Arguably the most noted work of Masamune Shirow, the pen name of Masanori Ota, Ghost in the Shell is a cyberpunk story set in a future where humans have connected their minds to a series of networks and systems, and can even gain cybernetic prosthetics to become full-blown cyborgs.
If you’ve ever come into contact with any of the iterations of Ghost in the Shell, you have Masamune Shirow to thank for that. GITS: Standalone Complex (broadcast on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim).Masamune Shirow’s Cyberpunk Writing Led to One of the Most-Recognized Anime in the World Ghost In the Shell: Innocence (on DVD) and
(Nov.)įYI: The book's publication coincides with the recent release of two related and critically acclaimed anime, This new edition restores material (including graphic sex scenes) deleted from the earlier U.S.
Masamune's b&w drawings are dynamic and beautifully gestural he vividly renders the awesome urban landscape of a futuristic, supertechnological Japan. Their ultimate case is the Puppeteer, a deadly cyberterrorist who turns out to be a ghostless, "self-aware" artificial intelligence spontaneously created out of the vast sea of networked information. The team tracks criminals, spies and terrorists who hack networks or illegally copy the ghosts (or souls) of enslaved humans into black market cyborgs.
Bafflingly metaphysical and utterly gripping, the book is an episodic chronicle of S-9's missions that illustrates the fluid nature of crime, espionage and geopolitical skullduggery in a world where human personality, vast data networks and cybernetic technology have essentially fused into a single social matrix. The S-9 squad leader is the tall and sexy female cyborg Major Kusanagi, and the men under her command include the gruff Batou and the uncertain (and mostly human) rookie Togusa. It's 2029, and Japan has gathered a troop of military cyborgs in Section Nine, a secret paramilitary security squad. First published in English in 1995, this classic cyberpunk manga is the story of a future society dependent on cyborgs (humans with machine parts).
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