The TV series and movies were created by people who took the time and patience to pry his ideas free of their limitations and do them justice.īut this doesn’t always happen, and so time and again I have begged whatever gods may be listening to pair Shirow up with a writer, or failing that an editor, who can give his imagination the discipline and coherence it needs. It is actually the least interesting part of the whole GitS mythology, possibly because Shirow is only interested in taking his premises as seriously as he has to for the sake of a glossy-looking panel. Appleseed was probably his best moment, but it ultimately worked better as an animated feature (two of them, in fact) than it did on paper.Īnd then there is Ghost in the Shell, the original manga that later spawed a whole galaxy of media on its own, the movies and TV shows and novels that I have liked and loved in different measures. Orion, for instance, was essentially one giant shaggy-dog joke-a flood of terminology and ideas and metaphors and references used to support a plot that wouldn’t otherwise have deserved a ten-page short. He is not, however, a very engaging storyteller, and almost every time he’s sat down to cull together a story out of his torrent of wild images, the results have been disappointing. Masamune Shirow is a fantastically creative visual artist, one of the best in the business. George Lucas may have been deeply enamored of the relationship between Amidala and Anakin, but we saw no evidence onscreen of what was so interesting to him.
That or he simply hadn’t found a way to make those things interesting to us. The further the material has been taken from its creator (manga artist Masamune Shirow), the more interesting it has become-which implies that Shirow was most interested in the things about it that were least interesting to everyone else.
The most disconcerting thing about the Ghost in the Shell mythology is something that, oddly enough, parallels Star Wars.
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