At 02:50 AM 9/14/98 -0600, David Johnston wrote:

In order to spawn much fanfic a show must be officially translated into 
English in significant quantity and must have a decent sized cast to play 
with.  It helps if it has loose continuity, and unanswered questions or 
inconsistancies.  However, it also helps if the general outline of events
is clear to the audience despite any gaps and inconsistencies.  And lastly
it helps if the show contains many moods.  GITS for example (the movie,

not the

manga which doesn't appear to be much available in North America), has no

humour

at all, no warm and fuzzy romance, no horror, no lust, no fear, no

melodrama, 

nothing except cynicism and intellectual angst.  

The manga was released in its entirity by Dark Horse a couple years back.
The individual issues are kind of hard to find now (due to a short
print-run if issue #2, a full set is a collectors item) but there's also a
TPB version that's been around for a while. The Intron Depot artbook,
"starring" your favorite characters from GitS, Appleseed, and other Shirow
work, is also pretty easily available.

 


Jeanne Hedge

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