#motoko x batou

[cheruphim]

That sunglasses meme but with batoko

[mundrakan]

Kinktober Day 22

A good old favourite today, if you all even remember it: Ghost in a Shell, the anime, not the film.

Batou tries to help Motoko feel human again.

[bellanotte]

... youʼre not gonna believe this

iʼve started to sense a pattern in my het anime ships and i donʼt know what to do with this information

exhibit 1:

exhibit 2:

exhibit 3:

exhibit 4:

is it just me or...

[sunsetagain]

Love and Deepspace x Ghost in the Shell 2017 headcanon:

Project 2571.

Sylus as Hideo/Kuze.

(main character as Motoko/Major Mira Killian)

I made him wear Japanese hakama like Kuze in concept art instead of in the film.

Edit: added more parallel settings as someone asked on X:

Both LADS MC's and Mira's memories were lost/suppressed.

Aether core experiment - Project 2571 (putting human brains into mechanical bodies). Before they succeeded on Mira, Kuze was one of the failures.

Josephine - Doctor Ouelet.

Xavier - Batou.

Onychinus - Kuze's network.

We are the same. I have been born more than once. So I have more than one name. In this life, my name is... Kuze. I was conscious while they dismembered my body, and discarded me like garbage... and they had to move on... to you. They thought that we would be a part of their EVOLution. But they have created us... to EVOLve alone... beyond them.

[punchelf]

Fandom Peeps to Get to Know Better

][Tagged by:][ @ahollowgrave <3

][ Tagging: ][ @gunbun, @mirrordaltokki, @dragons-bones

Three Ships I Like: - Mulder/Scully (X-Files, my first and forever OTP), Motoko/Batou (GITS), Goliath/Elisa (Gargoyles). Fuck the police but BOY do I have a type 😔

First Ship Ever: Myself x the Blue Ranger from the original Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers.

Last Song You Heard: The Zayde Wolf cover of "Save Tonight" by the Eagle-Eyed Cherries

Favorite Childhood Book: The Sword of Shannara and Myth Inc. series. Yes, my gateway into Tolkien was Tolkien knock-offs.

Currently Reading: Working on The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of the Donner Party by Daniel James Brown, and I cannot recommend it enough

Currently Watching: Binging True Detective atm, but I'm almost done with season 4 so I'll probably switch back to Ken Burns' Country Music for a change of pace next

Currently Consuming: Coffee with milk and sugar and a homemade raisin bar

Currently Craving: A really big salad

[heywoodvirgin]

tagged by @balverine2077 thank you!!

Questionnaire + 5 songs

Songs:

5 songs from Vénus' playlist 🥰 (gonna keep it in-game music)

Resist and Disorder (her all-time fave) EVERYTHING BURNS EVERYTHING BURNS ( quite representative of her tbh)

With her

Rreaktion

Practical heart

Westcoast till I die ( not her style, but it's Jackie's favorite, so she listens to it when he isn't watchin' ;) )

Questions:

Three ships you like: Motoko Kusanagi/Batou (GITS), Tav/Halsin (Baldur's Gate), Aloi / Erend / Kotallo(Horizon),

First ship ever: Eh, I have no recollection of shipping fictional people together in the past, but my first ship was maybe pretty recent ( 2019?) it was Rey/Kylo from SW the sequels.

Last song you heard: HEALTH - the joy of sect

Favourite childhood book: Hansel and Gretel / Alice in the wonderland (pretty classic)

Currently reading: re-reading some Jackie x V fanfics. also started : Misogyny: The World's Oldest Prejudice , a book by Jack Holland ( a painful read for obvious reasons)

Currently watching: nothing, but I wanna rewatch some 2000' teens movies, just to chill.

