She could be nude and I still wouldn't object to her fashion sense.

She's the Major, she can wear whatever in the fuck she wants to while in the field.

isnt the Major like 80 something years old ?

And? Who cares how old she is?

@Slust: She IS naked half the time-- the thermoptic camouflage is a great excuse for that. The old manga had a lot more nudity, and even lesbian cybersex.

Shirow Masamune's an okay storyteller, but a terrible illustrator. I'd love to see this manga, which presumably has better quality than the middle-schooler's scribbles that are Masamune's art.

SAC 2nd Gig does have the best style, but I suspect that's just because it's the newest. All the series looked good in their own time, because our idea of "what the future looks like" changes all the time.

@Nihon Freak - WHAT? Masamune is a terrible illustrator? Where R your eyes man (or women ;p); He is one of the best mangakas ever existing with storytelling and graphics. There are detailed and yet they don't feel very heavy; Ok, the new ones done mostly with computers are kinda plastic, but thats a bit nice feeling too.

About the article. I prefer Major looks in mangas - in teh first one, when it's a little bit like futuristic 80s... then (in the man machine interface) when it feels more up to date futuristic.

In SACs Major fashion choises are... weird... yet when she isn't using her IDoNotCoverVeryMuch outfit she looks kinda great. And by kinda I mean smoking hot.

Yhe.
But thats just me, mad GitS fan;

I did find her fashion sense in the first season odd. It's as if she realised she couldn't be half as intimidating unless she wore pants in the second season.

I always figured she just didn't care what she worse since she was pretty much all cyborg. Still, I found her outfit in the second season to be way more badass. It's hard to strike fear into your opponents' hearts when you don't wear pants...or much of anything else really.

*she wore

Interesting what Otaku Focus on when given the opportunity...

I thought the nudity made sense in the Oshii movies, because like Gee-man said, her body was kind of just 'hardware' to her; it was Batou who was uncomfortable with it, which helped show his feelings about her.

In SAC though she seems much more 'normal' for lack of a better word, so the outfit just seems out of place.

Well in the SAC series it looked odd, yet somehow managed to fit through most of it and obviously it wasn't as bad as you guys make it out. it's just her bottom half, and even then it wasn't that obvious. though second season watered it down even more, and was more appealing.

plus, first season outfit was more of a uniform, if anything else. obviously, she didn't wear it out during everything, just mainly when she's at work.

I agree with Nihon freak. the first manga was decent, and had a way too many foot notes. I mean seriously, half of them didn't really help and some were just plain obvious.

as for masamune shiro's artwork, i also agree to a point. He tends to draw them super deformed from far away and really odd, but i guess it was just the times, but not even manmachine interface did that great. i dont know what goes on his mind, but i would've prefered the entire thing without color.

manmachine interface, looks like a comic, not a manga, and i'm not talking about just the color, he went a little overboard with computerizing it, and the plot was almost impossible to fully comprehend. It looked like, he was high during most of it.

anyways. the manga, was decent. still wanted more of a "stand alone complex" feel. not good just to have the name in it.