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

Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex

In the future when technological enhancements and robotics are a way of life, Major Motoko Kusanagi and Section 9 take care of the jobs that are too difficult for the police. Section 9 employs hackers, sharpshooters, detectives and cyborgs all in an effort to thwart cyber criminals and their plans to attack the innocent.

In the future when technological enhancements and robotics are a way of life, Major Motoko Kusanagi and Section 9 take care of the jobs that are too difficult for the police. Section 9 employs hackers, sharpshooters, detectives and cyborgs all in an effort to thwart cyber criminals and their plans to attack the innocent.

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Seasons & Episodes

EP 1

SA: Public Security Section 9; SECTION-9

Public Security Section 9 is an elite special ops unit that works directly under the control of the Prime Minister. They

EP 2

SA: Proof of Recklessness; TESTATION

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

EP 3

SA: A Modest Rebellion; ANDROID AND I

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

EP 4

C: The Visual Device will Laugh; INTERCEPTER

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

EP 5

C: The Inviting Bird will Chant; DECOY

The Laughing Man, having returned after a six-year absence, threatens to assassinate the Superintendent-General of the p

EP 6

C: The Copycat will Dance; MEME

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

EP 7

SA: Idolatry; IDOLATOR

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

EP 8

SA: The Fortunate Ones; MISSING HEARTS

Motoko's friend Courtin asks her to come to the hospital where she works. It seems a little girl just received a heart t

EP 9

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

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

EP 10

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

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

EP 11

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

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

EP 12

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

One of the Tachikomas decides to take a little stroll through the city. It meets a little girl, Miki, who is searching f

EP 13

SA: Unequal Terrorist; NOT EQUAL

In a briefing, Aramaki shows a photo of a girl who looks like Eka Tokura, the daughter of Tokura Electronics, who was ki

EP 14

SA: Automated Capitalism; ¥€$

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

EP 15

SA: Time of the Machines; MACHINES DÉSIRANTES

The Major has become worried about the Tachikomas. It appears that their AIs have developed much more quickly and in way

EP 16

SA: Chinks in the Armour of the Heart; Ag2O

Batou goes undercover on a military base to shadow one of his former heroes, a man named Zaitsev who was an Olympic silv

EP 17

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

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

EP 18

SA: Assassination Duet; LOST HERITAGE

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

EP 19

SA: Embraced by a Disguised Net; CAPTIVATED

Section 9's next case is a rash of mass-kidnappings. Rumor has it that a crime syndicate is harvesting organs and sellin

EP 20

C: Vanished Medication; RE-VIEW

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

EP 21

C: Left-Behind Trace; ERASER

After being shot, Togusa's in the hospital and about to go into surgery, but he is desperate to pass on what he's learne

EP 22

C: Corporate Graft; SCANDAL

Motoko is about to be fitted for her new prosthetic body. But when the doctor arrives and begins the procedure, it's cle

EP 23

C: The Other Side of Good and Evil; EQUINOX

The Laughing Man returns! And, just as he did six years ago, he kidnaps the president of Serano Genomics without being d

EP 24

C: Sunset in the Lonely City; ANNIHILATION

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

EP 25

C: Smoke of Gunpowder, Hail of Bullets; BARRAGE

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

EP 26

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

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

EP 1

DI: Reactivation; REEMBODY

A group of terrorists identifying themselves as the "Individual Eleven" barricade themselves within the Chinese Embassy.

