Masamune Shirow is one of the great creators in the world of Japanese manga and animé - his works have been the basis of several important franchises, with Ghost In the Shell the most famous. Shirow is a Japanese artist best known for Ghost In the Shell, Appleseed and Dominion: Tank Police.

Ghost in the Shell 1.This is a study of the Ghost In the Shell comic by Masamune Shirow (real name Masanori Ota, born in 1961, Kobe, Japan).

Intron Depot 3 - Ballistics (2003) (military-themed color illustration and CG artbook featuring female characters with guns).

Ghost in the Shell 2: Man/Machine Interface (2001) (released in collected form in America on January 19, 2005).

Intron Depot 2 - Blades (1998) (fantasy-themed color illustration artbook featuring female characters with armor and edged weapons).

Dominion: Conflict 1 (No More Noise) (1995).

Intron Depot 1 (1992) (sci fi-themed color illustration artbook collecting his work from 1981 to 1991).

Two more volumes of Appleseed followed before he began work on Ghost in the Shell.

After a professional reprint of Black Magic and a second volume of Appleseed, he released Dominion in 1986. The story was a sensation, and won the 1986 Seiun Award for Best Manga. The result was Appleseed, a full volume of densely-plotted drama taking place in an ambiguous future. His work caught the eye of Seishinsha President Harumichi Aoki, who offered to publish him. While in college, he developed an interest in manga, which led him to create his own complete work, Black Magic, which was published in the manga fanzine Atlas. Shirow is also popular for creating erotic art.īorn in the Hyōgo Prefecture capital city of Kobe, he studied oil painting at Osaka University of Arts. He is best known for the manga Ghost in the Shell, which has since been turned into three anime movies, two anime TV series and several video games. Masamune Shirow is a pen name, based on a famous swordsmith, Masamune. Masamune Shirow (士郎正宗, Shirō Masamune?) is an internationally renowned manga artist, born Masanori Ota (太田まさのり Ōta Masanori) on November 23, 1961.

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Ghost in the Shell by Masamune Shirow