![]() ![]() ![]() I re-read the issues from back then during the course of this Major’s Body project. Perhaps you’ll recall my ambivalence towards the nudity and sexually charged content in Oshii’s Ghost in the Shell, at this point my only experience of the franchise. Oh boy, some actual Ghost in the Shell manga in my bumpkin town comic shop?! The cover (above left) didn’t feature the character design I recognised as the Major, but that’s no big problem, right? Woman-fetish wise, it’s not quantifiably worse than the average Big Two cover of the time. Issue two of Man-Machine Interface, published in English in the early 2000s by Dark Horse after the 1991-onward six-year serialisation in Japanese by Young Magazine, was the first piece of Shirow Masamune’s cartooning I chanced upon. This is part seven of a pan-franchise series (find previous parts here: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 ). If you care to google, “Motoko Kusanagi is “ autocompletes to “a man” and “is hot,” then “in bed with a boy” and “in bed.” For a science-fiction philosophy character named for her military position, we (the audience - although I don’t limit this to those who have experienced the fiction, as the Major is iconic) sure are caught up in thinking about her gender and sexual status. The Major, or Motoko Kusanagi, is the protagonist of each incarnation of the Ghost in the Shell manga-anime-merchadise franchise. ![]()
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