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Masamune Shirow

Forfatter af Ghost in the Shell

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(eng) Masamune Shirow is the pen name of Ōta Masanori (太田 まさのり) .

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Værker af Masamune Shirow

Ghost in the Shell (1991) 1,356 eksemplarer
Appleseed, Vol. 2: Prometheus Unbound (1995) — Forfatter — 195 eksemplarer
Dominion (1993) 120 eksemplarer
Orion (1994) 116 eksemplarer
Black Magic (1998) 107 eksemplarer
Intron Depot 1 (1992) 98 eksemplarer
Appleseed: Hypernotes (1995) 93 eksemplarer
Intron Depot 2: Blades (1998) 70 eksemplarer
Intron Depot 3: Ballistics (2002) 47 eksemplarer
Appleseed Ex Machina (2007) 39 eksemplarer
Appleseed ID (1990) 38 eksemplarer
Intron Depot 4: Bullets (2004) 30 eksemplarer
Ghost in the Shell, Tome 1 (1996) 16 eksemplarer
Ghost in the Shell, Tome 3 (2002) 14 eksemplarer
Ghost in the Shell, Tome 2 (1996) 14 eksemplarer
Appleseed, Bd.2, Gastfreundschaft (1984) 14 eksemplarer
Orion, Bd.1, Der Planet Lurieh (1994) 12 eksemplarer
Appleseed, Bd.4, Die Stunde Null (1995) 10 eksemplarer
Appleseed, Bd.8, Weltanschauungen (1996) 10 eksemplarer
Ghost in the Shell, Tome 4 (2003) 9 eksemplarer
Appleseed, Bd.9, Das Abkommen (1996) 9 eksemplarer
Intron Depot 5: Battalion (2012) 8 eksemplarer
Ghost in the Shell Anime Comic (2001) 8 eksemplarer
Ghost in the Shell: 2 (1996) 7 eksemplarer
PIECES 3 (2010) 7 eksemplarer
Dominion, Bd.1, Tank Police (1999) 6 eksemplarer
Ghost in the Shell: 1 (2002) 6 eksemplarer
Ghost in the Shell: 8 (2001) 6 eksemplarer
Ghost in the Shell: 3 (1996) 6 eksemplarer
Ghost in the Shell: 4 (1997) 6 eksemplarer
Ghost in the Shell: 6 (1998) 6 eksemplarer
Ghost in the Shell: 5 (1998) 6 eksemplarer
Ghost in the Shell: 7 (1999) 6 eksemplarer
Dominion: Phantom of the Audience (1996) 5 eksemplarer
PIECES〈5〉HELL HOUND〈02〉 (2011) 5 eksemplarer
Intron Depot 6: Barbwire 1 (2013) 4 eksemplarer
PIECES6 HELLCAT (2011) 4 eksemplarer
Appleseed Movie Book: Volume 1 (2005) 4 eksemplarer
PIECES〈4〉HELL HOUND-01 (2010) 4 eksemplarer
Dominion, Bd.2, Intervention (1995) 4 eksemplarer
Appleseed 3 #5 (1990) 4 eksemplarer
GREASEBERRIES [1] (2014) 3 eksemplarer
PIECES〈8〉WILD WET WEST (2012) 3 eksemplarer
Appleseed 2 #3 (1989) 3 eksemplarer
PIECES7 HELLHOUND-01&02 (2011) 3 eksemplarer
Appleseed 4 #2 (1991) — Forfatter — 3 eksemplarer
Portafolio: Cyberworld (1901) 3 eksemplarer
Cybergirls. Portfolio (1901) 3 eksemplarer
Shirow Masamune: 2006 (2005) 2 eksemplarer
Dominion, Bd.4, Konflikt (1997) 2 eksemplarer
Majoor Kusanagi (1996) 2 eksemplarer
Appleseed 2 #1 (1989) 2 eksemplarer
Appleseed 2 #4 (1989) 2 eksemplarer
Appleseed 2 #2 (1989) 2 eksemplarer
Appleseed 3 #1 (1989) 2 eksemplarer
Appleseed 3 #4 (1990) 2 eksemplarer
Shirow Masamune: 2004 Calendar (2003) 2 eksemplarer
Orion #5 (of 6) (1993) 2 eksemplarer
Appleseed 4 #1 (1991) 2 eksemplarer
Appleseed 3 #3 (1989) 2 eksemplarer
Appleseed 4 #3 (1991) — Forfatter — 2 eksemplarer
Intron Depot 9: Barrage Fire (2019) 2 eksemplarer
Togohime Zohushi (2003) 2 eksemplarer
Intron Depot 10: Bloodbard (2020) 1 eksemplar
GREASEBERRIES ROUGH 1 eksemplar
GREASEBERRIES 4 1 eksemplar
GREASEBERRIES 3 1 eksemplar
Shirow Masamune: 2005 Calendar (2004) 1 eksemplar
Orion #1 (of 6) (1992) 1 eksemplar
Appleseed 1 #2 (1988) 1 eksemplar
Appleseed 1 #3 (1988) 1 eksemplar
Appleseed 1 #4 (1988) 1 eksemplar
Appleseed 1 #5 (1989) 1 eksemplar
Appleseed 3 #2 (1989) 1 eksemplar
Orion #3 (of 6) (1993) 1 eksemplar
Appleseed 4 #4 (1991) 1 eksemplar
Appleseed 2 #5 (1989) 1 eksemplar
Orion #2 (of 6) 1 eksemplar
Dominion 3 1 eksemplar
Dominion 4 1 eksemplar
Dominion 5 1 eksemplar
Dominion 6 1 eksemplar
Appleseed 1 #1 (1988) 1 eksemplar
Dominion 2 1 eksemplar
W・TAILS CAT 2 (2013) 1 eksemplar
伽姫草子小判 (画集) (2004) 1 eksemplar
Dominion 1 1 eksemplar
Dominion, Bd.5, Konflikt (1997) 1 eksemplar

