The ghost in the shell. Volume unico

AWESOME! I mean seriously, the movie will be coming out soon as I write this in late Feb 2017, but I read the comic in English translation over 20 years ago and LOVED it. I also read the sequel and watched the associated anime that it inspired. It is a fantastic universe in a sort of dystopian futur Leggi tutto

Ghost in the Shell is a manga from the 1980s (just like Akira ), which was at first only known to the manga aficionados in Japan. It later became one of the landmarks of the genre, especially after being adapted countless times into TV series, movies and video games. This album is mostly a series of p Leggi tutto

This is a classic science fiction manga by revered mangaka Shirow (a pseudonym). I am sorry to say (since many of my sci fi and manga GR friends loved it) I had a little trouble getting into it. I had to start and restart it several times. The ambition of the piece is obvious: It explores 21st centu Leggi tutto

I don't know. Maybe I'm stupid. Maybe it's an issue with the translations. Maybe Masamune Shirow is just an incredibly obtuse writer. Either way, I found these books (along with Appleseed ) a bit muddled and indecipherable. I repeatedly felt that the books were written as though Mr. Shirow automatica Leggi tutto

Vote 4 (5 if you are a diehard fan of the GITS anime like me) After a Ghost in the Shell anime marathon where my wife and me watched in less than 2 weeks Mamoru Oshii's 1995 anime masterwork, the awful 2.0 recent version with 3d sequences added, 2nd movie Innocence, first and second season/gig of Sta Leggi tutto

3,75 / 5 Motoko Kusanagi, una cyborg medio humana y miembro de la sección 9 de la policía tecnológica, es la líder de un grupo de expertos policías que se encargan de misiones especiales. Los 12 capítulos de este tomo nos dan una imagen de la ciudad futurista de New Port City, ubicada en Japón. Cada Leggi tutto

This is the book that, in my opinion, closed down cyberpunk as a literary current, in 1991. It is what the matrix tried to become, a meld of style, futurism and religious take on that basic cyberpunk question, what it means to be human. It is a very dense book, difficult to follow and with lots of su Leggi tutto

As a big fan of cyberpunk, I probably should have read this a lot sooner. As it was, it was mostly the arrival of the live-action movie that finally drove me to get to it. To be honest, I'm really not a fan of manga. Elements of how it's generally drawn as well as a general lack of interest has led