Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex

In 2030 AD, even if the intention to run around as light and electrons is concentrated in one direction as the computerization becomes generalized and the information network becomes more sophisticated, by the time the "lonely person" becomes an "individual" as a complex. Is an era when it is not computerized. It depicts the activities of the "Public Security Section 9" (commonly known as "Ghost in the Shell"), which was established as an independent counterintelligence unit under the direct control of the Ministry of Home Affairs to counter complicated crimes. There are a wide variety of top-secret missions such as cybercrime investigation, terrorism deterrence / arrest, VIP protection, and corruption detection, but one incident emerges as it is carried out.

26 Episodes

SA: Public Security Section 9; SECTION-9

Season 1 - Episode 1

Public Security Section 9 is an elite special ops unit that works directly under the control of the Prime Minister. They've been called in t...

SA: Proof of Recklessness; TESTATION

Season 1 - Episode 2

Kenbishi Heavy Industries has built a state-of-the-art multiped tank. There's only one problem–it's gone haywire and started moving on its o...

SA: A Modest Rebellion; ANDROID AND I

Season 1 - Episode 3

A certain type of android, the GA07_JL, nicknamed Jeri by its users, has been affected by a virus. Recently, all Jeri model androids have be...

C: The Visual Device will Laugh; INTERCEPTER

Season 1 - Episode 4

While working late, Togusa gets a call from one of his colleagues from his days on the police force. It seems that he's uncovered something ...

C: The Inviting Bird will Chant; DECOY

Season 1 - Episode 5

The Laughing Man, having returned after a six-year absence, threatens to assassinate the Superintendent-General of the police. Aramaki, howe...

C: The Copycat will Dance; MEME

Season 1 - Episode 6

As Togusa and Bato track down Nanao, Motoko and Paz are attempting to protect the Superintendent-General at a press conference about the pol...

SA: Idolatry; IDOLATOR

Season 1 - Episode 7

Section 9 is on the trail of Marcelo Jarti, a South American revolutionary hero who has arrived in Japan. However, Jarti is a hard man to ca...

SA: The Fortunate Ones; MISSING HEARTS

Season 1 - Episode 8

Motoko's friend Courtin asks her to come to the hospital where she works. It seems a little girl just received a heart transplant, but the d...

C: The Man Who Lurks in the Darkness of the Net; CHAT! CHAT! CHAT!

Season 1 - Episode 9

Motoko enters into an online chat room devoted to the Laughing Man to see if she can find any new information on him. What she discovers is ...

SA: A Perfect Day for a Jungle Cruise; JUNGLE CRUISE

Season 1 - Episode 10

Marco Amoretti, a former Navy Petty Officer from the American Empire, has come to Japan and is committing heinous acts of brutality against ...

C: Inside the Forest of the Sub-Imagoes; PORTRAITZ

Season 1 - Episode 11

Togusa goes undercover at a hospital for patients with Closed Cyberbrain Syndrome, a hospital completely cut off from communication with the...

SA: Tachikoma Runaway, The Movie Director's Dream; ESCAPE FROM

Season 1 - Episode 12

One of the Tachikomas decides to take a little stroll through the city. It meets a little girl, Miki, who is searching for her lost dog and ...

SA: Unequal Terrorist; NOT EQUAL

Season 1 - Episode 13

In a briefing, Aramaki shows a photo of a girl who looks like Eka Tokura, the daughter of Tokura Electronics, who was kidnapped 16 years ago...

SA: Automated Capitalism; ¥€$

Season 1 - Episode 14

The Chinese government contacts Section 9 to let them know that an assassin may have entered Japan to kill a famous reclusive millionaire. D...

SA: Time of the Machines; MACHINES DÉSIRANTES

Season 1 - Episode 15

The Major has become worried about the Tachikomas. It appears that their AIs have developed much more quickly and in ways that were not anti...

SA: Chinks in the Armour of the Heart; Ag2O

Season 1 - Episode 16

Batou goes undercover on a military base to shadow one of his former heroes, a man named Zaitsev who was an Olympic silver medalist. Now, ho...

SA: The True Reason for the Unfinished Love Affair; ANGELS' SHARE

Season 1 - Episode 17

While at an international police conference in London, Aramaki drops by to visit an old flame who's now in the wine brokering business. She ...

SA: Assassination Duet; LOST HERITAGE

Season 1 - Episode 18

Aramaki attends the funeral of an old war buddy, and is greeted by his departed friend's daughter. Later, Section 9 is assigned the task of ...

SA: Embraced by a Disguised Net; CAPTIVATED

Season 1 - Episode 19

Section 9's next case is a rash of mass-kidnappings. Rumor has it that a crime syndicate is harvesting organs and selling them on the black ...

C: Vanished Medication; RE-VIEW

Season 1 - Episode 20

Togusa is on the trail of the Laughing Man again, and this time, his investigations lead him towards both a leading micromachine corporation...

C: Left-Behind Trace; ERASER

Season 1 - Episode 21

After being shot, Togusa's in the hospital and about to go into surgery, but he is desperate to pass on what he's learned to the rest of Sec...

C: Corporate Graft; SCANDAL

Season 1 - Episode 22

Motoko is about to be fitted for her new prosthetic body. But when the doctor arrives and begins the procedure, it's clear that she has no i...

C: The Other Side of Good and Evil; EQUINOX

Season 1 - Episode 23

The Laughing Man returns! And, just as he did six years ago, he kidnaps the president of Serano Genomics without being detected. Section 9 a...

C: Sunset in the Lonely City; ANNIHILATION

Season 1 - Episode 24

The government orders Section 9 disbanded. Aramaki is taken away, and Togusa is arrested. Motoko assembles the remaining team members at HQ ...

C: Smoke of Gunpowder, Hail of Bullets; BARRAGE

Season 1 - Episode 25

Despite their best efforts, the remaining members of Section 9 are rounded up one by one by the government forces; only Batou and Motoko are...

C: Public Security Section 9, Once Again; STAND ALONE COMPLEX

Season 1 - Episode 26

Togusa has been released from jail and he's given papers showing the dissolution of Section 9. Out of work and depressed, he tries to find i...