Home > Masamune Shirow

Masamune Shirow (士郎 正宗 Shiro Masamune) is a manga artist of international renown. " Masamune Shirow" is a pen-name, based on a type of sword.

Most well known for the manga Ghost in the Shell (which was later turned into both an anime movie and a PlayStation video game).

1 Fame

Masamune Shirow is now one of the most famous anime and manga creators. Though he was originally only popular outside of Japan. He was chosen as an early author to bring to the west because of many stylistic similarites between his work and traditional American comics. His work Ghost in the Shell is a famous anime in the west that is based on his work, hence his popularity. The problem is that many people mistake him for being the creator in the anime when he had no major role in the production, the film is very much a Mamoru Oshii film.

2 Heroine with a single face

Many of his works (" Ghost in the Shell", " Dominion: Tank Police ", " Appleseed ") follow a common form: a strong female law enforcement officer/warrior battles external fights while under difficulties from internal politics, in a near-future setting with strong cyberpunk influences.

His female lead characters (Kusanagi in " Ghost in the Shell", Leona in " Tank Police ", Deunan in " Appleseed ", and Seska in " Orion ") look nearly identical, with the exception of hair color.

Shirow got his start as a pornography artist and this is reflected in how he draws his women, providing them with very exaggerated sexual features. He is still drawing fanservice pornography in addition to sci-fi thrillers.

1 Bibliography

• Black Magic M-66 ( 1983)
• Appleseed 1 ( 1985)
• Appleseed 2 (1985)
• Dominion ( 1986)
• Appleseed 3 ( 1987)
• Appleseed 4 ( 1989)
• Ghost in the Shell ( 19911991 like 2002, is a palindromic year. It also has the same calendar as 2002, including Easter on March 31. It is a common year starting on Tuesday. Events January January 2 Sharon Pratt Dixon is sworn in as mayor of Washington, DC becoming the first blac)
• Orion (1991)
• Intron Depot 1 ( 19921992 is a leap year starting on Wednesday. Events January January The Internet Society is formed. January 1 Boutros Boutros-Ghali of Egypt replaces Javier Perez de Cuellar of Peru as United Nations Secretary-General January 1 George H. Bush becomes the fi) (sci fi-themed color illustration artbook collecting his work from 1981 to 1991)
• Dominion: Conflict 1 ( 19951995 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). It has a Golden number of 1, and was the first year of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous People (1995- 2005): http://www. org/culture/indigenous . Events January events Ja) (No more noise)
• Intron Depot 2 - Blades ( 19981998 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar), and was designated the International Year of the Ocean''. Events January January 1998 A massive ice storm, caused by El Nino, strikes New England, southern Ontario and Quebec, resulting) (fantasy-themed color illustration artbook featuring female characters with armor and edged weapons)
• Ghost in the Shell 2: Manmachine Interface ( 20012001 is a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar), and also: The International Year of the Volunteer The United Nations Year of Dialogue Among Civilizations Events January January 1 A black monolith measuring approximately nine feet tall ap) (the 'true' sequel to Ghost in the Shell has been translated and made its run as individual issues in the US; a collected version is due sometime in late summer 2004)
• Intron Depot 3 - Ballistics ( 2003) (military-themed color illustration and CG artbook featuring female characters with guns)
• Ghost in the Shell 1.5: Human Error Processor (2003) (original version of Ghost in the Shell 2, scrapped when Ghost in the Shell 2 was collected in a single volume but recently rereleased in Japan)
• Intron Depot 4 - Bullets ( 2004) (color illustration artbook collecting his work between 1995 to 1999)