TV series
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
Overview
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.
Details
- First air date
- 2002-10-01
- Status
- Ended
- Seasons
- 2 seasons
- Episodes
- 52 episodes
- Genres
- Animation, Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Crime
- Network
- Perfect Choice
- Production
- Production I.G, Bandai Visual, dentsu, Victor Entertainment, Nippon Television Network Corporation, Tokuma Shoten, Bandai Entertainment, Manga Entertainment
- Country
- JP
- Original language
- JA
Cast
- Atsuko Tanaka as Motoko Kusanagi (voice)
- Akio Otsuka as Batou (voice)
- Osamu Saka as Daisuke Aramaki (voice)
- Taimei Suzuki as Kubota (voice)
- Takashi Onozuka as Paz (voice)
- Taro Yamaguchi as Borma (voice)
- Toru Okawa as Saito (voice)
- Sakiko Tamagawa as Tachikoma (voice) / Uchikoma (voice) / Togusa's Wife (voice)
- Yuko Sumitomo as Nasami Kurta (voice)
- Yutaka Nakano as Ishikawa (voice)
- Eiji Sekiguchi as Akafuku (voice)
- Eri Oono as Operator (voice)
Creators and crew
- Shigeru Watanabe - Executive Producer
- Mitsuhisa Ishikawa - Producer
- Atsushi Sugita - Producer
- Toshiyuki Kono - Director
- Masaki Tachibana - Director
- Kenichi Takeshita - Director
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