Bandai Namco Filmworks confirmed this week that The Ghost in the Shell (Koukaku Kidoutai) franchise will get a new TV anime in 2026. Science SARU will produce the anime, while Bandai Namco Filmworks, Kodansha, and Production I.G will be involved in the production committee. A teaser video and teaser image for the anime were released, but no further details have been revealed at this time.
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The anime is based on Shirow Masamune’s original The Ghost in the Shell manga, which ran from May 1989 to November 1991 in Kodansha’s Young Magazine. The manga has inspired various anime, live-action shows, manga spinoffs, and video game adaptations.
In the near future, technology has firmly taken root in society. Cybernetic implants are nothing uncommon, and robots roam as plentiful as humans, all connected through their ”ghosts” to the electronic datastreams of the net. Major Motoko Kusanagi and the Public Security Section 9 find themselves in a constant battle with the newly created wave of technological terrorists and cyber-hackers. But things take a turn once Motoko gets involved in a particular case involving an extremely dangerous ”ghost” hacker nicknamed the Puppeteer, as she dives deeper and deeper into the limitless reality of the net to reach her own startling conclusions.
