[JuniperMesos]

And apparently also much more explicit depictions of Kusanagi Motoko having lesbian cyborg sex than in any previous anime adaptation.

[bitwize]

Well, it's a more faithful adaptation of the manga, and hence has a lot more of the humor, sexiness, and overall humanness from Shirow's original work. Not that Mamoru Oshii's more cerebral 1995 adaptation doesn't have merits of its own.