Masamune Shirow
Paperback | Pages: 350 pages Rating: 4.18 | 10013 Users | 471 Reviews
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| Title | : | Ghost in the Shell (Ghost in the Shell #1) |
| Author | : | Masamune Shirow |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Second English Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 350 pages |
| Published | : | June 20th 2006 by Dark Horse Comics (first published 1989) |
| Categories | : | Sequential Art. Manga. Comics. Graphic Novels. Science Fiction. Cyberpunk |
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AWESOME! I mean seriously, the movie will be coming out soon as I write this in late Feb 2017, but I read the comic in English translation over 20 years ago and LOVED it. I also read the sequel and watched the associated anime that it inspired. It is a fantastic universe in a sort of dystopian future that poses the same basic questions as the I Robot series by Asimov - how will artificial intelligence change human kind and at what moment is an android sentient. A MUST READ before the movie comes out - or after you watch it.This is truly one of the greatest mangas. I have the Kodansha Bilingual version and as much as I find it entertaining that Masamune Shirow leaves a ton of editorial explanations of his drawings and ideas (and excuses sometimes for shortcuts he takes in the story), the type is really really really tiny. That being said, Bantu is a total badass and Major Motoko Kusanagi is an extremely sexy cyborg built over a human body with those human memories buried in her as her "ghost". Her adventures as a super agent are fun and engaging as well as sexy and occasionally quite violent - NSFW and 18+ for the most part. The anime was excellent, let's hope the live action version lives up to the hype as well. They will surely not be able to cover the variety of adventures in this volume so it will be interesting to see whether they use the anime as a basis or go off on a different story altogether. There are many possibilities which is one of the things which is so great about this manga.
The film - like the anime - is a sort of prequel to this volume. But it is absolutely amazing!
Present Books Toward Ghost in the Shell (Ghost in the Shell #1)
| Original Title: | 攻殻機動隊 |
| ISBN: | 1593072287 (ISBN13: 9781593072285) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Ghost in the Shell #1, Ghost in the Shell #1-8 |
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So disappointed that I can't finish this manga. I know it's a classic. I never figured out what was going on. I also have a problem with 80's hair and clothes distracting me from vintage manga and old movies, but that's my own issue. I think I might check out the anime, though.I did appreciate Motoko's sense of humor but it wasn't enough to get me through this book.This is one of those cult authors who have people telling you all over how good they are. I disagree. Completely. Yes, he applies some pretty hard core ethical dilemmas to the future world, but that's it. The artwork is just ugly, and not especially original, apart from the changes from black and white to color (and to tell you the truth, it looks more like he wanted color but was too lazy to follow up on it). The plot is difficult to follow, not because the ideas are so complicated, but because
When I picked this book up from the library, I felt uncomfortable. The cover shows a young girl who looks naked on the cover. I felt inclined to justify myself. "I'm looking into cyberpunk," I said, "and this was one of the first ones, back in the day." She looked at me and nodded her head. "Cool," she said, with no readable expression. I wasn't satisfied. I pointed at the girl. "She's a robot. It's a cybernetic body. Only her brain is human." She looked at me. Confession time. "I'm sorry. I
This is one of my favourite comic books, science-fiction works in any medium and things put to print ever. Mind you, I couldn't finish GITS the first time I started reading it back in high school. Not just because of the convoluted plot being hard to follow but also as a consequence of me reading the chapter where the story out of blue cuts to the heroine Major Motoko Kusanagi in the middle of an oiled-up lesbian orgy on a yacht while I was riding on a train in public back then! This is censored
AWESOME! I mean seriously, the movie will be coming out soon as I write this in late Feb 2017, but I read the comic in English translation over 20 years ago and LOVED it. I also read the sequel and watched the associated anime that it inspired. It is a fantastic universe in a sort of dystopian future that poses the same basic questions as the I Robot series by Asimov - how will artificial intelligence change human kind and at what moment is an android sentient. A MUST READ before the movie comes
I added some children's books here on goodreads and then get flooded with recommendations / discussions notifications and had to de-rate most of them. with this in mind, hopefully rating this comic book won't result in dramatically different book recs from the GR algorithm. Shirow's work stands more on pictures than stories, to be sure, and his specialty, lithe females in bodysuits and combat robots, is inspiredly chosen, but in any case, i guess it's fair to call this the best of Japanese
Wow. Well, let me put it this way: It's almost entirely very dense philosophy and politics, broken up with the occasional blast of gunfire or flash of nudity. I hate to say it though... I probably like the movie a bit better. This just felt a bit too fragmented and episodic for its own good. Peril of the medium I suppose. Anyway, it's still pretty much required reading for cyberpunk enthusiasts, it also serves as a decent intro to information theory and philosophy of machinery/cybernetics if you
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