Shirow Masamune Works Ghost in the Shell 2 News

http://www.aint-it-cool-news.com/display.cgi?id=8269

Whoa, big news for Ghost in the Shell fans. According to Studio Proteus (the locolization firm responsible for GITS manga):

- Masamune Shirow is finishing up the sequal to GITS manga, Ghost in the Shell 2: Man-Machine Interface. For the US/foreign market, there will be foreign version with all the flipping, sound effect/word balloon adjustments to be done by Shirow, and a limited XXX version with extra bits of naughtiness. US localization will begin around the end of this year.

- Mamoru Oshii (the director of GIST, Patlabor series, etc.) has agree to make GIST2:MMI movie.

- Production I.G. (the animation studio that did GIST, Jin-Roh, Blood, etc.) is working on GIST TV series. Don't know it'll be based on GIST 1, 2, or an entirely new story.

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http://www.studioproteus.com/mn0102titlepg.html