“Ghost in the Shell” Comes Alive in Tokyo with a Cyberbrain Dive Exhibition

Original artwork, animation cels, storyboards, references, and background art, including a vast array of items shown publicly for the first time. (© Nippon.com)

Interviews are screened with four creators, including the director Oshii Mamoru, who worked on the 1995 and 2004 theatrical anime films. (© Nippon.com)

Surrounded by projection imagery, visitors can search through all animated Ghost in the Shell works while feeling as if they have dived into a cyberbrain. The experience brings home the iconic line spoken by Kusanagi Motoko in the final scene of the original manga 37 years ago: “The net is vast and infinite.” (© Nippon.com)

Life-size models of the popular characters, the AI-equipped tanks Fuchikoma (foreground) and Tachikoma. (© Nippon.com)

With AR glasses on, Tachikoma appears to guide visitors through the exhibition in the “Cyberbrain Vision” tour, available for an extra fee. The devices are made by XReal, with content produced by KDDI. (© Nippon.com)

A corner where visitors can freely browse the PC desktop screens of anime creators. (© Nippon.com)

A paid experience where visitors dig through envelopes containing reproduced original artwork and can take selected items home. (© Nippon.com)

Interactive content inspired by future technologies depicted in the anime, such as special T-shirts that evade recognition by AI surveillance cameras or experiences where one’s face is hacked into the Laughing Man. (© Nippon.com)

A new sculpture by Sorayama Hajime modeled on Kusanagi Motoko: Sexy Robot_The Ghost in the Shell Type 1. (© Sorayama Hajime; courtesy Nanzuka; © Shirow Masamune/Kōdansha)

More than 80 collaborations with artists and brands from Japan and abroad are available. The 1:1 scale statue of Kusanagi Motoko unveiled at the venue (top) is priced at ¥1.32 million, with a limited made-to-order run of 50 units. (© Nippon.com)