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Akira
   Title: Akira
   Year: 1982
   Category: Comics Series   
   Author: Katsuhiro Otomo   
   Publisher: Kodansha   Dark Horse   
   Plot:
Otomo’s seminal manga follows members of teenaged motorcycle gang who become entangled in (and help facilitate) the destruction of Neo Tokyo. After gang member Tetsuo begins to exhibit latent psychic powers, the military—which harbors its own psychics—detains him, prompting the gang’s leader, Kaneda, to join a faction of rebels and try to rescue his friend. As Tetsuo’s powers develop, he loses touch with reality and unleashes mass destruction upon the city. The comic’s 1988 animated feature adaptation is regarded as a high-water mark of animation, as well as a worldwide success that helped to popularize anime outside of Japan.
Battle_Angel_Alita_1
   Title: Battle Angel Alita: Last Order Omnibus 1
   Year: 2013
   Category: Comics Series   
   Series: Alita: Last Order Omnibus
   Author: Yukito Kishiro   
   Publisher: Kodansha Comics   
   Plot:
When Doc Ido, a talented cyber-physician, finds Alita's head in a junk heap, she has lost all memory of her past life. But when he reconstructs her, she discovers her body still instinctively remembers the Panzer Kunst, the most powerful cyborg fighting technique ever known. In the post-apocalyptic world of the Scrapyard, as the secrets of Alita's past unfold, each day is a struggle for survival.
Battle_Angel_Alita_2
   Title: Battle Angel Alita: Last Order Omnibus 2
   Year: 2013
   Category: Comics Series   
   Series: Alita: Last Order Omnibus
   Author: Yukito Kishiro   
   Publisher: Kodansha Comics   
   Plot:
Nanotechnology made humanity immortal, and the resulting population explosion pushed the Solar System’s resources to the breaking point. As a result, new births are banned and even the planets’ disparate governments cooperate to annihilate any children already born. With the tournament looming, Alita and her comrades find themselves caught between a spacefaring refuge for young innocents and a bloodthirsty mob intent on killing the children for sport!
Battle_Angel_Alita_3
   Title: Battle Angel Alita: Last Order Omnibus 3
   Year: 2014
   Category: Comics Series   
   Series: Alita: Last Order Omnibus
   Author: Yukito Kishiro   
   Publisher: Kodansha Comics   
   Plot:
On her way to retrieve Lou’s brain, Alita encounters a ghost from her past—an old mentor whose revelations shake Alita's very identity. Meanwhile Elf, Zwölf, and Sechs fight their deadly – and creepiest–enemies yet as the ZOTT rages on! But will the ARs have the mental fortitude to resist the psychically altered leader of the fearsome Starship Cult?
Battle_Angel_Alita_4
   Title: Battle Angel Alita: Last Order Omnibus 4
   Year: 2014
   Category: Comics Series   
   Series: Alita: Last Order Omnibus
   Author: Yukito Kishiro   
   Publisher: Kodansha Comics   
   Plot:
In the depths of Melchizedek, Alita inches closer to recovering her dear friend’s brain but not before she is greeted by Mbadi and a rather duplicitous Desty Nova doppleganger. Meanwhile, Sechs and the other members of the Space Angels make their way through ZOTT, where Sechs comes to face a universally renowned Space Karate master in a show of technique, toughness and…thumbs?
Battle_Angel_Alita_5
   Title: Battle Angel Alita: Last Order Omnibus 5
   Year: 2014
   Category: Comics Series   
   Series: Alita: Last Order Omnibus
   Author: Yukito Kishiro   
   Publisher: Kodansha Comics   
   Plot:
After nearly being canceled, the Z.O.T.T. resumes and now inches towards its conclusion with the Space Angels going head-to-head against new, formidable opponents that push their combative skills to the limit. With Alita jumping back into the fray, the independence of Tiphares and the scrapyard are depending on her victory, and with her new, seemingly unstoppable abilities, triumph seems to be nearly at hand for the Space Angels. However, behind the scenes, Mbadi and other nefarious entities are plotting to turn things around on Alita and her friends as the Z.O.T.T. continues into its final round.
Blame
   Title: Blame!
   Year: 1998
   Category: Comics Series   
   Author: Tsutomu Nihei   
   Publisher: Kodansha   
   Plot:
Within a claustrophobic, tech-drenched megastructure that encompasses the entire planet, Killy, a traveler with a small but super powerful gun, silently traverses countless levels of what is called “The City.” He’s searching for “net terminal genes” which may allow him to connect with The City’s neural center and stop its growth. Along the way he meets various transhuman inhabitants, but is also pursued by The City’s cyborg defenses. A prequel, NOiSE, was released in 2001, and a sequel, NSE: Net Sphere Engineer, began in 2004. A 6-part original video animation based on the comic was released in 2003.
