攻殻機動隊2.0
Production I.G
Bandai Visual, Kodansha
Set in the year 2029 and following World Wars III and IV, a Japanese-led Asian block dominates world affairs. The alliance maintains its international supremacy through its elite security force whose cybernetically enhanced operatives tackle an array of hi-tech terrorists and other threats to international security. These augmented agents can "ghost hack" (i.e., download their consciousness) via the now omnipresent internet into other machines and human/machine cross breeds. Major Motoko Kusanagi, a cybernetically augmented female agent, has been tracking a virtual entity known as the Puppet Master with her crack squad of security agents. The shape-shifting Puppet Master, a rogue creation of a rival agency of the security apparatus, has concluded that it is a life form in its own right, "born in sea of information," and requested political asylum and true physical existence in defiance of its creators. (Source: Manga Entertainment, edited)
Opening
Ending
Batou
Main
Ootsuka, Akio
Japanese
Kusanagi, Motoko
Main
Tanaka, Atsuko
Japanese
Project 2501
Main
Sakakibara, Yoshiko
Japanese
Togusa
Main
Yamadera, Kouichi
Japanese
Akafuku
Supporting
Touchi, Hiroki
Japanese
Aramaki, Daisuke
Supporting
Ooki, Tamio
Japanese
Dr. Willis
Supporting
Kobayashi, Katsuya
Japanese
