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This brief review pertains specifically to the newly-released hardcover edition of "The Ghost in the Shell" by Kodansha Comics. I have owned and read all versions of the English language versions of this remarkable work. This edition has a nice heft and feel for a graphic novel that has been bound as a hardcover. Although, this is predominately black and white there are a number of colored pages. The colors, in comparison to other editions, are bright, and appropriate (no under or over coloration when required).
Shirow's footnotes are here as well as his afterward. One of the questions that many would like to have answered is whether or not the original content that was censored has been restored. It has NOT. This edition is consistent with the later Dark Horse editions that featured panels that had been reworked by Shirow. Other than the perpetuation of this alteration, this is remains and entertaining and thought-provoking work on the impact of cyberspace and technology on humanity.
For those who are new to the media universe of Ghost in the Shell, prepare yourself for various and vastly different imagining of Kusanagi Motoko and her associates. Shirow's Kusanagi has a sense of humor and is fallible. Oshii, the first to interpret her for the screen in two movies (Ghost in the Shell and Innocence), gave us a contemplative and duty-driven Kusanagi. Between the first movie and second, Production IG would bring us two television series, GiTS:SAC and GiTS:SAC 2nd Gig. The GiTS Kusanagi would show up a 3rd time in the movie, SAC: Solid State Society. Following Oshii's second movie and Solid State Society, Production IG brought out a reboot called Arise. Arise featured a younger Kusanagi at the end of her military career and beginning of her transition to Public Security and Section 9. Arise had two seasons and a follow on movie. And now, we await Kusanagi 6.0. (Oh, I forgot, Shirow wrote a series called Ghost in the Shell: Man-Machine Interface). I'll leave it to you to delve into this highly compelling universe..."The net is vast."
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Deluxe and "Definitive" Version is Censored
Reviewed in the United States on February 22, 2017
Alas, I've been eagerly awaiting this "definitive" version of Ghost in the Shell and it's a pretty big disappointment. The size is certainly not deluxe (it's no longer or wider than a normal trade paperback of an American comic; I've attached an image comparing it to a Doom Patrol TPB and a DC "Deluxe" collection), and somewhat amazingly, the contents are censored yet again despite an 18+ warning (I've attached an image showing how a rather famous scene is presented here). The quality of pages is fine, and it's cool to have the story presented in the Japanese right-to-left style with the original SFX, but this is a pretty major letdown given how the book was advertised.As for extras: I don't really know what's included beyond what would have been in the normal edition. There's a glossary for the newly restored Japanese sound effects, but good luck reading it -- it's in incredibly small white font against a black background, as you can see.Alas, swing and a miss for Kodansha. I got this for $14.99 and can live with it, but run the heck away from the MSRP of $29.99.
Reviewed in the United States on February 22, 2017
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