The largest Matrix template comes in a lavish 4K Collector’s Edition

Long before the video game Cyberpunk 2077 and the anime adaptation Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, the classic Blade Runner founded the “cyberpunk” genre. Heavily influenced by Blade Runner, Masamune created Shirow in 1989 the manga Ghost in the Shellwhich Mamoru Oshii released as an anime film in 1995.

Oshii’s film version wowed sci-fi fans and critics around the world and is still considered a masterpiece and a classic. And as the main inspiration for perhaps the greatest sci-fi spectacle ever. If you haven’t seen the Matrix paragon, now is the perfect way to fill that educational gap. Because on The anime classic will be released in 4K on April 20th in a fat Collector’s Edition, that even contains a 352-page manga.

That’s what Ghost in the Shell is all about

The world in 2029 is different. Most people replace individual body parts with artificial implants and thus become cyborgs. Only the brain cannot yet be completely replaced. Some cyborgs even have a completely artificial body: the shell. The Shell is a biocapsule that contains her personality, identity, and spirit (the eponymous “ghost”).

When the mysterious hacker “Puppetmaster” terrorizes the public by defeating the shells’ defenses and manipulating the Ghost, the government sends Section 9 on him. But it fishes in the dark first, since the victims of the Pupptermaster have no memories of their deeds after they have lost their will and commit crimes for him…

That’s in the Ghost in the Shell Collector’s Edition

Highlight of the box is the Manga template as hardcover bookbut also the other extras are impressive:

If the Collector’s Edition is too big a financial commitment for you, you can also get the film in the inexpensive Blu-ray Anniversary Edition *

fetch. With its fundamental philosophical questions, the mysterious soundtrack and the twisting story, Ghost in the Shell goes far beyond a simple sci-fi spectacle and is rightly considered one of the best anime films ever.

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