You may not know his name, but you've definitely seen his designs. Before one of his works broke him worldwide. Masamume Shirow was the king of dystopian cyberpunk cop shows. That may seem a narrow superlative, but Shirow is not your normal manga creator. We look at his early days and works, and how the foreign market helped "make" him. And the persistence and popularity of a mech design he helped codify, and the girls he drew to go in them.
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