Ghost in The Shell (manga) - Development

Development

Masamune Shirow was influenced by several books on insects and noticed young boys in Japan seem to identify to Robot heroes first. Throughout writing the manga, Masamune Shirow had a struggle of finding of not making it neither too complex nor too simple.

When developing Ghost in the Shell 2: Man-machine interface, Masamune Shirow initially wanted to use a new title by changing the last kanji character meaning "military unit", to the homophonic kanji for "body" so that it would translate "Mobile Unit Body Entity". However for various reasons, he decided not to do so.

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