2,263 likesGhost in the Shell (2026): Japanese Fans React to the "Manga-Faithful" Battle Scenes — "Just Admit You Like the Oshii Movie"
Across 1,341 comments on a Japanese reaction-compilation clip about Ghost in the Shell (2026)'s battle scenes, the top comment (2,263 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.
