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Ghost in the Shell on the byobu<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n Something I noticed a long time ago is that posters seem to be more popular among anime fans overseas than in Japan. That\u2019s not because Japanese fans don\u2019t appreciate the artwork of their country\u2019s animated works, of course, but rather because hanging things, including posters, on your walls in general is comparatively less common in Japan.<\/p>\n But now here comes Tokyo-based creative company UMAA<\/strong> with a very eye-catching alternative to anime posters, with an anime byobu, or traditional Japanese changing screen<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Chosen as the muse for the newest entries in UMAA\u2019s TechnoByobu<\/strong> series is none other than Major Motoko Kusanagi<\/strong>, protagonist of anime\/manga classic Ghost in the Shell<\/strong>. Two different designs are available, the first of which is called Konpaku<\/strong> (meaning \u201csoul\u201d) and shows the Major perched atop her Fuchikoma<\/strong> mecha pod in an illustration originally drawn by series creator Masamune Shirow<\/strong>.<\/p>\n The other design, designated Gitai<\/strong> (\u201cprosthetic body\u201d), uses the Major\u2019s character design from the 1995 anime movie that brought the franchise worldwide acclaim, with a web of wires attached to her cybernetic shell.<\/p>\n In keeping with Japanese artistic traditions, the screens are specified as being five shaku<\/em> in length<\/strong>, which converts to roughly 150 centimeters<\/strong> (59 inches) in modern measurement units, and they\u2019re 140 centimeters<\/strong> (55 inches) tall<\/strong>. UMAA lists the screens\u2019 materials as paper treated with gold leaf and pressed tin<\/strong>, with the different materials presumably occupying opposite sides of the screen, since there\u2019s only a single price, 1.1 million yen (US$7,190) for each.<\/p>\n \u25bc UMAA\u2019s previous TechnoByobu design was a recreation of a Yellow Magic Orchestra album cover.<\/p>\n The Ghost in the Shell<\/em> screens will be produced in limited quantities and each will have a serial number. As you can probably guess, given their size and price, the Ghost in the Shell<\/em> TechnoByobu aren\u2019t going to be stocked on the shelves of ordinary anime shops. Instead they\u2019ll be offered for sale at the upcoming Ghost in the Shell: The Exhibition event which will be held at Tokyo Node inside Tokyo\u2019s Toranomon Hills complex from January 30.<\/p>\n Related: Ghost in the Shell: The Exhibition official website<\/a> Ghost in the Shell on the byobu. Something I noticed a long time ago is that posters seem to be more popular among anime fans overseas than in Japan. That\u2019s…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/soranews24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/12\/gs-2.jpg?w=640\")
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