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FIRST OFF, OBVIOUSLY NOT MINE! (no infringement intended!)Second, NEW GHOST IN THE SHELL!!! SQWEEEEEEEEEE!!
the trailer: [link]
the info: Ghost in the Shell Arise’s new trailer joins news that not only will the OVA be getting entirely new character designs, but also an entirely new voice cast!!
Motoko will now be voiced by Maaya Sakamoto, who perhaps not coincidentally also voiced child Makoto in SAC and Deunan in Appleseed XIII, rather than Atsuko Tanaka, who voiced her all the other Ghost in the Shell anime.
Along with Motoko, Aramaki (now voiced by Ikyu Juku), Togusa (Tarusuke Shingaki), Batou (Kenichiro Matsuda) and every other member of the cast also sees a new voice actor, for what is clearly intended to be a clean break with the previous incarnations of the franchise.
A new 2027 setting and storyline (yet again involving viruses) round out what has been described as a Motoko “origins” style story with her still with army intelligence prior to her Section 9 career.
Aside from the new character designs and seiyuu changes, plenty of other information about the new project has just emerged – it will be comprised of 4 50 minute parts, with the first – “Ghost Pain” – to see limited theatrical release and then an OVA BD/DVD release in June and July.
A manga edition of the new production is also due to begin serialisation in March, in the pages of Monthly Young Magazine.
Masamune Shirow on GITS Arise:
2029AD. Togusa would be 29, so in the world of Ghost in the Shell, today in 2013 he would be in middle school. What would he be doing now, and would he already have resolved to become a detective?
[In the 24 years since the original manga's debut] the world has changed a lot – especially computers and networks, with many people now carrying and using high powered mobile terminals at all times.
The original manga is now quite old, and I think it must be quite challenging to adapt, but I’m really looking forward to seeing viewers enjoy whatever new Ghost in the Shell Arise and the new staff produce.
And please, afterwards don’t start saying “this was all a fake memory and none of the anime adaptations were real,” OK?
- Masamune Shirow
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I really cannot wait for this!I think Togusa and Batou are really cool characters.
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I just love ghost in the shell....Just find a DVD "Arise"
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They better not make the same mistake they're making in Japan by completely swapping out the voice cast like this. We know from SAC and 2nd Gig that Motoko was an fighting in Mexico toward the end of the 2020s, and so was Saito. Batou was serving in South America with the Rangers, also an adult, and NOT sporting a faux hawk. This whole prequel stinks of continuity cluster-fuckery.
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It isn't really a prequel tho. This is going to be a now 4th GITS continuity. 1.) the mangas, 2.) the movies, 3.) SAC 1st & 2nd GIGs, 4.) GITS Arise.
While it is a prequel in a sense and a Motoko origen story, it isn't a SAC Motoko origen story. One thing Masamune Shirow himself from what I've read did was ask Kise (the new character designer) to really change up Motoko. Make her younger, play down the sexuality a bit and more or less re imagine her a bit more contemporarily as all the males have come to be. Apparently Production IG CEO Mitsuhisa Ishikawa was aghast when he saw the new Motoko and even her new seiyuu said she will “have to try to adapt” to the new Motoko.
In other words, yes, its' new and they ARE changing shit. But Masamune Shirow said to do it, so I have faith. And in knowing that this is something completely new, I am very excited about it and I for one cannot wait to see it. And I'm not going to let any of the other stuff bog me down from enjoying it either!
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would you happen to know the english cast as well? i just found out about the new series and haven't seen anything as of yet
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No word on the english side of things. No telling yet if it'll come out in America. Bandi shut down US distro of dvds and blurays of anime as a protest to online piracy. So who even knows? We don't even know which US anime house will get to the rights to GITS Arise yet. That's how new all of this is so far. Hope that helps! Tell all your friends! New GITS!
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i will, thank you for the new info
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That makes two of us.
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