Ghost in the Shell 1.5: Human Error Processor

[ouiyahtsiouiyah]

anybody check this out from darkhorse? Its another 8 issue GitS series by good ol Shirow. looks to take place inbetween GitS and GitS 2: man Machine Interface.

I just flipped thru it but its gonna be cool i can already tell.

[Inkthinker]

I got it... it's real pretty, but to be honest it's also reeeeaaaalll thin-feeling. There aren't any ads, but for $2.99 an issue I think I may wait for the inevitable collected edition.

So far it seems to mainly star Togusa, which is cool, but if they don't get some serious Batou in there, much less the Major, I'll feel a little cheated.

[Silver Knight]

I got it... it's real pretty, but to be honest it's also reeeeaaaalll thin-feeling. There aren't any ads, but for $2.99 an issue I think I may wait for the inevitable collected edition.

So far it seems to mainly star Togusa, which is cool, but if they don't get some serious Batou in there, much less the Major, I'll feel a little cheated.

Oh dont worry if ur as big a fan as I am u know perfectly well Shinrow will build to some awsome deep stuff and sure enough batou and the Major will be their.

[SpydaWeb]

If this is what I think it is, I'm pretty sure it's mainly Togusa.

[Inkthinker]

Togusa is more of a main character than people think, because in many ways he represents the "everyman"... he's the most human of the members of Section 9. He's the star of many episodes of the television series, the co-star along with Batou of the second film, and so it's no surprise to me if he's the focus of this series, the title of which implies to me, at least, that it may continue to explore the dichotomy between the human and the machine (the major theme in Shirow's GitS to begin with).

[SpydaWeb]

I confused Batou with Togusa. I was thinking of the novel written about Batou. I don't think I know this new storyline.

[the goddamn batman]

I was kinda hoping the Major wouldn't be in it. Just to mix it up.

Though, all these answers should be available, as this isn't a 'new' series. It's been out in Japan, I believe, for a while.

I'm stoked though, it feels like the original GITS mang, and less like Man/Machine Interface.

[ouiyahtsiouiyah]

Im pretty sure its goona show the major and how she starts off in man machine interface-which was better than GitS 1

[Inkthinker]

Really? I found Man-Machine Interface to be somewhat impenetrably laden with Shirowesque futuretechnological theory that often overshadowed the actual plot. It was cool and typically deep, but he could have standed to rope in the babble a touch.

[the goddamn batman]

Man/Machine Interface, for me, suffered not from the dialog, but from it's manga digest (small size) format.

I thought all of the computer graphics were too detailed for such a small format.

I guess I should track down the originals.

[Paploo the Ewok]

I got it... it's real pretty, but to be honest it's also reeeeaaaalll thin-feeling. There aren't any ads, but for $2.99 an issue I think I may wait for the inevitable collected edition.

So far it seems to mainly star Togusa, which is cool, but if they don't get some serious Batou in there, much less the Major, I'll feel a little cheated.

I think it's just the glossy paper that makes it feel so thin.... it's just as long as most 2.99 comics are :) From my understanding, these are stories that haven't been collected in Japan yet [ala, the chpaters of Appelseed that appeared in SMB and are being collected in Hypernotes], so nice coup for DH.

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http://www.motorballer.org/shirow/gits15.html Yoho! Here we are...

[the goddamn batman]

It appears to be 3 (or 4) seperate 'chapters'.

8 issues in total.

Are those Appleseed stories going to be released in America? I really hope so... If not, anyone got scans?

[ouiyahtsiouiyah]

Really? I found Man-Machine Interface to be somewhat impenetrably laden with Shirowesque futuretechnological theory that often overshadowed the actual plot. It was cool and typically deep, but he could have standed to rope in the babble a touch.

I admit I had to read it several times to understand what was going on. And I still don't understand the last issue very well. I though it was cool because you were following Motoko's investigation that seemingly leads to the meaning of life, or something.
I think the technobabble to that extent was necessary because Motoko was so advanced that she needed something like that to be her challenge besides the psychics

[Inkthinker]

Are those Appleseed stories going to be released in America? I really hope so... If not, anyone got scans?

I think they're releasing them in the upcoming "Hypernotes" collection, but it sounds as though they're the same chapters that were already released in Super Manga Blast!

Even if someone did know about scans, they wouldn't be allowed to post links to them here. Patience, man, patience!!

[The Xenos]

I got it... it's real pretty, but to be honest it's also reeeeaaaalll thin-feeling.

Ha. Yeah. I actually grabbed two issus off the shelf by mistake and wondered while flipping through what this insert in the middle of the book was, if it was a poster or something. Then I realized it was the cover and that I had grabbed two. Needless to say it went back to the shelf.

As much as I am a proponant of the comic book issue format, I think selling manga this way is just dead. They're reprints. Maybe if somehow the book was released both in the US and Japan at the same time it would be a good idea, but considering this is an old series, milking it like this is a big mistake. The reason people buy comics in that format is because they're getting material soon after it's made and they don't want to wait for the colelction.

Plus Dark Horse has a number of Shirow collections released and soon to be relased that are all in one collection. I am dumfounded why they didn't just do that with this.

It's funny, here I am decrying the comic book issue format for manga reprints, but recently I was elated to find an old single issue of Marvel's Epic Comics reprint of Otomo's Memories that I found in a dollar bin in a record store on Cape Cod.