Koukaku Kidoutai 2: Manmachine Interface
The Ghost in the Shell 2: Man-Machine Interface

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This is the only hentai on my bookshelf...
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This is not even a GiTS, this is just hentai. The story is totally messed up (just like my reviev). You don't know what's happening there. I am preatty big fan of GiTS, but to be honest, this is worst manga I've read so far. The plot is almost impossible to follow and i didn't find any enjoyment in this.
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The only good thing about it, is drawing. Almost on every paged there is a naked or half naked women.
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I can't reccomend this to anyone. This is my rating:
Story 1
... Art 3
Character 2
Enjoyment 2
Overall 3 (for pity)

Try drawing some half naked women, or sometimes completely naked, in scenes that you can have a good view of their asses, panties, or pointy big hard tits, or everything in the same scene as they are doing some contortion to show you everything at the same time... then you add some lines saying "hacking this" "hacking that" "corrupting files" "putting up firewall" "my skirt is too heavy, better take it off", add some poor crime investigation or mercenary plots and some cheesy philosophical questions not adding anything new to the GitS series...

*BOOM*

You have Koukaku Kidoutai 2: Manmachine Interface, a total waste I couldn't recommend ... even to the most hardcore fans of Ghost in the Shell.

obs: The overall is 2 just cause the art is average.

If you read the original manga and thought the technobabble was confusing, this manga is quite a bit worse in that respect. Where I could somewhat keep up with the plot of the first volume, this volume takes the technobabble to the extreme, with a very large portion of the story being the protagonist endlessly spouting information that only the most tech-savvy people would understand.

As for the characters, the vast majority of the story is our hero (Matoko from the first volume fused with the puppeteer calling itself/herself "Matoko Aramaki") jumping into puppet bodies stashed all over the world in order to fight crime like ... a true vigilante. As one of the readers in a Q&A in one of the volumes said, this makes it somewhat difficult to form a connection with the character, as it is not always clear which body is Aramaki, and even when it is, her look is always changing because of this.

Aside from the endless confusion of the technobabble, the hard to follow political plots, and the difficulty to form an attatchment to the main character, there are some interesting spiritual ideas brought forth in the last few chapters (or part of chapters, since the chapters seem to be split up into parts).

Overall, I cannot see myself rereading this, but if you are a hardcore fan of Ghost in the Shell and are very knowledgeable about computer applications and viruses, you may very well enjoy Man-Machine Interface.

It's beyond me how this manga can be so bad. The art is literally awful. I get it that 3D CGI can be easier or refreshing in manga world but holy moly does it look bad.. Overall it feels like autor didn't give much to the manga because even without the cgi it is like he copy paste generic characters on some vague bacground. The story is almost non existent. You will not find anything enjoyble or good here. It's the worst manga I read so far.

By the way I will leave this here too. Masamune Shirow should be kissing Mamoru Oshii feets because ... he took Shirow's medicore manga and made it to almost a master piece. I not gonna lie reading the books after film was real dissapoitment.