>>6266825That's because Edge of Tomorrow made up its own characters and it even made up its own title. This wasn't the case for GITS where it actually used the same characters from its source material, names/title and all. Whitewashing existed even before SJWs and yes, this counts as whitewashing. The key thing here is that it wouldn't have been whitewashing if Major stayed as their own OC called "Mira Killian" except they had to shove in a backstory detailing that she was actually Motoko Kusanagi.
If this was a proper Amercanization of the original Japanese property, a simple way of doing it would have been setting it in America, with everyone else being portrayed by mostly non-Asian actors with new names.
That said, it's rather pointless to cause a stink over whitewashing for this when you consider how it has a lot of Asian actors alongside the fact that they make an in-universe reasoning for it and how it still fits with the GITS universe. Doesn't change the fact it's still whitewashing though, made even worse by the stupid idea of acknowledging the character's original ethnicity.
If anything, they shouldn't have had to justify that shit and just played it straight like Edge of Tomorrow, but instead they highlighted the whitewashing and gave it an in-universe backstory. Even more hilarious is how they completely missed the point behind the alias of "Motoko Kusanagi", in which literally naming someone like that is the equivalent of calling them "Jane Excalibur".
>>6266849The movie bombed mainly because the story was an unimaginative rehash of the Robocop reboot and barely had anything to do with complaints about whitewashing.
