ARISE from your grave

Jason Moses January 23, 2013

Wow, can you believe it’s already been 10 years since Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex first aired? Mere weeks ago Anime Los Angeles held a panel to mark the occasion, where voice actors Richard Epcar (Batou), Mary Elizabeth McGlynn (Major Kusanagi) and your fair editor Matt Schley speculated on the future of the franchise. Lo and behold, it looks like the original series’ creators are looking to re-explore the GitS-verse with a new TV series.

The new series, titled Ghost in the Shell ARISE, is set to air sometime in 2013. Kenji Kamiyama, the director of Stand Alone Complex, stated on twitter that he will not be making a return to direct the series.

Handling directorial duties instead will be Kise Kazuchika, who has extensive key animation and animation director credits over the past 30 years, including key animation for the Mamoru Oshii-directed Ghost in the Shell movies, Blood: The Last Vampire and the Stand Alone Complex film, Solid State Society.

Also not returning is Stand Alone Complex composer Yoko Kanno. Scoring the new show will be none other than Japanese musician Cornelius, whose eclectic music credits include commercials for Uniqlo, doing the sound work for experimental Game Boy Advance game Coloris, and helping to score 2007 CG anime film Appleseed Ex Machina.

The story will be handled by Tow Ubukata, best known as the creator of Le Chevalier D’Eon and the cyberpunk tale Mardock Scramble, which also features a cybernetic female main character.

So far, most of the discussion on twitter has centered around Major Kusanagi’s new choice of wardrobe. What do you think, guys?

Source: Monthly Young Magazine