[via ANN]

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[...]Kenji Kamiyama and Production I.G’s Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex: Solid State Society movie will be converted into stereoscopic 3D. Kamiyama himself is overseeing the conversion, and I.G will also add a newly animated opening sequence.

[via ANN]

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Well, great news for Ghost in the Shell fans who don’t want to import expensive Blu-ray Discs from Japan! A few days after the announcement, that the Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex movies The Laughing Man, Individual Eleven and Solid State Society will be released in Japan on Blu-ray Disc as individual releases, Right Stuf added the US Blu-ray Disc versions for all three films to their catalogue. Distributed by Manga Entertainment and authored by Bandai Entertainment, the discs are supposed to hit US stores with English subtitles and dub on December 7th.
[via Anime on DVD, thanks Tratious!]

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A few days ago, Bandai announced to release the three Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex movies, which are currently only ‘available’ in a ugly, expensive and out of print Blu-ray Disc boxset, as individual Blu-ray Discs.
The Laughing Man, Individual Eleven (compilation of the first two seasons/GIGS) and the sequel Solid State Society will hit the Japanese stores just in time for Christmas, on December 22nd. Just like in the box set, the individual releases will include English subtitles and the English dub.

Talking of Stand Alone Complex, Manga Entertainment UK made some statements on Twitter regarding an European Blu-ray Disc release of the series. According to them, the Japanese companys won’t allow complete Blu-ray Disc box sets to be released outside of Japan, so Manga would have to release the series on individual volumes with about four episodes…

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Moe Master muhootsaver has found the probably first full resolutions screenshots taken from the Japanese Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex Blu-ray Disc release.
Sadly the picture quality isn’t quite what I expected and this looks look more like an upscale than a proper HD transfer.

With the PQ being like this, I guess it isn’t such a tragedy that the box sets don’t include English subtitles after all…
[via Can you Moe?]

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Bandai Visual has released the first pictures of the first (of four) Blu-ray Disc collections for Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex Blu-ray Disc Box that just break my poor little tachikoma-loving heart.
While the last Blu-ray Disc collection with the Laughing Man and Individual Eleven compilation movies, and Solid State Society was pretty much ugly as hell but included English subtitles, this one (coming from Honneamise on August 29th) would actually look great in my (and probably everone’s) collection but sadly won’t include English subtitles.
Oddly enough the English dub will be included (even if it’s only in lossy DD 5.1) again, so the sad lack of subtitles probably isn’t because of the usual licensee hullabaloo but because BV hates me and doesn’t want my money…

[via AV Watch & Bandai Visual]

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mmh, sometimes it really pays off to read the entire news entry and follow the links within. The ANN entry on the Jin-Roh live-action adaptation (some of you might remember it) leads to their complete report of the Production I.G panel on Anime Expo 2009 where the following paragraph gives some hope to all Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex fans and tachikoma lovers:

During the question and answer session, one fan asked about the possibility of a third season of Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex. Terashima-Furuta answered that she expects the project to happen, but that the director is currently tied up in other projects.

I hope those other projects are the two follow-up movies for Eden of the East so director Kenji Kamiyama can get back to the Ghost in the Shell universe ASAP!

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AV Watch has some new details on mysterious Japanese Blu-ray Disc release for the Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex series. Just as expected, it’s actually not a single disc release, but a box set that includes the first 13 episodes of the series’ first season (1st GIG) on the three discs. The second box with the rest of the season will be released on September 25, 2009. The two box sets for Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex 2nd GIG will be released on November 25 and Dezember 22, 2009.
According to Bandai Visual product pages (1-2-3-4), all box sets will have a 5.1 DD English dub track, at the moment it’s unclear if English subtitles will be included as well. Google translates a passage from the pages with “Japanese with subtitles (ON OFF possible)”, I hope this means English subtitles like on the SAC compilation movies + Solid State Society release. The original Japanese track is available in Dolby TrueHD 5.1 and PCM stereo. Like some other tv series on BD, the episodes will be encoded in 1080i.
Update: Bandai Visual has updated its Ghost in the Shell website with further information on the BD box set and makes it quite clear that they will only have Japanese subtitles! Guess I have to spend the 500€ elsewhere…

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Japanese online retailer Rakuta lists a new release related to the Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex anime series. The item description “Disc 1″ in combination with the price of about 120€ suggests that this is the first of an unknown number of boxsets for the whole Stand Alone Complex series.
The compilation movies The Laughing Man (Season 1) and Individual Eleven (Season/GIG 2) as well as the sequel Solid State Society have been released in a Japanese Blu-ray Disc boxset (ABDG) with English subtitles and English audio tracks in July 2008.
Hopefully the freshly announced release by Bandai Visual will be this English friendly as well when it gets released on August 25, 2009. I’ll keep you guys updated on this.
[via Can you Moe?]

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CD Japan gewährt einen ersten auf den Inhalt der leider in meinen Augen absolut grässlichen gestalteten japanischen Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex Trilogy Blu-ray Box, die am 25. Juli erscheint und mich bei wohlgesonnenen Reviews vielleicht doch noch überzeugen und im Regal landen könnte. Bei Ghost in the Shell Krams kann ich halt nicht widerstehen…

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