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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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* [[Artificial Limbs]]
* [[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.
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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
* [[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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* [[Sliding Scale of Robot Intelligence]]
* [[Spider Tank]]: The Fuchikomas, as well as the "German Spider Tank"
* [[Squick]]: Batou's reaction to the [[Sex
* [[Stripperiffic]]: Considering that this is written by [[Shirow Masamune]], fans often forget that Maj. Motoko Kusanagi constantly wears sensible, concealing clothes. Motoko Aramaki, on the other hand...
** Lampshaded by one operative who warns his men not to be [[Distracted
* [[Talking to Themself]]: All of the {{spoiler|major female characters}} in ''Man-Machine Interface'' turn out to be offspring of {{spoiler|Motoko Kusanagi and the Puppetmaster (the protagonist is number 11), and one of them ''is'' Kusanagi/the Puppetmaster}}.
* [[Technology Porn]]
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