Stray Dog of Anime

Upon its US release in the mid 1990s, Ghost in the Shell , directed by Mamoru Oshii, quickly became one of the most popular Japanese animated films in the country. Despite this, Oshii is known as a maverick within anime: a self-proclaimed ''stray dog''. This is the first book to take an in-depth look at his major films, from Urusei Yatsura to Avalon .