That may very well be the most tone deaf pick they could have ever made. What would ever move somebody to pick Aoki for the task? The Japanese surname? The cool with the kidz vibe?
LTTP but absolutely this. The look of GITS owes at more to Oshii than it does to Shirow at this point. One has been active in developing the property, the other has just been drawing weird bad porn for close to 20 years now.