Anyone who isn’t familiar with the GIST franchise should probably get their head out of the sand. Most well-known of the works of Masamune Shirow is probably the original Ghost in the Shell movie which follows the story of section-9, lead by Major Kusanagi, in a cyberpunk epic that asks ‘what does it mean to be human?’ I love the design of the Tachikoma fighting robots. I mean, come on, they’re metallic blue, talk with childlike voices, but have guns and kick ass.
