#ghost in the shell 2: man-machine interface

[a-droidboy]

Ghost in the shell 2 Man Machine Interface (2001).

Scans from personal collection.

[morganhopesmith1996]

Motoko Aramaki by Shirow Masamune

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APPARITION FROM YOUR DEEPEST CYBERNETIC FEVER-DREAMS -- MADE IN JAPAN, BABY!

PIC(S) INFO: Resolution at 1118x1783 -- Mega spotlight on cover art to "Ghost in the Shell 1.5: Human-Error Processor" Vol. 1 #3, published by Dark Horse Comics on December 20, 2006. Artwork by Shirow Masamune.

MINI-OVERVIEW: "Cybercrime special-ops unit Section 9 has been mobilized to protect a key witness in a trial involving defective micro machines. And the witness definitely needs protection-from remote-controlled corpses packing serious hardware! And if the identity of these dead assassins' pilots isn't enough of a mystery for Section 9, how about the unexpected appearance of long-missing special agent Motoko Kusanagi!

"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." This deluxe-format issue concludes "Fat Cat," the first of four "Ghost in the Shell" tales."

-- DARK HORSE COMICS

Sources: www.kidfenris.com/2010/03/rise-and-fall-of-masamune-shirow.html, X, various, etc...

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Pin Up art and the first page from the second volume of the Ghost In The Shell Manga, called Man-Machine Interface. This one continued after the merger of Motoko and the Puppet Master, with her now sporting a blonde appearance and going back and forth between physical and digital realm.

Oshii's Ghost In The Shell 2 film was mostly original and took little from this volume

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GHOST IN THE SHELL- Kôkaku kidôtai: S.A.C. 2nd GIG - Individual Eleven | Animación | CINE EN CASA

Ghost in the Shell (攻殻機動隊 Kōkaku Kidōtai?) es un manga de ciencia ficción creado por Masamune Shirow, que progresó en dos mangas más titulados Ghost in the Shell 2: Man/Machine Interface y Ghost in the Shell 1.5: Human-Error Processor, dos películas animadas dirigidas por Mamoru Oshii: Ghost in the Shell y Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence,1​ una serie de televisión con dos temporadas…

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...alternate cover version and interesting bits & pieces from the last two issues of Ghost in the Shell 2: Man-Machine Interface by Masamune Shirow (published by Dark Horse Comics, Inc. 2003 - first published in Japan by Kodansha Ltd., Tokyo)…

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She's here!!! Eek. She is the re release of this doll I think? Silver base and black wetsuit vs yellow/clear base and purple wetsuit. I don't mind though. I kind of like this one better.

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Millennium with Stabat Mater (Ghost in the Shell 2: Man-Machine Interface)

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Cover art for 'Ghost in the Shell 2: Man-Machine Interface' by legendary mangaka Masamune Shirow (2001)

[rankakiu]

Hello, people of Tumblr! How has everyone been? As always, I hope very well.

This time I bring you a post, the result of a small self-imposed challenge: recreating various versions of Motoko Kusanagi, the cyborg protagonist of Ghost In The Shell, on the Picrew site, in particular, a little game called "Femenine Character Creator" made by artist @kureihii.

Quite simply, despite some limitations, I was more than satisfied and happy with the result, recreating nine versions of Motoko Kusanagi; Each image comes with the name of the character and to which respective stage of the franchise it belongs. I certainly had a fun time and I think I have achieved the desired result, but I will let you judge the work.

Femenine Character Creator (Try it!)

Credits: @kureihii

Motoko Kusanagi (The Ghost In The Shell, 1989)

Motoko Aramaki (The Ghost In The Shell 2: Man Machine Interface, 1991)

Chroma Aramaki (The Ghost In The Shell 1.5: Human Error Processor, 1991)

Motoko Kusanagi (Ghost In The Shell, 1995)

Motoko Kusanagi (Ghost In The Shell 2: Innocence, 2004)

Motoko Kusanagi (Ghost In The Shell: Stand Alone Complex / Ghost In The Shell: SAC 2nd GIG, 2002 - 2005)

Motoko Kusanagi (Ghost In The Shell: ARISE - Alternative Architecture, 2015)

Mira Killian / Motoko Kusanagi (Ghost In The Shell, 2017)

Motoko Kusanagi (Ghost In The Shell SAC_2045, 2020)

Greetings!

Rankakiu

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Ghost in the shell manmachine 2 interface

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scans from personal collection

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Chroma 😎

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Manga I’m Reading This Valentine’s Day

With Valentine’s Day quickly approaching (a few hours), I have noticed that I am constantly being asked the question “What will you be doing for Valentine’s Day?” Granted, I have never made any specific plans for this day (simply because I’ve never had a valentine). However, this question got me to thinking, I may not be going anywhere special, but that doesn’t mean I can’t spend it with the people I love.

