A combination that’s hard to believe, but there it is. Seven Seas Entertainment has picked up the manga license for Pandora of the Crimson Shell – Ghost Urn, which is created by Masamune Shirow and Koshi Rikdo. With Shirow writing and Rikdo illustrating, it’s a strange and surreal piece just from the cover artwork alone that you can see on the right. The series began back in October 2012 in Kadokawa Niconico Ace with four volumes published so far as of this summer. Seven Seas Entertainment is set to bring out the first volume in July 2015.
Shirow is well known for his many creations over the years, from Appleseed to Ghost in the Shell, and Rikdo gained fame with Excel Saga, which ended in 2011 and had a very popular anime adaptation for North American fans.
Check out the promo for the manga below.
Plot concept: Story follows a girl whose brain was transferred to prosthetic body. Surviving a terrorist incident on the way to a man-made resort island, she takes up the mission of solving the mystery behind the incident, with a genius scientist manipulating the naive girl.
