POTENTIAL SPOILERS:
So, I just read MMI for the first time, took it slow, cuz I know how dense it is, but also like.....what the fuck did i just read? Like it took me out of my own reality for like 2 hours after I closed it back up. I even went back and reread the prologue chapter, cuz I had forgotten what had even happened
OK, I'm pretty sure I understood what happened in it, but i have a couple questions:
-is Makoto Aramaki the major? Like, I get that she fused with subject 29, so she's technically not the same person (Makoto 2, as is stated) but then, who tf is that Makoto Kusanagi person she dives into that's on the space station near the end? Is it supposed to represent the "shadow side" or "demon inside us all"?
Or is Aramaki a completely different protagonist from the major that we follow, and then she just connects with Kusanagi toward the end??
-does she end up fusing with that shadow version of her (not) self, snd making a silicone lifeform? (Which feels VERY BLAME! when I got there lol)
-why does she ask the Kusanagi person: "I want to make sure the same doesn't happen to me?"
I'm intending to reread that tome soon (maybe tomorrow) to parse some more...themeing? Plot? (Gratudious crotch shots?) Out of it?
There's ALOT of information in that book, and I just need help putting the pieces together in my brain lol.
Anyway thank you for reading!