The four-part OVA series, Ghost in the Shell: Arise doesn’t even feign hiding product placement and ads. Two weeks before the premiere of the second part of the series, Production I.G has released an exclusive mini-episode, which basically is an ad for a Japanese company. But it’s still three minutes of new GitS footage!
You can watch the whole clip below, full of Tachikomas… and heavy product placement:
The second chapter of Ghost in the Shell: Arise border: 2 Ghost Whisper will be released in Japanese theatres on November 30, 2013.
攻殻機動隊ＡＲＩＳＥ EPISODE:[.jp] [GITSchannel, YouTube]
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2 responses to “Ghost In The Shell: Arise’s Newest Ad Is A 3-Minute Mini-Episode”
Oh Ghost in the Shell you were so good, what happened?…
I’d guess that sometimes to get the funding needed to make the show at all, they need to do things like this, and like the Microsoft Surface GitS ad from the last movie.
I can endure a few ads if it means more GitS, even if it does seem a bit cheap
Unless you were referring to the reduction in intellectual complexity in Arise, in which case hopefully the second chapter can explore the concepts of cyberisation and humanity, now that the characters have been established a bit