A composed and strategically-minded leader, Aramaki even allows for lethal force on unarmed targets to achieve objectives and calmly deals with the problems given by the obstructive Section 6 while pursuing the Puppet Master. Chief Daisuke Aramaki leads Section 9 with ruthless devotion to his nation's security.Seemingly killed by Section 6, Kusanagi ends the film revived in a new body, leaving the nature of her merger with the Puppet Master ambiguous as she heads off to carry on with her life and later returning to aid Section 9 just as efficiently as ever. Talking with the digital life form, Kusanagi responds to its philosophical pleas by agreeing to live on in a merged body with it. As she closes in on the Puppet Master its body is taken to Section 9's headquarters as per its own designs and when Section 6 seeks to smuggle it away, Kusanagi ensures their seeming retrieval of the Puppet Master only to have them tailed and their forces hunted down and killed so she may confront the Puppet Master. Brutally dispatching a smug foreign diplomat seeking to smuggle away a Japanese programmer, Kusanagi takes to the Puppet Master case with her usual efficiency, making sure to utilize her subordinates' capabilities to the fullest. Major Motoko Kusanagi is the pragmatic and insightful field leader of Section 9.And with all that talk with Kusanagi about "merging". Ho Yay: The Puppet Master is referred to as "he," but is eventually seen in a female body and with (in the 2.0 remake) a female voice.In Japan it was nothing unheard of and was, well, slow-paced and artistic, rarely a recipe for a box office hit.
Germans Love David Hasselhoff: In America, it's a bona fide classic, one of the earlier examples of serious, artistic animation.Fandom Rivalry: With the 2017 film, which had its fans even if they were few.