I even played the second opening to SAC to get in the right mood.
I don't know the manga (apparently it's very different from the movie and the fans slandered Mamoru as much as they slander Disney today xD), but the anime perfectly predicted the future. Or to put it another way, it was not a perfect prediction, but in terms of the condition of humanity itself, our future threats - absolutely. When I read about the resources (it consumes so much energy that Microsoft finances a nuclear power plant in Ireland just for its needs, rotfl) that AI from our world has, I had no problem imagining that Puppet Master could be maturing at this point. I don't have to write about the ongoing cybernetization, because we see it every day. Soon, our generation will begin to be more affected by hacker attacks, which will make our lives significantly more difficult.
Oh, brilliant anime. But I remember that when I was a child and I knew old anime (Sally, Daimos, Gigi) on Polish television, I saw pirated broadcasts of GitSa in the cinema. Even though anime were then perceived as children's cartoons, many critics were delighted with this film. When I told my girlfriend about GitS a few days ago, even she remembered the movie Avalon, which was shot in Poland by Mamoru Oshii, near my city and hers. A great film that, like Satoshi Kon's productions, added a few elements to world cinematography.
There is a Trinity at Cyberpunk cinema: Blade Runner [1982], Ghost in the Shell [1995] and The Matrix [1999].