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- Region:Japan
- Type:TV
- English name:Koukaku Kidoutai: Stand Alone Complex / Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
- Official name:攻殻機動隊 STAND ALONE COMPLEX
- Chinese name:攻壳机动队 STAND ALONE COMPLEX
- Premiered:October 1, 2002
- Status:Finished Airing
- Tags:Science fiction / Action / Combat / Source manga
- Original author:士郎正宗
- Director:神山健治
- Scenario:神山健治 / 藤咲淳一 / 櫻井圭記 / 寺戸信寿 / 佐藤大
- Storyboard:神山健治 / 河野利幸 / 吉原正行 / 竹下健一 / 安藤真裕
- Co-director:由水桂(OP) / 河野利幸 / 吉原正行 / 中村隆太郎 / 山本秀世
- Studios:Production I.G
- Production cooperation:A・C・G・T / P.A.WORKS / M.S.C / XEBEC
- Producers:攻殻機動隊製作委員会
- Family:Ghost in the Shell
- Rating:16+
Koukaku Kidoutai: Stand Alone Complex
In the year 2030, digital networks are reaching out everywhere, and technology pushing light and electrons has advanced to a state where it almost drives the human will...
Information networks continue to expand and crimes continue to become more complex.
In this society on the borderline to chaos, an organization that specializes in hunting down and eliminating crime was established.
This is Section 9, the so called "Stand Alone Complex" (S.A.C.), under the direct supervision of the Ministry of the Interior.
Its duties include a wide range of investigations, such as responding to critical cyber crimes, guarding VIPs within the country, revealing political corruption, investigating violent murder, and dealing with top secret assassination cases.
The elite S.A.C. is at its best in cyber confrontations, but it is also extremely capable of physical confrontations by utilizing high quality cyborgs.
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EP1 - Section 9
Major Kusanagi and Section 9 are called in to resolve a hostage crisis at a Geisha house staffed by an android Geisha. Then Aramaki is approached by a friend who reveals that one of the hostages in the Geisha house was under investigation.
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EP2 - Testation
A heavy-assault multiped tank runs amok under the control of an unknown hijacker. After going on a destructive spree at the Kenbishi Industries testing facility, the multiped takes off towards the urban area of Niihama.
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EP3 - Android and I
A series of android suicides prompts Section 9 to investigate the manufacturer. While Section Head Daisuke Aramaki questions the plant manager, Kusanagi and a Tachikoma covertly hack into the plant's database.
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EP4 - Intercepter
An old friend of Togusa's named Yamaguchi is murdered after sending him pictures concerning an unsolved case involving a hacker known as The Laughing Man.
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EP5 - Decoy
Section 9 suspects that the police investigators handling The Laughing Man case are using their primary suspect, a former Serano Genomics, Inc. programmer with a shady anti-corporate past.
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EP6 - Meme
Things go fairly haywire as Kusanagi suspects that The Laughing Man has inserted a virus into the police units guarding the Superintendent General.
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EP7 - Idolater
It has come to the attention of the Minister of Home Affairs that Jenoma revolutionary leader Marcelo Jarti has been visiting Japan regularly every five months.
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EP8 - Missing Hearts
Kurutan, a friend of Kusanagi's, calls the Major to the hospital where she works to look into the source of a young girl's heart transplant. It seems that the heart she received was given without consent of the owner's parents.
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EP9 - Chat! Chat! Chat!
Kusanagi enters a chat room dedicated to The Laughing Man. Various crackpot (and a few plausible) theories are passed around JFK-style as the chat room members view various bits of evidence from the Laughing Man case.
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EP10 - Jungle Cruise
Marco Amereti, a former American Imperial Navy Petty Officer turned serial killer, has arrived in Japan and for the last two months has murdered several women by slicing the skin off their torsos in the form of a t-shirt.
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EP11 - Portraitz
The Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare has been hacked into and classified material from their database has been stolen.
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EP12 - Escape From
Early in the morning, Baton's Tachikoma self-activates and leaves the Tachikoma storage bay to explore the outer world. While roaming the streets of the city the Tachikoma encounters a young girl searching for her lost dog.
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EP13 - Not Equal
Sixteen years ago Aka Turkuro, the daughter of a pioneering cyber company CEO, was kidnapped by a group opposed to cyberization.
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EP14 - YES
Acting on a tip, Section 9 breaks up a cabal of thieves hell bent on wrecking a Japanese financial institution.
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EP15 - Machine Desirantes
Kusanagi's reservations regarding Section 9's Tachikoma units comes to a head.
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EP16 - Ag20
Sensitive information has been stolen from a U.S. Navy base and the primary suspect is a former Olympic silver medalist named Zaitsev.
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EP17 - Angel's Share
Major Kusanagi and Chief Aramaki are visiting London for an anti-terrorism conference.
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EP18 - Lost Heritage
After a five-year wait, Chinese vice foreign minister Jin has been allowed access to the Kagashewa war memorial in Japan.
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EP19 - Captivated
Former Japanese Prime Minister Kanzaki’s daughter has been abducted and Section 9 is called in to investigate her disappearance.
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EP20 - Re-View
After the events of PORTRAITZ, Togusa uses J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye as a starting point and develops a theory that The Laughing Man is after something published on paper.
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EP21 - Eraser
Togusa finds himself in the hospital after being shot but is desperate to impart what he's learned to the rest of the group.
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EP22 - Scandal
The Head of the DEA is arrested for murder in connection with the raid at the Sunflower Society building.
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EP23 - Equinox
The Laughing Man returns to again kidnap the CEO of Serano Genomics, just as he did six years before.
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EP24 - Annihilation
Having learned the entire truth behind the Laughing Man incident from The Laughing Man himself, and having confirmed the information with Mr. Serano, Section 9 is finally ready to make their move against the man behind the corporate terrorism.
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EP25 - Barrage
Aramaki has been released under his own recognizance and meets with the head of the Ministry of Justice to explain the situation and ask for help in ensuring his team members safety.
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EP26 - Stand Alone Complex
After 15 days of fierce fighting, the Umibozu complete their operation to dismantle Section 9 by assassinating Kusanagi and capturing Batou.