Download or read book Appleseed Book 2 Prometheus Unbound written by Shirow Masamune and published by Dark Horse Comics. This book was released on 2014-09-10 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You can't have a perfect society without perfect people, and the only perfect people are the ones you can manufacture. The governing body of Olympus, an urban utopia created from the ashes of World War III, is about to bring paradise crashing down around their ears as they seek to regulate the minds and bodies of the human race . . . or fully replace them with cyborg substitutes. Deunan and Briareos, still new to the city, find themselves in the unlikely position of having to hold together this house of cards. Their strategy? Destroy the old foundation and pray everything stands while new underpinnings are forged! From the imagination of Ghost in the Shell creator Shirow Masamune comes the manga masterpiece Appleseed, an epic cyberpunk vision deftly balancing hardcore techno-science, wry political commentary, and explosive action. A visionary work that inspired the wildly popular animated film, Appleseed is now presented for the first time in America in right-to-left reading format, as originally published in Japan.
Download or read book Appleseed Book 3 The Scales of Prometheus written by Shirow Masamune and published by Dark Horse Comics. This book was released on 2014-09-10 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life seems ideal within the utopian confines of Olympus, a shining beacon in a post-World War III wasteland, but perfection is always an illusion. Stalking the ruins of New York City is Artemis, a renegade, flesh-eating bioroid (enhanced artificial human) carrying data critical to the future of Olympus. The elite ESWAT is sent in to tranq her and bring her in, but when Artemis recovers during transit the powerful combat bioroid brings down the transport ship and escapes into Olympus! ESWAT agents Deunan and Briareos are dispatched to bring in the feral Artemis, but will they emerge as heroes . . . or lunch? * Shirow is well-known and critically acclaimed internationally, and is responsible for numerous classic anime/manga titles, such as Appleseed, Dominion, Ghost in the Shell, Orion, and Black Magic. * Produced in the authentic right-to-left reading format, as originally published in Japan.
Download or read book Appleseed ID written by Shirow Masamune and published by Dark Horse Comics. This book was released on 2007 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of sketches, studies, and schematics from Shirow Masamune's cyberpunk world, "Appleseed," and examines the people, places, and organizations characterized within the manga series; and includes a short graphic story entitled "Called Game."
Download or read book Appleseed Book 4 The Promethean Balance written by Shirow Masamune and published by Dark Horse Comics. This book was released on 2014-09-10 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paradise ain't easy! In the future utopian metropolis of Olympus, a blazing beacon of humanity amidst a post-global-war wasteland, ESWAT agents Deunan and Briareos have fought tooth and nail to keep the peace and prevent Olympus from sliding back into chaos. When Olympus intelligence learns of a giant Landmate powersuit being built in secrecy, and on the threshhold of a top-secret international conference of the highest importance to be held in Olympus, ESWAT is mobilized to crack the mystery and disrupt a terrorist operation that could turn the fragile peace into World War IV! From the imagination of Ghost in the Shell creator Shirow Masamune comes a visionary work from the series that inspired the wildly popular animated film, Appleseed. * A New York Times bestseller!
Download or read book Hypernotes written by Masamune Shirow and published by Dark Horse Manga. This book was released on 2007 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World War III is over, but for nomad soldier Deunan Knute and her cyborg lover, Briareos, the greatest challenge lies ahead. Not in the abandoned cities and DMZs of a post-war battlefield, but on the streets of a new "utopia." Shirow Masamune's visionary Appleseed is widely regarded not only as one of the lynchpin works of graphic fiction, but one of the most influential science-fiction stories in recent memory, culminating in the astonishing 2005 animated adaptation. Appleseed: Hypernotes, never before collected in America, features an over eighty page Appleseed tale, plus reams of detailed information and art of the characters, machines, and weapons of Appleseed.
Download or read book Dominion written by Shirow Masamune and published by Dark Horse Comics. This book was released on 2015-05-27 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to the future, where the norms are vast bio-constructed cities, air toxic enough to force citizens to wear oxygen masks, and crime so severe that the cops drive tanks! When a mysterious winged girl with the power to cleanse the poisoned air is kidnapped by the villainous Buaku, police mini-tank commander Leona Ozaki, her tank Bonaparte, and her lovesick partner Al must confront the arch-criminal and his catgirl molls-the beautiful and deadly Annapuma and Unipuma-before Buaku's master plan kicks into gear. Buaku has more than money on his mind, and the future fate of humanity hangs in the balance! Produced by international comics superstar Shirow Masamune, creator of Appleseed and Ghost in the Shell, Dominion is an ecological-dystopian-police procedural adventure/comedy as only Shirow can create! This new edition is published for the first time in America in right-to-left reading format, as originally published in Japan. * Shirow is well-known and critically acclaimed internationally. * Produced in the authentic right-to-left reading format, as originally published in Japan.
