


Two more volumes of Appleseed followed before he began work on Ghost in the Shell.

After a professional reprint of Black Magic and a second volume of Appleseed, he released Dominion in 1986. The story was a sensation, and won the 1986 Seiun Award for Best Manga. The result was best-selling manga Appleseed, a full volume of densely plotted drama taking place in an ambiguous future. His work caught the eye of Seishinsha President Harumichi Aoki, who offered to publish him. While in college, he developed an interest in manga, which led him to create his own complete work, Black Magic, which was published in the manga dōjinshi Atlas. Shirow is best known for the manga Ghost in the Shell, which has since been turned into three theatrical anime films, two anime television series, an anime television movie, an anime ONA series, a theatrical live action movie, and several video games.īorn in the Hyōgo Prefecture capital city of Kobe, he studied oil painting at Osaka University of Arts. Masanori Ota ( 太田正典, Ōta Masanori, born November 23, 1961), better known by his pen name Masamune Shirow ( 士郎 正宗, Shirō Masamune), is a Japanese manga artist.
