Ghost In The Shell 2: Man-Machine Interface (Ghost in the Shell) 
asked by avi on November 12, 2006 11:11 AM
March 6, 2035. Motoko Aramaki is a hyper-advanced cyborg, a counter-terrorist net security expert heading the investigative department of the giant multi-national, Poseidon Industrial. Partly transcending the physical world and existing in a virtual world of networks, Motoko is a fusion of multiple entities and identities, deploying remotely controlled prosthetic humanoid surrogates around the globe to solve a series of bizarre crimes. Meanwhile, Tamaki Tamai, a psychic investigator from the Channeling Agency, has been commissioned to investigate strange changes in the temporal universe, brought about by two forces, one represented by the teachings of a professor named Rahampol, and the other by the complex, evolving Motoko entity. What unfolds will be all in a day's work...a day that will change everything, forever.
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I don't care if the format of the pages is not in full comic book page size. I don't care if the story is unusefully intricated and totally ununderstandable (at least for a common human being with only one bachelor....) : Masamune Shirow is THE MASTER and his ART is GREAT. You look at the computer colored pages: they're GREAT. You look at the b&w pages: they're even BETTER! The details and the design is amazing! I hope soon a fully large format b&w pages will be edited!
reviewed by dignified1 on November 21, 2006 7:07 AM
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A dense work that gets a little bogged down in techno-cyber talk and descriptions of the intricacies of computer virus defense software rather than story or character. The constant switching of the heroine's physical form is a neat plot element, but it does make it hard to identify with anyone in the story. There are just too few handholds to guide the reader through the stories. And, the endless sexy crotch-shot drawings of the heroine's various android bodies in mid-karate-kick actually became a little uncomfortable for me when my girlfriend was in the room.
reviewed by advisor on November 28, 2006 2:19 AM
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This is a nice TPB collection of the original series of comics run by Dark Horse two or three years ago. It's Masamune Shirow at his artistic and techno-philosophical best. Buy it and enjoy!
reviewed by lovieduvie on November 29, 2006 2:33 AM
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This story is centered around one of Motoko's "children" after merging with project 2501. The Main character is Motoko Aramaki, security officer for Posidon Industrial. Readers will see a glimps of older characters from the first GITS book. All in all this book is far more complicated that the first book, but it is worth it.
reviewed by harrypotter on November 29, 2006 10:09 AM