Alternative Titles
攻殻機動隊; Kōkaku Kidōtai
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Type: Manga
Volumes: 1
Chapters: 11
Status: Finished
Published: May 1989 to Sep 1991
StatisticsScore: 8.311 (scored by 545 users)
Ranked: #1192
Popularity: #252
Members: 908 1 indicates a weighted score
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SynopsisIn a near future, technology has firmly taken root into society at large. Cybernetic implants are nothing uncommon and robots roam as plentiful as humans, all connected through their ''ghosts'' to the electronic datastreams of the net. Major Motoko Kusanagi and the Public Security Section 9 find themselves in a constant battle with the newly created wave of technological terrorists and cyber-hackers. But things take a turn once Motoko gets involved in a certain case involving an extremely dangerous ''ghost''hacker nicknamed the Puppeteer, as she dives deeper and deeper into the limitless reality of the net, to reach her own startling conclusions. (Source: ANN) |
Related MangaSequel: Ghost in the Shell 2: Man/Machine Interface
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Ghost In The Shell and RahXephon are similar because both are masterpieces of sci-fi genre, and the mangás storylines are strongly different from their respective anime versions.
I read the Ghost In The Shell mangá after watching the anime, and the characters are a lot different. Motoko and Batou telling jokes, a energetic Aramaki, and a more dense history turns this mangá in a must-read for the sci-fi fans. Just as dense as the RahXephon mangá, and both titles have cool action scenes. Try it out!
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Both deal with cyborgs/robots.
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Sep 17, 200811 of ? chapters read 4 of 6 people found this review helpful I bought GitS over this last summer. I had already been such a huge fan of the movies and the series, I was eager to see where it all began. I had never read through a Shirow manga, with the exception of bits of Appleseed. When I got home, it was damn near 3 in the morning, and I still ended up getting to sleep at like 5.
Why?
Because this book is frickin amazing. I'm shocked at how few people have actually picked it up, given the near fanaticism the show inspired. ...One of the main reasons this might have happened is because there are some extremely graphic things that happen in the manga. Given that Shirow also dabbles in drawing hentai, I can expect this now, but I was a little unnerved when I first read it. Don't worry about it, because it only really lasts like 3 pages and if you read the massive amounts of extra information in the back it makes sense.
The art in this is beautiful and brutal at times. Shirow is an absolute master at creating realistic and detailed backgrounds. His cityscapes and his mechanical designs seem as though they could actually work in real life. You can certainly tell that this was done in the early 90s though,if only because of some of the inking styles and color portions of this book practically scream it.
The characters, I'll admit, aren't exactly as fleshed out as they become in the show. However, they did lay the groundwork. Togusa is still a father and husband, Batou is still the smartass, and Motoko is still cold and efficient. One of the things that fans of the series will notice is a lack of Tachikomas. Their predecessors, the Fuchikomas are essentially the same thing, except with noticeably different mech designs.
The story is mostly random crimes and special ops that the Section 9 crew goes through, making this seem like a cop story first and foremost. Eventually it gets to the Puppeteer, and fans of the movies already know how that turns out. Some twists and turns in the story make it more enjoyable (at least to me) than the movie that was based off this, and some of the more scifi stuff does get explained in greater detail. Again, this is where that directory in the back comes in handy. Without reading it, this story will probably not make sense unless you're a scientist, military specialist, or an extremely well read religious practitioner.
My enjoyment of this manga is obvious, and overall I think that any fan of the series, movies, or scifi and cyberpunk in general should check it out.
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