
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.
First Aired: 10/1/2002
Languages: Japanese
Type: Scripted
Companies: Production I.G, Bandai Visual, dentsu, Victor Entertainment, Nippon Television Network Corporation, Tokuma Shoten, Bandai Entertainment, Manga Entertainment
Countries: Japan, United States of America

Female cyborg Major Motoko Kusanagi and her fellow police officers of Section 9 hunt down a host of criminals in both the real and online worlds. In the course of their work, Kusanagi and Section 9 must do everything from resolving hostage crises to hunting down runaway state-of-the-art killing machines.

The story continues to follow the adventures of Section 9's top members, Motoko Kusanagi, Batou, and Togusa. The series maintains an episodic format and portrays Section 9 dealing with political issues such as invited refugees and nuclear intrigue. Another government institution, the Information Bureau of the Cabinet, comes up head-to-head against them. And a terrorist entity who calls itself the "Individual Eleven" joins the set.

53 episodes

Atsuko Tanaka
Motoko Kusanagi (voice)

Akio Otsuka
Batou (voice)

Osamu Saka
Daisuke Aramaki (voice)

Taimei Suzuki
Kubota (voice)

Takashi Onozuka
Paz (voice)

Rikiya Koyama
Hideo Kuze (voice)

Taro Yamaguchi
Borma (voice)

Toru Okawa
Saito (voice)

Sakiko Tamagawa
Tachikoma (voice) / Uchikoma (voice) / Togusa's Wife (voice)

Yuko Sumitomo
Nasami Kurta (voice)

Yutaka Nakano
Ishikawa (voice)

Eiji Sekiguchi
Akafuku (voice)
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