Doesn’t quite have the same ominous allure as “Ghost in the Shell.” The title we know now was adapted by Masamune Shirow from the 1967 Arthur Koestler book The Ghost in the Machine, a phrase coined by Gilbert Ryle in The Concept of Mind (1949) as a description of René Descartes’ mind-body dualism: “I think, therefore I am. Ghost in the Shell started in 1989 as a sci-fi manga written and illustrated by Masamune Shirow ( Appleseed), known in Japan as Kōkaku Kidōtai – or the super-catchy Mobile Armoured Riot Police. “I feel confined, only free to expand myself within boundaries” Major Motoko Kusanagi After all, is it even Ghost in the Shell if it doesn’t make you feel listlessly overwhelmed by existential melancholy? While it’s true the live-action film is pretty and has plenty of visual throwbacks to the franchise, one of its worse feats was that it lacked any of the existentially thematic depth Oshii’s animation is renowned for. Most will know of Ghost in the Shell either from the controversial 2017 live-action adaptation, or from the 1995 Mamoru Oshii animated classic – the one that made all of us question our existence while the Major leapt off rooftops in the nude and tore her arms off prising open a tank hatch.
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