Well, I just happen to have Appleseed: Volume One: The Promethean Challenge to hand.… It was pretty addictive stuff back in the Reagan Era - no American comics I knew of explored SF themes like Shirow’s or had the same striking art - but how well does it stand up today? Does it still have the same punch in a world where many great manga are no further away than the nearest library? Between 19, the series was published volume by volume by Eclipse Comics, which is the edition I first read 1.
First published in 1985, it won the 1986 Seiun Award for Best Manga. 384 pages.For many people in North America - well, me, at least - Masamune Shirow’s Appleseed series was one of the first translated manga they ever saw. The Art of Masamune Shirow is published in three volumes:īibliography, resources and notes. The Appleseed comic and the three Ghost In the Shell comics are explored chapter by chapter.įully illustrated, including many images from Masamune Shirow's whole output, the neglected comics, and Shirow's other works in print publishing, such as the Intron Depot series.
The Art of Masamune Shirow includes chapters on Shirow's signature works, Appleseed and Ghost In the Shell, and his lesser-known comics, such as Dominion: Tank Police, Orion, Black Magic and Neuro Hard a biography Shirow's relation to the Japanese manga industry and themes such as cyberculture and cyber-punk fiction.
Shirow's art is marked by futuristic, cyber-punk settings, fabulous, often eccentric designs, elaborate mecha (such as tanks and mobile suits), attractive warrior women and detailed storytelling (accompanied by his famous, sometimes arcane notes).
Masamune Shirow is one of the great creators in the world of Japanese manga and anim - his works have been the basis of several important franchises. 1961, Kobe, Japan), a Japanese artist best known for Ghost In the Shell, Appleseed and Dominion: Tank Police. This is a study of the art of Masamune Shirow (real name Masanori Ota, b.
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