Cyberpunk is a science-fiction sub-genre dealing with the integration of society and technology in dystopian settings. Often referred to as “low-life and high tech,” Cyberpunk stories deal with outsiders (punks) who fight against the oppressors in society (usually mega corporations that control everything) via technological means (cyber). If the punks aren’t actively fighting against a megacorp, they’re still dealing with living in a world completely dependent on high technology.
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We can argue which GitS work is the best but I enjoy all of it. Even bad GitS is better than most anime. And I'd argue the live action movie would've been better received if it didn't have the high expectations of being a GitS adaptation. It's still a fun sci-fi movie.
It's more GitS, which is always a good thing. With the new character models you can tell this is a new continuity and to not worry about trying to align into earlier stories/plotlines, even though everything is still similar. This is kind of telling the story of how Major joined Section 9, but things are different enough that you wouldn't call it a prequel series.
Arise is probably the easiest to get through because it's only four 50-minute OVAs. Then they re-cut those 4 OVAs into eight 30-min episodes and called the series 'Arise – Alternative Architecture'. Of course, just to complicate things, Alternative Architecture got another "OVA" as the final two 30-min episodes called Pyrophoric Cult. So you could consider the entire series to be 5 OVAs. Oh, and I guess Ghost in the Shell: The New Movie is also part of this continuity. So 5 OVAs and a movie.
You can watch the entire series on Crunchyroll. Note that Crunchyroll shows "season 1" as being all the OVAs, "season 2" is the re-cut OVAs into episodes (Alternative Architecture), and "season 4" is The New Movie. I have no idea why Crunchyroll didn't call that "season 3"...