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What's great about GitS is how every part of the franchise is different on so many levels, yet everything works so well.

The Ghost in the Shell

1989

77.1% Community Approval

In the near future, technology has firmly taken root into society at large. Cybernetic implants are nothing uncommon and robots roam as plentiful as humans, all connected through their ''ghosts'' to the electronic datastreams of the net. Major Motoko Kusanagi and the Public Security Section 9 find themselves in a constant battle with the newly created wave of technological terrorists and cyber-hackers. But things take a turn once Motoko gets involved in a certain case … read more

Rank #590 (Most Popular Manga) Rank #2220 (Highest Rated Manga)

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Kayn

What's great about GitS is how every part of the franchise is different on so many levels, yet everything works so well.

Amy 'CJ' Addams

The original work by Masamune Shirow that started a franchise. Intricate, if somewhat impenetrable, but a fantastically detailed world.

jojovonjo (Parody)

Can't say this was as good as the movie but, still a really great read. The stuff that's different between the two makes it worth pickin up.

carlitocloutriguez

It's actually better than I thought. I like it more than SAC S1 and the movie

Charsmagichat

Reads more like an encyclopedia than a manga.

ixMoriMori

A good read! Very interesting to see the origin of the more laid-back, still thematically-dense version of GitS seen in Stand Alone Complex.

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Manga Details

English The Ghost in the Shell
English (American) The Ghost in the Shell
Japanese 攻殻機動隊 THE GHOST IN THE SHELL
Japanese (Romaji) Koukaku Kidoutai: The Ghost in the Shell
Type Manga
Volumes 1
Chapters 11
Status Finished
Published May 1, 1989 to Sep 1, 1991

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