Ghost in the Shell

The characters

Kusanagi Motoko

This is easily one of the most awesome anime's I have ever seen, and the manga is probably the largest one in my collection (although my collection is not that big...^_^()...). The sheer scope of the ideas it conveys can make your head reel. After all, what is the soul? This is a little what this anime deals with...the truth of the soul. It focuses round a woman named Motoko Kusanagi, a cyborg who hears 'ghost whispers'...is this her soul? She believes so, but starts to doubt herself when Section 9, the part of the government she works for, encounters a being named simply 'the Puppetmaster'. To start with, they think that this is a man working against the government, a hacker. But as more comes to light, they receive a call that a truck driver ran over a naked female who turns out to be an escaped robot who has no brain cells in her mind, and yet she walks, and talks, and can reason. This is the Puppetmaster, a project developed by the government and who gained sentient awareness from 'it's work with the 'net. It is seeking out Kusanagi, but why?