Having debuted on April 5th, 2015 on Tokyo MX and lots of other broadcasters in Japan, Details regarding parts of the Ghost in the Shell: Arise – Alternative Architecture have surfaced. While the initial fear for many was that since they were mixing in material they’d end up re-buying things just to get some new pieces to it, it looks like the new material for the project is being done with separate releases. The first one to get the announcement is that of Ghost in the Shell ARISE PYROPHORIC CULT, which will debut on August 26th, 2015. It’ll have English language subtitles with the Blu-ray priced at 6,800 yen while the DVD is at 5,800 yen. The release is set to run for 90 minutes and will come with a booklet, the opening sequence, previews, liner notes, promotional videos and commercials.
The new series deals with the story as told in the OVAs released in the last couple of years, which FUNimation is releasing here. The main cast from that are reprising their roles here and the series is directed by Kise Kazuchika, who is also doing the character designs for it. Production I.G. will be animating and it’s planned for a ten episode run. The run will be reworking the OVAs across the first eight episodes with some new material being brought on and there will be two episodes that are made up of original material. All of it will serve to bridge to the new movie out this coming summer.
OVA Premise: 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.
