Masamune Shirow (士郎 正宗) is an internationally renowned manga artist. He is best known for the manga Ghost in the Shell, which has since been turned into two theatrical anime movies, two anime TV series, an anime TV movie, and several video games. Shirow is also known for creating erotic art. Born in the Hyōgo Prefecture capital city of Kobe, he studied oil painting at Osaka University of Arts. While in college, he developed an interest in manga, which led him to create his own complete work, Black Magic, which was published in the manga fanzine Atlas. His work caught the eye of Seishinsha President Harumichi Aoki, who offered to publish him. The result was Appleseed, a full volume of densely-plotted drama taking place in an ambiguous future. The story was a sensation, and won the 1986 Seiun Award for Best Manga. After a professional reprint of Black Magic and a second volume of Appleseed, he released Dominion in 1986. Two more volumes of Appleseed followed before he began work on Ghost in the Shell.
Series
Books
The Ghost in the Shell 2
Man-Machine Interface
2001
Ghost in the Shell 1.5
Human-error Processor
2003
Ghost in the Shell, tome 2
1991
Super Spartan
1995
紅殻のパンドラ 17
2020
Pandora in the Crimson Shell
Ghost Urn Vol. 8
2016
Pandora in the Crimson Shell
Ghost Urn Vol. 14
2018
紅殻のパンドラ 19
2020
Pandora in the Crimson Shell
Ghost Urn Vol. 5
2014
Pandora in the Crimson Shell
Ghost Urn Vol. 13
2018
Robot Rondo
1996
Intron Depot 7
Barb Wire 02
2013
Appleseed
Databook
1995
Intron Depot 5
Battalion
2012
Soma's koehandel
1998
Pandora in the Crimson Shell
Ghost Urn Vol. 15
2019
Appleseed
Prometheus Unbound
1985
Pandora in the Crimson Shell
Ghost Urn Vol. 4
2014
Kusanagi's blunder
1999
紅殻のパンドラ 16
2019
Intron Depot 2
Blades
1998
Dumb Barter
2025
紅殻のパンドラ 21
2021
Pandora in the Crimson Shell
Ghost Urn Vol. 11
2017
Het spookfonds
1997
紅殻のパンドラ 18
2020
Appleseed
The Scales of Prometheus
1987
Pandora in the Crimson Shell
Ghost Urn, Vol. 10
2017
Pandora in the Crimson Shell
Ghost Urn Vol. 9
2016
The Ghost in the Shell
The Human Algorithm Vol. 1
2020
Ghost Coast
2001
紅殻のパンドラ 20
2021
Appleseed ID
1996
Megatech Machine 2 - The Making of a Cyborg
2025
Megatech Machine 1 - Revolt of the Robots
2025
Appleseed
The Promethean Balance
1989
Pandora in the Crimson Shell
Ghost Urn Vol. 2
2013
Dominion
Conflict 1
1997
Pandora in the Crimson Shell
Ghost Urn Vol. 6
2015
GHOST IN THE SHELL
2001
Pandora in the Crimson Shell
Ghost Urn Vol. 7
2015
Bye Bye Clay
2025
Pandora in the Crimson Shell
Ghost Urn Vol. 1
2013
Dominion
1993
Black Magic
1998
Pandora in the Crimson Shell
Ghost Urn Vol. 12
2018
Ghost in the Shell
1989
