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The name of the organization belonging to Public Security Section 9, a special unit formed to combat increasingly complex crimes, is "Ghost in the Shell"! The work by Shirow Masamune became a huge hit due to its detailed story structure, outstanding artwork, and vast amount of information!
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Setting
Primarily set in the mid-twenty-first century in the fictional Japanese city of Niihama, Niihama Prefecture,[a][Note 1] otherwise known as New Port City[b], the manga and the many anime adaptations follow the members of Public Security Section 9, a special-operations task-force made up of former military officers and police detectives. Political intrigue and counter-terrorism operations are standard fare for Section 9, but the various actions of corrupt officials, companies, and cyber-crimina...
Story
Ghost in the Shell[c] begins in 2029, and features Section 9, led by Chief Daisuke Aramaki and Major Motoko Kusanagi, as they investigate the Puppeteer, a cyber-criminal wanted for committing a large number of crimes by proxy through "ghost hacking" humans with cyberbrains. As the investigation continues, Section 9 discovers that the Puppet Master is actually an advanced artificial intelligencecreated by a department of the Japanese government, taking up residence in a robot body. After destr...
Creation and development
While writing the manga, Masamune Shirow struggled to make it neither too complex nor too simple. Two official names exist for the works, the first is Kōkaku Kidōtai(攻殻機動隊, officially "Armored Shell"; literally "Mobile Armored Riot Police") and the second is "Ghost in the Shell". Masamune Shirow originally wanted to use the name "Ghost in the Shell" for the publication, as an homage to Arthur Koestler's The Ghost in the Machine, from which he drew inspiration. Kōichi Yuri, First Coordinator a...
Design and philosophy
Shirow's thoughts and work on Ghost in the Shell contain numerous footnotes and detailed explanations about scenes to give readers an understanding of the sociological differences or technological advances and philosophical discussion of the material. Examples include concepts like the future of hacking techniques, in which a cyberbrain can be hacked to copy information without being detected. Shirow explains instances of spirit channeling in cyborgs with kiko energy. Shirow even wrote that t...
Censorship
The removal of a two-page lesbian sex scene in Studio Proteus's localization of Ghost in the Shell was not well received, with readers reacting negatively to the removal of the previously uncensored content that was included in the original Dark Horse release. Toren Smithcommented on Studio Proteus's actions claiming that requirement of the "mature readers only" would translate into a 40% loss in sales and likely have caused the immediate cancellation of the series. Shirow, who grew tired of...
Ghost in the Shell ran in the Kodansha's manga anthology Young Magazine Kaizokuban from the May 1990 to the November 1991 issues, and was released in tankōbon format on October 2, 1991. Dark Horse initially published it in English monthly into eight comic issues from March 1, 1995, to October 1, 1995, with the translation of Studio Proteus. It was ...
A number of artbooks detailing the concept art and world of Ghost in the Shell have been released. A box set titled Kōkaku Kidōtai Cyberdelics[g] was released on July 8, 1997. The box set contains a collection of posters illustrated by Masamune Shirow, a booklet and a puzzle. A guidebook titled The Ghost in the Shell: Mechanical Analysis Reader[h] ...
Ghost in the Shell has received mainly positive reviews. Publishers Weekly praised the manga for its artwork: "Masamune's b&w drawings are dynamic and beautifully gestural; he vividly renders the awesome urban landscape of a futuristic, supertechnological Japan." Leroy Douresseaux of the website ComicBookBin gave the manga an "A" stating: "It is vi...
Madman Entertainment's Australian distribution release site Archived February 18, 2017, at the Wayback MachineGhost in the Shell (manga) at Anime News Network's encyclopediaThe Ghost in The Shell – The Human Algorithm continua no capítulo 82, com história de Junichi Fujisaku e Yuki Yoshimoto, baseada no universo original de Masamune Shirow. Em publicação digital pela Editora JBC.
3 de set. de 2023 · Escrito e ilustrado por Masamune Shirow, o mangá Ghost in the Shell ganhou enorme popularidade a ponto de ser rotulado como um clássico cult. Esta franquia cyberpunk japonesa tem várias adaptações, incluindo filmes de anime, séries de televisão e videogames.
Parte de: Ghost in the Shell. Ver todos os formatos e edições. Em um futuro distópico, onde a alta tecnologia se mistura a um cenário decadente, a Major Motoko segue no encalço do Mestre dos Fantoches, um hacker criminoso impossível de ser capturado. AUTOR: Shirow Masamune No. PÁGINAS: 352.
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The manga, first serialized in 1989 under the subtitle of The Ghost in the Shell, and later published as its own tankōbon volumes by Kodansha, told the story of the fictional counter-cyberterrorist organization Public Security Section 9, led by protagonist Major Motoko Kusanagi, and is set in mid-21st century Japan.
