Cyborgs with Attitude

I lost part of December and all of January to absorbing as much anime and manga as I possibly could. I’m still not entirely sure why, but coming to the tale end of that obsession I’ve found myself thinking back to the first Japanese comic book I ever read, Masamune Shirow’s Ghost in the Shell(1989-1990).

Ghost in the Shell is one of the few pieces of anime/manga, alongside Studio Ghibli films, that fall into the category “can freely talk about in public in North America without feeling embar...