Kenji Kamiyama who directed the original Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex and the sequel 2nd GIG, returns as a Co-Director with Shinji Aramaki who's best known as the director for the CG Appleseed series. SAC_2045 will be a direct continuation as the name implies, and takes place in the year 2045, 13 years after S.A.C. Solid State Society. From the new trailer shown, the show will be a full 3DCG series, a departure from the previous Ghost in the Shell titles that blended CG with traditional animation techniques. The backgrounds shown in the trailer appear to be lacking the texture details compared to Shinji Aramaki's earlier title, Appleseed Alpha. Likely the simplified textures were made in order to match the character models. We'll update as more information about the series surfaces.
Full description from Netflix:
"Created by Masamune Shiro, the sequel of much acclaimed Ghost In the Shell SAC series has come back as a full 3DCG anime series. Directors Kenji Kamiyama, Shinji Aramaki and SOLA DIGITAL ARTS will collaborate once again following ULTRAMAN (streaming 1 April on Netflix). This is the first Ghost In the Shell series to be brought to fans with a double director.
In 2045, the world has been thrown into a state of systematic "sustainable war," but the threat of human extinction at the hands of AI hasn't yet pervaded the public consciousness. Former members of Public Security Section 9, including full-body cyborg Major Motoko Kusanagi, are working as hired mercenaries when mysterious beings known as "post humans" begin to emerge. The world’s superpowers are trying to come to grips with the threat, and so Section 9 is reorganized."
GHOST IN THE SHELL: SAC_2045 will be released globally sometime next year in 2020.
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