Shirow Masamune

Anthology of short stories created by Kodansha mangaka to celebrate the release of the Hollywood Ghost in the Shell movie adaptation. Chapter 1 - A Day In The Life by Yu Kinutani Chapter 2 - Ghost in the Shell - INFLUENTIAL PERSON in SHADOW ~A Man in the Dark~ (攻殻機動隊 INFLUENTIAL PERSON in SHADOW 〜暗闇で操る者〜, Koukaku Kidoutai - INFLUENTIAL PERSON in SHADOW ~Kurayami de Ayatsuru Mono~) by Boichi Chapter 3 - The Closed City (閉鎖都市, Heisa Toshi) by Tomonori Inoue Chapter 4 - Meeting Again by Masayuki Yamamoto Chapter 5 - Neet Shosa (ニート少佐) by Yu Imai Chapter 6 - Classic (クラシック) by Nokuto Koike Chapter 7 - Kai Joudou no Ori (快情動の檻) by Nobuaki Tadano Chapter 8 - Hopeful Monster by Takumi Oyama Chapter 9 - Tony Takezaki's Mobile Armored Riot Police - THE GHOST IN THE SHELL (Tony Takezaki no Koukaku Kidoutai - THE GHOST IN THE SHELL, トニーたけざきの攻殻機動隊 THE GHOST IN THE SHELL) by Tony Takezaki

Takes place a few years after the first Ghost In The Shell manga. The Major has been missing since then, and Ghost in the Shell 2 follows the mysterious Motoko Aramaki as she runs an investigation into an incident at an organ factory and its consequences. She's on the run to clean up the mess and save herself in the process. Meanwhile, the former members of section 9 investigate Motoko to find out who she really is.

From Dark Horse: Welcome to the future of vast bio-constructed cities with crime so severe that the cops drive tanks! For top tank-cop Leona Ozaki (and her trusty tank, Bonaparte), the day-to-day is a tall order already, but when the villainous and sexy (and super-powered androids!) Puma sisters become duly deputized officers of the law and are assigned to "help" Leona catch Urushi-Maru, "The Skyscraper Pirate," things are bound to get out of hand, especially in the midst of a full-on, tank-on-tank streetfight between Leona and a corrupt arms manufacturer bent on getting the city's police tank contract! Note: This manga is not considered to be part of the same continuity as the original stories

Neuro Hard is a story set in the year 2300 when humans are drifting in the mechanized planet Hurema Hiyuto and space exploration is the order of the day. Intelligent lifeforms were detected in the fifth planet and a team of explorers decided to investigate. By mistake, the expedition administrators stupidly brought in a rowdy bunch of space pirates who proceeded to blow up the main ship and crashing them into the strange Planet Anthea. The Planet of the Bees - where a colony of aggressive wasps dominate the land.

3 unrelated short stories. Collected in "Pieces 1"

Deep into the twenty-first century, the line between man and machine has been inexorably blurred as humans rely on the enhancement of mechanical implants and robots are upgraded with human tissue. In this rapidly converging technoscape, the covert-ops agents of Section 9 are charged to track and crack the most dangerous terrorists, cybercriminals, and ghost hackers. And speaking of ghosts, when supposedly dead people start turning up walking and talking, Section 9 begins to look into the possibility that corpses are being "puppeted" from a remote location, and some serious powerbrokers may be pulling the strings. Ghost in the Shell 1.5: Human-Error Processor presents for the first time in America the "lost" Ghost in the Shell stories, created by Shirow Masamune after completing work on the original Ghost in the Shell manga and prior to his tour-de-force, Ghost in the Shell 2: Man-Machine Interface, but never collected until now. Focusing on Section 9 agents in their daily battle against technocrime, Human-Error Processor has all the mind-twisting cybermadness you've come to expect from Ghost in the Shell, but set in a more police-procedural context with action and suspense galore.

The story is using a mix of various religions teachings and some Lovecraft mythology as a background, set in a far future and distant world, in which "psycho science" is trying to change the destiny of the mankind, summoning supernatural beings and magics to achieve this goal. But according to the Murphy's Laws, when everything is too well planned, there is always something that will go wrong, and in Orion you can be sure that it will follow this patern.

From Kodansha: Deep into the 21st century, the line between man and machine has been inexorably blurred as humans rely on the enhancement of mechanical implants and robots are upgraded with human tissue. In this rapidly converging landscape, cyborg super-agent Major Motoko Kusanagi is charged with tracking down the craftiest and most dangerous terrorists and cybercriminals, including "ghost hackers," capable of exploiting the human/machine interface by re-programming human minds to become puppets to carry out their criminal ends. When Major Kusanagi tracks the cybertrail of one such master hacker, the Puppeteer, her quest leads her into a world beyond information and technology where the very nature of consciousness and the human soul are turned upside-down and inside-out.

