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Synopsis:
In a world caught in the grip of information overload, where artificial intelligence is more than the real thing and cyborg cops spend their lives surfing on an electronic sea of living data, only the Ghost - the indefinable element of human consciousness - exists to determine who is alive and who is purely a creation of the Net.

Major Motoko Kusanagi is an elite officer in the Section 9 security force: a cybernetic agent so heavily modified that little more than her Ghost remains. Along with fellow cyborg and the mostly human Togusa, Kusanagi is set on the trail of a computer-criminal known as the Puppet Master, a data thief skilled enough to hack into the very minds of his victims. His human marionettes live out existences that are nothing more than computer generated fantasy, unwittingly committing their master's crimes while the Ghost-hacker hides in the darkness.

But as Kusanagi digs deeper into the walls of secrecy surrounding the case, it appears that the Puppet Master has a special interest in her alone. And when the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, shadowy Section 6, enter the scene, Kusanagi becomes tangled in a web of plot and counter plot, and realizes that the true identity of her invisible assailant lies at the center of a vast and lethal political conspiracy........

Seamlessly merging traditional cell animation with the latest computer graphic imagery, Ghost in the Shell is a complex and violent cyberspace adventure from Masamune Shirow - Creator of Appleseed and Dominion Tank Police

Credits:
Director: Mamoru Oshii
Screenplay: Kazunori Ito
Animation Director: Toshihiko Nishikubo
Key Animation Supervisors: KazuChika Kise, Hiroyuki Okiura
Character Design: Hiroyuki Okiura
Mechanical Design: Shoji Kawamori, Atsuhi Takeuchi
Art Director: Hiromasa Ogura
Music: Kenji Kawai
Produced by: Kodansha
In Association with: Bandai Visual and Manga Entertainment
Executive Producers: Teruo Miyahara, Shigeru Watanabe, Andy Frain

© 1995 Masamune Shirow / Kodansha Ltd. / Bandai Visual Co., Ltd. / Manga Entertainment

English Lanquage Version: © 1996 Kodansha Ltd. / Bandai Visual Co., Ltd. / Manga Entertainment

Package Design and Summary: © 1996 Kodansha Ltd. / Bandai Visual Co., Ltd. / Manga Entertainment

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