Romance and action is in the air with the new trailer FUNimation has produced for their domestic release of the third installment of Ghost in the Shell Arise. While no US date is set yet, the Japanese release is scheduled for a July 25th, 2014. The first two episodes have come out overseas and in North America through an import deal with FUNimation and the third will likely be solicited shortly.
This release brings a few new characters in to play for this period of time with Tatsuhisa Suzuki set to play Akira Hose, who is Motoko’s lover in the show. Suzuki is also set to play another character with Dr. Zhinzhee Bekka Arr Thied. Kayano has boarded the show to play Emma while Shunsuke Sakuya is taking on the role of Ishikawa, which was a necessity in general since the original actor, Tomoyuki Dan, passed away last year.
Series 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.
