arrives at Prime Video the new television series based on the legendary anime ‘Ghost in the Shell’and which is the first adaptation of the franchise that does not pass through the hands of its original managers, Production IG, in three decades. The project has fallen this time to Science SARU, the studio behind ‘Dan Da Dan’ and ‘Your Color’, with Toma Kimura (known as Mokochan) at the helm, in his directorial debut.
Since Masamune Shirow published the original manga in 1989, Major Motoko Kusanagi has gone through very different versions without ever giving rise to a closed continuity. Mamoru Oshii directed the 1995 film that would end up influencing the visual imagination of classics like ‘The Matrix’, and that film was followed by series like ‘Stand Alone Complex’ or the OVA collection ‘Arise’. In 2017, Hollywood tried a controversial adaptation starring Scarlett Johansson. But this could be the definitive version.
The series sets the action in 2029, with Kusanagi at the head of a unit specialized in cybercrimes which will end up being integrated into Section 9 of Public Security. The approach is closer to the original manga than other previous versions, including plots and characters from the original story that were left out of previous adaptations. So we may be looking at something very close to a definitive version of the work.
Additionally, Mokochan has earned the respect of fans for his promise not to use artificial intelligence in any shot of the series. Everything has been done with traditional techniques. ‘Ghost in the Shell’ is part of a series of anime productions that are attracting attention for their iconic value: in addition to this ‘Ghost in the Shell’ there is the remake of ‘The Fist of the North Star’, already released, and the second season of ‘From forty-something peasant to legendary swordsman’.
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