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Ghost in the Shell: Why Does Batou Have a Prosthetic Eye? Fans Dig Up the Answer
A short clip from the new Ghost in the Shell anime asked why Batou has a prosthetic eye — and the video itself never actually answered it. Posted by reaction channel 草薙素子の反応集 on July 31, the clip drew 241 comments, and the replies did the work the video didn't: cross-referencing SAC 2nd GIG, the original film, and even the show's own wiki entry to piece together a real answer. Two threads emerged. One traces Batou's love of dogs to a detail Mamoru Oshii personally invented for his 1995 film. The other treats the eye itself as genuine in-universe lore — Ranger-issue equipment he never gave back. The thread that actually answers the question is worth reading in full. So is the one that answers it with a joke instead.
241 comments8/7/26, 12:35 AM
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Ghost in the Shell Car Chase Clip Sparks a Physics Debate in Japan
A clip from the new Ghost in the Shell anime's car chase scene sparked an argument among Japanese viewers over whether its vehicle physics are actually wrong. Posted by reaction channel フェルンちゃんの反応集 on July 31, the clip drew 911 comments, with the most-liked reply (3,102 likes) joking that critics would drop dead watching the opening car chase in Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro. From there, the thread split into two camps: viewers pointing out where the anime's turn direction seems to contradict its own source manga panel, and viewers who think demanding real-world physics from a cyberpunk anime misses the point entirely. The funniest read of all, though, may have been the one that ended the thread — and it wasn't about physics at all.
911 comments8/7/26, 12:30 AM
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Summer 2026 Anime: Fans Weigh In on the Season's Overseas Reception
On August 1, the anime-tracking channel TERUちゃん posted an early "overseas reception ranking" for the Summer 2026 lineup, stacking Jaadugar: A Witch in Mongolia, Mushoku Tensei, Ghost in the Shell, Chainsmoker Cat, and Bleach against each other — and 269 comments in, Japanese viewers had turned it into a thread about how their own season is scoring with the rest of the world. The top comment, at 158 likes, predicted Jaadugar could win awards outside anime circles entirely. From there the thread split three ways: near-unanimous praise for Jaadugar's craftsmanship, genuine surprise that Chainsmoker Cat's very local sense of humor is landing overseas anyway, and a detailed, mostly affectionate breakdown of why Ghost in the Shell's faithfully dense opening episode filters out a chunk of international reactors before it gets a fair shot. Nobody in the comments actually disagreed on much — the closest thing to a fight was over whether that's a flaw or the whole point.
269 comments8/3/26, 12:15 AM
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Ghost in the Shell: Why Oshii's 1995 Film Is the Outlier, Not the Manga
The new manga-faithful Ghost in the Shell anime has Japanese fans re-litigating Mamoru Oshii's 1995 film, and across 799 comments on one reaction compilation the most-liked take (1,020 likes) is about tone: "I love how the manga has this 'the world's a dump, but let's live in it with a smile' energy." The recurring argument is a full inversion of the take most Western fans grew up with. Commenters keep pointing out that it's Oshii's film — not the 2026 series — that departs from Masamune Shirow's manga, and that the film only became the default because it landed first and turned into a cult classic. They line it up next to Kiki's Delivery Service, Patlabor and Urusei Yatsura as a recurring Japanese-adaptation pattern, argue over whether Motoko pulling goofy gag faces is a betrayal or the actual character, and one commenter frames the split as Buddhist (Oshii: life is suffering, seek enlightenment) versus Shinto (Shirow: take the good and the filth together and just live). Not everyone is picking a side — several say they love both and are simply delighted to get two versions — and the thread closes on a joke that only this franchise could land.
799 comments7/29/26, 8:10 AM
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Ghost in the Shell (2026): Fans Defend Its Manga-Faithful Battles
A different Japanese reaction channel put up a clip of Ghost in the Shell (2026)'s battle scenes — the ones critics online have called weirdly cartoonish — and across 1,804 comments, the top comment (3,188 likes) tells critics to just admit they prefer the 1995 Oshii movie instead of pretending the new show "isn't Ghost in the Shell" at all. The rest of the thread turns into a genuinely informative defense of the choice: longtime manga readers explain that Shirow Masamune's original comic was always more comedic and stylistically "fluid" than the serious, minimalist Oshii film, and that the new adaptation is simply being faithful to that source rather than getting the tone wrong. Several commenters go further, guessing that many critics have only ever seen the older anime adaptations and mistakenly assume those, rather than the manga, are the "original." It ends with a comment turning one of Major Kusanagi's own famous lines back on the doubters — which, fittingly, is exactly the line the top comment paraphrased at the very start.
1804 comments7/26/26, 12:30 AM
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Ghost in the Shell: Which Motoko Kusanagi Is the 'Real' One? Fans Debate
A Japanese compilation channel lined up Motoko Kusanagi's design and personality across the original Shirow Masamune manga, Mamoru Oshii's 1995 film, Kamiyama's Stand Alone Complex, and the new 2026 anime — and across 684 comments, the top-liked take (876 likes) argues the whole debate is backwards: Shirow's original manga was always more comedic than serious, so the new anime's softer Major is actually the faithful one. From there the thread turns into a genuinely deep debate among manga readers, Oshii loyalists, and SAC fans. Several push back hard on the idea that the new anime is "moe-ified" at all — it's the earlier adaptations, they argue, that quietly rewrote her into someone else. Others just weigh in on which version they personally rewatch, with Kamiyama's Stand Alone Complex singled out repeatedly for its music and visuals, while a few manga-first readers admit their honest first reaction to Oshii's 1995 film was less "masterpiece" and more "...wait, this isn't what I signed up for." It all lands on a comment comparing the whole debate to asking someone which "Japanese curry" they prefer, mild or spicy — only for them to reply that neither one is really curry at all, but both are delicious anyway.
684 comments7/24/26, 12:20 AM

Ghost in the Shell

Ghost in the Shell: Why Does Batou Have a Prosthetic Eye? Fans Dig Up the Answer

Ghost in the Shell Car Chase Clip Sparks a Physics Debate in Japan

Summer 2026 Anime: Fans Weigh In on the Season's Overseas Reception

Ghost in the Shell: Why Oshii's 1995 Film Is the Outlier, Not the Manga

Ghost in the Shell (2026): Fans Defend Its Manga-Faithful Battles

Ghost in the Shell: Which Motoko Kusanagi Is the 'Real' One? Fans Debate