The coloring seems a little bit better than that of the first GitS, but there’s still a vague murkiness to it in places, and the colors don’t seem quite as sharp as they did in earlier, glossy stock, editions. The Deluxe Edition looks nice and Shirow’s artwork benefits from the larger format. While nothing in this volume reaches the heights of some of his crazier fight scenes, they’re still engaging and left me wishing he’d given us more in that area. The amount of detail he crams into every panel is really astonishing at times, and his action sequences are crackling with energy, motion, impact and weight. The backgrounds are dense and give the sense of a populated and bustling city. The artwork looks fantastic, Shirow’s does a first rate job with rendering a sci-fi world the feels fully lived in and realized. As a result, it feels more like the Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex anime, and might be the most enjoyable and accessible for fans coming to the manga via that series.

Without the Major as the main character, Shirow’s able to focus a bit more on the cases and push members of the supporting cast into the spotlight, for better or worse. Despite this, Ghost in the Shell 1.5 is a fun little read. Maybe if it had continued a larger arc would have developed, but as it is the book feels like a short story compilation made up of different one off cases. While there are hints at tenuous links to Ghost in the Shell 2, this volume is mostly made up of unconnected stories. Togusa and Batou become the main two characters, with several of the other supporting cast being fleshed out a bit here and there over the course of the volume.

It’s essentially a short story collection depicting several different investigations undertaken by a post-Kusanagi Section 9. As a result, Ghost in the Shell 1.5 is an unfinished project. Released after Ghost in the Shell 2: Man-Machine Interface, Ghost in the Shell 1.5: Human-Error Processor takes place between the the first and second Ghost in the Shell series and represents Shirow’s first, aborted attempt to continue the Ghost in the Shell franchise in manga form. Schodt and Toren Smith, Additional Translation by Stephen Paul Ghost in the Shell 1.5 Human-Error Processor: Deluxe Editionīy Shirow Masamune, Translation & English Adaption by Frederik L.

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