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Kanonisk navn
Shirow, Masamune
Fødselsdato
1961-11-23
Køn
male
Nationalitet
Japan
Fødested
Kobe, Hyōgo, Japan
Uddannelse
Osaka University of Arts (Oil Painting)
Erhverv
illustrator
writer
Organisationer
Production I.G
Kort biografi
Also has used the following names: Masanori Oota | Masanori Outa | Masamune Shiro | Masamune Shiroo | Masamune Shirou | Masamune Shirow | Masamune Shirô | Masanori Ôta
Oplysning om flertydighed
Masamune Shirow is the pen name of Ōta Masanori (太田 まさのり) .

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(Review, Jan 2nd 2023)

While cartoonish in some parts (I especially like all the comments around the panels :)) this is a serious thriller. Deunan and Briareos start the story as usual-tuesday raid on the arms smuggling ship. But what happens here is that ship is just an initial step in much more serious investigation - Olympus hosts international negotiations and it seems that somebody is very much dedicated to make sure they fail in billows of smoke and thunderous explosions.

From embassy attack by the unknown cyborg to highly sophisticated terrorist group infiltration this book is very, very dynamic and movie-like.

Until it ends mid-flight...... and this was a bummer. I dont know why it was never finished......

Rest of the book are discussions with the author and presentations of various mecha and society in the Appleseed universe.

If there was a conclusion story wise it would be straight five stars. As it is, I give it 4.

Highly recommended to fans of mecha and action-adventure SF.
… (mere)
 
Markeret
Zare | Jan 23, 2024 |
This book provides the background of the Appleseed universe. We are shown timeline leading to the WW3, destruction and recovery of the world after it. We are given information on Olympus and national states and all the political/military intrigue in this world that unfortunately does not look that much different from our own anymore.

Following this we have beautiful plates of art - concept art, used and unused in the final volumes - and additional chapter, "Called Game" where we follow Deunan and Briareos chase down assassin involved in the intrigue between orgajized crime and Poseidon corporation.

Art as always is great, standalone plates and sketches are truly wonderful.

While there are comic relief scenes, especially between our dynamic duo, story is very serious thriller that reminds me in some ways to Golgo books - there is some serious thought and research involved and it shows. But again, this was also case with the GIST by the same author so it does not come as a big surprise.

Highly recommended to all fans of cyberpunk and action SF.
… (mere)
 
Markeret
Zare | Jan 23, 2024 |
Deunan and Briareos are nomads in the dystopian landscape of post WW3 Earth. While trying to survive in abandoned city contaminated by serious chemical weaponry their paths will cross with Hitomi, mysterious agent from Olympus, de facto new Earth government and unknown mercenary group.

This continues even as they move to Olympus. Their arrival seems to trigger internal conflict between various city fractions and situation is not made more tolerable when Briareos finds out the city secret, that majority of population are bioroids, artificial humanoid life forms. Soon they will find themselves in crosshairs of police forces, city paramilitary (respectively run by competing city political forces) and strange force aiming to destroy city's command Gaia, force made up of people brought to city from the desolate areas ( aka rest of planet Earth). Action scenes are excellent, both with Deunan and Briareos taking opposition one on one or combat using battle suits called landmates.

Excellent thriller, and as in every aspiring thriller, not everything is explained in the first book. I can see this is something few readers are mzrking as a bad thing. For me, this is serialization as in case of tv show. You cannot expect that everything will be made clear in the episode 1 of planned several episodes. I am looking forward to follow up books.

Highly recommended to fans of SF, cyberpunk and action thrillers.
… (mere)
 
Markeret
Zare | 5 andre anmeldelser | Jan 23, 2024 |
First things first - if you were puzzled with story lines of Matrix, Inception, Dark City and Brazil movies this one will leave you more than puzzled and saying whaaat? page after page.

I like SF, have been reading it for decades now (hehehehe, man time flies by :)) but this comic is so filled various SF concepts and techno-lingo (and I come from IT background) - basically you get bombarded with so much terminology you'll loose the story thread in no time.

That's one thing I did not like - story line is so convoluted and hidden under the layers and layers of sentences like 'barriers are down.... deploy cetbots and combat suit K... My mines are duplicating.... Deploy decot at position H using code name K....' etc etc that only after reading more thoroughly through the novel way you'll figure out that story line is not so complex at all (I've seen more complex GitS TV episodes) - complexity seems to be artificial in nature.

What was the intent of the author - to experiment with the comic as a medium or something else, is completely beyond me, but I have a feeling that this would have been much better executed in movie media - in comics you only end up with excellent graphic, bedazzling effects, lots of hi-tech mumbo-jumbo [at least for most people, event seasoned SF lovers] but at one point you won't know what is going on in the first place story-wise (which should be a main point for each and every novel/graphic novel/comic).

But nevertheless it is an interesting concept. Considering the time when this issue was released it is very modern and not-so far-fetched (I can only say congrats to author for creating such a believable universe). If you enjoyed the GitS 1 and 1.5 you'll love this one but don't expect to figure everything out in the first,second or third reading :)
… (mere)
 
Markeret
Zare | 6 andre anmeldelser | Jan 23, 2024 |

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