Many of the people I love, however, are not real but are instead characters in the many mangas I’ve been reading. 

With this in mind, I decided to compile a full list of all the manga I would be reading for Valentine’s day. Surprisingly, I have been very into reading shoujo manga so many of the manga listed may be shoujo related. However, it is likely that these are not the popular (in America at least) manga’s you may come across. And it is also likely that some of the manga is so far removed from romance, you may think something is wrong with me (or you may be happy because you don’t enjoy valentine’s day or anything to do with romance).

Hopefully, this list will give you some mangas to enjoy with me. I also hope that I was able to shed some light on some underrecognized mangas. I decided to start this blog to do just that. There are many mangas out there that I believe need more attention, and I want to help share as many as I can. 

Press “Keep reading” for the full list.

xx, 

Sai

1. Ghost in the Shell by Shirow Masamune

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 landscape, cyborg superagent Major Motoko Kusanagi is charged to track down the craftiest and most dangerous terrorists and cybercriminals, including “ghost hackers” who are capable of exploiting the human/machine interface and reprogramming humans to become puppets to carry out the hackers’ 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. 

2. Kiss and Cry by Higasa Nozomi

Tatsuki Tachibana used to be the top junior figure skater in the world, but all that changed when he fell into a coma due to a traffic accident. A year later, he finally wakes up and discovers to his shock that he had forgotten everything about figure skating. The people who knew him before are also shocked to see that he is now a completely different person. Now, he is determined to regain his place--from the very bottom.

3. Ao Haru Ride (blue spring ride) by Io Sakisaka

Now in high school, she is determined to be as unladylike as possible so that her friends won't be jealous of her. While living her life this way contentedly, she meets Tanaka-kun again, but he now goes under the name of Kou Mabuchi. He tells her that he felt the same way as she did when they were younger, but now that is the thing of the past. Will Futaba be able to continue her love that never even started from three years ago?

4. Berserk by Kenturo Miura

His name is Guts, the Black Swordsman, a feared warrior spoken of only in whispers. Bearer of a gigantic sword, an iron hand, and the scars of countless battles and tortures, his flesh is also indelibly marked with The Brand, an unholy symbol that draws the forces of darkness to him and dooms him as their sacrifice. But Guts won't take his fate lying down; he'll cut a crimson swath of carnage through the ranks of the damned -- and anyone else foolish enough to oppose him! Accompanied by Puck the Elf, more an annoyance than a companion, Guts relentlessly follows a dark, bloodstained path that leads only to death...or vengeance. Created by Kenturo Miura, Berserk is manga mayhem to the extreme -- violent, horrifying, and mercilessly funny -- and the wellspring for the internationally popular anime series. Not for the squeamish or the easily offended, Berserk asks for no quarter -- and offers none!

5. Shortcake Cake by Suu Morishita

Ten Serizawa has a two-hour commute through the mountains to high school every day, so she can’t spend much time hanging out with her friends in the afternoon. She decides to move into the local boardinghouse, where one of her friends and three other boys are living. Ten’s friends consider her to be as oblivious as a rock when it comes to noticing boys and falling in love, but will she be able to keep her calm and steady heart in her new living situation?

6. The Case Study of Vanitas by Jun Mochizuki 

During a blimp ride to Paris, Noé Archiviste meets Vanitas: a human claiming to be a doctor for vampires, curing them of the malnomen which cause vampires to behave predatorily against their will. The book with which he heals, the Book of Vanitas, is connected to the original Vanitas, the Vampire of the Blue Moon, hated by the Vampires of the Red Moon who form traditional Vampire society. Noé and Vanitas join forces to heal vampires, but there lurks a threat of some unknown force named Charlatan which may be responsible for corrupting the sick vampires.

[bokaishu]

Science fiction history【Research】Cyberpunk

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From the earliest myth to the classical literature, to the Enlightenment, the rationalism extended from the industrial revolution turned the magical imagination into a scientific fantasy.

History of science fiction fiction 

From the earliest enlightenment movement, human beings entered the industrial age, and the literary works at the beginning of the industrial era were imagined with some content that humans could imagine at the time of social science and technology. Such as the earliest seabed 20,000 miles, Frankenstein and so on.

It was the information age when human beings gradually entered the middle and late stages of the technological era, since the late 1980s. Since humans have the Internet, to which the core conflicts of Cyberpunk are related.

