Ghost In The Shell

Ghost in the Shell is a futuristic police thriller dealing with the exploits of the cyborg Motoko kusanagi, a member of a covert operations division of the national public safety commission known as section 9. The unit specializes in fighting technology-related crimes. Although supposedly equal to all other members, Kusanagi fills the leadership role in the team, and is usually referred to as "the Major" due to her past rank in the Japanese defence forces. She is capable of superhuman feats, and bionically specialized for her job — her body is almost completely mechanized; only her brain and a segment of her spinal cord remain organic.

The setting of Ghost in the Shell is cyber punk , similar to that of william gibsons spaw trilogy. Kusanagi and her colleagues face external threats and also suffer internal conflict over their own natures.

Stand Alone Complex takes place in the year 2030, in the fictional Japanese city of New Port. The series follows the members of public security section 9, a special operations task-force made up of former military officers and police detectives. The series is composed of individual cases that Section 9 investigates, along with an ongoing, more serious investigation into the complex of the laughing man incident.

At the start of the series, a detective investigating the Laughing Man incidents inadvertently discovers that several members of the task force have been injected with specialized micro-machines referred to as Interceptors. These micro-machines accumulate in the eyes and act as remote cameras, allowing authorized users to see from the visual perspective of the person injected with them. For unknown reasons, top police officials are spying on the task force using this method. The detective then tries to meet with Togusa, a friend and fellow detective recruited into Section 9 several years prior, but is murdered on the way by his superiors. Though he died, he was able to send Togusa an envelope as a backup before leaving for the meeting. They revealed the illegal usage of interceptors hidden within detectives. Togusa, although initially confused, quickly figures out the abnormal viewpoint of the photos and alerts Section 9 chief Aramaki.