>never watched or read anything GitS related >pick up the

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I found it hard to follow too. It's ok.

>>157022251
GITS in general has really dense storytelling, but the manga is especially bad about it since it's this huge clusterfuck of footnotes every page that are only tangentially related to the actual story. You might want to go watch the 1995 movie and/or the Stand Alone Complex series (both different continuities form the manga) and then come back to the manga to see where some of the ideas in those came from.

Manga is a mixed bag. It is somewhat chaotic and not particularly serious at the beginning. But themes gradually become more serious, and Shirow's art improves.

That being said, when you say "GitS", most people think of the 1995 movie. It's considered an essential piece of cyberpunk media, and influenced a lot of stuff. However, it's quite a lot different from the manga. In my personal opinion, it takes the most interesting elements from the source and makes something better with it. However, manga fans don't like it since the overall theme is much more serious and dark.
In any case, this film is probably what you should see first, and everything else is optional.

There are several continuities:
1. Manga, with most stuff after the first series being quite weird and convoluted as Shirow succumbs to his oiled thin girls with small tits fetish;
2. GitS films 1 and 2, with the second being quite a lot different from the first;
3. SAC series and film, which are considered pretty decent for most part, but being more like a buddy-cop thing;
4. Arise, which while is not complete shit, doesn't exactly stand close to the '95 film or SAC;

>>157022251
it's meant to be confusing. The author is an autist

>>157022588
>>157022836
>>157022894
>>157023468
guess ill watch the movies and go back to the manga later then.

>>157022251
>>157022588
I was about to call you both fucking retards but then i remembered that Shirow has a way of writing his manga where he cliffnotes the shit out of it to the point of near autism. So i can see how for some that might be hard to follow.

>>157023468
>The author is an autist
This is actually probably true. There's an "essay" at the end of Dominion that's basically just him sperging out about how cool tanks are for like 3 pages.

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nah you're just a retard

>>157023938
you'll notice how different they are

>>157024030
the entire manga's plot is so over the top then by the end doesn't matter at all

>>157024030
>>157024432
Shit is like an extreme version of what American comics do with *happened in Spider-Man 854 or whatever. Shirow wants you to read books on theory instead.

>>157022251
just watch the animeS and read his horse porn

>>157022251
You need to kill yourself.

>>157024511
he references a scientific journal early on too

>>157024030
Well, I wasn't actually even referring to that. I actually had a hard time, at least in the beginning, about seeing what was happening like, spatially.

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Yeah.
You should read the prequel first.