The Ghost in the Shell TV anime series has released a second key visual and trailer. The key visual features Major Makoto Kusanagi, while the trailer showcases Makoto and her team in action. The anime series is scheduled to premiere in July 2026.
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The newest The Ghost in the Shell anime adaptation is based on the original manga series by Shirow Masamune. It made its debut in 1989 in Kodansha’s Young Magazine. It inspired several anime series and movies, including Mamoru Oshii‘s Ghost in the Shell, Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, Ghost in the Shell: Arise, and Ghost in the Shell: The New Movie.
Kodansha is publishing the manga series in English and describe the story as:
Deep into the twenty-first century, the line between man and machine has been inexorably blurred as humans rely on the enhancement of mechanical implants and robots are upgraded with human tissue. In this rapidly converging landscape, cyborg superagent Major Motoko Kusanagi is charged to track down the craftiest and most dangerous terrorists and cybercriminals, including “ghost hackers” who are capable of exploiting the human/machine interfance and reprogramming humans to become puppets to carry out the hackers’ criminal ends. When Major Kusanagi tracks the cybertrail of one such master hacker, the Puppeteer, her quest leads her into a world beyond information and technology where the very nature of consciousness and the human soul are turned upside down.
Source: Comic natalie, official X/Twitter, official website
