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The Ghost in the Shell — How Japanese Fans React

攻殻機動隊

What Japanese fans actually said about The Ghost in the Shell — new PVs, the latest episodes, and iconic scenes, pulled from Japanese YouTube comment sections and translated into English. Every quote is a real comment with its original like count, linked back to the source video.

6 reaction roundupsUpdated Aug 20, 2026

Anime — How Japanese Fans React

This week's most relatable comment from Japan on The Ghost in the Shell

3,102 likes
These guys would drop dead watching the opening car chase in Castle of Cagliostro.

こいつらカリオストロの序盤のカーチェイス見たら死ぬんじゃねーか?

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20 comments pulled from the comment sections of 6 roundups of this title. The selection changes every day.

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@もっこりナハ太郎 · 457 likes

Honestly, I really love the original manga's art style for Ghost in the Shell.

正直原作の攻殻機動隊の絵柄めちゃくちゃ好き

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  • @あるえふ_jp83 likes

    This, Patlabor, Urusei Yatsura — people have been saying it for years: Oshii's versions are fun, but they're separate works from the original.

    コレにしても パトレイバー にしても うる星やつら にしても、押井版は「おもしろいけど原作・原案とは別物」と以前から言われていること。

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  • @鴉-z3j342 likes

    Why can't people just understand that this art style IS faithful to the source material?

    これが原作準拠の絵だと何故理解しないのか。

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  • @にゃごひろ362 likes

    This isn't 'moe-ification' at all to begin with — this is the standard. It's the OTHER Majors that got 'serious-ified.'

    そもそも「萌え化」などではなく、これが「スタンダード」なのである。他の素子が「シリアス化」しているのだ。

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  • @tk48215 likes

    The fact that Maaya Sakamoto literally 'accepted' the role of Motoko, and the reassurance of seeing that Japan's younger generation of anime creators is genuinely being raised well — I'm grateful this documentary let me see all of that.

    坂本真綾さんが素子を文字通り「受けてくださった こと そして日本の若い世代の、アニメクリエイターがしっかり育っている努力と安心感 本動画ドキュメンタリーを通じ知れたことの喜びに、感謝申し上げます

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  • @admon864925 likes

    This comment section is hell. Did nobody read the part where it says the manga has this as a lane change?

    コメント欄が地獄すぎる 原作は車線変更だって言ってるとこまで見てないんか?

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  • @レン-h6m25 likes

    Bleach's animation is breaking through its own ceiling. It's insane.

    BLEACH作画が限界突破してて神

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  • @hdaougibliagaglilafb-sl2un42 likes

    Same thing happened with Kiki's Delivery Service — the novel and the live-action version that actually follows it got trashed for being "too different from the Ghibli one." And it's not just Kiki; Ghibli's adaptations are usually nothing like the books.

    "魔女の宅急便"も原作本と原作準拠の実写版が『ジブリ版と違いすぎる!』と酷評されてたとか "魔女の宅急便"に限らず、ジブリ版って原作と全然違う作品ばかりなんだけどね

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  • @せんとくん-c4y237 likes

    No matter how you look at it, the quality here is clearly high.

    いやどう見てもクオリティ高いわ

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  • @たもさい196 likes

    I always read the manga Major's expressions as gag-comedy faces, so calling them 'moe faces' just feels off to me.

    漫画の素子が見せる表情はギャグ顔だと思ってたから萌え顔と言われるとなんか違うと思ってしまう

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  • @raidenkai2113 likes

    I'm so happy I got to see the production side of Ghost in the Shell! Thank you! For part two, could you please make a follow-up focused on the sound effects, music, and voice actors who put the soul into the visuals?

    攻殻機動隊の制作現場を拝見出来てとても嬉しいです!ありがとうございます! 第二弾として映像に魂を入れるSE・音楽・声優さんにフォーカスした続編をよろしくお願い致します☆彡

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  • @あるまるもみ22 likes

    Humans!! Cannot!! Fly!! (dies)

    人は!空を飛べないッッ!(絶命)

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  • @cielport23 likes

    Obvious when you say it out loud, but a long-running series keeps going because it's popular. What's different from the old days is how often a show now gets renewed on strong overseas numbers alone, even without huge buzz domestically.

    当たり前の話だけど長く続いてるシリーズはやはり人気あっての継続なんだな 昔とやや異なるのは今は日本国内でそれほど人気じゃなくても海外人気が高くて続くパターンが結構あることか

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  • @はるるん-y3r30 likes

    Manga Motoko says cynical stuff, sure, but she's hot-blooded, warm, charming, messily human — that's what makes her great. Oshii's Major just looked like a doll to me and I was like, huh?

    原作の少佐はシニカルな言動はするものの熱くて人情味溢れててチャーミングで人間臭い魅力的な存在なのよ。 押井版の少佐は人形にしか見えなくてはぁ?と思ったもん。

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  • @晶-f5g192 likes

    Wait — does that mean there are people out there who genuinely think the previous ANIME adaptations WERE the 'original source'?

    まさか「原作」がこれまでのアニメと思ってる勢がいるということなのか

    Ghost in the Shell (2026): Fans Defend Its Manga-Faithful Battles
  • @nao_6v6136 likes

    I've rewatched Kamiyama's version the most — the music and visuals just make it the easiest to sit through as an anime.

    一番見たのは神山Verだなぁ 音楽とか映像とかアニメとして見やすかった印象

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Editor's note

Japanese fans are relitigating a 30-year question through the 2026 series: which Motoko is the real one (“every version of me is still me”). The praise for the manga-faithful battle scenes comes with teasing — “just admit you like the Oshii movie” — which is about as Ghost in the Shell as discourse gets.

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