Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex

Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, is an anime television series produced by Production I.G and based on Masamune Shirow's manga Ghost in the Shell. It was written and directed by Kenji Kamiyama, with original character design by Hajime Shimomura and a soundtrack by Yoko Kanno. The first season, sometimes referred to as 1st GIG, aired on Animax from October 1, 2002 to March 25, 2003 and was positively received by critics.It was broadcast in the United States on  Cartoon Network's  Adult Swim programming block and later briefly on broadcast on Toonami but was taken off before the end of it's run. The second season of  Stand Alone Complex, titled Ghost in the Shell: S.A.C. 2nd GIG , aired on Animax from January 1, 2004 to January 8, 2005.

Plot
The series takes place in the year 2030, where many people can become cyborgs with  prosthetic bodies. Primarily set in the fictional Japanese city of New Port, the series follows the members of Section 9, a special-operations task-force made up of former military officers and police detectives. The series presents individual cases that Section 9 investigates, along with an ongoing, more serious investigation into the complex Laughing Man incidents.A detective investigating a series of corporate terrorism and blackmail events called The Laughing Man Incident discovers the injection of specialized micro-machines into the task force to spy on them illegally. The detective sends evidence to Togusa just before his own murder. Once Section 9 exposed the government officials to the media, a mysterious hacker called the Laughing Man hacks onto one of the government officials and states he will be returning to defraud them. Section 9 then begins to investigate the Laughing Man incidents.

External Links

Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_in_the_Shell:_Stand_Alone_Complex

Ghost in the Shell Wiki

http://ghostintheshell.wikia.com/wiki/Ghost_in_the_Shell_Wiki

