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I love the Major so much she is so bad a**. I just watched the episode of gits where Togusa was running in Autistic mode during the trial and the major had to back hack his a**.

Yeah. 3nodding And the time (2nd gig) when she's hacking this agency and the tachikomas are backing her up. All thorough the episode they keep mentioning a badass cyber pirate which turns out to be The Major. biggrin

When they're about to enter the room she disconnects, jumps to the ceiling, opens the vent and goes in. All while 'I can't be cool' plays in the background. heart

The episode is ambivalence.

Ah... but you all leave out the Master Himself....




Need I say more? Gotta love the part where the Major disguises herself as The Laughing Man.... That isn't only hacking, that's espionage baby. ninja

Love how Batou is impressed by her disguise at the end of the episode.

I remember that episode. Major can kick anyone's a** at hacking-anytime of day, awake or asleep. lol

Aramaki even says in an episode with the major right there that the Laughing Man was a class A super hacker and may have skills even beyond her own.

What about Ishikawa? He's a pretty good hacker too 3nodding though no one can beat the laughing man xd Motoko Rocks as a hacker and at everything else she does.
whihc episode was that confused i cant remember sweatdrop

god i wish i had the hacking dskills from that show....too bad i'm like retarted on a computer

I am an adamant Major fan, but I think it's bloody obvious that the puppeteer is much better than anyone else the series has seen.

I mean, without effort, it pinned the major, motionless and altered her very ghost to suit it's needs, merging with her. Quite a feat! Even the laughing man couldn't do as much.

As for the laughing man, he's certainly skilled, gifted really, and with more purely net-based experience than the Major, for all his youth. I think that he's at least an equal match for her, with perhaps a slight edge. It's difficult to tell because for all the times their interests clashed, the Major and the Laughing Man never came into a direct conflict, hacking-wise. Now, in 2nd gig, the mind-hub sometimes known as "Comerade Kuzei" directly defeated the Major mind-to-mind at least once. The fact that she later supported his efforts does not negate the fact that his forethought defeated her skills outright.

Batou, of course, poses no threat to any of them. wink

Hence:

Puppeteer > Laughing Man (and/or) The Major > Everyone Else

Kuzei > The Major > Everyone Else, and Batou


...what do you think?