered a lot of territory so the movie can't really tell the same story. The only point being that changing the backstory and setting has a big impact on the original story and therefore it can't really be the…

The original Japanese Godzilla had Raymond Burr narrating the story but he was not part of the original Japanese production. In fact it was one of the first movies made in Japan to have an all Japanese cast with Japanese playing the primary protagonists.

The reason it would be successful is not because of ScarJo. It would be successful because it is already a successful franchise. And the funny part is that it is already successful even though the story and content is centered on Japan.

I call it cultural bias, because whitewashing is something like David Carradine in Kung Fu or the old Fu Manchu movies where all the Asians were played by white actors but obviously still supposed to be Asian. This is different. They basically are making a generic rehash of blade runner and removing all the Japan…

The movie is going to be released internationally. America is not the only market this movie will play in. Not to mention the original anime is more popular internationally than in Japan. So really that makes no sense. So if being set in Japan and having a Japanese cast was a problem the anime and mange wouldn't…

Sure but these folks killed themselves in front of A Japanese national monument while discussing an actual Japanese historic coup event called "May 15th event". That whole story arc is all specifically tied to Japanese history and culture and reflecting xenophobia about not wanting "refugees" in the country. That…

Technically at this point it isn't white washing, because they have changed the whole backstory around the major and the setting so it is not Japan anymore. Therefore this really isn't the same material anymore. At best it is a movie "loosely" based on GITS but not really GITS. The Anime was based on the manga…

The Japanese have a history of imitating other cultures and adding their own cultural elements in the process. Because point in fact most Anime is just animated versions of Western sci-fi. It is far easier to make an animated sci-fi than it is to make a live action one. And Asia just has never developed the tech…

Most anime is basically trying to portray stylized sci fi characters which is a throw back to old British sci fi of the 70s like UFO or Star Trek to a lesser degree which actually featured actors with artificially colored hair. In fact the main character Kuze from the SAC is nothing more than an homage to Rutger…