It has been announced that latest Ghost in the Shell: Arise anime project will consists of four 50-minute anime film that will premiere starting this June. The series of films will be a prequel to the anime, featuring Motoko Kusanagi (CV: Maaya Sakamoto) when she was younger.
The first part, “Ghost Pain” will premiere on June 22nd and will run for two weeks. An advance Blu-ray Disc copies with a bundled scenario book available at participating theaters for 8,000 yen (about US$85). Japan will also have paid streaming service for the film.
The general retail release of the first part's Blu-ray Disc will be on July 26th.
Other cast includes Kenichirou Matsuda as Batou, Tarusuke Shingaki as Togusa, Tomoyuki Dan as Ishikawa, Takurou Nakakuni as Saito, Youji Ueda as Paz, Kazuya Nakai as Borma, and Ikkyuu Juku as Daisuke Aramaki.
A manga adaptation, Ghost in the Shell Arise Sleepless Eye (Nemuranai Me no Otoko), will debut in the April issue of Kodansha's Monthly Young Magazine on March 13. Takumi Ōyama will draw the series, and Jun'ichi Fujisaku will write the story.
via Anime News Network
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We'll see. Usually I don't like prequels but I been starvin for some more Ghost.