Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045 Season 2 Gets Apocalyptic Trailer

The upcoming season 2 of Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045 revealed a new trailer along with a key visual. Netflix will be streaming the anime on May 23. The continuation of the anime will be animated by Production I.G. and SOLA DIGITAL ARTS.

The main cast includes:

• Atsuko Tanaka as Motoko Kusanagi
• Akio Otsuka as Batou
• Taro Yamaguchi as Borma
• Yutaka Nakano as Ishikawa

Staff was also recently revealed in full:

• Directors: Kenji Kamiyama and Shinji Aramaki
• Character design: Ilya Kuvshinov
• Music: Nobuko Toda and Kazuma Jinnouchi
• Theme songs: millenium parade (OP: “Secret Ceremony”, ED: “No Time to Cast Anchor“)
• Opening sequence: PERIMETRON
• Opening sequence directors: Shu Sasaki × Yuhei Kanbe

The new Ghost in the Shell is a Netflix original anime. Netflix describes the story of the second season as:
After tracking down a source in California, Major Motoko Kusanagi and the Section 9 crew head back to Tokyo as the posthuman threat grows bolder.

Ghost in the Shell is based on a manga by Shirow Masamune. It was originally published in Kodansha’s Kodansha’s seinen manga magazine Young Magazine Kaizokuban from 1989 to 1991. Ghost in the Shell 2: Man-Machine Interface sequel was serialized from 1997 to 2001. The manga spawned multiple movies and TV anime adaptations. Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045 is the latest among them.

Source: Netflix Anime YouTube, AnimeJapan 2022
© Masamune Shirow, Production IG / Kodansha / Ghost in the Shell 2045 Production Committee