It has been confirmed that the new “Ghost in the Shell” anime will be premiering in 2020. Titled as “Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045”, the work will be distributed by Netflix.
Directing the new anime are Kenji Kamiyama and Shinji Aramaki are who worked on the original “Ghost in Shell” film and the creator of the “Megazone 23” OAV. In addition to being a director, Aramaki is also noted as the supervisor of the series. Taking on the production are studios Production I.G and Sola Digital Arts. To mark the announcement, a new visual has been released for the upcoming work.
In a previous interview on the anime, Production I.G. USA president Maki Terashima-Furuta stated that the anime would have two 12-episode seasons.
“Ghost in the Shell” is a media franchise that began in 1989 as a seinen manga series of the same name written and illustrated by Masamune Shirow. Initially, it was titled “The Ghost in the Shell, then it later gained a publication as its own tankōbon volumes by Kodansha. The first animation to be released for the work was a 1995 film. It was produced by animation studio Production I.G and had Mamoru Oshii and Kazunori Itō as its director and writer respectively.
With the manga, it told the story of the fictional counter-cyber terrorist organization Public Security Section 9, led by protagonist Major Motoko Kusanagi, in the mid-21st century of Japan where the barriers of our world have been broken down by the net and by cybernetics. In the film, it features how the broken barriers have resulted in a new vulnerability to humans in the form of brain-hacking.
From this, a highly-wanted hacker known as “The Puppetmaster” has risen and have taken on political figures. In the pursuit of the criminal, it will call into question what makes a human and what is the Puppetmaster in a world where the distinction between human and machine is increasingly blurry.
The cast for the film included:
Akio Ohtsuka as Bateau
Atsuko Tanaka as Major Motoko Kusanagi
Iemasa Kayumi as The Puppet Master
Kōichi Yamadera as Togusa
Tamio Ohki as Section 9 Department Chief Aramaki
Yoshiko Sakakibara as The Puppet Master (version 2.0)
Yutaka Nakano as Ishikawa
Source: Natalie Comic