Ghost Hound
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Production Company: Production I.G. Genre: Spiritual + SciFi !? There is first time for everything. Expected Release Date: Fall 2007 Website: http://www.wowow.co.jp/anime/ghosthound/ Any Shirow Masamune-fan in the house? He is bloody writing the story. Sorry! :D So what else is new? Well, the director for the show is going to be.. drumroll please.. (once again, sorry :heh: ).. Nakamura Ryutaro. I'll have you know that his name was merely involved with shows like Serial Experiment Lain, Kino no Tabi, REC, Colorful (has anyone actually seen it other than me that is?). I'm unbelievably excited about this piece of news that I've actually sat up to type this post. :heh: This year is getting better and better and better for the anime-fans. As of now there is no synopsis available on the story. Will keep updating as more information becomes available. So, where are the other Shirow Masamune-fans? :) edit: [March 25, 2007] Updated genre info. Thanks/blames go to Duckroll. |
ME! I am a big fan of his! I adore Ghost in the Shell.
This anime looks interesting, even if its only a picture being shown. XD |
Wow, Masamune Shirow.
Just wow. |
HOLY CRAP ALL THE TEXT IS REALLY HUGE ON THIS PAGE. I'M PRETTY SURe...okay that's enough... I'm pretty sure that I've run across his art in something and its not Ghost In The Shell since I've never seen any of it. His style certainly is unique and more detailed than your usual big eyes small mouth style. I like the artists that actually seem to put effort into their work, compared with say Hisashi Hirai. Everything points to this being a solid production at the bare minimum whatever it is, but lets not throw our hats at the ice before the trick is up.
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Not to mention Shirow's position in this is still strangely obscure. There's no doubt he's the one who's writing the story, but there isn't any full clarification on how it's going around in the anime, since Chiaki Konoka of Lain is apparently the scriptwriter for Ghost Hound as well. It's possible that Shirow's contributing the original concept and idea with Konoka writing the script, or even both of them working together with Shirow being the lead writer but there's too little information at the moment. Right now, all we know is pretty much that Ghost Hound is being touted a 20th Anniversary Production I.G work, and they'll be collaberating with Shirow Masamune in this work. At least we can expect some dough being grinded into this, that's fo sure. |
Ghost Hound is not scifi. It's a "Spiritual Animation" with themes of occult and spiritualism. Shirow is NOT writing the story, he simply co-conceived the idea with Production IG. The writer and director duo for Lain is handling the anime series with character designs from the Hell Girl character designer.
The trailer at TAF mainly showed the girl in the picture lying in a dead-like position while having flashbacks or visions of herself running up some stairs before a shadow being covers the sky and reaches for her. There are other characters that look like high school students, and there's a school setting but overall the area seems to be the more rural part of Japan similar to Spirited Away or Totoro with tons of greenary and old looking places. The series starts airing on WOWOW in the Fall. |
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But the genre on the sell sheet at TAF says specifically "Spiritual Animation". :P
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A friend of mine told me that the characteristic premise of the manga is that the characters don't speak at all. Would someone who's read the manga care to say something about it? My friend wasn't very explicit (he told me so by mail).
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Ah, so Shirow has finally decided to stop producing softcore pornography (yes, I am looking at you, Intron Depot) and do something worthwhile?
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And yet you still have that GITS avatar... |
I hope theres good cast. I hope it doesnt end up failing like Blood+.
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It's not that I disapprove so much, yet that's the only thing he's been doing since Man-Machine Interface. Rather sad story... |
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P.S. Researching on Intron Depot as I'm writing this post. Thanks Mr. P! ^^ |
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In any case I am glad he's involved in something different, for a change. I'm mostly looking forward to this because of the animation studio and the director, rather than Shirow's not-so-clear role in it. And the first recent anime that came to my mind when I read "spiritual + sci-fi" and "rural settings" was Mushishi, for some reason. :heh: And the girl in the promo picture resembles Enma a lot. |
I don't care if Shirow did hentai, if he was also making something interesting in the mean time. A lot of mangaka draw dojinshi or erotic content, that's not the big deal.
The sad part is that he didn't do anything "interesting the mean time". We'll see what this Ghost Hound is about. Although, the title itself brings back memories of Forest Whitaker's and Jim Jarmusch's "Ghost Dog - Way of the Samurai". That's funny, in it's own little way. 8) |
Anyone see the trailer?
"Spiritual animation"? What the hell's that? And the girl... a hologram Sadako from Ring? |
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