Ghost in the Shell 1.5: Human-Error Processor (攻殻機動隊/Kōkaku Kidōtai 1.5: Human-Error Processor) 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.
Chapters[]
# | Title | Year | |
---|---|---|---|
01 | Fat Cat | 1991 | |
02 | Drive Slave | 1992 | |
03 | Mines of Mind | 1995 | |
04 | Lost Past | 1996 |
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.
Japanese Editions[]
The first collected Japanese edition was published in 2003 and is 184 pages 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 will be released as 8 individual comic-sized issues before being collected in trade paperback format. This will be the first of the Ghost in the Shell manga released in the U.S. to read right-to-left. The first issue came out 2006-10-18 [1].
The trade paperback was released on 2007-10-10.