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Very interesting ideas all around, and nice ending.
But the execution is really bad. Breaking it down:
1 - Narrative: Overly complicated. Sometimes it even seems on purpose. Meaningless phrases and words, technological jargon invented/misused/not explained.
2 - Explanations: Or better, the rants. Most of these are extremely annoying and fail to explain anything.
3 - Beginning: Worst first chapters in of all Shirow's works I've read. Very hard to get into this GITS2 and start to enjoy it. GITS 1 and ...more
But the execution is really bad. Breaking it down:
1 - Narrative: Overly complicated. Sometimes it even seems on purpose. Meaningless phrases and words, technological jargon invented/misused/not explained.
2 - Explanations: Or better, the rants. Most of these are extremely annoying and fail to explain anything.
3 - Beginning: Worst first chapters in of all Shirow's works I've read. Very hard to get into this GITS2 and start to enjoy it. GITS 1 and ...more

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