EP 2

DI: Well-Fed Me; NIGHT CRUISE

A refugee living in Japan has plans to "reset the world" and change things. But are his plans merely violent daydreams,

EP 3

DI: Saturday Night and Sunday Morning; CASH EYE

=A hacker and thief by the name of Cash Eye plans on infiltrating a vault during a party, and Section 9 is called in to

EP 4

DU: Natural Enemy; NATURAL ENEMY

A routine live-fire exercise goes wrong, leaving a fleet of AI controlled helicopters flying above a refugee area, firin

EP 5

IN: Those Who Have the Motive; INDUCTANCE

An assassination threat has been made against Prime Minister Kayabuki; Section 9 is called to serve as bodyguards Meanwh

EP 6

DI: Latent Heat Source; EXCAVATION

A seemingly run-of-the mill hit-and-run turns into anything but when Togusa investigates. While in Tokyo, he discovers a

EP 7

DU: Rhapsody - The Melody of a Bygone Nation; Pu239/94

Plans have been leaked to terrorists that the plutonium recovered from the underground nuclear facility in Tokyo is to b

EP 8

DI: Vegetarian Feast; FAKE FOOD

While on a stakeout of a Taiwanese vegetarian restaurant, Section 9 finds out that someone is pulling strings and feedin

EP 9

DU: The Hope Named Despair; AMBIVALENCE

The Tachikomas and the Major continue to investigate Gohda and his motives, while the rest of Section 9 are out to stop

EP 10

DI: One Angry Man; TRIAL

Togusa is brought up on charges after he becomes involved with a murder while off duty. But during the course of the tri

EP 11

IN: Kusanagi's Labyrinth; affection

While field testing new recruits, the Major finds herself hacked, and an old woman tells her a story from her past.

EP 12

IN: To Those Without Even a Name...; SELECON

The Tachikomas, Ishikawa, and Borma locate a suspicious file believed to be the Individual Eleven virus, The Major, Bato

EP 13

DI: Face; MAKE UP

With the latest Individual 11 incident still fresh in the public's mind, Section 9 discovers that only a skilled face sc

EP 14

DI: Beware the Left Eye; POKER FACE

Saito recounts his first run-in with the Major, and how he became part of the group that would eventually become Section

EP 15

DI: Afternoon of the Machines; PAT.

During a scheduled maintenance, the Tachikomas begin to chat away about the Individual Eleven. While talking in their ne

EP 16

IN: The Fact of Being There; ANOTHER CHANCE

The Prime Minister is alerted to the existence of "hub cyberbrains," while Ishikawa returns from the peninsula to report

EP 17

DI: Mother-Child Relationship; RED DATA

Following a tip, the Major conducts an undercover investigation of Kuze in Taiwan. While there, she saves a boy running

EP 18

DI: Angel's Poem; TRANS PARENT

The Major and Batou are flown to Berlin in an effort to track down a terrorist called "Angel's Feathers". While there, B

EP 19

IN: Chain of Symmetry; CHAIN REACTION

Despite close scrutiny by the authorities, the Dejima refugees declare their independence. Kuze is suspected to be the m

EP 20

IN: Confusion at the North End; FABRICATE FOG

Section 9 heads to Etorofu in search of Kuze. During their investigations, the Major finds an interesting floppy disk on

EP 21

IN: Escape in Defeat; EMBARRASSMENT

Much to the chagrin of Batou, Motoko, and the rest of the team, Kuze and the refugees manage to escape in one of the cam

EP 22

DU: Abandoned City; REVERSAL PROCESS

The city of Fukuoka is evacuated when a live nuclear bomb is found. With the Dejima Refugees targeted as the prime suspe

EP 23

IN: The Day the Bridge Falls; MARTIAL LAW

The government declares martial Law in Dejima, believing that the refugees have a nuclear device and plan to use it to g

EP 24

IN: Aerial Bombing of Dejima; NUCLEAR POWER

The Prime Minister is taken into custody, and the military begins its strike on Dejima. The Major and part of Section 9

EP 25

IN: To the Other Side of Paradise; THIS SIDE OF JUSTICE

Kuze manages to take down the jamming plane, but becomes trapped in rubble with the Major. The Tachikomas begin discussi

EP 26

IN: Return to Patriotism; ENDLESS∞GIG

The tables seem to be turning in favor of Section 9, but the nuclear missile is still being prepared for launch.

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