A TV anime version of Ghost in the Shell: Arise. The first eight episodes are an edited version of the four movies while the last two features a new arc called "Pyrophoric Cult."
The plot involves the "Fire Starter" virus explored previously, and introduces the new character Pyromania. The episode will have ties to the upcoming film.
Ghost in the Shell: Arise - Alternative Architecture has finished airing and it has 10 Episodes. It is also Known as: 攻殻機動隊 ARISE ALTERNATIVE ARCHITECTURE, Koukaku Kidoutai: Arise (TV)
Genres: Android , Robot , Human Enhancement , Cyberpunk , Cyborg , Law And Order , Special Squads , Science Fiction , Mecha , Cops , Psychological
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Top 5 Anime Like Ghost in the Shell: Arise - Alternative Architecture [2026 List]
5. Mardock Scramble: The Second Combustion
Rune Balot is weeping and trying to save both herself and a severely injured Oeufcoque from Shell's assassin Boiled. Luckily for her, Doctor Easter finally shows up in the Humpty Dumpty – a special militarized vehicle made for protecting those in Welfare cases if their lives are threatened. From there they go to Paradise, where the Scramble 09 technology (and Boiled's rebirth) was developed. All of the secrets of the past of Mardock City (and possibly its future) are revealed in this riveting second part of the Mardock Scramble series, upping the stakes and making Balot choose between justice for herself or peace within Paradise instead.
Mardock Scramble: The Second Combustion has finished airing and it has 1 Episodes. It is also Known as: マルドゥック・スクランブル 燃焼, Mardock Scramble: The Second Combustion
4. Ghost in the Shell: Arise - Border 1: Ghost Pain
The anime's story is set in 2027, one year after the end of the fourth non-nuclear war. New Port City is still reeling from the war's aftermath when it suffers a bombing caused by a self-propelled mine. Then, a military member implicated in arms-dealing bribes is gunned down.
During the investigation, Public Security Section's Daisuke Aramaki encounters Motoko Kusanagi, the cyborg wizard-level hacker assigned to the military's 501st Secret Unit. Batou, a man with the "eye that does not sleep," suspects that Kusanagi is the one behind the bombing. The Niihama Prefectural Police detective Togusa is pursuing his own dual cases of the shooting death and a prostitute's murder. Motoko herself is being watched by the 501st Secret Unit's head Kurutsu and cyborg agents.
Ghost in the Shell: Arise - Border 1: Ghost Pain has finished airing and it has 1 Episodes. It is also Known as: Ghost in the Shell: Arise - Border:1 Ghost Pain, 攻殻機動隊ARISE -GHOST IN THE SHELL- border:1 Ghost Pain, Koukaku Kidoutai Arise: Ghost in the Shell - Border:1 Ghost Pain
3. Ghost in the Shell 2.0
Mamoru Oshii's first Ghost in the Shell cyberspace film will return to five Japanese theaters in an enhanced Ghost in the Shell 2.0 edition on July 12. The new edition will include new computer graphics and digital effects for some scenes and a reunion of most of the cast members for a new 6.1 surround sound recording. Academy-Award-winning sound mixer/editor Randy Thom (Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence, The Incredibles, The Right Stuff) has overseen the new soundtrack with Kenji Kawai's original music and a final mix that has been produced at Thom and Lucas Digital's Skywalker Sound studio in California.
In the new edition, the enigmatic Puppet Master character will be played by Yoshiko Sakakibara (Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence's Harraway, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex's Prime Minister Yoko Kayabuki). Iemasa Kayumi (Giant Robo's Chief Chuujou Shizuo, RahXephon's Ernst Von Bähbem) played the role in the original edition.
The film will screen in Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya, Fukuoka, and Sapporo. Not coincidentally, Oshii's latest film, The Sky Crawlers, will open one month after Ghost in the Shell 2.0 on August 2.
Ghost in the Shell 2.0 has finished airing and it has 1 Episodes. It is also Known as: 攻殻機動隊2.0, GitS 2.0, Ghost in the Shell 2.0, Koukaku Kidoutai 2.0
2. Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence
The year is 2032. With the advancement of medical technology humanity has grown into a more technologically driven creature, creating a breed of cyborg citizen. Along with the development of cybernetics, the world has seen rapid development in the field of artificial intelligence, making androids a commercially viable venture.
A recent string of murders perpetrated by a prototype female android has drawn the attention of Section 9, a unit specializing in counter cyber-terrorism. With none of the victims' families pressing charges, suspicions arise regarding the nature of the androids and their production.
Months have passed since the end of the Puppet Master incident, and with the Major still missing investigative duties fall to her cyborg commando partner Batou and his newly recruited biological partner, Togusa. Can the two overcome their differences and discover the truth behind this string of murders?
Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence has finished airing and it has 1 Episodes. It is also Known as: Koukaku Kidoutai 2: Innocence, イノセンス, Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence
1. Ghost in the Shell
2029: A female cybernetic government agent, Major Motoko Kusanagi, and the Internal Bureau of Investigations are hot on the trail of “The Puppet Master,” a mysterious and threatening computer virus capable of infiltrating human hosts. Together with her fellow agents from Section 9, Kusanagi embarks on a high-tech race against time to capture the omnipresent entity.
Ghost in the Shell has finished airing and it has 1 Episodes. It is also Known as: GHOST IN THE SHELL(攻殻機動隊), Koukaku Kidoutai