Two animated films based on the original manga have been released, both directed by Mamoru Oshii and animated by Production I.G. Ghost in the Shell was released in 1995 and follows the "Puppet ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Ollie Barder covers Japanese pop-culture and gaming from Tokyo. The various adaptations we’ve had over the years, from the movies to the ...

For [Paulius Liekis], it led to creating a roughly 1:20 scale version of the T08A2 Hexapod “Spider” Tank from the movie Ghost in the Shell. As the he puts it, “[T]his was something that I ...