Masamune

Shirow Masamune is probably best known for writing and illustrating the cyberpunk manga Ghost In The Shell, which is heavily dependent on William Gibson's cyberpunk novel Neuromancer (and this cultural cross-fertilization works both ways, for The Matrix is heavily dependent on the film adaptation of Ghost in the Shell).

Movie Review: Appleseed 2007

Shirow Masamune is also responsible for the manga Appleseed, which is also cyberpunk and also that particular brand of manga/anime cyberpunk known as mecha, which mostly features people riding around in big fighting machines and engaging in heavy firefights.

Movie Review: Appleseed 2007

Shirow Masamune is also responsible for the manga Appleseed, which is also cyberpunk and also that particular brand of manga/anime cyberpunk known as mecha, which mostly features people riding around in big fighting machines and engaging in heavy firefights.

Archive 2007-08-01 2007

Shirow Masamune is probably best known for writing and illustrating the cyberpunk manga Ghost In The Shell, which is heavily dependent on William Gibson's cyberpunk novel Neuromancer (and this cultural cross-fertilization works both ways, for The Matrix is heavily dependent on the film adaptation of Ghost in the Shell).

Archive 2007-08-01 2007

The females, on the other hand, are starting to prefer men with a more brutal history of some sort, such as Masamune Date from the series Sengoku Basara, which also happens to follow history of feudal Japan.

Anime Nano! 2009

It's derived from a few chapters of Masamune Shirow's manga of the same name, and even a cursory examination of cyberpunk SF will grant you insight into its elements.

MIND MELD: Anime Film Favorites (+ The Top 14 Anime Films of All Time!) 2010

The first comic book I remember reading was Appleseed #1 by Masamune Shiro that I found in a stack of old comic books in a bookstore when I was 9 years old or so.

Free Comic Book Day arrives at local comic shops 2010

Blue guy (Date Masamune) fights red guy (Sanada Yukimura), blah blah.

Anime Preview: Spring 2009 First Impressions – Batch 1 « Undercover 2009

Ghost in the Shell 1.5: Human-Error Processor presents for the first time in America the “lost” Ghost in the Shell stories, created by Shirow Masamune after completing work on the original Ghost in the Shell manga and prior to his tour-de-force, Ghost in the Shell 2: Man-Machine Interface.

Dark Horse Title Shipping in December | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News 2009

Produced by international comics superstar Shirow Masamune, creator of Appleseed and Ghost in the Shell, Dominion is an ecological-dystopian-police procedural adventure/comedy as only Shirow can create!

Dark Horse Title Shipping in December | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News 2009