Sometime in the future, both crime and pollution proliferate in the cities. Leona is a member of the Tank Police, and loves her tank Napoleon over all else. Pitted against the Tank Police is the master criminal Buaku, and his nekomimi assistants.

World War III is over, and nomad soldier Duenan Knute and her cyborg partner Briareos struggle to survive in the abandoned cities and demilitarized zones of the post-war wasteland, the "Badside." Matters appear on the upswing, however, when they are found and brought to Olympus, an urban utopia and centerpiece for the reconstruction of civilization. Duenan and Bri join the Olympus police, a force that seems hardly necessary in such a paradise. But, like in most pretty pictures, perfection is an illusion, and Olympus's peaceful façade hides a dark secret, a violent struggle between human and cyborg that could once again plunge the world into war… and genocide.Was supposed to receive a 5th Volume which was partially finished and distributed into the English version's Hypernotes and ID. The series remains unfinished.Won the Seiun Award for Best Comic in 1986

Originally a set of one-shots published in a doujin magazine before being picked up for serialization. It's a time in the future – a time where the creation of life itself has evolved to include biodroids named after the ancient Greeks and cyborg warriors programmed to destroy. The power struggle between the various synthetic life-forms and the humans could mean the end of all life. But there is one, named Typhon, who may be able to prevent that.

Production IG's 20th Anniversary Project, Ghost Hound is set in the modest town of Suiten, located in a desolate region in the island of Kyūshū. The story follows the experiences of three boys who have had traumatic experiences in childhood from which they have learned to transfer their souls to a parallel world known as the "Unseen World". The Unseen World is however undergoing a change, with its ghosts starting to appear in the real world, altering it in unpredictable ways.

April 2029. While Kusanagi Motoko and Aramaki were preparing to establish Public Security Section 9, a string of incidents broke out across the United States. As the FBI, AI researchers, and the military pursue the cases, they bear witness to a certain clash: the Solomon-class AI carrying the fate of humanity VS. Project 2501, commonly known as the "Puppet Master."

This brand-new chapter fills in the gaps between The Ghost in the Shell: Human-Error Processor and Man-Machine Interface manga with a tense cyberpunk thriller written by Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex script writer Junichi Fujisaku. Just in time for the release of the new Ghost in the Shell: SAC\_2045 anime on Netflix!

Before the events of Appleseed, Deunan, a human woman and former SWAT officer, along with her combat-cyborg lover, Briareos, arrive in war-torn New York City. The city’s mayor is a dapper but delusional cyborg, preparing for the UFO invasion he’s convinced is right around the corner. Briareos’s powerful abilities earn the pair refuge, but there are few human comforts to be found in a city catered to cyborgs…After the couple parts ways, the mayor’s nightmare takes a turn for the worse. Deunan’s group of outcast humans may be just the extra manpower the mayor needs—but can the two factions put aside their differences in time to save the world?Official English Volumes: Kodansha USA

It is a time when Batou, a combat cyborg, was still active in the Ranger Corps. Batou is sent to the Kuzan Republic, where a civil war is raging, on a mission to rescue the Minister of Foreign Affairs, and meets a woman: Kusanagi Motoko, a member of the 501st Organization. It was a fateful encounter that led to the birth of the offensive force "Ghost in the Shell."

It is an age when large-scale natural disasters frequently happen all over the world. It is a time when cyborgs and autonomous robots are beginning to appear on the market in technologically advanced nations. Major world powers compete for technology and resources. The divide between rich and poor grows and the future for the poor looks bleak. In this transitional stage, everyone wanders around in a self-indulgent daze and the way out isn't clear… This is the story of how two cybernetically enhanced girls meet in such an era. Based on an original story by Masamune Shirow.

A robot geisha detains the Foreign Minister and others at a high-class restaurant. The extrajudicial force Public Security Section 9, which has seized command, instantly rescues the hostages, but behind the incident lies a terrifying conspiracy by the criminals!

Real Drive is a "neo-futuristic science-fiction suspense" story is set in A.D. 2061, when a new, more secure information network called the Material Network (or "Metal") has taken over human society. However, aberrations begin to crop up as individuals chafe against the rigid system, and so-called "cyber divers" are dispatched to investigate these incidents. The main characters are the cyber driver Mari, an "intuitive girl" named Minamo, the team's head Eiichirō, the combat expert Sōta, and the android Horon.