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Originally Posted by viewtiful_alan
No I haven't, but that's what I assumed. Whatever they left out, it made it seem horribly disjointed and random. Which, in my mind, is a failed adaptation. I gave it the score I did mostly for the great animation, music, and action sequences. Other than that...
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Well, the manga was very episodal in its presentation/flow. The anime movie isolates the themes running throughout each chapter and sequences from various parts of the manga (the Major killing the guy at the beginning; the puppet master in the female android's body; the armored tank sequence) and threw them into a plot that was largely original.
Really, there was too much going on in the manga for a condensed version of the story to work as well. I liked the anime movie, but Stand Alone Complex is a better medium for Ghost in the Shell because having a whole series gives the story more breathing room.