Written and drawn by Masamune Shirow (of Appleseed and Dominion fame), the follow-up to Ghost In The Shell.In the future nearly everyone will be a cyborg. You can link up with fellow cyborgs, and 'dive' into their Ghosts, reading their minds ... -_-
I think it was origionally published between 1989~1991 in a Kodansha magazine.
You have political bust-ups, and dimplomats declaring their diplomatic immunity and what not, pretty much the same yawn seen throughout Appleseed BOOKS 3 & 4. The manga has different stories in it, rather than just the entire thing dedicated to the pursuit of the Puppetmaster (the Puppetmaster case is the last 2 or 3 stories I think :/). Kusanagi is more girly than she is womanly in the movie (which was thanks to the brilliance of the same character designer who worked on Akira). Shirow tries his hand at his Dominion esque comedy, which wasn't used in the anime movie, for better or worse.
GITS is not for everyone though- there's alot of people who'll get bogged down with all the pseudo-scientific banter, but I'd rather recomend this to you than the sequel, GITS2, which, as you'll read in the above blog is ********** ****. Put it this way, if you liked Bladerunner, Robocop, and you read manga anways, you'll enjoy this somewhat.
My rating: 6.5.10
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