Blame_Academy
   Title: Blame! Academy And So On
   Year: 2008
   Category: Comics Series   
   Author: Tsutomu Nihei   
   Publisher: Kodansha   
   Plot:
BLAME! Academy and So On is a spin-off series of BLAME! set in the same "City" as BLAME! and is a parody / comedy about various characters in the main BLAME! storyline set in a traditional Japanese school environment. Various elements of the main BLAME! story are parodied, including the relationship between Killy and Cibo, and Dhomochevsky and Iko. Irregularly published in Afternoon and compiled as BLAME! Gakuen and So On September 19, 2008, this is its first official English language release in either digital or print.
GITS_Comics
   Title: Ghost In The Shell (Ghost In The Shell #1)
   Year: 1989
   Category: Comics Series   
   Series: Ghost In The Shell
   Author: Masamune Shirow   
   Publisher: Kodansha   
   Plot:
In the rapidly converging landscape of the 21st century Major Kusanagi is charged to track down the craftiest and most dangerous terrorists and cybercriminals, including ghost hackers When he track the trail of one hacker, her quest leads her to a world she could never have imagined.
GITS_SAC_Comics
   Title: Ghost In The Shell: Stand Alone Complex
   Year: 2004
   Category: Comics Series   
   Author: Yu Kinutani   Junichi Fujisaku   
   Publisher: Kodansha   
   Plot:
Stand Alone Complex takes place in the year 2030, in the fictional Japanese city of New Port. The story follows the members of Public Security Section 9, a special-operations task-force made up of former military officers and police detectives. The manga presents individual cases that Section 9 investigates, along with an ongoing, more serious investigation into the serial killer and hacker known only as "The Laughing Man."
Gunnm_Last_Order
   Title: Gunnm Last Order
   Year: 2000
   Category: Comics Series   
   Series: Battle Angel Alita
   Author: Yukito Kishiro   
   Publisher: Kodansha   
   Plot: N/A
Gunnm_Mars_Chronicle
   Title: Gunnm Mars Chronicle
   Year: 2014
   Category: Comics Series   
   Series: Battle Angel Alita
   Author: Yukito Kishiro   
   Publisher: Kodansha   
   Plot: N/A
Mardock_Scramble
   Title: Mardock Scramble
   Year: 2011
   Category: Comics Series   
   Author: Tow Ubukata   
   Publisher: Kodansha   
   Plot:
Why me? It was to be the last thought a young prostitute, Balot, would ever have... as a human anyway. Taken in by a devious gambler named Shell, she became a slave to his cruel desires and would have been killed by his hand if not for a private investigator and his self-aware Universal Tool, Oeufcoque. Now a cyborg, Balot has not only physical powers, but the ability to disrupt social environments. She chases after Shell, his partner-in-crime Boiled, and faces down a variety of insane villains in this pulse-pounding cyberpunk noir adventure.
GITS_Global_Neural_Network
   Title: The Ghost In The Shell: Global Neural Network
   Year: 2018
   Category: Comics   
   Author: Max Gladstone   Alex de Campi   Brenden Fletcher   Giannis Milonogiannis   Dustin Nguyen   
   Publisher: Kodansha   
   Plot:
A covert mission in Shanghai reunites Kusanagi with a wartime rival amid shifting loyalties. The infiltration of an anti-cyberization cult calls for Section 9's most "human" members to do things the old-fashioned way. A deep dive into the mind of a criminal forces Kusanagi to question the nature of imagination - and her own identity. The stories in Global Neural Network bring a 21st-century perspective to its questions of human identity and the border between mind and machine that made The Ghost in the Shell one of the most revered manga of all time, and unleash top Western comics artists on eye-popping action scenes starring Kusanagi, Batou, Togusa, Aramaki, and all the members of Section 9!
GITS_The_Human_Algorithm
   Title: The Ghost in the Shell: The Human Algorithm
   Year: 2020
   Category: Comics Series   
   Series: The Ghost in the Shell: The Human Algorithm
   Author: Junichi Fujisaku   Masamune Shirow   Yuki Yoshimoto   
   Publisher: Kodansha   
   Plot:
This brand-new chapter fills in the gaps between The Ghost in the Shell: Human-Error Processor and Man-Machine Interface manga with a tense cyberpunk thriller written by Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex script writer Junichi Fujisaku. Just in time for the release of the new Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045 anime on Netflix!
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