Ghost in the Shell" and Kobe City collaborate to launch "Kobe City Public Safety Section 9"!　Newly-drawn collaboration illustration is also revealed.

Kobe City collaborated with the anime film "Ghost in the Shell: The New Movie" which will be released on June 20. The collaboration project "Kobe City Public Safety Section 9" has started.

Ghost in the Shell" is a theatrical anime produced to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the serialization of "Ghost in the Shell," a science fiction work based on the manga published by Masamune Shirow in 1989, which has been adapted for various media and boasts worldwide popularity. The film depicts the secret of the birth of the main character Motoko Kusanagi, a full-body cyborg with super wizard hacker skills, and the origin of the independent unit (=Ghost in the Shell) under the direct control of the Ministry of Home Affairs, led by her. The animation is directed by Kazuya Kise, character design by Kazuya Kise, script by Tow Ubukata, music by Cornelius, director by Kazuya Nomura, chief animation director by Toru Okubo, and produced by Production I.G. From April 2015, a new TV series "Ghost in the Shell ARISE" will begin. ALTERNATIVE ARCHITECTURE" will be broadcast from April 2015, and a live-action movie by Walt Disney Studios will be released on April 14, 2017.

This time, a collaborative project with Kobe City, "Kobe City Public Safety Section 9," has been launched. This is a PR project based on public-private partnership, and the city of Kobe, which focuses on "promotion of IT-related industries" and "utilization of open data and big data," as well as tourism promotion, has selected "Ghost in the Shell" as a model for the movie because it "evokes the future image of Kobe, which aims to be an IT advanced city, and many scenes are drawn in a way that seems to have been modeled after Kobe. The city of Kobe is collaborating with "Ghost in the Shell: The New Movie" to "evoke the future image of Kobe as an IT-advanced city, with many scenes depicting Kobe as a model. The newly released collaboration illustration was created by Toru Okubo, who serves as the chief animation director. The illustration evokes the future image of Kobe, which aims to become an IT-advanced city, with Port Tower, a landmark element of Kobe City, in the background. Posters featuring the collaboration illustration will be displayed in the observation lobby on the 24th floor of City Hall Building No. 1, Kobe Airport, and on port liners.

In addition, Kobe City will renew its dedicated website (http://kobekokaku.jp) and begin to promote tourism using the illustrations and other information on its IT policies.