GHOST IN THE SHELL: ARISE - Watch the First 8-Minutes!
The first 8-minutes of the new Ghost in the Shell: Arise anime series has been released online! I like what I've seen of this series so far, and I'm looking forward to seeing how the story plays out. This is a four part series that reveals the origin of Motoko Kusanagi, a.k.a. The Major, and how the Section 9 team came together.
The story is "set in 2027, one year after the end of the fourth non-nuclear war. Newport City is still reeling from the war's aftermath when it suffers a bombing caused by a self-propelled mine. Then, a military officer implicated in arms-dealing bribes is gunned down.
"During the investigation, Public Security Section 9's Daisuke Aramaki encounters Motoko Kusanagi, the cyborg wizard-level hacker assigned to the military's Secret Unit 501. Batou, a man with the "eye that does not sleep," suspects that Kusanagi is the one behind the bombing. The Niihama Prefectural Police detective Togusa is pursuing his own dual cases of the shooting death and a prostitute's murder. Motoko herself is being watched by Secret Unit 501's head Kurutsu and cyborg agents."
The new series was directed by Kise Kazuchika, who has worked on other projects such as Blood: The Last Vampire, Dennou Coil, and the Neon Genesis Evangelion franchises, as well as previous Ghost In The Shell projects. Mardock Scramble creator Ubukata Tow wrote the screenplay.
Each part in the series will be 50 minutes long. It's also going to get a short, limited theatrical release in June. It's scheduled to be released in Japan on Blu-ray and DVD on July 26th.