Quote Originally Posted by Ode to a Grasshopper View Post
Anyways, you can get an English translation of the manga, no time to search for a link sorry. Totally worth a read though a lot more lighthearted than the movie/series - not quite up there with the Akira manga but still awesome and with a few observations on Shirow's take on mecha/cyborgs.
The English translations sometimes omit some of the, er, 'saucier' bits - most likely due to censorship or whatever. Hursti: I have the original GitS manga - if you like I can bring it along next time we meetup if you wanna look at what was cut.