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[[Shirow Masamune]]'s classic manga about a cyborg SWAT team and its CO in [[Post Cyber Punk]] Japan. It would go on to become a [[Ghost in
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* [[Action Girl]]: The Major.
* [[Alternate Continuity]]/[[Revision]]: When Shirow Masamune first set out to write a sequel to ''Ghost in the Shell'', he published what would become ''Human Error Processor'' in a magazine. When it was time to give it a stand-alone, paperback release, he'd realized that he had a much greater story to write, and released ''Man/Machine Interface'', without saying a word of what he'd done
* [[Artificial Limbs]]: One of the chapters has Motoko's roommate Ran explaining in good detail the benefits of having a full-prosthetic body compared to just having part of your body replaced with prosthetics. Using Batou as a visual aid for comedic effect, they show him having his left arm replaced with a machine, and explain that the mechanical arm can only pick up as much weight as the organic body can handle. If you were to try and pick up too much weight, the arm would rip out right from the connection with the organic tissues.
▲* [[Alternate Continuity]]/[[Revision]]: When Shirow Masamune first set out to write a sequel to ''Ghost in the Shell'', he published what would become ''Human Error Processor'' in a magazine. When it was time to give it a stand-alone, paperback release, he'd realized that he had a much greater story to write, and released ''Man/Machine Interface'', without saying a word of what he'd done. (Shirow is notoriously secretive.) The fan-reaction was..less than stellar, and eventually ''Human Error Processor'' was released as ''GITS 1.5''. While the two sequels can be taken as a continuous continuity from ''Ghost in the Shell'', there are some finer details that don't quite match up.
* [[Ascend to
* [[Barbie Doll Anatomy]]: Averted until the last quarter or so of ''Man/Machine Interface'', when {{spoiler|Motoko spends a ''lot'' of time diving}}. Shirow said in a margin note that he stopped drawing her nipples for convenience's sake.
* [[Bi the Way]]: Motoko enjoys creating illegal pornographic software with her roommates, but also has a boyfriend named Sugi, in who works in Section 1.
* [[Brain Uploading]]: Ghost dubbing allows someone's ghost to be copied and inserted into other bodies, such as a clone, but the result is always more limited or more insane than the biological version, and the original suffers heavy brain damage and eventually death as a result. Ghost dubbing is illegal ''because'' of the clones or other embodiments that are released as a result (along with the said death of the original). Each and every one of those clones is the ''original'' copy of the soul. Attempting this process is punishable by life in prison or having your brain wiped. Batou and Togusa come across a ghost dubbing system in one chapter while investigating sex bots gone berserk, where it turns out that the ghosts of kids smuggled into the country by the mob were being dubbed into said bots.
* [[Butt Monkey]]: Batou tends to be this for Motoko quite often.
* [[Cat Smile]]:
** '''Togusa''' of all people, gives one in ''Human-Error Processor'' while gloating his seniority over Azuma after he pissed off a woman they were tasked with escorting safely back home.
** Batou can be seen with these when he's in a good mood.
** The Fuchikomas often sport these whenever they're depicted with mouths for comedy's sake.
** Motoko is depicted with one in a small panel near the end of the first manga.
** Even Aramaki pulls one off every now and then when he's really sticking it to a political opponent.
* [[Chameleon Camouflage]]: In the various incarnations, this is known as thermoptic camouflage, presumably because it also works in infrared.
* [[Characterization Marches On]]: Motoko's not nearly as stoic here as in the anime adaptations. As the volumes shift from dark comedy to a more serious plot though, the Major's characterization loses the upbeat nature and becomes colder and pensive, much like later adaptations characterizes her.
* [[Cyberpunk]]
* [[Dude Looks Like a Lady]]: In the final pages of the original manga, {{spoiler|1=the Puppet Master/Motoko hybrid floors Batou when she tells him that the feminine-looking artificial body she's in is actually male}}.
* [[Fan Service]]:
** The lesbian threesome in the original manga, and several shots of female service androids in revealing outfits.
** ''Man/Machine Interface'' goes out of its way to provide crotch shots, and for one panel, Motoko being pleasured by cyber-tentacles.
* [[Girl
* [[Heart Drive]]: Cyborgs usually only have their organic brain encased in a cyberbrain shell as the last remaining organic part of their body. Very few people are shown to be able to survive without having it directly inside their body.
* [[Mythology Gag]]: [[Dominion Tank Police|Anna and Uni Puma]] show up as a couple of merchants in the streets of Etorofu. They get about 2 pages worth of dialogue. A Fuchikoma tries to barter with them for a piece of merchandise, but ends up accidentally stealing it when it ran off. Anna was pissed and grabs a machine gun, but Uni figures it was probably stolen merchandise in the first place anyway and says to just let it go.
* [[Named After Somebody Famous]]: Section 9 is named after real-life German counter-terrorism unit [[GSG 9]] (Border Guard, Unit 9).
* [[Naughty Nurse Outfit]]: The nurses carrying out cyborg modifications have some rather [[Stripperiffic]] costumes.
* [[Not What It Looks Like]]: Subverted by the threesome. While what's happening on the page ''is'' happening, underneath all that is an illegal, drug-enhanced data-sharing sim that uses the threesome as its interface.
* [[R
* [[Rule of Cool]]: Various footnotes explain that some of the vehicles are not drawn to scale, and that cyberspace wouldn't really "look" like ''anything''
* [[Sex
* [[Shout
* [[Shown Their Work]]: The margins are crammed with Shirow's footnotes informing the reader that he knows very well that cyberspace doesn't look like that, and this plane wouldn't actually be that large, or that 16^2 refers to the size of the micromachines used for skin sensitivity, and not the amount of artificial nerve endings per square centimeters. The author notes at the end of the first manga shows he really REALLY did his homework with political, technological, theological
* [[Situational Sexuality]]: Heterosexual brainsex is impossible for biological reasons, so the Major's cyber orgy is with other girls
* [[Sliding Scale of Robot Intelligence]]
* [[Spider Tank]]: The Fuchikomas, as well as the "German Spider Tank".
* [[Stripperiffic]]:
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** Lampshaded by one operative who warns his men not to be [[Distracted
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* [[Technology Porn]]▼
* [[Technical Pacifist]]: Aramaki is too old to do any fighting. He's always been the political leader of Section 9 who takes care of the paperwork, and doesn't have a violent bone in his body. However, when he learns that Section 1 was trying to hunt down and kill Motoko as part of a [[Gambit]] they got caught up in, he pulls out a gun and cocks it right in the face of Section 1's leader without a second thought, ordering him to call off his men.
▲* [[Technology Porn]]
* [[Unusual User Interface]]: Both the jacks used to access the web, the internal LAN's sometimes used to hack or get hacked, and even [[Subverted Trope|subverted]] by using normal keyboards. There's also talking in barcodes and laser communication by staring at people with [[Eye Beams]].
* [[Would Hit a Girl]]: Practically everyone, male and female. Togusa lampshades it after knocking down a woman attacking him, claiming that he believes in "equality for the sexes".
* [[You Can Never Leave]]: The cyborgs of Section 9 require constant high-level maintenance, and there would be little left to resign once the government had taken back all its classified cyber-technology. As it turns out, the Major discovers a way to [[Take a Third Option]].
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