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About Shirow Masamune

In 1983 Masamune published his first manga Black Magic from Atlas a science fiction dojin manga society (dojin is the Japanese term to describe an amateur fan publication). In 1985 his first major work Appleseed was published by Seishinsha without being serialized in or submitted to a manga magazine which is quite rare in the Japanese manga publishing industry. Shortly thereafter Shirow set up his own company and besides working on his own manga and illustration work took on projects from the anime and game industry. Shirow's work has been recognized and highly respected outside Japan. He has been active in numerous anime and game projects but it is rare for him to take the helm of such projects or even to have his name used prominently. Shirow Masamune was born in Japan in Chuo Ward Kobe City Hyogo Prefecture on November 23rd 1961. He still lives in the same district.