M.M.A. -Massive Mesh Ambitions- Special Feature #02 / Yosuke Tsuji, “Staying with the Ghost Trouble – Editor’s Afterword” English version also available

A media project to speculate and discuss about GHOST IN THE SHELL “M.M.A. -Massive Mesh Ambitions-.”

 

The theme of ISSUE #02 is “Outlaw.”
M.M.A. -Massive Mesh Ambitions- Special Feature #02 / Yosuke Tsuji, “Staying with the Ghost Trouble – Editor’s Afterword” is now available in English.

 

This is an afterword from editor Yosuke Tsuji while supervising work on the Outlaw collection alongside Shitone Sakamaki.

 

In the beginning, I had no intention of writing anything for this collection myself. I had fully intended to leave the writing to a group of brilliant commentators Shitone Sakamaki and I had carefully selected, so I could focus on the editing work and then close this collection with an interview with Sakamaki, just as an added bonus. However, in the end, it did not turn out that way. It came to me. As I read each wonderfully stimulating essay, I felt increasingly compelled with a sort of responsibility to respond. And then, an image came to mind. In all the outlaw-like points made about “Ghost in the Shell,” scattered like stardust within each essay, I began to see lines connecting them into dazzling constellations. Within moments, I had begun to write.

 

That is to say, I was moved to take each “standalone” point of view that was “autonomous and sometimes contradictory but is loosely connected to each other and continues to generate a single ‘worldview.’” (Kyoko Ozawa) and bring them together in my own, equally “standalone” afterword. With it, I can rest easy knowing that this collection, Outlaw, has reached a satisfying conclusion. Perhaps someone out there might discover a whole new side to “Ghost in the Shell” drawn within these lines, but our work ends here.