07/21/05

Bandai Entertainment has recently released Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence Music Anthology on DVD. The disc contains music videos for the movie and a special edition includes the soundtrack. Visit the official product webpage

Dark Horse Comics to expand Ghost in the Shell 2 manga

Dark Horse Comics has acquired translation rights to Masamune Shirow's "Ghost in the Shell 1.5: Human-Error Processor". Ghost in the Shell 1.5 contains four chapters that were not in the "final" version of the Ghost in the Shell 2 manga. The book is expected to be released next spring.

GALGREASE Art books

Starting later this year, Kodansha will be releasing art books for each of the Galgrease chapters. Not much is known at this time, however the books will feature previously unreleased material and will be presented in a story driven format refered to as "Streaming Artbook"!

The Artbooks are planned to be published in order starting from November, 2005 and will subsequently be released during the next several years.

The release schedule:

• GALGREASE 1st Artbook
    ... Nov, 2005
• GALGREASE 2nd Artbook
    ... Jan, 2006
• GALGREASE 3rd Artbook
    ... Mar, 2006
• GALGREASE 4th Artbook
    ... Sep, 2006
• GALGREASE 5th Artbook
    ... Nov, 2006
• GALGREASE 6th Artbook
    ... Jan, 2007
• GALGREASE 7th Artbook
    ... Jul, 2007
• GALGREASE 8th Artbook
    ... Sep, 2007