The Ghost in the Shell: The Human Algorithm, Volume 1

This brand-new chapter fills in the gaps between The Ghost in the Human-Error Processor and Man-Machine Interface manga with a tense cyberpunk thriller written by Ghost in the Stand Alone Complex script writer Junichi Fujisaku. Just in time for the release of the new Ghost in the SAC_2045 anime on Netflix!

Hackers attempt to assassinate a politician during a speech preaching the advantages of cybernetic prosthetics. Fortunately, Togusa is there to whisk her to safety, and the investigation leads Batou to a suspicious factory in the artificial islands in southern Japan. Meanwhile, Chief Aramaki hears of a disturbing discovery at the other end of the dozens of artificial bodies, illegally dumped near a village where an anti-cyberization sect conducts their training and “rites.” Among the empty shells is one formerly inhabited by the woman who embodied Section 9 until she left it behind and Major Motoko Kusanagi…