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Ghost in the Shell AAA Anime's 30-Second TV Ad Streamed
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version of the Ghost in the Shell Arise video anime.
Motoko: It's starting.
Text: TV series…
Voice: Major!
Text: Starting broadcast
Motoko: I found it... My... reality...
Motoko: Let's do this.
Text: Original concept - Masamune Shirow
Text: Chief Director/Character Design - Kazuchika Kise
Text: Series Composition - Tow Ubukata
Narrator: This is the story of the beginning of the Ghost in the Shell, brought to you by the greatest creators.
Text: Music - Cornelius
Narrator: Ghost in the Shell Arise: Alternative Architecture
The broadcast will recompile the original video anime's four episodes and include two new episodes. The series will tie in with the with slated to premiere in Japan this summer.
Shintaro Sakamoto will provide the lyrics.
The Ghost in the Shell Arise: Alternative Architecture television broadcast was BS11 on April 14.
Series writer Tow Ubukata commented on the new television broadcast, saying Masamune Shirow's original Ghost in the Shell manga was "not a classic sleeping in a museum, but a modern work that begged to be adapted for the screen." He stated that the television broadcast will take into the "peculiarities of the TV medium," and will answer "why the Section 9 were brought together." Concerning the film, Ubukata said that it will "deal even more with the past and inner personality of Motoko." He also hopes that "with Ghost in the Shell Arise: Alternative Architecture, I've created a new Ghost in the Shell work that can touch new people, as well as something that old fans of the manga, movies, and Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex can enjoy."
Ghost in the Shell Arise was originally a four-part anime series, helmed by Kazuchika Kise at released the series' first two episodes in North America in a Blu-ray Disc/DVD combo last October.
