Manga Entertainment UK had a lot to talk about in general this past weekend at the MCM Expo Birmingham Comic Con but one area where they were a bit more limited was in the acquisition announcement of Ghost In The Shell: ARISE. The company will be bringing the OVA series to release in the UK but they’re not able to talk about anything else with it yet. Which isn’t too much of a surprise as the series is still ongoing, it’s going to be dubbed in the US through FUNimation who has been doing the import releases, and it’ll take time to get the schedule set once all the pieces of the product are in place.
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.
