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Ghost in the Shell Standalone Complex manga in the works


8:10 PM on 12.15.2009
Ghost in the Shell Standalone Complex manga in the works photo



Get ready for some more mass naked child events, this time in manga format, as Ghost in the Shell: Standalone Complex is getting a manga adaptation. Though the cyberized world of Ghost in the Shell is practically a paperless one, to see such a futuristic work spun off onto such archaic format is refreshing. In fact, I think I remember it being a plot point of that series.

Anyway, according to Comic Natalie the manga will be serialized in Comic Young and is slated to start in February of 2010. It will be illustrated by Murai Sadayuk, who also handled the manga version of Katsuhiro Otomo's Steamboy.

For the record, this means that there are now three different interpretations of Ghost in the Shell floating around, one based on the Mamoru Oshii movies, one based on the original Masamune Shirow manga, and one based on Standalone Complex. And all of them with the Major having horrid fashion sense (Standalone Complex being the worst offender).

Which version of the Major's fashion sense do you most tolerate? I prefer the version present in the 2nd season of Standalone Complex. She actually wears pants in that one.

[Thanks for the translation, Raz!]






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She could be nude and I still wouldn't object to her fashion sense.

She's the Major, she can wear whatever in the fuck she wants to while in the field.
isnt the Major like 80 something years old ?
And? Who cares how old she is?
@Slust: She IS naked half the time-- the thermoptic camouflage is a great excuse for that. The old manga had a lot more nudity, and even lesbian cybersex.

Shirow Masamune's an okay storyteller, but a terrible illustrator. I'd love to see this manga, which presumably has better quality than the middle-schooler's scribbles that are Masamune's art.

SAC 2nd Gig does have the best style, but I suspect that's just because it's the newest. All the series looked good in their own time, because our idea of "what the future looks like" changes all the time.
@Nihon Freak - WHAT? Masamune is a terrible illustrator? Where R your eyes man (or women ;p); He is one of the best mangakas ever existing with storytelling and graphics. There are detailed and yet they don't feel very heavy; Ok, the new ones done mostly with computers are kinda plastic, but thats a bit nice feeling too.

About the article. I prefer Major looks in mangas - in teh first one, when it's a little bit like futuristic 80s... then (in the man machine interface) when it feels more up to date futuristic.

In SACs Major fashion choises are... weird... yet when she isn't using her IDoNotCoverVeryMuch outfit she looks kinda great. And by kinda I mean smoking hot.

Yhe.
But thats just me, mad GitS fan;
I did find her fashion sense in the first season odd. It's as if she realised she couldn't be half as intimidating unless she wore pants in the second season.
I always figured she just didn't care what she worse since she was pretty much all cyborg. Still, I found her outfit in the second season to be way more badass. It's hard to strike fear into your opponents' hearts when you don't wear pants...or much of anything else really.
*she wore
Interesting what Otaku Focus on when given the opportunity...
I thought the nudity made sense in the Oshii movies, because like Gee-man said, her body was kind of just 'hardware' to her; it was Batou who was uncomfortable with it, which helped show his feelings about her.

In SAC though she seems much more 'normal' for lack of a better word, so the outfit just seems out of place.

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