Currently craving: Tea and always more tea ( yet I should do tests for anemia )

tagging without pressure :

@lilacmox @chessalein @chevvy-yates @wanderingaldecaldo

@artabella-what @hydrasshole @grymkoena @dreadfulsanity @ghostoffuturespast

[thisoneisherown]

Since there is an absolutely criminal lack of Batou x Motoko fanart on this site, I've decided to collect some and share it for y'all. 😤👍

[littlemisspandemonium]

We're making this ship sail! Ghost in the Shell Arise Collaboration Major Kusanagi : myself Batou : @gingerneercosplay Photography: Dr Whero Cosplay Photography

[thepersonaofwill]

🌃♨ The Major ♨🌃 The Major looking over the city... Haunting for her target. 🎯 In her Combat Gear and ready for anything to happen with her pistol. This version of Motoko Kusanagi is so different from Stand Alone Complex Motoko. This Major is more serious and from what I have seen she's the most who's conflicted with her individuality & Ghost. . . . ❄❄🎆🎊🎐🀄🎈🎈🎉🎋✨🎋🎉🎈🎈🀄🎐🎊🎆❄❄ . 🔺 ` • ♾ • Follow . ` ° ❗Artist ~ Credit to the artist °. . °.` 〽 • Like and share . °. ` • 🟣 • Enjoy my Lady Tsunade post!!! 🔻 . ❄❄🎆🎊🎐🀄🎈🎈🎉🎋✨🎋🎉🎈🎈🀄🎐🎊🎆❄❄ Tags🔹||| #ghostintheshell #ghostintheshelledit #motokokusanagi #animenight #standalonecomplex #motoko #animeworld #animewoman #kusanagi #animewaifu #anime🌸 #anime #animelife #animedark #fypanime #ghostintheshelledit #gits #animepage #animeoutfit #cyberpunkaesthetic #animenightcore #animebeauty #animeoutfits #cyberpunkstyle #cyberpunk #animeasthetics #animeartwork #animeillustration #batou ||| (at Japan-nightlife) https://www.instagram.com/p/CnDdZqMvV-X/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[lostalienchild]

Hey, I saw you were thinking of writing Motoko x f!reader and 👀 uhmm yes please?! It's so sad that nothing like that really exists out there, but you should totally fix that~

(Sorry I'm just a dumb lesbian who has had the biggest crush on her forever 💔 no pressure or anything tho asdgjsjk!!)

Hey there! Hopefully this can reach the other depraved lesbians as well.

I absolutely agree! The major is a gay icon, but it's not talked about. In the original 1989 manga release she actually has a lesbian orgy in cyberspace before being interrupted by batou.

Masamune tried hard to make her this sexual being, but due to his aversion to men he could never bring himself to draw a sex scene with any men because he "doesn't want to look at their butts." (yes he said that in an interview.)

Under normal circumstances I'd say she's pan, but because of the temperament of the mangaka her interactions with men come off as rather awkward while she seems to feel more at ease with women. While this is also due to her aloofness and trauma, you'd think she'd be able to jump in bed with a man without it being too emotional similar to Pazu.(except for batou and Kuze) But we don't see that anywhere except with her female groupies.

Masamune pretty much left us on read when it came to her sexuality of which he made a huge part of her personality. He just couldn't deliver, except for when it came to chai 🙄

Sorry for the rant, but I think it's important to do a deep dive on things like this. Also Mary Mcglynn has the sexiest voice. 😩

But don't worry, I'm actually writing the fic rn. Hopefully it will be done soon. I just had to write a bs story line cuz bitches love story lines. 😎😤

[recentanimenews]

Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045 Season 2 Unveils Collection of Character Illustrations, Key Visual

  Another chapter in the decades-old Ghost in the Shell franchise has officially landed with the second season of Production I.G and Sola Digital Arts' Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045 3DCG series, which just dropped all twelve episodes exclusively on Netflix today.

  A key visual depicting the main ensemble was unveiled to commemorate the release:

      RELATED: New Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045 Season 2 Trailer Teases millennium parade's New ED

    Fifteen character illustrations by character designer Ilya Kuvshinov (The Wonderland) were also released; their subjects and cast members are as follows:

  Atsuko Tanaka (Hanami in JUJUTSU KAISEN) as Motoko Kusanagi

  Hiroshi Naka (Tenshin in Tribe Nine) as Daisuke Aramaki

  Akio Ohtsuka (Dimple in Mob Psycho 100) as Batou

  Koichi Yamadera (Spike in Cowboy Bebop) as Togusa

  Yutaka Nakano (Shinohara in Tokyo Ghoul) as Ishikawa

  Toru Ohkawa (Mado in Tokyo Ghoul) as Saito

  Takeshi Onozuka as Pazu

  Taro Yamaguchi (Geld in That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime) as Borma

