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“Robots don’t smile because they want to. They’re just programmed to do so – like humans recently.”

- Masamune Shirow: Ghost in the Shell

Motivated by the anime version I watched yesterday, I started re-reading Ghost in the Shell manga today. Shirow has my almost limitless admiration, for his works are sci-fi masterpieces – serious sci-fi dealing with cyborgs (I find the border between artificial life and humanity fascinating: if you start replacing your body parts with (bio-)mechanical parts, when do you become a cyborg? an artificial joint probably isn’t enough, but how about heart? if you keep going, when do you stop being human?) with a little unique humour thrown in (like ふちこま in GitS).

I also ordered 1st Intron Depot album, Dominion and Orion, which are missing from my Shirow-collection. It seems that there’s no Ghost in the Shell 2: Man-Machine Interface album yet, at least in English – I don’t think I’ll even try reading Shirow in 日本語 before a couple of years of active 日本語のべんきょう..

Sain tänään skannatuksi loppuun vuoden 2003 kuvasaaliin, graffitit poislukien. 86 säilömisen arvoista kuvaa, täytyy käydä ne vielä kunnolla läpi ja valikoida webbigalleriaan kelpaavat. Graffitikuvia on muutama rullallinen myöskin, mutta niissä ei onneksi ole pölyistä taivasta puhdistettavana..