Primarily set in the mid-twenty-first century in the fictional Japanese city of Niihama, Niihama Prefecture, otherwise known as New Port City, the manga and the many anime adaptations follow the members of Public Security Section 9, a special-operations task-force made up of former military officers and police detectives. All three volumes have received mainly positive reviews. Several artbooks have been released to detail the concept art and the world of Ghost in the Shell. The books contain Shirow's thoughts on design and philosophy, including sociological issues, the consequences of technological advances and themes on the nature of consciousness and identity. The last volume, Ghost in the Shell 1.5: Human-Error Processor, contains four separate cases. Ghost in the Shell 2: Man-Machine Interface was the sequel work which follows the story of Motoko after merging with the Puppeteer. Set in the mid-21st-century, it tells the story of the fictional counter- cyberterrorist organization Public Security Section 9, led by protagonist Major Motoko Kusanagi. It was first serialized in Kodansha's seinen manga magazine Young Magazine Zōkan Kaizokuban from 1989 to 1991, under the subtitle of The Ghost in the Shell and was compiled in one tankōbon volume. 'Mobile Armored Riot Police') is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Masamune Shirow, which spawned the media franchise of the same name. Ghost in the Shell ( Japanese: 攻殻機動隊, Hepburn: Kōkaku Kidōtai, lit. Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex.

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