Ghost in the Shell 1.5: Human-Error Processer

Ghost in the Shell 1.5: Human-Error Processer
Cover of the Japanese tankōbon
攻殻機動隊1.5 HUMAN-ERROR PROCESSOR (Kōkaku Kidōtai 1.5: Human-Error Processor)
Genre	Cyberpunk
Manga
Written by	Masamune Shirow
Published by	Kodansha
English publisher	Dark Horse Comics
Demographic	Seinen
Magazine	Young Magazine
Original run	1991 – 1996
Volumes	1

Ghost in the Shell 1.5: Human-Error Processer (攻殻機動隊1.5 HUMAN-ERROR PROCESSER, Kōkaku Kidōtai 1.5: Human-Error Processer) is a set of four chapters that were left out of the Ghost in the Shell 2: Man/Machine Interface tankōbon by Masamune Shirow himself. The four chapters are: "Fat Cat", "Drive Slave", "Mines of Mind" and "Lost Past". As with each of the earlier Ghost in the Shell serializations, this was also serialized in Kodansha's Young Magazine.

Plot

The story continues following Section 9 and their covert ops investigations.

Fat Cat

1991: A young woman calls Section 9 to investigate her father's recent strange actions, and he turns out to be operated (through his electronic brain) by remote control.

Drive Slave

1992: Chroma (a.k.a. the Major) returns when her bounty hunt collides with Section 9's witness protection case.

Mines of Mind

1995: A cyber-date gets interrupted by an arms dealer's murder, which leads to a cyborg shoot-out at the marina and the reappearance of an agent's old friend.

Lost Past

1996: The investigation into a kidnapping gone wrong leads to a covert operation by another government department into Okinawa terrorism.

Chapters

No.	Japanese		English
	Release date	ISBN	Release date	ISBN
1	2003	—	2006-10-18	ISBN 978-1-59307-815-7
Fat Cat part1 and part2 Drive Slave part1 and part2 Mines of Mind part1 and part2 Lost Past part1 and part2

Japanese editions

The first collected Japanese edition was published in 2003 and is 184 page long. It contains a Booklet, a CD-ROM that features the full stories, and adds music to the manga scenes. It also has a screen saver.

English editions

Announced at the 2005 San Diego Comicon, the series was released as 8 individual comic-sized issues before being collected in trade paperback format. This was the first of the Ghost in the Shell manga released in the U.S. to read right-to-left. The first issue was published on November 1, 2006.[1] The four original titles were each split into two each, to make up the 8 in this series.

The trade paperback was released on October 10, 2007.

External links

• Japanese release chronology
• Unofficial Masamune Shirow site
• Kodansha's official site (Japanese)
• Dark Horse's official site