Yeah, I dunno, I've never really managed to cotton to Kusanagi as a character. By design, she's such a cipher there's just nothing there to get ahold of (as it were). I mean, that's not even really her name. She's closer to interesting in the manga, albeit often in completely random ways (there's that weird scene where we find out that she moonlights as a simstim porn performer, which, wha?), but my clearest mental reference is from the Mamoru Oshii movie, in which she's almost a complete blank. By design!

(I don't want to give the impression that I don't like the Oshii movie; I haven't seen it in ages, but I went to see it probably half a dozen times when it was doing the art theater circuit, some in Boston, some in Berkeley. "Togusa, if you're still alive, get off your ass and arrest those garbagemen.")

All that said, that movie has a moment that led to one of my favorite unused UF-universe images. The scene in the street market, when Batou hauls out a gun and yells, "Police! Everybody get down!" Zoner and I decided, after we saw that, that if something like that happened on Funkotron, it would cause a spontaneous dance party, and that this must have happened.

(Although it'd still be funnier if it happened to Deunan and Briareos. :)

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