The new series has premiered at Annecy where director Mokochan underlined wanting a 'human feel,' to get close to the original manga by Masamune Shirow
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'The Ghost in the Shell' Credit: Shirow Masamune/Kodansha/The Ghost in the Shell Committee Ahead of the Annecy Animation Festival premiere of “The Ghost in the Shell,” the new adaptation of the famous manga by Masamune Shirow, director Mokochan emphasized the human element that went into making this cyberpunk sci-fi series set in a world where humanity and technology are inextricably linked.
“Ghost in the Shell” is set to bow worldwide on Prime Video July 7.
To the director, this embrace of the physicality of hand-drawn animation was the best way to represent the manga. “The manga is obviously hand-drawn on paper; it’s analog,” Mokochan adds in an interview with Variety. “And so even though what is depicted here is this cyber world, the fact that it’s been hand drawn by people is what gives it, it gives it its warmth, and its appeal, and that was something I wanted to replicate in the anime.”
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