the major is NOT hot! here is why*spoiler*

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Thanks for your insight. I do realize that attractiveness is subjective, but the basic rule of attraction is attraction to qualities of the opposite sex.

Im not sure what you were referring to by "balancing aspects of her personality". If you were talking about her personal life depictions, you need to point out a few specific examples, because I don't remember seeing much of that aside from an episode of the 2nd season.

Finally, as you pointed out, we mostly see her professional life in which she is dominant and fierce. This is probably what most viewers perceive as her only personality traits.

Batou is obviously in love with her? Where are you getting that from? I read that on t.v. tropes too, and it's going to bother me.
It's been a while since I've watched the series, and I can't remember it perfectly, and I didn't see Innocence or Solid State.
He does clearly care about her a lot, but I saw it as much more of a platonic, police/detective partners relationship. Like Sommerset and Mills in Se7en.

"attractiveness is very subjective and is not really something that can be quantified."

Since mind and body are inseparable and quite possibly indistinguishable (aka materialism), then there are objective neural correlates to the subjective experience of finding another attractive. There is some STATISTICAL uniformity in what people generally find attractive: symmetrical faces, scent (i.e., lots of recent neurobiological literature has been released about), and etc. Of course, culture has a lot of interplay with the evolutionary biology too, but I do not see the point in fixating on either the subjective first-person experience of attraction or on the objective neurobiology that has causal influence. Both are complementary and it is wrong to say attractiveness is very subjective; it is simultaneously very subjective AND objective.

Moreover, the objective quality of attractiveness can ONLY be understood within the context of evolutionary biology: there is a reason we find others attractive and it is a form of sexual attraction. It helps with the continuity of our species.

Granted, we will in the future conceivably alter what people "find" beautiful by changing their neural wiring:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroaesthetics

I highly recommend reading that link, but yes, I advise taking a less individualistic-inspired outlook and adopting a more empirical valid one.

Attractiveness is not subjective.

Well, to a certain degree, sure. But if you take a really ugly, bulldog-faced, old hobo-hag, and young Maeda Atsuko, and you show videos and images of both to 1000 people, I am pretty sure at least 999 of them will agree that Maeda Atsuko looks better, or is more attractive, or 'hot' (if you must use this ridiculous term).

The original poster is right. Just look at the original Manga, pay careful attention to how the woman looks. She's drawn very CUTE.

She has feminine curves - her chin is small, eyes are big, nose is small.

In the first movie and this show, she's drawn very MASCULINE.

Big chin, bigger upper lip, big nose, small eyes, and non-feminine hair as well. Also her voice and behaviour is not feminine whatsoever, which is another point where the original poster was correct about.

This show sometimes show her as a bit more cute than the first movie, but at the same time, she looks incredibly generic, and not really 'properly cute' - more like 'not as ugly and masculine as in the movie'.

Sure, if you put ten japanese idols in front of 1000 people, and ask them to choose, which is the prettiest, you will get percentages, and not different people will choose different idols.

But 'attractiveness being subjective' only goes so far.

Besides, when it comes to being 'sexy', it's different from 'cute'.

"Sexy" is something that has the capability to arouse you.

"Cute" can be a great many things.

A hag with an ugly face but great body can be very 'sexy' - in that you'd do her, but you wouldn't want to marry her or have emotionally intimate contact with her.

A cute girl isn't necessarily sexy at all.

In the original manga, the woman in question was both cute and sexy - because she was drawn that way. They could have drawn her that way here, too, but they chose to make her more masculine for some reason.

And this 'big chin + big upper lip'-thing I really don't get - WHO finds THAT attractive or even visually pleasing, whether it's on a man OR a woman? I knew someone who looks like that, and that individual was a disgusting creature in all possible ways. Yuck.

So, there are many kinds of 'attractiveness'es, and there are ABSOLUTES as to whether something looks feminine or masculine, or whether a behaviour, voice or attitude is feminine or masculine. It's not subjective.

If you draw a face to be cute, it will look cute. Now, there might be individuals who prefer a different style of cuteness, but even they can't deny that it's cute.

Some of the arguments here try to blur these basic truths as if to say: "Anything goes, and anything can be whatever, because it's all subjective".

But it's not all subjective. A feminine face looks feminine, a cute face looks cute, and only whether someone likes that kind of femininity or cuteness can be subjective - not the whether it IS feminine/cute. That is always absolutely objective.

There are general universally accepted measures of 'beauty', this has been proven scientifically many times. Certain faces just aren't universally cute, feminine or beautiful, no matter how much some pervert might for some twisted reason like them.

I just don't get how or why they borrowed so many things from the original manga comic, but not the feminine and cute charm and looks of the women.

I think you guys are attracted to men then. I just found her annoying, and I much prefer episodes with Togusa as the lead like in the Laughing Man movie.

Born a man? she is a female! Ok, she is a total beauty in this series and manga but butt-ugly and muscular in the anime movie. Now i would have Kusanagi as my pleasure-borg.

"Questions Questions too many questions, want shard here!"-The Dark Crystal

pumibel, you must have a lot of pussy male friends. I have no idea what you mean by "emergency situations." Yeah, I admit if the roast is burning males wouldn't know what to do; women would get that under control, easily. Tell me when you see an actual emergency situation.