Ahead of its newly announced July 7 broadcast start date, The Ghost in the Shell has gotten its longest trailer yet: a 77-second look that presents Section 9 in action and highlights some overt facial expressions from the Major. It also has a mention of the familiar Ghost in the Shell antagonist, the Puppet Master.
The trailer’s description comes with more staff credits, among them:
• Background art director: Emi Katanosaka (My Happy Marriage)
• Background art supervisor: Osamu Masuyama (My Happy Marriage)
• Color designer: Satoshi Hashimoto (Yaiba: Samurai Legend)
• Compositing director: Hikari Ito (Sanda)
• Sound director: Yuji Tange (Puniru is a Kawaii Slime)
• Sound effects: Shota Yaso
In addition to the trailer, there’s a new key visual that has the Section 9 team armed and suited up.
The Ghost in the Shell is a new adaptation of Shirow Masamune‘s cyberpunk manga, directed by Mokochan (DAN DA DAN Season 1 assistant director) at Science SARU with EnJoe Toh (Godzilla Singular Point, author of books like Self-Reference ENGINE and Code Buddha) on series composition and script duties. Shuhei Handa (Scott Pilgrim Takes Off co-character designer) is the character designer and chief animation director.
Prime Video will be streaming the anime (exempting Russia and China), with an exclusive early window for Japan.
The original manga debuted in the May 1989 issue of Young Magazine Kaizokuban, a special supplement of Kodansha’s seinen magazine Young Magazine. Kodansha USA’s synopsis partially reads:
Deep into the 21st century, the line between man and machine has been inexorably blurred as humans rely on the enhancement of mechanical implants and robots are upgraded with human tissue. In this rapidly converging landscape, cyborg superagent Major Motoko Kusanagi is charged to track down the craftiest and most dangerous terrorists and cybercriminals, including “ghost hackers” who are capable of exploiting the human/machine interface and reprogramming humans to become puppets to carry out the hackers’ criminal ends. When Major Kusanagi tracks the cybertrail of one such master hacker, the Puppeteer, her quest leads her into a world beyond information and technology where the very nature of consciousness and the human soul are turned upside down.
Previous anime adaptations took the form of Mamoru Oshii‘s Ghost in the Shell and Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence movies; the Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex series and movie; the Ghost in the Shell: Arise films, which feature a younger version of Motoko; and the 3DCG Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045, which is set after Stand Alone Complex. Production I.G produced these, with SOLA DIGITAL ARTS assisting for SAC_2045.