The Koukaku Kidoutai – The Human Algorithm (Ghost in the Shell: The Human Algorithm) manga by Fujisaku Jun’ichi and Yoshimoto Yuki will end with the release of its eighth tankoubon volume in 2025. The news was confirmed with the release of the manga’s seventh volume on November 20th, 2024.
Fujisaku and Yoshimoto started the manga in September 2019 in Kodansha’s Young Magazine, and Kodansha published the manga’s first volume in April 2020. Kodansha USA Publishing releases the manga in English and it published the fourth volume in January 2024.
The manga is a sequel to Shirow Masamune’s Koukaku Kidoutai 1.5: Human-Error Processer (Ghost in the Shell 1.5: Human-Error Processor) manga from 2003. Both stories are spinoffs of Shirow Masamune’s original Koukaku Kidoutai (The Ghost in the Shell) manga, which ran from May 1989 to November 1991 in Kodansha’s Young Magazine. The manga inspired various anime, live-action shows, manga spinoffs, and video game adaptations.
Kodansha USA Publishing describes the Koukaku Kidoutai – The Human Algorithm manga below:
Hackers attempt to assassinate a politician during a speech preaching the advantages of cybernetic prosthetics. Fortunately, Togusa is there to whisk her to safety, and the investigation leads Batou to a suspicious factory in the artificial islands in southern Japan. Meanwhile, Chief Aramaki hears of a disturbing discovery at the other end of the country: dozens of artificial bodies, illegally dumped near a village where an anti-cyberization sect conducts their training and “rites.” Among the empty shells is one formerly inhabited by the woman who embodied Section 9 until she left it behind and disappeared: Major Motoko Kusanagi…
