Masamune Shirow himself confirmed that Kusanagi was a mass production model on the outside to blend in and not have her harvested for parts, like a custom body would be.
Also the whole fucking theme of the franchise is “what is a soul (ghost)”. Kusanagi has canonically swapped “shells” multiple times, is it a ship of Theseus thing or is she still the same person?
But this is an argument I can’t win, so I’ll leave this here and disappear 🫠
Yet in the original Anime the shell is still Asian, cause they are in Japan, why change that, you can pretend it was done to make a statement about soul vs body, but everyone knows why they actually hired a white actor. Also they treated that subject matter only at the surface level, a better example of this theme is in the movie The Creator.
Masamune Shirow himself confirmed that Kusanagi was a mass production model on the outside to blend in and not have her harvested for parts, like a custom body would be.
Also the whole fucking theme of the franchise is “what is a soul (ghost)”. Kusanagi has canonically swapped “shells” multiple times, is it a ship of Theseus thing or is she still the same person?
But this is an argument I can’t win, so I’ll leave this here and disappear 🫠
Yet in the original Anime the shell is still Asian, cause they are in Japan, why change that, you can pretend it was done to make a statement about soul vs body, but everyone knows why they actually hired a white actor. Also they treated that subject matter only at the surface level, a better example of this theme is in the movie The Creator.