The OVA market, which started a few years before, allowed anime creators to create short-form anime productions without television censorship restrictions. Black Magic M-66 was released in 1987, adapting the manga into a 48-minute Original Video Animation, or OVA, with more adaptations in this format to follow. In the West, Masamune didn't receive mainstream attention until the adaptations of his work hit video store shelves.
Dominion and Ghost in the Shell started as standalone works that would expand throughout the '90s as Masamune added and contributed new ones ( Dominion C1 Conflict, Ghost in the Shell 2: Man-Machine Interface and Ghost in the Shell 1.5: Human-error Processor). From there, Masamune created three more cyberpunk manga Dominion, Orion and Ghost in the Shell. This led to the work Masamune claims to be the most proud of: Appleseed. Aoki encouraged Masamune to create another manga for Seishinsha to distribute. His work had, in particular, a focus on mechanized women, militarized task forces, and cybernetic brains.īlack Magic immediately gained attention from Harumichi Aoki, the then-president of Seishinsha. It's here that Masamune established himself as a major figure on the cyberpunk scene - drawing heavily from the science fiction genre of the era. Two years after getting into manga, he self-published his debut in 1983: Black Magic. Perhaps because of this, there's very little of the usual manga 'know-how' in my work."
And that's how someone like me, who had never even bought a manga magazine before, wound up drawing them. In college, I met a friend who was a manga fan and was also doing self-publishing. Since I was fond of art, though, I later chose to enter the Osaka University of Arts, and I studied oil painting there. In an interview for Dark Horse, the Western distributor of many of his manga, Masamune explained, "When I was in junior high and high school I didn't draw much, and I instead devoted myself to sports (judo).
Though he had some experience with television and anime like Gundam, he was very detached from the art form. Growing up, Shirow Masamune had very little interaction with manga or comics as a medium. The author's real name is Masanori Ota his pen name based on the legendary Japanese swords master, Masamune.
Before we take a look at Masamune's present, let's go over his past.
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