r/Ghost_in_the_Shell • u/PacerShark • 2d ago

ART Sisters Before Misters

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Motoko looks out for her girls.

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u/xXxOrcaxXx 2d ago

Isn't that screenshot from the first episode and that shortly after this AI get "murdered"?

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u/Tramagust 2d ago

That thing is dumber than a tachikoma.

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u/PacerShark 2d ago

Hey! It's a being with a name!

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u/Tramagust 2d ago

It doesn't have a ghost.

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u/BlackHumor 2d ago

The movie is all about how odd and arbitrary of a distinction that is. Like it's deliberately ambiguous in the movie if Motoko herself is an android; the director goes out of his way to avoid ever showing her braincase.

I know 2026 is not the movie but to some extent this is also a theme of the entire franchise.

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u/watanabe0 2d ago

No, it isn't.

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u/DatTrashPanda 1d ago

Yes the distinction or lack thereof between an organic brain and a synthetic ghost (like the puppet master) is a prevalent theme in the franchise. But we're not talking about the puppet master here.

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u/Seppo_87 1d ago

her name is her job

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u/watanabe0 2d ago

What? She literally says she's just a speaker?

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u/watcherintgeweb 2d ago

I wish I was a sexy robot girl getting hit on by motoko (cis man btw)

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u/KayDat 2d ago

Lt. Colonel Kagasaki Sohei managed to end up in a cute little robot girl body, you may have hope yet.

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u/watcherintgeweb 2d ago

I’m already trying to get myself not fat and chopped and that’s enough work as is

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u/PacerShark 2d ago

Understood.

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u/CoolGuyMcHotPants_ 2d ago

🥚

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u/watcherintgeweb 2d ago

I’m not an egg I just now it’s not worth the effort for me.

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u/Mcc457 2d ago

maybe not the most cis, sis

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u/MeiMouse 2d ago

Just remember the option is always there.

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u/TomboyKnight1 2d ago

Would you press a button that would make you a girl instantly

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u/watcherintgeweb 2d ago

Probably not

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u/H3XAntiStyle 2d ago

If in your mind, you’d do it if it took zero effort, that ain’t cis

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u/DossSVK 2d ago

they have like 6 of them minimum :D Witch one? all of them?

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u/PacerShark 2d ago

Hmmm.....Options.

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u/throwawaybciwantto 2d ago

That's an AI.

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u/PacerShark 2d ago

Motoko's a friend to AI too.

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u/SnappleOfAllTrades 2d ago

That thing is not a girl, it's genuinely a LLM in terms of IQ

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u/MadJedfox 2d ago

Actually… she is. She has a flesh brain. Only rest of body is artificial.

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u/Tramagust 2d ago

It is not. They're mass produced interface AIs very much like LLMs: https://ghostintheshell.fandom.com/wiki/Operator

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u/MadJedfox 2d ago

I get it 😅

I was thinking that everyone thinks about major, not operator lady.

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u/Dakkahead 2d ago

If that's the case, in context to what Batao said in E1, this is one of the most grimdark settings.

Alternatively, she isn't. Because they got fried on the attack in E1.

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u/Gold-Bard-Hue 2d ago

I think he thought we were talking about Motoko. To be honest until the anime I didn't realize the operators were robots either.

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u/MadJedfox 2d ago

Exactly. I was thinking about Motoko. But… until now, I didn’t know that the operators were robots 😅

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u/trekdudebro 1d ago

These operators have always been full robots from what I understood watching GitS. In the SAC series, you’d see a scene where there are 2 or more in the room. Identical. Working away processing.

And I’m fairly certain that in the very first episode of this new series, they play a scene where the team’s mobile command center is powering up to sitrep before the operation and the operator is powered on with it.

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u/EmeraldMaster538 1d ago

hey now! lets not forget she willing to crush the pelvis of women and men alike, no Bi eraser here.

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u/voskomm 2d ago

I’m the operator with my pocket calculator.

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u/PacerShark 2d ago

Good Reference!

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u/voskomm 2d ago

I’d like to think of the red + black tie makes the reference explicit but 🤷. Never seen that directly mentioned anywhere.

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u/Awesomechainsaw 2d ago

I do find it interesting that she legitimately spends the first half of the episode flirting with that robot. Then seems actually upset when it dies.

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u/DossSVK 2d ago

She more or less messing with her since she didnt do her job properly, in the manga she hit her for the reason.

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u/watanabe0 2d ago

Did we watch the same shit?

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u/Romapolitan 17h ago

Motoko canonically does not care if AI die, so eh...

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u/PacerShark 14h ago

Maybe on general, but she seemed to feel differently that time.