The Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045 Season 2 compilation film will hit theaters in Japan this fall.
As detailed on MyAnimeList, the anime’s official website recently announced that the Part 2 compilation film, Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045 The Last Human, will hit theaters in Japan this November. The site also says the film will retell the plot of Season 2 with “new scenes and perspectives”. Production IG and Sola Digital Arts, which produced the film, also revealed a new trailer and key visual for the film’s fanbase.
Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045 is the sequel to Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, one of the most popular entries in the beloved cyberpunk series. The film is set in the year 2045, an era of perpetual war sustained through the use of weaponized artificial intelligence. After Season 9 closed, Motoko Kusanagi and her fellow GHOST rookies became embroiled in a secret conflict involving cybernetic-enhanced individuals known as “post-human”. Realizing the threat lurking in the world, GHOST sets out to protect humanity from a planned post-human takeover led by Takashi Shimamura and Suzuka Mizukane.
The production of The Last Human will be overseen by the same team that worked on Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045 Season 2. Director Michihito Fujii will return to direct the series along with Directors Kenji Kamiyama and Shinji Aramaki. The staff also includes screenwriters Dai Sato, Daisuke Daito, Harumi Doki, Kenji Kamiyama, Ryou Higaki, and Kurasumi Sunayama. Ilya Kuvshinov, the illustrator of the aforementioned key image, will once again take on the role of Character Designer. The Millennium Parade will also return to perform the film’s opening and closing themes, “Secret Ceremony” and “No Time to Anchor,” respectively.
The iconic Ghost in the Shell media franchise began with Masamune Shirow’s popular manga series, which debuted in Kodansha’s Young Magazine in April 1989. The series introduced fundamental themes and characters. base build for SAC_2045. In the year 2029, humanity has begun to develop itself through a cybernetic implant, connecting all humans through their “ghosts” to the online world. This creates an enabling environment for tech terrorists and cyber-hackers to wreak havoc. As part of Division 9, a government agency dedicated to dealing with such threats, Motoko Kusanagi and her colleagues regularly thwart the criminal plots of such individuals. However, Motoko ends up becoming part of a case involving a dangerous super hacker known only as the “Puppet Manipulator”, which takes her on a perilous journey deep into space. network.
Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045 — The Last Human is out this November. Seasons 1 and 2 of Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045 are available now on Netflix.
Source: Ghost in the Shell: Official SAC_2045 website, via MyAnimeList