  Sakiko Tamagawa (Mariko in Dear Brother) as Tachikoma

  Megumi Han (Gon in Hunter x Hunter) as Purin Ezaki

  Kenjiro Tsuda (Nanami in JUJUTSU KAISEN) as Standard

  Kaji Soze as John Smith

  Shigeo Kiyama (Jack in Ingress: The Animation) as Kurisu Otomo Teito

  Umeka Shoji (Camilla in SPY x FAMILY) as Suzuka Mizukane

  Megumi Hayashibara (Rei in Neon Genesis Evangelion) as Takashi Shimamura

    RELATED: Netflix Ghost in the Shell Character Designer Pens Labels for Trio of Sake Brews

    Based on the manga by Masamune Shirow and directed by Kenji Kamiyama and Shinji Aramaki, Netflix describes the new season of Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045 as such:

  Continuing from the mystery-laden ending of Season 1, the battle between Section 9 and the “posthumans” threatening humanity finally begins. The chaotic story unfolds at a breathless pace, posing the ultimate question: are the “posthumans” the potential of human evolution as shown throughout “Ghost in the Shell”?

    Source: Comic Natalie

    Der shy man behind @Shymander, Liam is a timezone-fluid Aussie with a distinct fondness for anime, Eurovision and creating odd stats projects despite hating math.

By: Liam Dempsey

[myles1051]

So my Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone drawing project is off to a flying start with the colouring with just the skin tone left to do & just finished Batou’s coat

[corvus--rex]

Oh. Oh fuck. I just had the worst idea. VLD x Ghost in the Shell. OH NO. . . Major Kusanagi Motoko - Keith (Major Keith Kogane? Um, yeah) Batou - Shiro Saito - Lance Boma - Hunk Ishikawa - Pidge Togusa - Allura Pazu - Matt Aramaki Daisuke - Coran This is possibly the best worst idea I have ever had

[pearl-pilots-in-chains]

What Your Favorite Ghost In the Shell Ship Says About You:

I want to be up front in advance, this is of course inspired by the one and only Eldena Double Ca5t.  My intent is not to rip off her idea.  I’d say this is more of a tribute to GITS in the style of her series, since I imagine GITS isn’t likely a fandom she’ll ever cover in it. That said, if she asks me to take it down, or something along those lines, I will be happy to do so.

On a similar note, this is meant to be a purely humorous post, so please don’t take it too seriously. Now, without further ado, here we go!

Batou x Togusa: You are a firm believer in the inherent eroticism of buddy cop films.

Saito x Paz: Your ideal relationship dynamic is a series of wacky hijinxs of dubious legality.

Motoko x Kayabuki: As far as you’re concerned, the Major is the wlw agenda.

Togusa x Proto: You just wanted good things for Proto, and really, who wouldn’t?

Ran x Kurutan: You read the entirety of the original manga, purely for the ‘plot.’

Ishikawa x Borma: Your ideal relationship dynamic involves bonding over putting up with Batou’s constant string of wise-ass remarks.

Motoko x Batou: There are two options here: either Innocence is your favorite GITS movie, or you’re just a sucker for tsundere Batou. *Cue the ‘porque no los dos’ meme*

Azuma x Proto: You’re always a sucker for characters who are in desperate need of more screen-time.

Batou x Borma: You’re a firm believer that the couple who lifts together, stays together.

Goda x anybody: Your respect for canon, as well as any sense of morality, is easily defeated by your crippling addiction to enemies to lovers.

Motoko x Kuze: You’re a firm believer in the inherent eroticism of shared trauma.

Kayabuki x Saito: You wonder why people keep comparing your favorite ships to the homecoming queen and the misunderstood bad boy getting together at the end of a John Hughes movie.

Batou x Tachikomas: As far as you’re concerned, there are no such things as crack ships. Only ‘creative’ ships. Like, really ‘creative’ ships.

Motoko x The Puppet Master: You watch FMA Brotherhood purely for GreedLing. You don’t understand why more people don’t like the idea of sharing a body.

[heywoodvirgin]

WIP / Ghost In The Shell

Untitled wip of the first GITS fic I’m working on. Attempting to rewrite the boat scene with Motoko and Batou as I felt it, giving the characters voices between the dialogues lines. I like it so far, so have it :) 

Characterization gives me a hard time, I always think I’m writing off character even if it’s probably not the case? I don’t know. 

*

“A cyborg who goes diving in her spare time.” 

“That can't be a good sign. When did you start doing this?” 

