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Ghost in the Shell: SAC to Spawn 2 New Manga in Japan (Updated)

posted on by Egan Loo
Masayuki Yamamoto's Tachikoma na Hibi, Ghost in the Shell: SAC

Production I.G's two anime films.)

The first of the manga, Monthly Young Magazine on December 9. Masayuki Yamamoto is drawing this all-new manga based on Production I.G's 2002 video anime series of the same name. This spinoff series of bonus anime shorts recounted the tongue-in-cheek stories of the Tachikoma AI tanks from the main Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex anime.

The second manga, simply titled Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, will launch in the 2009.02 issue of Kodansha's Pairon manga, will draw this manga version.

Laeta Kalogridis to adapt the manga.

The same January issue of Monthly Young Magazine with the Tachikoma na Hibi manga is also the magazine's adaptation.

Source: Kyo-kan.net, NTV7 via Pocket News

Image © 2002-2005 Shirow Masamune • Production I.G/Kodansha

Update: More background information added.

Update: Shirow's credit fixed. Thanks, ikillchicken.


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