Coincidentally, there is a new Ghost in the Shell anime that's premiering now on Amazon Prime Video. It's animation style and mood are closely aligned with the original 1989 manga, which is to say it's more cartoonish and light-hearted. I prefer the more adult oriented content the franchise was putting out up until about 2006, but the new anime series gives me hope that we might eventually see a follow-up animation of Shirow Masamune's Man/Machine Interface - what was once considered to be Ghost in the Shell 2 before Mamuro Oshii created Innocence.

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TiredOfLife a minute ago | parent | next [-]

> style and mood are closely aligned with the original 1989 manga, which is to say it's more cartoonish and light-hearted

Did you get your manga the same place they sell the 15 minute long Tarantino movie Pulp Fiction?

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astrod an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The website for the new series;

https://www.theghostintheshell-anime.jp/

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stuxnet79 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Personally I think I'm done with GitS at this point. How many times has it been rebooted, like a dozen times?

The last one I enjoyed watching was Arise but I lost track after that. I think the series has been done to death and I would love to see some completely new IP from Masamune that is more reflective of the AI and economic upheavals we are experiencing in the 20s.

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AnonymousPlanet 20 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

I see every version as a remix of the original material, each done with their own take and philosophy. They're not remakes or reboots.

The only version that didn't add anything new was the Hollywood movie, which was an entertaining but shallow derivative of Oshii's animes and not based on the manga at all.

I think the original material provides enough ideas to continue spinning off new remixes. It hasn't even been outdated by the recent advancements in AI. Quite the opposite.

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DarKraD 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I don't think it will be animated any time soon due to Major not having much screen time, but if you haven't seen it, I would definitely recommend Human Algorithm[1] manga. It's a bit different art style than the original, more gritty and sterile, in a good way. For me personally that makes it a bit more cyberpunk feel. The first arc is a bit drag at a time but when all plot lines converge, the payoff is awesome.

[1]: https://kodansha.us/series/the-ghost-in-the-shell-the-human-...

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frmersdog 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

You're probably not going to get it. And he has decent reasons for not wanting to bother.

The nature (infamy?) of his activities over the past few years should also be noted. (And maybe chuckled at if you have a bit of a dark sense of humor.)

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BLKNSLVR 3 hours ago | parent [-]

For those who don't know, like me: he moved into adult manga, hentai-ish poster book work.

His popularity may have corrupted him...

https://appleseed.fandom.com/wiki/Shirow_Masamune

	▲	zgok 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It's not corruption. He has stated that there were projects going on behind the scenes, but most of them got scrapped before reaching production. The most recent manga he involved with was Ghost Urn, which explores the world of GitS from a different protagonist. He did not do the drawing, but did most of the worldbuilding and mecha design.

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Animats 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

The article author sure likes Ghost in the Shell. Almost every variant is listed. The article only covers comics, manga, and graphic novels, not anime. So Bubblegum Crisis, which is half cyberpunk and half music videos, isn't listed. Nor is Cowboy Bebop.

(The site is now intermittently down, with "429 Too many requests".)

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packetlost 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I really like the art direction of the new GitS adaptation (I hope this retro style gets used more), but yeah it's completely different in tone from the '95 adaptation and most of what followed.

I've enjoyed it so far.