“Doesn't the ocean scare you? lf the floaters stopped working.”  

Chain questions he knows will stay without commentary, an edge to the last one, tone slightly shifting from playful to querulous that he tries to chock back with a sip of beer. 

The questionable choice of eyes implants makes the man hard to read to most people, but not to her, yet she can't lie, sometimes she needs to look behind the silver discs that never reflect anything but light, and as time passed she could have, perhaps, picked up and collected patterns and pointers, yet as perspicacious as she is, it remains always knotty to pin the looks her partner gives, or what exactly he's trying to hide, if he is trying at all. She'd seen it before though, stolen glances at pictures she shouldn't go and look for, but she went and did, just to confirm something, appease a morbid curiosity, look deeper into his "humanity", or maybe she just wanted to know the color, file it away for a future quip. She couldn’t look more than a few seconds before closing the file, the feeling that stayed with her afterward must’ve been the retribution for her displaced curiosity.                                                                    

“Then l'd probably die. Or would you dive in after me?”  

Her tone is seasoned with the unhid provocation of someone who already knows the answer. 

“No one forced you to come out here with me. and I sure as hell don’t want a lecture” she adds for good measure. 

“l just–”

Throat slicer, his Major, makes him dig his heels in like an amateur as he averts his eyes from her disrobed back. And he’s exasperated that he can’t finish his thought, offer his honesty, or just work on an equally cutting reply. When she serves gratuitous cruelty as she does now, part of him always wants to give up already, yet his ghost whispers that it’s in such times that she needs him the most, to dig past her decoys, scratch the steeled skin she so stubbornly envelopes herself in, see to the wounds behind, be a tenacious friend. 

So he gives her her space and his back, gaze lost in the skies on fire, and by the time she comes out of the wheelhouse, fresh and changed, the night is already blue around them. She lets the silence linger, aware of his spaced sips. He’s thinking of what he’s gonna say next without bumping into her walls again. There have always been communication loopholes between them from time to time, and that’s fine, he thinks, as long as they always work past them. She feels his eyes on her as he mulls another question over and as she stares at the cityscape looming in the mid-distance.

[b-e-h-o-l-d-e-r]

Ghost in the Shell (2017) review

I came into this movie with an open mind. Despite every fibre of my fanboy teenage ghost rejecting this alien reincarnation. I even set aside the whitewashing criticisms to just see if the movie can achieve something significant in spite of it.

Within roughly 5 minutes, this movie assured me I was going to be treated like a lobotomised baby. I shit you not, within seconds of a beautifully rendered manufacture sequence we watch two introduced characters in a room blatantly tell us what "ghost in the shell" means in the most uninspired way imaginable.

I wish I could tell you that this was just me getting off on the wrong foot but throughout, the movie is so uncertain in how to portray the themes, symbolisms and spiritual/ religious references that make up the brain in GitS' cyberpunk action body. The script just glitches between lame exposition by talking heads and still reflection in its precise composition but the two hardly work together.

It's like the film can't find its centre and as a result is neither a compelling action sci-fi or a meditative exploration of its philosophies. If this were Aaronofsky/ Gilliam or Bay/ Snyder perhaps (for better or worse) at least this movie would have a distinct direction to go in but instead it sits in the middle and suffers at both.

Hell, I'm sure many fans would be happy if this just took the Dredd approach. If they just accepted that the fans know the backstory and the non fans don't need it and made this simply about the Section 9 anti cyber crimes team doing their job, kicking ass n taking names, it would at least have a better chance of success amongst its primary demographic.

Instead Hollywood thinks big and wants to initiate a new franchise, origin story and all, n crams so much bullshit to try and get new audiences into it that Section 9 itself gets pushed way back in the corner. Audiences spend more time getting to know the Majors mum/s than they do with any her team.

They ditch the cerebral plot of the '95 anime whereby Major Motoko Kusanagi working within Section 9 are tracking a hacker who turns out not only to be an AI secretly created by the government to assassinate political targets but has become sentient, claims asylum and ends up merging consciousness with Major Kusanagi by the end.

Here we get Major Motoko Kusanagi of Section 9, pissed that many innocent people were murdered in experiments to create her and super shitty that her entire identity was a lie and she's actually a bratty anti establishment punk.