Download or read book Appleseed Bk 2 written by Masamune Shirow and published by . This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Appleseed written by Masamune Shirow and published by Dark Horse Manga. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the future utopian metropolis of Olympus, ESWAT agents Deunan and Brieros have fought to keep the peace and prevent the Olympus from sliding back into chaos. When Olympus intelligence learns of a giant Landmate powersuit being built in secrecy, ESWAT is mobilized to crack the mystery and disrupt a terrorist operation that could turn the fragile peace into Wold War IV. Older teens.
Download or read book Appleseed written by Shirow Masamune and published by Dark Horse Comics. This book was released on 2008 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "World War III is over, and nomad soldier Duenan Knute and her cyborg partner Briareos struggle to survive in the abandoned cities and demilitarized zones of the post-war wasteland, the "Badside." Matters appear on the upswing, however, when they are found and brought to Olympus, an urban utopia and centerpiece for the reconstruction of civilization. Duenan and Bri join the Olympus' police, a force that seems hardly necessary in such a paradise. But, like in most pretty pictures, perfection is an illusion, and Olympus' peaceful facade hides a dark secret, a violent struggle between human and cyborg that could once again plunge the world into war... and genocide"--Cover of v.1.
Download or read book Appleseed Alpha written by Iou Kuroda and published by Kodansha Comics. This book was released on 2015 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A NEW CHAPTER IN THE APPLESEED SAGA Before the events of Appleseed, Deunan, a human woman and former SWAT officer, along with her combat-cyborg lover, Briareos, arrive in war-torn New York City. The city’s mayor is a dapper but delusional cyborg, preparing for the UFO invasion he’s convinced is right around the corner. Briareos’s powerful abilities earn the pair refuge, but there are few human comforts to be found in a city catered to cyborgs…After the couple parts ways, the mayor’s nightmare takes a turn for the worse. Deunan’s group of outcast humans may be just the extra manpower the mayor needs—but can the two factions put aside their differences in time to save the world?
Download or read book Appleseed Databook written by Johji Manabe and published by Dark Horse Manga. This book was released on 1995-09-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ultimate guide to the world of Appleseed.
Download or read book The Promethean Balance written by Masamune Shirow and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Functional simplicity, structural complexity: the best life for all. That's the maxim of Olympus, the utopian city that sprung from the ashes of World War III. But Deunan and Bri, a young woman and her cyborg companion just entering the rose-tinted society, find that so long as there are different kinds of people there will be differences among them. Such is the story of Appleseed, the masterwork of manga storyteller Masamune Shirow. Beautiful art and a complex and fully realized future world rank this title among the best comics available.
Download or read book The Promethean Challenge written by Masamune Shirow and published by . This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gunsmith Cats Revised Edition Volume 2 written by Kenichi Sonoda and published by Dark Horse Comics. This book was released on 2015-08-19 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rally Vincent and Minnie-May Hopkins run a gunsmith shop in Chicago by the day...but they have a side-business as bounty hunters, and there are none better than they are. That’s rare for two girls in their late teens! But you can bet Kenichi Sonoda will make you want to believe it.
Download or read book Black Magic written by Shirow Masamune and published by Dark Horse Comics. This book was released on 2015-05-27 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today, the planet Venus is a literal hell of furnace-like temperatures and dense, poisonous atmosphere. But millions of years in its past, Venus teemed with life and with a civilization far advanced to our own. The Nemisis supercomputer controls government functions, with bioroid "executors" created to carry out the system's utopian edicts. But trouble brews even in paradise, as different executors vie for control of Nemesis, forcing the governing system to secretly create Duna Typhon, a super-bioroid "sleeper," raised among the human populace, ready to use her awesome powers should Nemesis be co-opted to turn paradise into paradise lost. From the imagination of Ghost in the Shell creator Shirow Masamune comes his first published series, Black Magic, a sweeping science-fiction epic that introduces many of the themes and ideas that influence all of Shirow's work. * Now available in right-to-left reading format!
Download or read book Prometheus Unbound written by Masamune Shirow and published by Dark Horse Manga. This book was released on 1987-05-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You can't have a perfect society without perfect people, and the only perfect people are the ones you can manufacture. The governing body of Olympus is about to bring utopia crashing down around their ears as they seek to regulate the minds and bodies of the human race or fully replace them with plastic substitutes. Deunan and Bri, still new to the city, find themselves in the unlikely position of having to hold together this house of cards. Their strategy? Destroy the old foundation and pray everything stands while the new roots develop! In this second Appleseed volume Deunan and Bri become fully integrated into Olympussociety, even as they seek to turn it on its ear. Spectacular art and an exciting story set Appleseed apart as an example of comics at its finest.
Download or read book Gunsmith Cats Burst Volume 3 written by Kenichi Sonoda and published by Dark Horse Comics. This book was released on 2015-08-19 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The gang is all here, for a road rally on Route 66! Of course we've got Rally, Minnie-May, Bean Bandit and the rest of the crew, but this volume features the return of driving damsel Riff-Raff! When you have this crew going head-to-head against a gaggle of other dagnerous drivers, and you've got yet another tome of lunatic traffic. And what would a volume of Gunsmith Cats be without the requisite gunplay! This time we've even got the classic Russian rocket-propelled grenades!
