Masamune Shirow Artwork

Masamune Shirow (Masanori Ota) is one of the most famous manga creators in the world. He is best known for the manga series Ghost in the Shell.
 
The first entry in the franchise was  Ghost in the Shell manga, first published in 1989. A sequel, Ghost in the Shell 2: Man-Machine Interface, was released in 2002, and a serialized manga, Ghost in the Shell 1.5: Human-Error Processor, which contained material that was planned for but not included in the sequel, was released in 2003.

Ghost in the Shell is a futuristic police thriller dealing with the exploits of the cyborg Motoko Kusanagi, a member of a covert operations division of the Japanese National Public Safety Commission known as Section 9. The unit specializes in fighting technology-related crimes.

Masamune Shirow Shrine
Shirow News (Japanese, but google translator won't see you wrong)
Gallery of artwork
Masamune Shirow Wikipedia bibliography

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What is Seinen Manga?

Seinen manga 青年漫画

In Japanese, the word Seinen means "young man" or "young men".  Seinen manga is generally targeted at 20 to 30 year old males audience, though some seinen manga are aimed at middle aged businessmen. 

Subject matter, can range from the avant-garde to the pornographic.  Seinen manga places a greater emphasis on realism, storyline and character development rather than action. Not to be confused with "Adult Manga"

Shōnen manga: intended for boys
Shōjo manga: intended for girls
Josei manga: intended for adult women

Though open to dispute, Gantz, Ghost in the Shell, Akira, and Hellsing are good examples of Seinen manga.

Image from Gantz manga series.

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Auto Assault Wallpaper

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With a nod to the series of Mad Max films, Auto Assault was a massively multiplayer online PC game developed by NetDevil and published by NCsoft in 2006. Combining vehicle combat with role-playing elements, players explored a post-apocalyptic world in customizable cars, motorcycles, and tanks.

Auto Assault Refugee Bunker fansite

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Fashion photography Mitsuaki Koshizuka

From Mitsuaki Koshizuka, a Tokyo-based fashion, fine art, portrait and commercial photographer

Official Website

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Cosplay Women with Swords

I wish I knew Korean, google translated as "Diablo styled empress dowager" not a single link could I find to either the cosplayer, the game site or the character.  But too good to leave on my hardrive.

Update: 1st October 2011
Supreme gratitude to "Anonymous" (see comments) for tracking down the information, and for providing an absolute treasure of a  link. The cosplayer is Chinese model, Pan Shuang Shuang with a cosplay theme "Night noblewoman" see more stunning images from IulyaSama on mmosite.com

(bows to "Anonymous")

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Concept Art the masters

Founded by industry legends James Zhang and Scott Chou , Concept Art House is an international art service provider focusing on 2D, 3D and social game digital entertainment development, working with owners of popular intellectual properties such as Activision, Blizzard, Crowdstar, Disney, Electronic Arts, Hasbro, LucasArts, Sony Online Entertainment and Zynga.



View better quality images from the artist links above or from the the following Concept Art House links

Official Website


Official Blog

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Comic Book Artist Kody Chamberlain

Kody Chamberlain, an American comic book artist, artwork above from "SWEETS", a noir-inspired five issue miniseries.  For more details and full size images, visit his rather impressive website.

Official Website
Twitter: @KodyChamberlain

What does "ahoge" mean

アホ毛 ahoge is simply a stupid piece hair or "idiot hair"

The image:Utatane Piko, is The first Vocaloid from Sony Music Distribution from the Vocaloid2 engine. He was released on December 8, 2010. Not sure what Vocaloid is all about

checkout Rendered Beauty post on Vocaloid

Runes of Magic Wallpaper

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Runes of Magice is an mmorpg, developed by the Taiwanese developer Runewaker Entertainment, originally launched on 19 March 2009. The latest Chapter, Chapter IV - Lands of Despair, was released June 16, 2011.
The game client is free to download, and no monthly subscription fee is required with the service funded by real money transactions (RMT) in the Runes of Magic Item Shop.

Wallpaper from community section of:
Runes of Magic Official Website

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Grey Magazine Scans

         from Grey Magazine

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