Full disclosure, I haven't seen the original Ghost in the Shell or any trailers for the new one. (I have seen that picture of ScarJo with a black wig that looks straight out of "Lucy", though.) I'm saying I'm suspicious because whitewashing a film has a track record of ending badly for a film's publicity, box office, crew, and creators. As evidence, I present:

http://www.themarysue.com/ridley-scott-exodus-whitewashing/

http://www.themarysue.com/gods-of-egypt-whitewashing-fail/ This particular movie about Ancient Egypt was also an actual box office bomb.

http://www.themarysue.com/geopolitics-of-horror-natalie-dormer-the-forest/ As another white person interested in Japanese culture and history: No. Absolutely not. You shouldn't have done that, or been allowed to do that.

http://www.themarysue.com/pan-panned-panic/

Among plenty of others, including that live-action Death Note movie that might or might not still be a thing.

For the record they whitewashed the whole cast, and the writer's reasoning was that "there are no good Asian actresses". For the record, the writere, Max Landis, is the same guy who gained notoriety for going on a twitter rant about how no one likes original movies after every other movie of his bombed.

Here's a source, for those interested: http://bossip.com/1304167/ghost-in-the-shell-writer-defends-whitewashing-new-movie-by-claiming-there-are-no-good-asian-actresses/

IF Optimus would EVER get angry enough to yell at Humans, that's all he'd do - he'd yell. He wouldn't threaten, he wouldn't pull his weapons...he'd give them one HELL of a talking-to.

The way the omniscient and omnipresent Madokami (canon by her own admission, episode 12) was pretty much taken by surprise and "split" by Homura into Madoka and Law of Circles (Homura who had pretty much no reason to have the power to do that), is a plothole big enough to fit the Death Star in.

That's aside the fact that there was no need to take Homura, who we know hss got a psyche that can be defined as "in pieces held together by paper tape", and put her into a freaking grinder. No wonders the dust that came out, Homurakuma, bears no resemblance to Homura Akemi... after all, if you take a cristal and grind it, the dust often is of a different color.

There's a point beyond a character's trials and suffering become meaningless, and Rebellion got well past it.