AFTER a first full trailer for 2017's "Ghost in the Shell" movie adaptation debuted, fans have been comparing it to the original 1995 cult hit.

Released over 20 years before 2017's Scarlett Johansson film, the 1995 "Ghost in the Shell" helped popularize concepts and characters taken from the Japanese comic that inspired it.

Cyborg special forces agent Major Kusanagi and her team are put on the case of an elite hacker whose activity is threatening the country's security and stability. The manga and that 1995 adaptation explored man-machine philosophical theories in a technologically connected future.

Two animated TV shows, a video game, and several feature-length treatments followed -- but the 1995 movie arguably had the greatest impact.

So with a first full trailer now available for Hollywood's live-action version, fans have been making side-by-side comparisons with the material that inspired it.

Those comparisons show both how director Rupert Sanders sticks close to the original, as well as several apparent departures from its structure.

Seven retained elements can be seen in an animated GIF gallery (imgur.com/a/z2oLK) -- Kusanagi's signature swan dive, her apartment, fighting while invisible, her creation sequence, gunfire shredding a building column, and the franchise logo are compared.

Several video edits reconstruct the live-action trailer using scenes from the 1995 movie, including a fullscreen comparison from Flynns (youtu.be/m-mpH6kDYYI), which incorporates the trailer and an
extended Kusanagi creation sequence (NSFW for cartoon and life-size Barbie doll nudity) shown at a media event over the weekend. That's all soundtracked to the 1995 movie's opening theme.

Alternatively, Andy Rov uses a horizontal split and audio from the 2017 movie trailer (youtu.be/FW_2hDROvFY), while IGN attempted to recreate the entire trailer using scenes from the 1995 original (youtu.be/RSyV9E2ib2s), two processes which may highlight the new movie's differences by omission: perhaps a greater focus on a hacked geisha robot, a potential mentor for Kusanagi (Juliette Binoche's Dr. Ouelet), a scene which could question cyborg sexuality, and a darker look for the city and its inhabitants.

It's the trailer's final stretch that perhaps hints at the new film's greatest diversion, a change in motivation for Kusanagi, occupied with finding out who she was, pre-cyborg conversion: we see some sort of techno-monastery while a shadowy figure tells her that she has been living a lie.

Fans believe that this character has been lifted from the second season of a "Ghost in the Shell" TV series, and his involvement is one way in which the film blends existing parts of the franchise.