Koukaku Kidoutai: Stand Alone Complex

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Description

In a not‑so‑distant future, humanity has achieved complete body transplants from flesh to machine, enabling significant enhancements in both physical and cybernetic abilities and blurring the boundary between the two realms. Criminals can exploit this technology to commit new and often dangerous crimes. In response, the Japanese government established Section 9, an independently operating police unit that tackles these highly sensitive offenses. Under the leadership of Daisuke Aramaki and Motoko Kusanagi, Section 9 addresses crimes across the entire social spectrum, typically achieving success. However, when faced with a new A‑level hacker …

Type: TV
Date: 2002
Status: FINISHED
Duration: 25 min/ep
Age Rating: R - 17+ (violence & profanity)

Studios: production i.g
Producers: Animax ／ Bandai Entertainment ／ Bandai Visual ／ Dentsu Inc. ／ Ghost In The Shell Stand Alone Complex Committee ／ Kodansha ／ Manga Entertainment ／ Nippon Television Network Corporation ／ Production I.g ／ Tokuma Shoten ／ Trilogy Future Studio ／ Victor Entertainment

Genre: action, action drama, android, artificial intelligence, asia, award winning, based on a manga, bionic powers, body swapping, cgi, conspiracy, crime, crime fiction, cyberpunk, cyborg, cyborgs, detective, drama, dystopian, earth ensemble cast, episodic, excessive violence, female protagonist, future, gore, gunfights, guns, hacking, heroine of strong character, human enhancement, japan, kuudere, law and order, manga, mecha, memory manipulation, military, mystery, noir, philosophy, police, politics, primarily male cast, psychological, real robot, robots, robots & android, sci fi, sci-fi, science fiction, seinen, stoic heroine, thriller, urban, violence, work ... Show more

