So you are all for white washing literature and movies from other cultures just to suit the notion that white actors are superior and can play the parts better, or that they will only be accepted by an American Audience?
THE literature came from Japan! Masamune Shirow is the creator of Ghost in the Shell.
This reminds me of when the movie Memoirs of a Geisha was made and they used Chinese Actors because HOLLYWOOD figured, what the hell, most Americans don't know a Chinese from a Japanese anyway, they will do. As it turns out the author was not even Japanese, but an American from Tennessee named Arthur Golden who had his own stereo type of what and who Geisha were. The story was not from some Memoir of a Geisha but from some American fantasy that wasn't even close to the truth.
They COULD have done Ghost in the shell, the way Hollywood took The SEVEN SAMURAI and turned it into the Magnificent Seven. It was intentionally made using the elements of the story and remaking it into something more Americanized.
In Ghost in the Shell they kept referring to her as The Major. That was her title, but she has a NAME. Why does she have a name?? Because she is not a ROBOT as you said, she is an Android with a human soul inside of it, hence the title Ghost in the Shell.
攻殻機動隊= Kōkaku Kidōtai. (Ghost in the Shell).
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