I would love to see a breakdown of all the differences between the show and the book. I’ve been doing a readalong to the show and I’ve noticed a few things. They took out references to the Soviet Union and fax machines but left floppy disks. The porn manufacturing on the virtual yacht was toned down a lot for TV, but not as much as the American version of the book. There’s a scene in Sagawa Electric where she makes a mistake and says “I’m such an idiot” in both versions, but in the book only she goes on to say “let me leave that out of my official report”, which is funny and humanizing. At one point Batou calls Kusanagi “hysterical” in the book, but it was changed to “violent” to the show, presumably to reflect changing views on misogyny in Japanese society. (Kusanagi had thrown a coffee mug at Batou’s head. In the book, she’s drinking coffee in one panel, and then you see Batou lying on the floor with a bump on his head and a coffee mug next to him on a separate page, but the show includes the mug in-flight, which, yeah, I struggled to understand what was happening when I first read it.) I could go on.