Angel’s Egg, an anime you probably haven’t heard of from the director of Ghost in the Shell and OG Final Fantasy character designer, is getting a 4K remaster.
Before joining Square to work on Final Fantasy in the late ’90s, Yoshitaka Amano was an established artist in his own right. He was the illustrator behind the classic series Vampire Hunter D, and perhaps less notably, he was also the character designer for a film called Angel’s Egg. Released in 1985, Angel’s Egg was an anime OVA directed by Ghost in the Shell’s Mamoru Oshii, and to be possibly reductive about it, it was weird as hell. The film never actually made it over to the west, not technically anyway, and there’s still no confirmation of a release over here, but to celebrate its 40th anniversary, there is some good news: it’s getting a 4K remaster.
Announced during the early hours of this morning (at least in my timezone), an official Twitter was set up to confirm that the new version of the film is in the works for its 40th anniversary in 2025. Oshii himself is also apparently supervising the remaster, though details on how it will be shown, whether that be through a theatrical release or via DVD and Blu-ray, hasn’t been confirmed just yet. The remaster will apparently be done through a new scan of a 35mm print of the film, so it should come out looking really good as long as it isn’t botched in any way (and as long as no AI upscaling is used either, as so far that’s not gone very well for modern releases of older anime).
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