Ghost in the Shell: The New Movie - Recommendations

• Vol: 2; Ch: 12
• 1995 - 1998

• Vol: 5+; Ch: 78+
• 2019 - ?

Focuses on Section 9 members’ everyday activities in Japan after the disappearance of the Major. The members, of course, includes Togusa, Batou, Azuma, Ishikawa, and a new character who is recruited from the Psychic Division, Tsunagi.

• Vol: 10; Ch: 65
• 1997 - 2003

Killy is a wanderer in a vast technological wasteland known as the Megastructure. His mission is to find a human with net terminal genes to prevent the collapse of the Netsphere, a virtual realm under control of the Authority. His long, desolate journeys are punctuated by brutal encounters with silicon creatures bent on annihilating humanity; cyborgs intent on infiltrating the Netsphere; and the builders, massive machines that mindlessly add to the chaos of the Megastructure. His only protection is an incredibly powerful gun known as a gravitational beam emitter, which he never hesitates to unleash on his enemies. Will Killy be able to find net terminal genes amidst the scattered human tribes, or is the Netsphere doomed to failure?

• One Shot
• 2004

In a dark, dystopic future, the Church of Transfiguration was formed; their charter was to promote extreme cybernetic enhancements. However, mankind also perfected the art of immortality through genetic manipulation, and then the great ruin came. Now, the Church sends its Inquisition to track down these genetically modified beings, and the only one who is seemingly able to stand in their way is Digimortal, a deadly, violent mercenary...

• Vol: 1
• 1982

In their quest for the ultimate weapon, the secret organization Talon has delved into the realms of cybernetics and mind powers – culminating in the creation of the superpowered Blue Sonnet. When Talon begins to suspect that high school student Komatsuzaki Lan has level one Esper abilities, Sonnet is sent to observe and test her; but Lan has minimal control over her abilities, and when one of her friends is hurt during Sonnet’s “test,” she flees – with Talon’s forces hot on her trail. While Lan struggles to gain control of her newfound abilities and her humanity, Sonnet finds her own humanity slowly asserting itself. Will Talon succeed in molding Lan and Sonnet into the weapons they desire?

• Vol: 1; Ch: 4
• 1995 - 1996

In the world of the Scrapyard, citizens play a deadly game called Motorball. Snev is a Motorballer on the pro circuit who is better known as the Crash King since he's never made it past the finish line in one piece. Amazingly, no matter how many times he's crashed, his brain had remained intact; but Snev is haunted by visions of The Marathon Man, affecting his self confidence and his will to win. Soon he is dropped from his team, only to be brought back because the audience cares more about carnage than victory. Will Snev ever find it in himself to win a race?

• Vol: 19; Ch: 129
• 2000 - 2014

How do you define "human"? That is a question that Gally has to answer for herself after she awakens in the sky city of Salem. When she learns that her former enemy Dr. Desty Nova has rebuilt and perfected her body, Gally seeks to find her friend Lou and re-access her own lost memories. But she is confronted with a tragic incident: Desty has revealed the Secret of Salem. At the age of 19, the people of Salem have their brains removed and replaced with computer chips. Learning this, the citizens go mad and begin to riot or commit suicide. Amidst the carnage around her and ghosts from her past, can Gally truly come to terms with herself?

• Vol: 9; Ch: 52
• 1990 - 1995

In a post-apocalyptic world, humans, robots and cyborgs live in the Scrapyard - a landscape of twisted, rusted junk made up of the garbage sent from the above city of Zalem. In this place, the inventor Ido finds a partially-destroyed cyborg amidst the rubble, gives her a new body and names her Gally. With no memory of her past and an instinctual ability to use a powerful martial art known as the Panzer Kunst, Gally matures and relearns life's lessons while she travels the broken landscape, struggles to remember who she is and where she came from, and discovers the mysteries of Zalem.

• Vol: 3
• 1985

• Vol: 4; Ch: 19
• 2010 - 2012

Cyber Blue: The Lost Children follows the story of Blue, a descendant of colonists from Terra who settled the distant world of Tinos in the 22nd Century. The brutal environment of Tinos forces humanity to rely on an artificial life support system implanted in the chest called the Biomatrix, in order to survive.