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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 the Shell|franchise]], being followed by two more manga series, ''GitS: Human Error Processor'' and ''GITS: Man/Machine Interface'', and later being adapted into two [[Ghost in
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* [[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]] / [[Post Cyber Punk]]
* [[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-On-Girl Is Hot]]: Years after the first volume was published Shirow admitted that the only reason he drew an all girl orgy was because he "didn't want to draw some guy's butt."
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* [[R-Rated Opening]]: The [[Your Head Asplode]] scene from the original anime movie had its origins in the very first sequence of the manga.
* [[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'' - but it's cooler when it does. They even go so far to point out when a character's suggestions and line of thinking wouldn't actually work.
* [[Sex by Proxy]]: Batou gets hit with this in-story. Aramaki orders him to contact Motoko and pull her off leave, so he proceeds to dive into her mind...while she's in the threesome. As noted elsewhere, it's not a pleasant experience for him. The scene got heavily censored in the original US release, but was included in the reprint (the page picture). Kodansha's latest version removes it entirely, but dialogue makes it clear what's going on.
* [[Shout-Out]]: The Puppet Master plans to merge his mind with Motoko's and become the progenitor of a new species who would have godlike powers over cyberspace. This is reminiscent of Wintermute's plan to merge with ''[[Neuromancer]]''.
* [[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, and philosophical themes presented.
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