The Ghost in the Shell

2026 • 1h 17m •

Animation Science Fiction

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★ 8.5/10

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In the year 2029, Niihama City has become a technologically advanced metropolis. Due to great improvements in cybernetics, its citizens are able to replace their limbs with robotic parts. The world is now more interconnected than ever before, and the city's Public Security Section 9 is responsible for combating corruption, terrorism, and other dangerous threats following this shift toward globalisation. Theatrical screening of the English dub of the first two episodes of the 2026 anime, plus bonus content.

Top Billed Cast

Maaya Sakamoto

Motoko Kusanagi (voice)

Hiroki Yasumoto

Batou (voice)

Kazuhiro Yamaji

Daisuke Aramaki (voice)

Yuichi Nakamura

Togusa (voice)

Tomoko Kaneda

Fuchikoma (voice)

Kousuke Goto

Ishikawa (voice)

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2026-06-29

To be fair, this isn't intended to be a stand-alone cinema experience. It is the first two episodes in a spinoff series based around the film from 1995 and the manga that inspired that. As far as it goes, the animations themselves do what you'd expect from the opening of a series: they introduce us to the principal characters and to their scenario in a city where AI is now dominant and where human beings are even more paranoid about the toxic effects of corporate and technical globalisation. Fortunately, there is a section of the public security police that is assigned to trying to root out th...