I don't think the term animu can be applied to GiTS.
Better than Blade runner.
That depends highly on personal taste. Blade Runner blew me away visually and character wise, especially this scene:
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Everything in there is just so fucking cool. The part where he turns on the blinds was a big wow moment, I just remember thinking holy shit this is the best thing I've ever seen.
As for Ghost in the Shell, call it whatever you want...it still animates like, well, anime. Which I really don't like. It's the way how everything moves so choppy and unrealistic that bothers me,
especially how they animate people.

The J-pop with female vocals doesn't add any cool points, either.

I'm glad I saw Blade Runner for the first time knowing absolutely nothing about it. One day I saw it posted on Joox and was like "hey, that's the movie with the steel DVD box gaf likes", so I decide to give it a go, and due to a tragic confusion of movie titles, went in fully expecting black Dante here to engage in some corny vampire slaying:
BlanteWait, that is fucking brilliant...I'm emailing this to Capcom.