The stories star Section 9, an anti-terrorist unit led by Motoko Kusanagi, aka The Major.
However, before going through the film I think it’d first have a look at her first appearance in the manga, 攻殻機動隊/Kōkaku Kidōtai, or “Mobile Armoured Riot Police,” a name so prosaic it makes a 180 degree turn and sounds kind of cool.įirst serialised in 1989, the comic is a series of short stories set in a “near future” anarcho-capitalist Japan ruled by massive corporate conglomerates with little to no government oversight.
GHOST IN THE SHELL 1995 KICKASS MOVIE
The 1995 Ghost in the Shell movie was many people’s – including my own – introduction to the character known as Major Motoko Kusanagi, strong anime female character par excellence and bearer of one of the finest haircuts out there. Cue chimes, quasi-religious chanting and the title: GHOST IN THE SHELL. It’s the naked woman, who looks straight into the camera, wipes her face with an invisible hand and vanishes into the city below. Just as he does so the video wall behind the diplomat shatters and his head explodes like a piece of overripe fruit.
In the meantime, police storm the building, leading to one of the participants of the aforementioned intrigue to claim diplomatic immunity. She stands and takes off her coat, revealing she’s seemingly wearing nothing underneath, other than gloves and boots, and swan dives right off the building. A woman sits perched atop a skyscraper in a futuristic metropolis, spying on what sounds like political intrigue taking place in one of the floors below. It’s one of the most memorable openings from not only animation, but arguably cinema in general. But what is it all about? Jack in for a closer look at a vision of the possible near future… by Marco Attard Ghost in the Shell: a transmedia franchise nearly 20 years old, yet relevant more than ever with its transhumanist themes, cyberpunk stylings and, perhaps most importantly, kickass female figure known as the Major.
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