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The Wind Rises and Blu-ray Ghost in the Shell Released Monday

posted on by Andrew Osmond
Also, complete Bodacious Space Pirates.

On Monday September 29, Studio Canal will release Hideaki Anno), the designer of Japan's famed Mitsubishi A6M Zero fighter plane of World War II. Studio Canal will release the film in three editions; as a DVD, as a DVD/Blu-ray combi pack and as a Collector's Edition (pictured) including five artcards.

Masamune Shirow. It contains an HD remastered edition of the film on Blu-ray.

The film is set in a near future, technology has firmly taken root into society at large. Cybernetic implants are nothing uncommon and robots roam as plentiful as humans, all connected through their ''ghosts'' to the electronic datastreams of the net. Major Motoko Kusanagi and the Public Security Section 9 find themselves in a constant battle with the newly created wave of technological terrorists and cyber-hackers. But things take a turn once Motoko gets involved in a certain case involving an extremely dangerous ''ghost'' hacker nicknamed the Puppeteer, as she dives deeper and deeper into the limitless reality of the net, to reach her own startling conclusions.

Manga will also release Kaito Ishikawa) and his humanoid mobile weapon Chamber are swallowed up into a distortion of time and space. Waking from his artificially induced hybernation, Ledo realizes that he has arrived on Earth, the long forgotten planet. On this planet that was completely flooded by the seas, people live in fleets of giant ships, salvaging relics from the seas' depths in order to survive.

The set includes the original 13-part TV series and two OVA episodes.

OAV.

MVM will also release a DVD collected series edition of Yūichi Sasamoto's Mini-Skirt Uchū Kaizoku (Mini-Skirt [Space] Pirates) space-opera novels. The anime version premiered in January 2012.


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