The series, which spans 52 episodes in total, is a procedural-serial hybrid.
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The Major and the crew at Section 9 returned for this alternate-timeline anime series headed by Kenji Kamiyama, who had previously worked on the Patlabor series with Oshii, among others. 'Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex' (2002–2005), directed by Kenji Kamiyama This is Ghost in the Shell at its moodiest, and perhaps incidentally, its most successful. The real supporting star, however, is the iconic, haunting score by Kenji Kawai, whose main theme elevates the virtuosic opening sequence and halfway-point montage of the city, which is plot-free and dialogue-free but vividly evokes Motoko’s alienation – from the society she lives, and even her own body. But Oshii does a lot with character – making a more sensitive figure out of the Major’s cyborg partner Batou, and letting mostly biological Togusa act as a wide-eyed audience surrogate. The film’s brilliantly creative action sequences inspired Western filmmakers from the Wachowskis to Steven Spielberg to take note. It’s a bold direction to take with the source material, placing the Major on the brink of an existential crisis, and flipping the manga’s fetishisation of her body on its head (but not getting rid of it, heavens, no). 'Ghost in the Shell' (1995), directed by Mamoru OshiiĪrguably the high point of the franchise, and certainly the most internationally known, Mamoru Oshii’s feature film adaptation took a subplot from Shirow’s manga and turned it into a meditation on consciousness and the philosophy of the self. Shirow followed the original series up with Ghost in the Shell 2: Man-Machine Interface in 1997. Still, “cute Motoko,” with her silly faces and easygoing fraternal relationship with her colleagues, is a fun variation on her more well-known anime counterpart, swilling beer with abandon, not yet affected by post-bubble ennui. It can be distracting in what is otherwise a densely conceived and entertaining sci-fi procedural. He’s also a bit of a lech, and never saw a female character whose crotch he wouldn’t draw in loving close-up. He writes copious idiosyncratic notes in the margins, fleshing out various ideas more thoroughly for whomever cares, and cracking jokes. Shirow is responsible for the technical concepts of cyberbrains, prostheses, and ghost hacking, as well as the “Puppeteer” plot that would serve as the basis for the 1995 film.
Shirow’s first series follows the episodic adventures of the special-ops security force Section 9, headed by Major Motoko Kusanagi, a tomboyish tough-girl who happens to be 97 percent cyborg. The manga, after all, debuted in the late ’80s, before Japan fell into an extended recession, when the tech boom was still a source of gee-whiz inspiration for sci-fi comic authors and animators. The manga that kicked off the franchise may surprise first-time readers already familiar with the anime, due to its lighter tone and depiction of the Major. Source: Masamune Shirow 'The Ghost in the Shell' (1989), by Masamune Shirow
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