The Cyberpunk saga Ghost in the Shell already exists in numerous incarnations, which have shaped the sci-fi genre in different ways. The anime film Ghost in the Shell from 1995 is one of the great achievements in the anime medium.
Over 30 years later, next year there will be a new anime series about Ghost in the Shell which will apparently be based more closely on the manga by Masamune Shirow. What is particularly surprising is the production location of the new project.
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As Anime News Network reports about the new Ghost in the Shell, it will be shot in the anime studio Science SARU The experimental studio of Masaaki Yuasa, who is known for wild projects such as Night Is Short, Walk on Girl or Devilman: Crybaby. We can only hope that the studio can maintain its idiosyncratic character until then, because, as was also recently announced, the entertainment giant TOHO has now swallowed up the little rebel.
But how could the new series be different? While the Cyborg police officer Major Motoko Kusanagi In most versions of Ghost in the Shell she appears as a stoic investigator with existentialist questions, in the original Shirow manga she is a bit more lively and sexy. Only the overloaded, dystopian world in which she solves cyber crimes with the department called Section 9 is the same.
A Announcement teaser for the project mainly shows excerpts from the groundbreaking manga original, which was published in 1989 and is therefore one of the cornerstones of cyberpunk:
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In addition to the two films by Mamoru Oshii, notable versions include the series Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, which Moviepilot named one of the best sci-fi series of the last 25 years, as well as the alternative prequel Ghost in the Shell ARISE and the controversial US adaptation Ghost in the Shell with Scarlett Johansson as Major.
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