After all is said and done, what we get is Robocop-Lite (and thats the reboot mind you). All the nuance, intrigue and head scratching ideology that we got in the shorter length '95 anime is reduced here to identity theft and yet another unremarkable corporate business villain to cover it up. We've seen this shit SO often. I'm beginning to think Hollywood just doesn't know how to do it any other way. They weren't all bad mind you, Robocop, Total Recall, The Matrix, these are all great films but GitS in its initial reception really broke the mould and here to see it put back in the cage of "been here, done that" is so incredibly disappointing.

As far as anime/manga Hollywood adaptations are concerned, the bar is INCREDIBLY low. I'd argue the only good one amongst them is Edge of Tomorrow/ Live Die Repeat. Aside from that, every otaku since the 90's is used to being made fun of in the result of America trying to morph them into something that works amongst their style of cinema. Japan has made some great adaptations partly because they don't feel the need to repackage the story.

This GitS remake tries desperately to be on the fans side by copying much of the '95 movies look (with varying degrees of success, some scenes are very accurate in their reproduction but the hair in this film is more reminiscent of X-men (2000) and seems cosplay-ish at times).

There are few scenes lifted from the original but most get twisted to accommodate the new storyline, at which point I ask why bother? Half measures don't tend to turn many heads and whilst paying homage by really making the effort to be exact duplications in some ways is applaudable, you're giving yourself less room to do your version of it. At least then, whether the film turns out to be shit or not, I'll respect that you tried to do your own thing.

ok, casting. this argument has already been done to death and I've just about run outta energy already on the whole Scarlett Johanson thing but a few things that never seem to come up: first of all, acting wise, I gotta say it's all much of a fucking muchness isn't it? Kusanagi does not outwardly express much so its mostly a headgame for an actress with the chance to throw in some subtleties in the voice acting.

I don't really like Scarlet Johansson's performances but that its preposterous for anyone to come to the conclusion that her resume would land her this gig is a bit of a stretch. Do people realise how rare it is to find an A-list celebrity that has an extensive list of both highly demanding physical action blockbusters and subtle minimalist detail performances? Of course they are going to cast her. Before anyone throws ME personally into somehow being against ethnic minorities in blockbuster films (which would be absurd for anyone who knows me) '95 GitS director Mamoru Oshii also gave his stamp of approval.

They really tried with the marketing to dodge the bullet by just not bringing it up but it's really not dealt with well in the film and leads to some pretty fucking awkward moments for a racial debate charged audience to watch.

I would have preferred the role to go to a Japanese actress but remember, this is Hollywood and if a studio is gonna push bringing THIS film out, you bet your bottom dollar that they're going with someone that is a household name in America.

The only internationally known Japanese name out there right now is Rinko Kikuchi (who to date has 2 American films out there, both not big successes). I love most of her films and there ARE a few other Japanese actresses I would love to see in the role but Hollywood studios are not gonna bank on the success of Japanese films. Hell, the fact that they put Takeshi Kitano in bit part in this movie is as far as they are willing go to get in on that market. Few seem to point at his casting as some kind of justification and I laugh quite hard. Seriously, you're gonna give this guy (who's acted AND directed in over 20 brilliant films) a few minutes of screen time and applaud that as some kind of cultural milestone?

Which brings me to the big casting shame that NO ONE is fucking talking about because they're so caught up with the Johansson shit. Aside from Kusanagi, there are 6 Japanese members of the Section 9 taskforce. How many are Japanese? Kitano, yes. Who else? Saito. Did you remember him? He's the guy that snipes the helicopter at the very end of the film. You see his face for like 10 seconds. Pretty big step in casting mulitculturally, right? Don't get me wrong, the cast IS incredibly multicultural. We got actors from all over the world pretending to be Japanese:

A Danish guy as Batou A Chinese guy as Togusa An Australian as Ishikawa A Zimbabwean as Borma

Why keep the names?! Just call them whatever, it doesn't matter. You don't give them anything important to do anyway. Have a mulit-ethnic team but when they're all speaking clearly in their national accents and supposed to be portraying Japanese characters, THAT'S what should really piss people off because THESE roles could have gone out to Japanese people and it would not have even been a risk for the studio.

Ultimately, the one real positive thing I have to say is a great job for the WETA production team on some fantastic animatronics and moulds...that's pretty much it. Shame it couldn't be in a better film.

- dug out from the depths of https://letterboxd.com/Do_oM/