
Motoko's 48 outfits. (spoiler alert for those who haven't read the manga)
So I recently re-read the manga, and after those comments by the creators, at the Annecy Film Fest about how Motoko will be wearing 48 outfits across the season, I got curious how many different outfits Motoko is actually wearing in the manga.
So after reading, I decided to skim through the manga again, to take a look at how many outfits she's actually wearing in the manga, in order of appearance, and including slight variations, omake sections (like the one where Motoko is wearing a sweater and scarf), chapter cover art and even going as far as to include her being shown as just a cyber brain or having a new body all together, those combined only count up to 31 different looks.
And including the promotional artwork where Motoko sports a chromatic outfit inspired by Hajime Sorayama's art, we'd only be up to 32 different outfits.
So it'll be interesting to see what those other 16 outfits (and in case I missed something while skimming through the manga, it certainly couldn't have been that many to go all the way up to 48) will be, and how they're implemented. Perhaps the opening and ending animations and eyecatchers will include some other outfits, that're either originals like that one promotional artwork, or based on Shirow's other artworks, from his artbooks or that used to be covers of old multi volume releases of the manga.