The second season of Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045 officially released the opening sequence. The song is titled “Secret Ceremony” by the Japanese creative collective Millenium Parade. They are led by Tokyo-based producer/songwriter Daiki Tsuneta.
The opening was directed by Shu Sasaki and Yuhei Kanbe, while Takahiro Ota supervised the visual effects of the video. Meanwhile, Taiyo Sato served as the computer graphic producer. It was produced by PERIMETRON and KASSEN.
Millennium Parade will also perform Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045 Season 2’s ending theme titled “No Time to Cast Anchor.” Flying Dog produced the music, and Sony Music Labels collaborated on the theme songs.
The anime officially started streaming on Netflix this Monday (May 23). Production I.G. and SOLA DIGITAL ARTS are animating the series. Kenji Kamiyama and Shinji Aramaki are directing, while Ilya Kuvshinov is doing the character design. Nobuko Toda and Kazuma Jinnouchi are doing the series’ music. The main cast for the anime includes:
- Atsuko Tanaka as Motoko Kusanagi
- Akio Otsuka as Batou
- Taro Yamaguchi as Borma
- Yutaka Nakano as Ishikawa
The year is 2045. As a result of the Global Simultaneous Default, an economic disaster that shook every country on Earth to its foundations, as well as the explosive evolution of artificial intelligence, the world has plunged into the Sustainable War, a planned war that can be continued indefinitely. In this near future, the decline has not yet become bad enough that people can sense in their daily lives the risk to human survival posed by A.I.
To combat cybercrimes by the Posthumans, a new breed of human being that has suddenly arisen, Public Security Section 9, led by the fully prosthetic cyborg Motoko Kusanagi, makes its way to Tokyo, which was reduced to ruins in a previous war. What they find there are a refugee group that calls itself “N” and a hostile American Special Forces unit. As the risk of nuclear war set off by a hijacked submarine grows ever greater, the three-way battle between Public Security Section 9, America, and the Posthumans intensifies.
Synopsis of second season (via official website)
Source: Official Anime Website, Millennium Parade Website
© Masamune Shirow, Production IG / Kodansha / Ghost in the Shell 2045 Production Committee