Cyberpunk: Cyberpunk runs counter to the mainstream.

William Gibson: Neuromancer: Capitalist Centralized GovernmentCapitalism develops to a certain stage. No labour is required while the brain is the only power. Human in the virtual world virtual world and cyberspace importance of cyberspace in the later stages of industrial development.

Visual expression:

Ghost in the Shell: The interface between people and machines usually refers to the UI

Screen mouse keyboard

Avalon P1-4 Oshii Mamoru

Expression in Cyber Spence  P5

Vacuum tube punk retro sense.

How to enter the cyberspace  pic6-9

The tube appears after the transistor. It displays the numbers and letters.

Orange and green  Main tone

CRT monitors can't display the first order at first, only can display the colour of green, The Thirteenth Floor: Pic10-13 the Mid-1990s

Discharge biological sense: Pic14.15. The signal is transmitted by an electrical signal Windows System Impact Specific visual elements represent a cultural theme. RH7

Green was the representative of the Internet's electronic information at that time, and it was the defining trait of these things at that time. P16.17

The process of TRON enters Cyberspace  Pic 18-21

Take a person as a data centre and enter the virtual network space. Computers can't fully simulate the world, only can generalize it. So the designer designed an easy way to understand.

The film uses a lot of blue and orange light strips, the previous 80s The design language tone was set in the early 1980s, all special effects are film shooting, So all are LED clothes, orange and blue are complementary colours. At the same time related to video games. Pac-Man Pic 22

The Matrix: Pectoral interface P23

Petri dish for matrix P24.

Since then, chest intubation and helmets have changed into an expression of entering the virtual world. （Brain after intubation）

The triple world of the Matrix: The innermost: Green is to express, human and machine fight the world: blue uses light to distinguish different story names. Use light to distinguish different story meanings.

Ito: P Empire: The way paper is punched. Background: During the Victorian period, there are many elements of computer hacking. P25

AR. Often appeared in CyberRuk, Lucas created a very dreamy visual experience Star War Ironman Awtor Pic 26-29

Holographic Projection Helmet pole shadow: such as missile locking... Pic 30

Conceptual design thinking, energy, loss situation, revenue and expenditure, time, horizontal stripes Projection Mirror & Retina - Resolution Ghost in the shell Public security personnel nine lessons: sound wave/scale information Ergonomics and anti-ergonomics Pic 31

The way people compromise with machines.

The development of science and technology and old ethics

Artificial intelligence (AI) robot genetic modification → artificial fire limb

How to express these ideas in visual language

Artificial intelligence has not yet reached the stage of self-awareness. Unable to pass the Turing test. (I, ROBERT 2004)

Can do some work to improve efficiency, CG: neural network There are many relationships between people and artificial intelligence in cyberpunk's work. The most straightforward expansion in the movie is through a form based on artificial intelligence - the robot: Pic 32

According to the proportion of the human body, the proportion of the body is hollowed out, and the steel is strong enough to support the huge body. There is no need to add organs. Colour relationship: the usage of LED light projection screen, visual camouflage & optical camouflage Tachikoma: Can be operated manually / can work artificial intelligence Pic33 (thinking chariots)

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Ghost In The Shell – The Human Algorithm Manga Review

Ghost In The Shell – The Human Algorithm 攻殻機動隊 is a manga based on the highly acclaimed Ghost In The Shell franchise created by Masamune Shirow, with the story written by Junichi Fujisaku and art work by Yuki Yoshimoto.

Following her disappearance, an abandoned prosthetic body resembling Section 9’s Motoko Kusanagi has been found In the Northeastern area of Towada. Togusa heads up the investigation with a new recruit, with leads that the case could be connected to the religious cult named Aterui. Meanwhile, a different report indicates that the Major has also been spotted in Okinawa, as Batou and Ishikawa runs into trouble with the Chinese Mafia’s turf in the area. Will they discover the truth behind the Major’s disappearance ?

It’s been quite a while since I’ve read any Ghost In The Shell manga since Masamune’s original work, but I was drawn to the excellent cover art by Yuki Yoshimoto, and the actual art work of the manga is pretty decent as well.

I’ve yet to finish reading the manga, but the art work by Yuki Yoshimoto is pretty good and certainly enough to keep me interested to find out what comes next in future volumes. If you’re a Ghost In The Shell fan looking for some new manga content from the franchise, this is definitely worth checking out.

“Ghost In The Shell – The Human Algorithm Manga 攻殻機動隊 コミック 吉本祐樹” manga details :

Dimensions – 21 x 15 x 2 cm Softcover, 256 pages In Japanese language

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