{"id":1148,"date":"2007-10-02T15:30:18","date_gmt":"2007-10-02T15:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/?p=1148"},"modified":"2013-03-14T10:15:19","modified_gmt":"2013-03-14T10:15:19","slug":"ghost-in-the-shell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2007\/10\/02\/ghost-in-the-shell\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghost in the Shell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/ghost-in-the-shell.jpg\" alt=\"Ghost in the Shell\" \/><\/p>\n<p>By <strong>Shirow Masamune<\/strong> (Dark Horse Manga)<br \/>\nISBN: 1-84576-018-2<\/p>\n<p>Reformatted and released to complement the publication of the long awaited sequel, <strong>Ghost in the Shell<\/strong> is ostensibly the story of Major Motoko Kusanagi, an agent for a covert security department dedicated to protecting a country in political and economic decline from outside threat and internal depredations by hackers and organizations capable of supplanting human consciousness and turning people into robots and vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>Her dedicated fight to preserve some kind of status quo in a world spiraling out of technological\/spiritual balance and her inevitable evolution to another state struck a metaphorical chord world-wide, spawning a TV series, two movies and a computer-game. Shirow Masmune&#8217;s complex prognostications and spectacularly detailed illustration astonished and captivated audiences, although previous English language publications were drastically censored. This new edition restores and translates these omissions for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>Complex and intriguing with much to recommend it, it nevertheless remains a difficult book to read if all you want is a quick thrill, but the visual panorama is an art fan&#8217;s dream. I suppose we should try to concentrate on what&#8217;s going on, not just how well it&#8217;s drawn.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a9 1991, 1995, 2004 by Shirow Masamune. All rights reserved.<br \/>\nEnglish version \u00c2\u00a9 1991, 1995, 2004 by Dark Horse Comics All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Shirow Masamune (Dark Horse Manga) ISBN: 1-84576-018-2 Reformatted and released to complement the publication of the long awaited sequel, Ghost in the Shell is ostensibly the story of Major Motoko Kusanagi, an agent for a covert security department dedicated to protecting a country in political and economic decline from outside threat and internal depredations &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2007\/10\/02\/ghost-in-the-shell\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ghost in the Shell&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[25,107,156],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japanese-comics","category-science-fiction","category-world-classics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4AFj-iw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}