This manga is only beloved for the artwork, and has a shit story

Another plotfag bites the dust.

It's not like it has anything else to offer either.

The manga has aesthetic and pulp appeal.

It only appeals to people who jack off to anything cyberpunk related. And those kinds of people tend to have atrocious taste.

The manga is a great setting and has great art, that in and of itself justifies its existence. The subsequent media it inspired are better than it, but that doesn’t mean the manga lacks value.

Ghost in the shell is the ONLY, and i mean ONLY, sci-fi product that made an interesting depiction of artificial life form. Whose "human" traits gone way deeper than "look like a pretty girl" and "is instructed to emulate human emotions and so is to be considered a living being".
Representing the web as a primeval soup of data inwhich the puppet master gained self awareness and evolved, and in the end injected his "DNA" data in Motoko to become a full fledged living being. In a beutifully represented fusion that happened at quantistic level. That in the movie got downgraded into a shitty angelic apparition.

I like the story

Welcome to like 90% of entry level "best manga ever" recs.

God forbid that I actually want to read a manga with a good story

Then read a manga with a good story. If you fail to see the appeal of GITS, you look at anime/manga as nothing more than a plot delivery system.

The puppetmaster is already an angel in the manga.

As for the whole fusion thing, it doesn't happen in the web (which doesn't exist at this point in GitS, there are only local databases and connexions) it happens in the NET, which is a mystical thing like the tao, it has nothing to do with the internet. The fusion happens on a psychic level.
The puppetmaster gained self-awareness by accessing lots of datas on computers and in people's brains, but it only accessed the Net and became an angel when Motoko connected to it for the first time and they both had a near-death experience.

The movie blurs all those lines by suggesting the Net might not really exist or that the Puppetmaster always had access to it.

Your concept of "good story" is very debatable.

GitS has a good story, the problem is that it's often told in an indirect way which makes it needlessly hard to follow. And even then that's not always the case.

The first two chapters are easy to follow, the robot rondo chapter as well, the dumb barter chapter too.
The ones that are hard to decypher are the puppetmaster arc, the details of the phantom fund chapter, and the whole israeli syrian plot.

>stupid, confusing, and just plain uninteresting
Maybe you're too stupid and confused to understand an interesting story?

>If you fail to see the appeal of GITS, you look at anime/manga as nothing more than a plot delivery system.
I read and enjoy totally plotless manga all the time and I can't see a single ounce of appeal in GitS because the other aspects of its writing aside from plot aren't any better. The characters in GitS aren't interesting. The dialogue in GitS isn't interesting. The individual scene flow isn't interesting. The comedy isn't fun. It is a bland, shitty manga and you're a retard who just goes "heh, if you disagree with me you're a PLOTFAG" buzzword shit to deflect all criticism of things you like.

Vagabond: good story
Kokou no hito: good story
One Piece: [mostly] good story

You believe none of the things you wrote, you were in a Zig Forums thread a couple days ago and got BTFO.

>The puppetmaster is already an angel in the manga.
This is just an interpretation.

> it doesn't happen in the web (which doesn't exist at this point in GitS, there are only local databases and connexions) it happens in the NET
True.

>which is a mystical thing like the tao
Nope. Is a very practical thing that can have a mystical symbolism

>The fusion happens on a psychic level
As well, but look properly at how is represented in the manga. That is not psychology or mysticism. Is subatomic physics.

I don't think I've ever been on Zig Forums in my life as far as I remember. I'm also not OP, in case you're assuming that.

>it’s bad
Great analysis

Well when high school of the dead has a story with more emotional resonance than this, you know it's not very good.

>The subsequent media it inspired are better than it,
They are not.
They range from slightly less good than the manga to absolute fucking trash

>one piece.
Ok, the obvious trolling now became undebateable certainty. At this point i cannot even to pretend to be retard myself to amuse (you).

Manga Toko is best Toko.

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>uninteresting character
I wish they would all be this boring and uninteresting.

>This is just an interpretation.
It has fluffy wings and a robe, what more do you want?
>Nope. Is a very practical thing that can have a mystical symbolism
Re-read the manga, not only is it explicitly the psychic network that all channelers throughout history are connected to, but there are at least two institutions in GitS that study psychic powers: the imperial household channeling agency, and the ESP research institute.
Also Shirow includes several liner notes that explain how gods and mental powers work in his setting.

The sequels of the manga delve even more into it, and the current sequel's plot is entirely centered around the existence of psychics.

It's actually crazy how low of an IQ you have. Must be sub 140 kek

>Is subatomic physics
Subatomic physics are not distinct from taoist cosmology in Shirow's work. GitS shares the same system as Orion.

And thank god GiTS is not a shitty softcore blueballing work. We can actually see the Major in an orgy all full out.

good ol major

I wish she had never fused with the Puppetmaster. Now she's all boring and talks like a condescending zen master.

>It has fluffy wings and a robe
I don't remember anything like that in the manga.

>The sequels of the manga delve even more into it
Yep. GITS was about "can artificial life exist"?
GITS2 is "can artificial beings have a soul?"
But with manmachine interface felt like Shirow gone too far. Is pure mental masturbation while GITS no matter the spiritual symbolism was more rooted in practicality.

HotD has more artistic merit than GitS. Seethe more

No, GitS 1 is already about "can artificial beings have a soul?" among other things

GitS 2 takes that for granted and then creates a convoluted plot about Motoko's copies fighting against one another so the original one can steal Alien DNA from them.

>rooted in practicality
again, psychic powers are real, there's no essential distinction between practicality and spirituality.

Nobody can beat boobs jiggling at supersonic speed. Is an unfair comparison.

>I don't remember anything like that in the manga.
it's during the ghost dive scene, we only see the puppetmaster's feet and robe and the tip of its wings

>nobody shouted special attack names.
>no special attacks
>no stare downs.
> at the end some one bought a tranny sex doll

its ok grandpa im sure reprints of superman from the 70s will get you through the final days until chameluh harris has you shaved sterilized and raped for the sake of progress

Ah yes, the contrarianfag being as reductive as possible. Dismissing HotD's superior characterization while leaving in the fan service. You can never have an intellectual discussion in Zig Forums le sigh...

Imagine being the mangaka of GitS and being artisticmeritmogged by golden age comic books.

This psychic powers are inputs that need to be received. ESP in GITS means being able to hack a brain. Or establish a connection to analyze someone else's thinking.
Is a completely different concept of "psychic power".

> at the end some one bought a tranny sex doll

Nope, what happened was Batou shot a Pete Burns impersonator and put Motoko's brain in his dead body because he mistook him for a woman.

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