Koukaku Kidoutai: The Ghost in the Shell
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Japanese: 攻殻機動隊 THE GHOST IN THE SHELL
English: The Ghost in the Shell
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Type: Manga
Volumes: 1
Chapters: 11
Status: Finished
Published: Mar 1989 to Sep 1991
Genres: Action Action, Sci-Fi Sci-Fi
Themes: Adult Cast Adult Cast, Detective Detective, Psychological Psychological
Demographic: Seinen Seinen
Serialization: Young Magazine Kaizokuban
Authors: Shirow, Masamune (Story & Art)

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Score: 7.971 (scored by 1309613,096 users)
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Ranked: #8562
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Popularity: #435
Members: 39,644
Favorites: 1,380

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The year is 2029. The world has endured four world wars and ushered in a new age of technological advancement that has largely transformed society as humanity knows it. Cybernetic enhancements, robotic AIs, and cyborgs have now become the norm in a world where humans are more machine than man. However, with this modern change, crime started evolving as well: hackers, corrupt officials, and other opportunists have found ways to sneak into innovative systems for their own personal agendas.

In Japan, where such crimes run rampant, the government establishes Section 9—a clandestine team of highly trained operatives—to counter these threats. Major Motoko Kusanagi, a woman of impenetrable caliber and bravado, leads Section 9 on its mission to tackle cyberterrorism and ensure that the nation's stability does not falter in the pace of the rapidly progressing future.

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Koukaku Kidoutai: The Ghost in the Shell was published in English by Dark Horse, initially into eight comic issues from March 1 to October 1, 1995 and later into a single volume on December 1. An uncensored version was published on October 6, 2004. Kodansha Comics USA picked up the license and republished the censored version on October 13, 2009.

The series was published in Japan as a bilingual edition (English and Japanese) by Kodansha on September 6, 2002.

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Sequel:Koukaku Kidoutai 1.5: Human-Error Processer
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Alternative setting:Koukaku Kidoutai: Stand Alone Complex, Koukaku Kidoutai: Arise - Sleepless Eye
Side story:Innocence: After the Long Goodbye
Adaptation:Koukaku Kidoutai
Spin-off:Koukaku Kidoutai Shousetsu Anthology
Other:Koukaku Kidoutai: Ghost in the Shell Comic Tribute

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Characters

Kusanagi, Motoko
Kusanagi, Motoko
Main
Batou
Batou
Main
Togusa
Togusa
Main
Aramaki, Daisuke
Aramaki, Daisuke
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Project 2501
Project 2501
Main
Saito
Saito
Supporting
Ishikawa
Ishikawa
Supporting
Pazu
Pazu
Supporting
Borma
Borma
Supporting
Operator
Operator
Supporting

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10 Recommended
1 Mixed Feelings
2 Not Recommended
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Oct 25, 2023
Dotanuki
Recommended
Ghost in the Shell, the phenomenon that took over the world in the early 2000s with anime films. I finally read the source material, Mangaka Shirow Masamune's magnum opus, the Ghost in the Shell Manga in 2023. Better late than never.

I read the Hard Cover edition and it had some annotations on the side of the panels that gave information about the GITS world. Soft Cover editions don't have the annotations as far as i learned. The Manga was a very hard read with the annotations, so many information were given about the lore of GITS like the mangaka explained so many technology of ...
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Dec 11, 2022
AzoreanEve
Mixed Feelings
I must say that my first interaction with the universe of GitS was the 1995 film. So when I first started reading this I was put off by how much of a different character the major was. The whole book is much more light-hearted than the film.

For the most part it is more of an episodic work. We start in-media-res and the feeling of that only really goes away at the end as we go through snippets of life in section 9 and in this sci-fi future. You don't really get to understand all the context, and there's some small (author or translator's?) notes explaining ...
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Nov 16, 2021
the12banch
Not Recommended
Book feels very self important. The Deluxe edition has a lot of annotations which highlight the author's adoration of himself. The climax of the book is emotionless. It's a pedantic speech for pages that yields a decision without any emotion or reason. I like the anime better. I like the live action better than that. I'm probably too stupid - but I like emotion. This is more about speculation of the future and a flex of the author's own understanding of...weird...sci fi future stuff and guns?

That being said - it's neat. Maybe just not my cup of tea. But this is a pretty neat perspective ...
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