Akio Otsuka-Voiced Character Appears in New "The Ghost in the Shell"! "I Was Shocked" "Can They Really Do That?!"

Episode 3 of the anime "The Ghost in the Shell" aired on July 21 (currently broadcasting sequentially). Voice actor Akio Otsuka, who played Batou in a different series, played a different character in this work, delighting fans on SNS who expressed that they were "so happy."

Motoko Kusanagi (CV: Maaya Sakamoto) and her team had been pursuing the culprit behind an incident where a virus infected the cyberbrain of the Minister of Foreign Affairs' interpreter. In Episode 3, "JUNK JUNGLE ii + MEGATECH MACHINE i + ii," while Daisuke Aramaki (CV: Kazuhiro Yamaji), Batou (CV: Hiroki Yasumoto), and others conducted a stakeout, a scene was depicted where an unidentified hacker, believed to be the mastermind who planted the virus, appeared before Colonel Maless (CV: Akio Otsuka).

Akio Otsuka, who voiced Colonel Maless this time, is known for having played Batou in another "The Ghost in the Shell" series. Surprised to hear Otsuka's voice in the new series as well, fans on SNS were shocked, commenting, "I was shocked," "Can they really do that?!", "I'm so happy," and "I never expected Akio-san to be cast here!"