Ghost In The Shell Arise
While some things slowed down over the holiday weekend, one thing that didn’t is the rollout of more Ghost in the Shell: Arise as the second installment landed there. And that means that the official channel behind it has unleashed nine minutes of the new episode for streaming on YouTube and made it English language accessible by subtitling it. It’s only available in 480p, but it’s still a good way to draw more people in and ramp up the interest in the new OVA series.
Plot concept: In the year 2027, a year following the end of the non-nuclear World War IV, a bomb has gone off in Newport City, killing a major arms dealer who may have ties with the mysterious 501 Organization. Public Security official Daisuke Aramaki hires full-body cyber prosthesis user and hacker extraordinaire, Motoko Kusanagi, to investigate. On the case with her are “Sleepless Eye” Batou, who believes Kusanagi is a criminal, Niihama Prefecture Detective Togusa who is investigating a series of prostitute murders he believes are related to the incident, and Lieutenant Colonel Kurtz of the 501 Organization who also wishes to keep an eye on Kusanagi.