Somewhere in the Netflix office building, there’s an executive who’s spent the last five months watching hours of Japanese anime on their laptop during lunch breaks. It’s the only explanation I can come up with for why the streaming giant is so interested of late in giving anime fans more bang for the buck. In the spring, they’re bringing the classic ’90s series Neon Genesis Evangelion to the service, all while they work on a live-action adaptation of Cowboy Bebop, another popular ’90s jam. Now, Netflix has just announced that it’s making an original, computer-animated Ghost in the Shell series to debut sometime in 2020:
YES, A NEW GHOST IN THE SHELL ANIME IS COMING.
— Netflix Geeked (@NetflixGeeked) December 8, 2018
Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045 will be directed by Appleseed’s Shinji Aramaki and Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex’s Kenji Kamiyama. On @Netflix in 2020!
*desire to explore the true meaning of human consciousness intensifies* pic.twitter.com/MgKzX2KydQ
Ghost in the Shell is set in the near future when computer technology has advanced to the point where people can digitize their brains and swap them between different cybernetic bodies. It follows the Major, a cyborg police officer, as she and her colleagues battle corrupt officials, terrorists, and hackers who can break into a cyborg’s brain and control their actions.
Ghost in the Shell has appeared in a few different forms over the year, most notably in a 1995 animated movie (I’m getting a real ’90s theme from Netflix). There was also a Ghost in the Shell TV series and a 2017 live-action movie starring Scarlett Johansson probably best remembered for the controversy about racial politics that sprung up around it.
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The Netflix series, on the other hand, will probably have the problem every Netflix series has: standing out amid a glut of content and hoping good word of mouth helps it float to the top. Not every show can be Stranger Things.
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