THE GHOST IN THE SHELL #6 Reactions: The Major has a boyfriend?! And she's being manipulated by a terrorist!

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Ghost in the Shell Ep 5 "DUMB BARTER" – Motoko and her bf, plus the whole Soma Toru terrorist plot! Sec 1 & 9 clashing for info made for such a solid flow, and that ending wrapped it up so clean. Peak world-building vibes ngl~

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Ep 6 reaction: Chief really uses whatever's available, huh. Sec 9 is def playing 4D chess internally too. Major def noticed she's being tailed. Wait, Togusa & Motoko are targets of Sec 1 *and* Soma? Sec 1 rushed for credit and left themselves deep in Sec 9's debt lol. Anaconda was already wiped out?

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So this think-tank was teaming up with Sec 1 all along? Thought getting blindsided by her bf was the worst case, but bro actually swooped in to save the day in a pinch. Wild to see this kind of plot in Ghost in the Shell ngl. Wrap it up with a timely backup and a brutal headshot so the guy stays dead for good lol.

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Major is SO cool… such a hardboiled episode, but that punchline was dripping with irony and absolute perfection 👏 30 mins flew by, that pacing and those lines hit different ngl…

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The "accident" assassination was basically SAC's "Rebel Music" all over again, courtesy of Boma. Sec 1 Chief's status is unknown, but Sec 9 def got their revenge (even if he lived, the threat alone is enough message).

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Come to think of it, Motoko's hair color was diff this time… probably cuz she wasn't using her main combat body, just her casual "dating a normie" shell? 🤔

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Shirow Masamune's random footnote like "Isn't a car accident actually a super low-key assassination method…" cracks me up lol w

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That guy showed up in the prologue, but they skipped his "The one I wanted to net" line at the end (he shows up a bit earlier in the manga tho).

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They explained why she was wearing the uniform, but what's up with the hair color? Did she just pick a different character skin for the day?

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Direct violence is hard to show, but covering the shooting scene with static/noise is actually a genius move. Fits the lore so well too.

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Selling out your own guys just to get some info… what is Sec 1 even doing. Tho I guess they don't rally view each other as teammates anyway.

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Getting betrayed this hard yet still pulling off a massive W makes them surprisingly resilient, or just insanely tough lmao.

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Her bf is honestly one of the rare genuinely nice guys in GitS… (well, or they just didn't write his dark side lol).

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Going from heavy, anxiety-inducing dread straight to cute Major as the punchline is gonna give me whiplash! So good tho!

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Togusa's "half-open door" bit is total karma for messing up the manhole cover in ep 1 lol.

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Realizing her bf actually genuinely cared about her is so sweet yet kinda heartbreaking.

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Sec 1 getting played and almost dying over some random terrorist's petty grudge… rough.

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Did Batou mess up the bomb disposal? Or did he break it and couldn't fix it back? Which is it Batou?

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Togusa's line here hits hard: "Man, it would've been great if her bf was just an ordinary civilian…"

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Never seen Chief Aramaki raise his voice like this in any other version! (^w^)

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"Depending on the circumstances… I won't let this slide!" Oh yeah, he's PISSED.

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Bye-bye terrorist. If you hate this world so much, don't ever crawl back from the other side.

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Sec 1 Chief got plowed by some random car, huh. Man, what bad luck lol (totally not suspicious).

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Bye-bye terrorist… If you hate this world so much, never crawl back from the other side!

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Poor bf got dragged into this out of nowhere, totally left in the dark, just suffering all around lol.

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Sec 1 nameless bf's tourniquet is actually placed properly so it won't slip, lmao.

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Such a clean resolution… or rather, Sec 1 is just completely useless wtf…

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Wait she has a bf?! …Annnnd things are already going horribly wrong…

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Thought it was just terrorism, turns out it's a proxy civil war… wild ride.

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Swinging the mood this hard back to comedy after all that seriousness is straight out of the manga w

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"See? Right on time, huh? Sec 9 got here first."

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Her bf genuinely loves her, but man, what a complicated dynamic w

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Bro looks surprisingly lively, not gonna lie. How the hell did he dodge that?

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"Togusa! Use the Fuchikoma to take out that truck! Hurry!"

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Did the nameless bf just officially become "Kusanagi's bf" now w

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Sec 9 has every right to be mad, and Major snaps at the zero-tact comments too.

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Doing self-checks on a live bomb in the middle of the street is peak embarrassment…

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BRO, manga Motoko is literally so damn charming??

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That epilogue news report gives off such an awkward "…Oof" vibe.

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Was that door shot actually fired from a full-auto handgun?

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Nah fr though, selling out Kusanagi just to get some intel makes zero sense.

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If you hate this world so much, don't ever crawl back from the other side.

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Once their cover's blown, of course they're gonna execute them without a second thought.

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Major being all emotional this episode is peak ikemen energy, love it.

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E-tier?! TV shows have tiers that low these days?! w

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Y O U G U Y S A R E N O T T H E O N E S O N T H I S M I S S I O N !

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Aramaki pulling out his piece immediately makes him such a hardcore boss.

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Batou looking completely off-model while saying "I'm so tired, man" is sending me lol.

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They mentioned Benten or something so even the BGM felt matching.

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Togusa surviving all this with pure flesh and bone is lowkey insanely impressive.