Oh man, I had really high hopes from the trailer. I had high hopes.
The opening text went by at blink and yuou miss it speed. Luckily, it was faithfuilly pulled from the original manga, which was sitting on the bookshelf next to me. And that was the tone throughout. On one had you get a highly faithful rendering of the source material, while simultaneously it is being warped in odd ways that I did not care for. Muted color space and textures on a gritty realistic background, but saturated and vibrant color on characters who art style would seemlessly ramp from 1990s anime to (what I think of as) Rick and Morty and back again. It was jarring and made it impossible to fully sit in the material and enjoy the show.
Will I keep watching it? Probably, at least another episode or two. But, I am already aching to just go back and watch the original 1995 masterpiece, though most likely in the Ghost in the Shell 2.0 incarnation from 2008.