The Ghost in the Shell Vol. 1
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Genres
Action, Seinen, Psychological, Sci-Fi, Police
Summary
- Major Motoko Kusanagi is a cyborg employed as the squad leader of Public Security Section 9
- The hacker "Puppeteer" is causing mayhem in New Port City politics and must be put under control
- In mid-21st century Japan, cyber-crime runs a world that melds together humanity and technology
Description
In a 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 involving an extremely dangerous ''ghost''hacker nicknamed the Puppeteer, as she dives deeper and deeper into the limitless reality of the net, to reach her own startling conclusions.
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Other Facts
Published
Mar 1989 to Sep 1991
Serialization
None
Where to read
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