Science SARU Produces New 'Ghost in the Shell' TV Anime for 2026

by Vindstot
May 25, 2024 7:53 AM | 59 Comments

A new Koukaku Kidoutai (Ghost in the Shell) television anime was announced by production company Bandai Namco Filmworks on Saturday. The new television anime adapting Masamune Shirow's sci-fi action manga is scheduled for a 2026 airing.

The anime was unveiled through an announcement trailer at the DEEP DIVE in sync with GHOST IN THE SHELL music event on Saturday, commemorating the 35th anniversary of the original manga's serialization. The event also showcased a teaser visual, featuring the protagonist Motoko Kusanagi (pictured).

Science SARU—the animation studio behind Devilman: Crybaby, Eizouken ni wa Te wo Dasu na! (Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!), and Kimi to, Nami ni Noretara (Ride Your Wave)—is producing the new anime. The production committee consists of Science SARU, Bandai Namco Filmworks, publishing company Kodansha, and animation studio Production I.G.

The latest installment in the franchise, Koukaku Kidoutai: SAC_2045 - Saigo no Ningen (Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045 - The Last Human), compiling the second season of the Koukaku Kidoutai: SAC_2045 (Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045) 3DCG anime series, opened in Japan on November 23 last year.

Announcement

Official site: https://theghostintheshell.jp/
Official X (Twitter): @thegitsofficial

Source: Comic Natalie

Koukaku Kidoutai (TV) (The Ghost in the Shell) on MAL

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Sorry, Kamen Rider OOO is waiting for me on TV. See you all guys!

Sep 4, 2024 11:43 AM by ProudElitist

@Karkov05 Angel's egg is made by the same guy who directed the gaijin-tailored reduction of the manga masterpiece, who is not profound nor a philosopher. I don't care what I make look like or not, the manga rules the anime without its technical stuff has no merits whatsoever. A barebone Blade Runner remake vs. something original rooted in japanese culture and with characters more fleshed out than a literal doll that passes her time moping, the manga wins over the movie anytime. I avoided reading the manga for a decade at least because he thought it was the contrary (meaning the anime was good and the manga sucked) yet I ended praising the manga over the anime so much that I consider it the best comic of the 80's hands down to the point that I even own a copy of the 1991 kodansha TP in japanese, so I say you can fully trust my judgment.

Sep 4, 2024 11:37 AM by ProudElitist

@Karkov05 you're making the anime more than it actually is. Oshii is not as deep or profound as you make him out to be. I mean, he friggin' made a movie out of red hiding hood pretending he was doing some sci-fi political crap when it's just a retelling of red hiding hood with people wearing sci-fi armours and getting lost in a sewer (?). Angel's egg? pure nonsensical masturbation with no story, no characters, nothing worth of mentioning or remembering. The guy is not a philosopher nor anything, he's a just a person who wanted to be a priest in his youth and then decided otherwise, nothing particularly deep or profound if you ask me.

Sep 4, 2024 11:24 AM by ProudElitist

@Karkov05 in the movie she's not serene, she's moping all the time. The conflict you see in her is the same of Roy Batty, which I guess is the reason behind the success of the movie as it is a remake of a well-known western movie with simbology westerners know as intended by westerners (and with that I mean it to differentiate it from something like, for example, the use of crosses in tokusatsus, which are not used in a christian sense outside the specifics of Ultraman and Ultraseven) because Oshii wanted to be a christian priest and so it's digestible for westerners, whereas the manga particularly towards the end is rooted in shinto stuff about cosmology and fate etc. etc. etc. etc. My personal take is that the best animated version is the first GITS SAC season, not as deep - and I don't mean serious, you don't need to be serious all the time to be deep - as the manga but good nonetheless. The original GITS is the only manga I've ever read that I consider superior to any animated product they made out of it, I generally prefer animes over mangas. The original GITS is the only exception.

Sep 4, 2024 10:37 AM by ProudElitist

@Karkov05 yes it's multifaceted in a sense that Motoko is depicted according to three different personas, meaning the one who enjoys her life with the colleagues, the one who on work is an hard-ass woman with whom you don't fuck with and plans her jobs accordingly to what goals she's undertaken and the one in private life who expresses her sexuality freely with both sexes. She's a fully fleshed out persona. In the anime Motoko is a melanchonic Roy Batty wannabe - all that she misses is repeating the dialogue about the tears in rain, really - who spouts the same stuff you can find in Blade Runner about the fact that the androids are too much specialized and too much specialization means death etc. etc. etc. Literally it's copy-pasted-copy-pasted-copy-pasted from Blade Runner, an anime rendition of Blade Runner with the usual Christian barf that Hack Mamoru Oshii wants to throw down your throat (I've seen other works of his like Roh-Jin, Angel's Egg and Patlabor, EVERY SINGLE TIME HE DOES THIS CRAP WHILE THE STORY IN THE BACKGROUND MAKES NO SENSE NOR IT IS WELL WRITTEN WHATSOEVER). This is what the 90's anime is, Blade Runner made into an animated form. So genius, so much originality, so great! I'd rather rewatch the original than the animated copy, it makes no sense to spend your time with a carbon-copy when you already have the original american, me thinks.

