Prime Video Japan has released a new trailer for The Ghost in the Shell. The over one-minute-long preview includes more Section 9, more action, and more teasing of the Puppet Master.
The final moments of the trailer have a voice talking of the need for humans to evolve and cast off “inefficient parts,” before saying, “What you consider to be you, isn’t you.”
It was also announced that The Ghost in the Shell will begin streaming on Prime Video in Japan on July 7, the same date as its broadcast start. It was previously known that Prime Video would exclusively stream the anime (outside of Russia and China) with an exclusive early window for Japan.
The Ghost in the Shell is a new adaptation of Shirow Masamune‘s cyberpunk manga directed by Mokochan (DAN DA DAN Season 1 assistant director) at Science SARU. The synopsis reads:
The year is 2029. In near-future Japan, where the world has become highly information-intensive, with a vast corporate network covering the planet, electrons and light pulsing through it. But the nation-state and ethnic groups still survive. Motoko Kusanagi, a full-body cyborg, leads an elite combat unit, including Batou. While commanding her team, Kusanagi envisions the creation of a specialized task force to preemptively strike against emerging threats. Meanwhile, Daisuke Aramaki of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, who had been planning to establish a similar unit, recruited Kusanagi and her team. Together, they begin operations as Public Security Section 9—an offensive tactical unit known as “Shell Squad.” As they confront complex cybercrimes and international conspiracies, the existence of a mysterious, unidentified hacker known as The “Puppet Master” emerges on the horizon of their investigation. What fate awaits Kusanagi? And what is the Puppet Master’s true objective? A new era of cyberpunk action begins.
Other staff include EnJoe Toh (Godzilla Singular Point, author of books like Self-Reference ENGINE and Code Buddha) as series composer and scriptwriter and Shuhei Handa (Scott Pilgrim Takes Off co-character designer) as character designer and chief animation director. The cast has yet to be announced.
The anime will have its premiere at an Anime Expo 2026 panel on July 4 (2:45 PM to 4:05 PM at JWDiamond),
The original manga debuted in the May 1989 issue of Young Magazine Kaizokuban, a special supplement of Kodansha’s seinen magazine Young Magazine. Of its previous anime adaptations, the most well-known are arguably Mamoru Oshii‘s Ghost in the Shell and Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence movies and Kenji Kamiyama‘s Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex TV anime, its second season, and movie. These were followed by the Ghost in the Shell: Arise films, which have a younger version of Motoko; and the 3DCG Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045, which is set after Stand Alone Complex. Production I.G produced these titles, with SOLA DIGITAL ARTS assisting for SAC_2045.
Production credits
• Director: Mokochan
• Series composer and scriptwriter: EnJoe Tohand
• Character designer and chief animation director: Shuhei Handa
• Background art director: Emi Katanosaka (My Happy Marriage)
• Background art supervisor: Osamu Masuyama (My Happy Marriage)
• Color designer: Satoshi Hashimoto (Yaiba: Samurai Legend)
• Compositing director: Hikari Ito (Sanda)
• Sound director: Yuji Tange (Puniru is a Kawaii Slime)
• Sound effects: Shota Yaso
• Music director and composer: Taisei Iwasaki (MARRIAGETOXIN)
• Music composer: Ryo Konishi
• Music composer: Yuki Kanesaka
• Animation production: Science SARU
Source: Prime Video JP YouTube channel
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