


The long-awaited sequel to Shirow Masamune’s groundbreaking The Ghost in the Shell, and one of the most highly anticipated graphic novel events in many years, Man-Machine Interface is Shirow’s most ambitious and complex story yet, with deep forays into philosophy and the meaning of artificial life, intelligence, and existence. Motoko Aramaki is a hyper-advanced cyborg, a counter-terrorist Net. Cyber-agent Motoko Aramaki remains hot on the trail of the shadowy terrorists making life hell for Poseidon Industrial.

Now, a hyper-advanced cyborg called Motoko Aramaki - a fusion of multiple entities and identities - heads the investigative department of the giant multi. Ma- four and half years since cyber-cop Matoko Kusanagi joined with an artifical intelligence and quit the 9thPolice Squad. What unfolds will all be in a day’s work-a day that will change everything, forever. THE GHOST IN THE SHELL, VOLUME 2: Man-Machine Interface. Ghost in the Shell 2: Man-Machine Interface 2. Meanwhile, Tamaki Tamai, a psychic detective from the Channeling Agency, has been commissioned to explore strange changes in the temporal universe brought about by two forces, one represented by the teachings of a professor named Rahampol, the other by the complex, evolving Motoko entity. Partly transcending the physical world and existing in a virtual world of networks, Motoko is a fusion of multiple entities and identities, deploying remotely controlled prosthetic humanoid surrogates around the globe to investigate a series of bizarre incidents. Motoko Aramaki is a hyper-advanced cyborg, a counter-terrorist Net security expert, heading the investigative department of the giant multi-national Poseidon Industrial.
