>>3464938yes SAC is an elaboration of the setting up a particular avenue (there are a few, ARISE is more recent)\
the two primary films deal with a lot of metaphysics, as far as i saw it, in relation to what comprises a human being, the soul, and the spirit, inside the frame of a society in which some individuals possess human consciousness but are by most measures roboticized, including much of their brain anatomy in some cases
the puppetmaster is the positing of a question along the lines of what might occur if a digital consciousness were to occupy a physical body, what distinctions can be made between modern man and it? kusanagi and the entity indeed end up fusing when only one was remotely human to begin with, at any point. GITS2 continues these sort of themes with the errant gynoids and their 'soul donors'
stand alone complex delves in on some things like what comprises a person in the digital age when so much can be reduced to information, touches on topics like refugees and geopolitical disparity. it's heavily critiquing the internet in some ways.
P&SWG is a no-hold-barred caricature of modern america, whore culture, the ironic contrasts that societies can now draw, and just gainax fuckery otherwise
