The official Ghost in the Shell YouTube channel has launched a live music streaming project entitled “DEEP DIVE: online – GHOST IN THE SHELL –” which seeks to express the unique worldview of Masamune Shirow’s classic cyberpunk manga and its anime adaptations by collaborating with live performances from musicians and DJs as well as virtual reality art.
The first artist announced for the project is WONK, who will perform a set list of four songs. Kodansha USA publishes a digital version of the original The Ghost in the Shell manga, and describes the story of the series as follows:
Deep into the twenty-first century, the line between man and machine has been inexorably blurred as humans rely on the enhancement of mechanical implants and robots are upgraded with human tissue. In this rapidly converging landscape, cyborg superagent Major Motoko Kusanagi is charged to track down the craftiest and most dangerous terrorists and cybercriminals, including “ghost hackers” who are capable of exploiting the human/machine interfance and reprogramming humans to become puppets to carry out the hackers’ criminal ends. When Major Kusanagi tracks the cybertrail of one such master hacker, the Puppeteer, her quest leads her into a world beyond information and technology where the very nature of consciousness and the human soul are turned upside down.
