What am I even doing?

They really took EXTRA EFFORT to make this scene SIGNIFICANTLY MORE lesbian as compared to the 2 pages (or rather, 3-4 panels) it had in the original manga:

Imagine having THAT depicted in an anime 20 years ago that would have been - rightfully - presumed to be the iconic flagship show of the entire season, and that purely on the whim of the studio direction without being able to hide behind the source material.

I am so fucking sick and tired of everyone acting like being a top or a bottom also determines your personality type in all aspects of life. It's a belief that has absolutely saturated the minds of damn near all queer people. So everyone assumes that because I'm a bottom in bed that means I'm submissive everywhere else. And thats how characters are always portrayed in media too.

But here's Major Motoko Kusanagi. The baddass of badass women. She is absolutely fearless in combat, commands a team of spec ops soldiers, and takes absolutely no shit from anybody. Just in bed she's a bottom.

she just like me, fr.

The anime's 'Extra Effort' here involved adjusting the content of those previously removed pages to be clothed, but they are in fact derived from content originally in the manga itself.