Sep 4, 2024 8:34 AM by ProudElitist

@Karkov05 you mean that a manga with social commentary, japanese ideas about fate, provisions about the future that are still relevant to this day, characters that feel multifaceted (particularly the protagonist) I.E. they feel like real breathing people with their own different attitudes on job, with the colleagues, in private life does not surpass an hamfisted Blade Runner remake telling the same exact things Blade Runner already told in 1985 with a protagonist as deep as a shoe and with ridicolous christian overtones added by an hack who wanted to be a priest before turning his shitty hands to anime, overtones not there to begin with? it's really sad to see so much delusion. I tell it as a person who previosly considered the 1995 movie his favourite movie ever...before reading the manga and seeing the richness of the world and characters in their original form Vs. the technical richness of the 1995 movie masquerading a barebone remake of a previous hollywood movie adding nothing to the mix, except what wasn't there to begin with because Masamune Shirow is not a christian and he has never been.

Sep 4, 2024 4:20 AM by ProudElitist

@ProudElitist

Alright^^ you turned me around.

You win.
My bad.

May 27, 2024 12:57 PM by Merve2Love

@Merve2Love most people of the fandom prefer the 1989 manga Masterpiece (the best comic to ever come out of the 80's period, the american mainstream superhero industry can easily suck the toes of Masamune Shirow) over any animated iteration. Race? I'm a gaijin too, it simply means foreigner in japanese. The oshii movies are reductions for the western Gaijins of something that, if you ever read the manga, you know it wasn't rooted in the west besides the cyberpunk design inspired by William Gibson and the likes. Particularly the ending chapter has nothing of the west in it and it's all about japanese stuff first and foremost.

May 27, 2024 3:17 AM by ProudElitist

@ProudElitist

No. No, they don't^^
Most people did not the the original Manga.

Let's leave race out of it :)

May 27, 2024 2:35 AM by Merve2Love

@Merve2Love most fans of GITS love the original manga before anything else. I've been part of the GITS fandom for years at this point, most of the people like the original manga more. Being the movies more easier for consumption for western Gaijins or not.

May 26, 2024 9:52 PM by ProudElitist

I only really enjoyed Stand Alone Complex and its second season, bless Kamiyama Kenji for his godly work on it! I actually wonder what he's up to these days.

I would still check this out as the studio choice makes me curious. I hope it turns out decent.

May 26, 2024 4:41 PM by Mirorin

GitS hasn't been good since Stand Alone Complex, hopefully since this is Science SARU they can turn things around.

May 26, 2024 3:59 PM by Wind_Falcon

@ProudElitist

Ah, Im sorry^^
But that's not most people.

Most of the fans love this "overblown" Movie. Just talking about the first legendary one, for the sake of argument. Same with Stand Alone Complex.
The Manga isn't popular, compared to those two.

I get it - you're different.
But that's not most people.

May 26, 2024 11:50 AM by Merve2Love

@Merve2Love what fans love the most is the 1989 manga, not the overblown and pretentious movies (I used to be a fan of them until I read the original manga, it's the only exception in my general preference for animes over mangas). SAC 1 is simply an interpretation of the mangas, and the 1995 movie it's not serious nor particularly mature. Being a clone of Blade Runner with useless christian crap inbetween does not particularly make you more serious or mature than single reflections Shirow made in the manga (for example, the whole thing about the hospital radioactive garbage being possible terrorist equipment), or single lines of dialogue spoken by the characters in the 1989 Masterpiece. The manga is serious when it has to be and funny when it has to be, it is equilibrated.

May 26, 2024 11:09 AM by ProudElitist

@Ten

Maybe that's mystery solved then -> If, as you say, the rest of the manga is a bit more quirky and lighthearted I can suddenly see Scinece Saru making a lot of sense.

May 26, 2024 10:02 AM by Merve2Love

@Merve2Love Yeah, I get what you mean. I read the manga after I watched the movie and expected it to be as serious, but it turned out to be completely different in tone. If this adaptation sticks to manga it could offer a new perspective, something that hasn't been done before.

May 26, 2024 10:00 AM by Ten

@Ten

Don't know about that.
But Stand Alone Complex and the original Movie are serious and pretty mature. And I think these are the ones fans love the most.

You're right tho. Let's wait and see.

May 26, 2024 9:13 AM by Merve2Love

@Merve2Love The original manga isn't all that serious though, and has a lot of goofy moments. So this can actually be a good fit. Personally I'm excited to see what they'd do with it.

May 26, 2024 9:08 AM by Ten

Will watch this one? Will be a potential hit or miss.

May 26, 2024 8:17 AM by CQLLIST

Lil-Bird said:
If it's going to adapt the manga more proper, leave in the VR lesbian threesome or SARU's credentials are bust.

Unfortunately that's probably the only part they'll not adapt. I think there's even a revised manga edition without those scenes, redrawn by Shirow Masamune himself. Well, maybe there's a non-zero chance if it's a Netflix exclusive.

May 26, 2024 3:19 AM by DarkDooM2

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