King Gnu has stepped into the cyberpunk world with GO GHOST, the opening theme for the newly adapted Ghost in the Shell anime series. Released July 29 and now streaming across digital platforms, the track pairs hip-hop rhythms with a synthetic soundscape deliberately designed to echo the anime's themes around artificial life and technological transcendence.

The music video, available on King Gnu's YouTube channel, reinforces that futuristic mood by layering anime footage against a vintage color palette, creating a retro-futuristic world that matches the show's visual identity.

Daiki Tsuneta, the band's founder and vocalist, also contributed to the production's ending theme, Blue, through MILLENNIUM PARADE—his parallel musical project. This marks the first time King Gnu and MILLENNIUM PARADE have both worked on a single anime, a meaningful milestone for Tsuneta's creative output across his two distinct musical ventures.

King Gnu has built a strong track record scoring anime soundtracks. The group provided Ichizu and Sakayume for Jujutsu Kaisen 0 in 2021, then went on to perform SPECIALZ for Jujutsu Kaisen Season 2, which racked up over 100 million streams within two and a half months. They also scored AIZO for Jujutsu Kaisen: The Culling Game Part 1, cementing their reputation for creating music that captures a series' core energy.

The new Ghost in the Shell anime, produced by Science SARU—the studio behind acclaimed titles like DAN DA DAN and the Golden Globe–nominated film Inu-oh—continues a legacy stretching back to Shirow Masamune's 1989 manga. The property has evolved across anime, live-action film, and video games, establishing itself as a touchstone of cyberpunk science fiction worldwide.

GO GHOST follows King Gnu's signature sound: a blend they call "Tokyo New Mixture Style" that fuses alternative rock with electronic elements. For an anime centered on cyborgs, information networks, and the boundary between human and machine, the sonic approach feels precisely calibrated to the material.