If you haven’t heard, we’re getting a new GHOST IN THE SHELL anime. With that, we got a teaser trailer announcing the project. Check it out below.
If you’re not familiar with GHOST IN THE SHELL, started as a manga from the master artist, Masamune Shirow, and since adapted into multiple anime. But here’s a quick rundown from its Wiki:
Primarily set in the mid-twenty-first century in the fictional Japanese city of Niihama, Niihama Prefecture, otherwise known as New Port City, the manga and the many anime adaptations follow the members of Public Security Section 9, a special-operations task-force made up of former military officers and police detectives. Political intrigue and counter-terrorism operations are standard fare for Section 9, but the various actions of corrupt officials, companies, and cyber-criminals in each scenario are unique and require the diverse skills of Section 9’s staff to prevent a series of incidents from escalating.
In this cyberpunk iteration of a possible future, computer technology has advanced to the point that many members of the public possess cyberbrains, technology that allows them to interface their biological brain with various networks. The level of cyberization varies from simple minimal interfaces to almost complete replacement of the brain with cybernetic parts, in cases of severe trauma. This can also be combined with various levels of prostheses, with a fully prosthetic body enabling a person to become a cyborg. The heroine of Ghost in the Shell, Major Motoko Kusanagi, is such a cyborg, having had a terrible accident befall her as a child that ultimately required that she use a full-body prosthesis to house her cyberbrain. This high level of cyberization, however, opens the brain up to attacks from highly skilled hackers, with the most dangerous being those who will hack a person to bend to their whims.
Though the teaser doesn’t give us much on the story, but word on the street is that it sounds like it’s going to adapt the manga by Masamune Shirow, and not create a new story inspired by the manga. But in addition to that, one thing I love about this is that, if the key art below is any indication, the anime is going to work hard to emulate the art of Masamune Shirow. And I personally love that.
This upcoming series will be animated by Science SARU, the studio behind DAN DA DAN, so you know the animation is going to be killer. And will be directed by Moko-chan and written by Toh EnJoe.
This new series is set to premiere sometime in 2026.