List of Episodes

Image	#	Title	Season	Air Date	Duration
	Ep 1	Section 9 Section 9 is called in to resolve a hostage crisis at a geisha house staffed by android geisha. After the crisis is taken care of, Aramaki i…	S1 Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex	2002-10-01	25 min
	Ep 2	Testation A heavy-assault multi-ped tank runs amok, under the control of an unknown hijacker using the "recognition code" of the tank's designer, Take…	S1 Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex	2002-10-08	25 min
	Ep 3	Android and I A series of android suicides prompts Section 9 to investigate the manufacturer, Genesis Androids. While Aramaki questions the plant manager,…	S1 Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex	2002-10-15	25 min
	Ep 4	Intercepter Yamaguchi, an old friend of Togusa's and a police detective working in the Laughing Man task force, is murdered after he calls Togusa, reque…	S1 Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex	2002-10-22	25 min
	Ep 5	Decoy Section 9 suspects that the police investigators handling the Laughing Man case are using their primary suspect, a former Serano Genomics pr…	S1 Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex	2002-10-29	25 min
	Ep 6	Meme The Superintendent-General's press conference quickly descends into chaos after the Laughing Man's assassination threat. Kusanagi suspects t…	S1 Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex	2002-11-05	25 min
	Ep 7	Idolater The Ministry of Home Affairs learns that Jenoma revolutionary leader Marcelo Jarti has been visiting Japan regularly every five months. Jart…	S1 Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex	2002-11-12	25 min
	Ep 8	Missing Hearts Kurutan calls the Major to the hospital where she works to look into the source of a young girl's heart transplant. The heart she received w…	S1 Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex	2002-11-19	25 min
	Ep 9	Chat! Chat! Chat! Using her net avatar, Kusanagi enters a chat room dedicated to the Laughing Man. Various theories are passed around the chat room as the mem…	S1 Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex	2002-11-26	25 min
	Ep 10	Jungle Cruise Marco Amoretti, a former American Imperial Navy Petty Officer turned serial killer, has arrived in Japan and for the last two months has mur…	S1 Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex	2002-12-03	25 min
	Ep 11	Portraitz The Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare's database has been hacked into, and classified material has been stolen. Section 9 traces the ha…	S1 Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex	2002-12-10	25 min
	Ep 12	Escape From Early in the morning Batou's Tachikoma self-activates and leaves the Tachikoma storage bay to explore the outside world. While roaming the s…	S1 Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex	2002-12-17	25 min
	Ep 13	Not Equal Sixteen years ago, Eka Tokura, the daughter of a pioneering cybernetics company's CEO, was kidnapped by the New World Brigade, a terrorist g…	S1 Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex	2002-12-24	25 min
	Ep 14	YES Acting on a tip, Section 9 breaks up a cabal of thieves planning to rob a Japanese financial institution. Shortly after the raid, a Chinese …	S1 Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex	2002-12-31	25 min
	Ep 15	Machines Desirantes Kusanagi's reservations regarding Section 9's Tachikoma units comes to a head. She becomes disturbed by their behaviour, as their artificial…	S1 Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex	2003-01-07	25 min
	Ep 16	Ag2O Sensitive information has been stolen from a U.S. Naval base, and the primary suspect is a former Paralympic silver medalist boxer named Pav…	S1 Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex	2003-01-14	25 min
	Ep 17	Angels` Share Kusanagi and Aramaki are visiting London for an anti-terrorism conference. While there, Aramaki stops at a wine bank to visit an old friend …	S1 Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex	2003-01-21	25 min
	Ep 18	Lost Heritage After a five-year wait, Chinese vice foreign minister Jin has been allowed access to the Kagoshima War Memorial in Japan. Jin is the first C…	S1 Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex	2003-01-28	25 min
	Ep 19	Captivated Former Prime Minister Kanzaki’s daughter has been abducted, and Section 9 is called in to investigate her disappearance. The prime suspect i…	S1 Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex	2003-02-04	25 min
	Ep 20	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 Laug…	S1 Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex	2003-02-11	25 min
	Ep 21	Eraser Togusa finds himself in the hospital after being shot, but is desperate to impart what he has learned to the rest of the group. By diving in…	S1 Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex	2003-02-18	25 min
	Ep 22	Scandal The Head of the DEA is arrested for murder in connection with the raid at the Sunflower Society building. Aramaki orders Section 9 to go thr…	S1 Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex	2003-02-25	25 min
	Ep 23	Equinox The Laughing Man returns to kidnap Ernest Serano, the CEO of Serano Genomics, just as he did six years before. Returning to the café where S…	S1 Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex	2003-03-04	25 min
	Ep 24	Annihilation Having learned the entire truth behind the Laughing Man Incident from the Laughing Man himself, and confirming the information with Serano, …	S1 Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex	2003-03-11	25 min
	Ep 25	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 fo…	S1 Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex	2003-03-18	25 min
	Ep 26	Stand Alone Complex The dismantling of Section 9, spun by the media as a JSDF preemptive strike against a radical security unit planning a coup, provides the Pr…	S1 Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex	2003-03-25	25 min
No image	Ep 0	Special - A Prior Notice		—	30m
	Ep 7	Tachikomatic Days 01		2004-01-01	2 min
	Ep 8	Tachikomatic Days 02		2004-01-01	2 min
	Ep 9	Tachikomatic Days 03		2004-02-07	2 min
	Ep 10	Tachikomatic Days 04		2004-02-07	2 min
	Ep 11	Tachikomatic Days 05		2004-03-06	2 min
	Ep 12	Tachikomatic Days 06		2004-03-06	2 min
	Ep 13	Tachikomatic Days 07		2004-04-03	2 min
	Ep 14	Tachikomatic Days 08		2004-04-03	2 min
	Ep 15	Tachikomatic Days 09		2004-05-08	2 min
	Ep 16	Tachikomatic Days 10		2004-05-08	2 min
	Ep 17	Tachikomatic Days 11		2004-06-05	2 min
	Ep 18	Tachikomatic Days 12		2004-06-05	2 min
	Ep 19	Tachikomatic Days 13		2004-07-03	2 min
	Ep 20	Tachikomatic Days 14		2004-07-03	2 min
	Ep 21	Tachikomatic Days 15		2004-08-07	2 min
	Ep 22	Tachikomatic Days 16		2004-08-07	2 min
	Ep 23	Tachikomatic Days 17		2004-09-04	2 min
	Ep 24	Tachikomatic Days 18		2004-09-04	2 min
	Ep 25	Tachikomatic Days 19		2004-10-02	2 min
	Ep 26	Tachikomatic Days 20		2004-10-02	2 min
	Ep 27	Tachikomatic Days 21		2004-11-06	2 min
	Ep 28	Tachikomatic Days 22		2004-11-06	2 min
	Ep 29	Tachikomatic Days 23		2004-12-04	2 min
	Ep 30	Tachikomatic Days 24		2004-12-04	2 min
	Ep 31	Tachikomatic Days 25: Tachikoma Sentai Song		2005-01-08	2 min
	Ep 32	Tachikomatic Days 26		2005-01-08	2 min