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Princess Mononoke Film Comic攻殻機動隊
Attack Shell Riot Squad
(Ghost in the Shell)
Ghost in the Shell is a manga series by Masamune Shirow published by Kodansha about cyborg agents in a cyberpunk world of the near future. It is has been released as an animated movie by Kodansha, Bandai Visual, and Manga Entertainment, Inc.
There is now a graphics novel release of this series in English, with the official translation of most of the words in the original manga book (the exception is the two color pages that got censored), published by Dark Horse Comics. So I will only do the following bit of the prologue as a sample.
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Note: I am experimenting with "furigana" here - spacing out the words so I can put phonetic readings above the kanji. The readings are my own and may not be correct. See the phonetic character table if you have trouble reading the furigana characters.
THE GHOST IN THE SHELL
きぎょう ほし おおい でんし ひかり
企業の ネットが星を 被い、 電子や 光が
か めぐ
駆け巡っても
こっか みんぞく き ほど
国家や 民族が 消えてなくなる程
じょうほう きんみらい
情報比されたいない近未来
The corporate network has spread to the stars, and streams of electrons and photons are rushing everywhere. This is the near future: even with all this change in information, countries and nationalities have not been swallowed up.
