

On episode 14 - _YE$_ , at 6:21 in this episode, we see the crew being
debriefed by Aramaki. The chief remarks that she is wearing "some get-up",
inquiring whether she is searching for a specific kind of attention. She
replies, somewhat... despairingly(?), with "...; I just... _don't have a
choice_."

The scene prior to this ended with her being ejected from a building through a
window and landing on a pile of trash. She is noticeably soiled by "garbage-
type fluids" and, presumably, needs to get cleaned up.

It is not explicit, but it seems that only a few hours, at most, have passed
between the incident and the debriefing.

Aside from being her usual hot-gun-toting-super-hacker-ninja self, I have
missed the implication as to why this particular outfit is "mandatory". Is
there a specific clue I missed or was it just to imply that she may have had
other, personal, obligations for which she was still dressed? Her outfit was
definitely extreme for being at "the office", even for her.


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Why did Major Kusanagi wear a particular extreme outfit on episode 14?


(Upon review I've determined that the source provided is insufficient to
support my answer. I'm currently investigating sources to come up with a more
appropriate answer.)

Her body is a mass production "pleasure model" so that she blends into (I
assume 'shady') environments in the city. That's why she wears sexy clothes so
often, to fit her cover.

_Source: Masamune Shirow via Joseph Christopher Schaub_

<http://schaublog.com/Writing/KusanagisBody.pdf> (pg.94) [last retrieved
10/24/17]

> For his part, Shirow provides a very practical explanation for Kusanagi's
> body in the author's notes which accompany his manga. He writes:
>

>> Major Kusanagi is deliberately designed to look like a mass-production
model so she won't be too conspicuous. In reality, her electrical and
mechanical system is made of ultra-sophisticated materials unobtainable on the
civilian market. If she appeared too expensive, she might be suddenly waylaid
on a dark street some night, hacked up, and hauled off to be sold. (1995: 103)

>
> His mention of Kusanagi's body as 'a mass-production model' no doubt
> provides the seeds for Oshii's foregrounding of her commodity status in the
> film, but the critique is certainly amped up a notch by Oshii.

I've also included the author's citation:

> For all references to Shirow's version of Ghost in the Shell, the source I
> follow is the graphic novel. Masamune Shirow, Ghost in the Shell, trans.
> Frederik Schodt and Toren Smith, (Milwaukie, OR: Dark Horse Comics, 1995)


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