


The Puppeteer commits a large number of crimes through a single modus operandi: "ghost hacking", that is, breaking into and taking control of human minds. The overarching story of the manga is of Major Motoko Kusanagi's hunt for a cyber-criminal, The Puppeteer (known as The Puppet Master in the film), whose real identity is unknown. Megatech Machine 2 - The Making of a Cyborg Ghost in the Shell 1.Megatech Machine 1 - Revolt of the Robots.Intron Depot 3 - Ballistics (2003) (military-themed color illustration and CG artbook featuring female characters with guns).Ghost in the Shell 2: Man/Machine Interface (2001) (released in collected form in America on January 19, 2005).Intron Depot 2 - Blades (1998) (fantasy-themed color illustration artbook featuring female characters with armor and edged weapons).Dominion: Conflict 1 (No More Noise) (1995).Intron Depot 1 (1992) (sci fi-themed color illustration artbook collecting his work from 1981 to 1991).

Two more volumes of Appleseed followed before he began work on Ghost in the Shell. After a professional reprint of Black Magic and a second volume of Appleseed, he released Dominion in 1986. The story was a sensation, and won the 1986 Seiun Award for Best Manga. The result was Appleseed, a full volume of densely-plotted drama taking place in an ambiguous future. His work caught the eye of Seishinsha President Harumichi Aoki, who offered to publish him. While in college, he developed an interest in manga, which led him to create his own complete work, Black Magic, which was published in the manga fanzine Atlas. Shirow is also popular for creating erotic art.īorn in the Hyōgo Prefecture capital city of Kobe, he studied oil painting at Osaka University of Arts. He is best known for the manga Ghost in the Shell, which has since been turned into three anime movies, two anime TV series and several video games. Masamune Shirow is a pen name, based on a famous swordsmith, Masamune. Masamune Shirow (士郎 正宗, Shirō Masamune?) is an internationally renowned manga artist, born Masanori Ota (太田 まさのり Ōta Masanori) on November 23, 1961. The list of authors can be seen in the page history there. This article uses Creative Commons licensed content from Wikipedia's Masamune Shirow article.
