# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/masamune-shirow
# Generated: 2026-08-14T05:02:16.555Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/masamune-shirow"
name: "Masamune Shirow"
slug: "masamune-shirow"
description: "Masanori Ota , better known by his pen name Masamune Shirow , is a Japanese manga artist. Shirow is best known for the manga Ghost in the Shell, which has since been turned into three theatrical anime films, two anime television series, an anime television film, an anime ONA series, a theatrical live action film, and several video games, as well as being a key figure in the development of cyberpunk aesthetics and themes in Japan during the 1980s and 1990s."
tagline: "Japanese manga artist"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1961-11-23"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           55.85
  momentum:             0
  historical:           23.46874133333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0794385/"
    handle:    "nm0794385"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.shirowledge.com/index_enu.html"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%88%D9%86%D9%8A_%D8%B4%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%88"
    title: "ماساموني شيرو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ماسامونى شيرو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Masamune Shirow"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masamune_Shirow"
    title: "Masamune Shirow"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masamune_Shirow"
    title: "Masamune Shirow"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masamune_Shirow"
    title: "Masamune Shirow"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masamune_Shirow"
    title: "Masamune Shirow"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masamune_Shirow"
    title: "Masamune Shirow"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Masamune Shirow"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masamune_Shirow"
    title: "Masamune Shirow"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir%C3%B3_Maszamune"
    title: "Siró Maszamune"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masamune_Shirow"
    title: "Masamune Shirow"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "士郎正宗"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%8B%9C%EB%A1%9C_%EB%A7%88%EC%82%AC%EB%AC%B4%EB%84%A4"
    title: "시로 마사무네"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masamune_Shirow"
    title: "Masamune Shirow"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masamune_Shirow"
    title: "Masamune Shirow"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masamune_Shirow"
    title: "Masamune Shirow"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masamune_Shirow"
    title: "Masamune Shirow"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%BC%D1%83%D0%BD%D1%8D_%D0%A1%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%BE"
    title: "Масамунэ Сиро"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masamune_Shirow"
    title: "Masamune Shirow"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masamune_Shirow"
    title: "Masamune Shirow"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%BC%D1%83%D0%BD%D0%B5_%D0%A1%D1%96%D1%80%D0%BE"
    title: "Масамуне Сіро"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh_min_nan.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir%C3%B4_Masamune"
    title: "Sirô Masamune"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A3%AB%E9%83%8E%E6%AD%A3%E5%AE%97"
    title: "士郎正宗"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/a2927075-6d09-44aa-adeb-f1e0987bd255"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q442602"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/57303"
    title: "Shirow Masamune"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump