Episodes

The opening installment of the anime adaptation titled The Ghost in the Shell, launching the series with its core cast of Section 9 operatives. Source records for this entry are minimal, covering only its billing, air dates, and lineup.

SUPER SPARTAN ii + JUNK JUNGLE i is the second episode of The Ghost in the Shell anime series, centered on Motoko Kusanagi's Section 9 team and their Fuchikoma support units.

The opening episode of Stand Alone Complex 2nd GIG finds a disbanded Section 9 quietly back together and off the books, until a hostage crisis at the Chinese Embassy hands the team a chance to earn back its official standing.

The second 2nd Gig episode views the refugee crisis through the eyes of Gino, a bitter war-pilot veteran whose plans for revenge unravel as Section 9 learns his grand scheme is only a fantasy.

The third episode of 2nd GIG plays out like a heist, with Section 9 posing as the phantom thief Cash Eye to trick a corrupt financier into opening a vault stuffed with laundered money.

A live-fire drill turns lethal when a combat helicopter's AI, still fed by its dead pilot's cyberbrain, goes rogue over a refugee district. Section 9 must lure the machines into the open so Saito can take the shot that ends the crisis.

After Prime Minister Kayabuki scraps the Refugee Special Action Policy, a death threat during her Dejima tour drags Section 9 into reluctant bodyguard duty. As the team digs into the Individual Eleven's ideology and its echoes of a…

A dead blackmailer and a strip of ruined film pull Togusa, working alone, into the flooded ruins under New Tokyo. A routine death inquiry turns into a descent through a buried nuclear plant and a secret excavation that someone powerful…

Section 9 draws a covert escort assignment inside the Shinjuku Refugee District after word of a plutonium shipment reaches militants. What looks like a careful convoy run through poverty and paranoia curdles into a needless firefight, and…

The eighth 2nd Gig episode has Aramaki go off Gouda's leash to investigate the Individual Eleven and the spy agency behind it, while a stakeout reveals that Section 9 and a rival unit are both being fed the same poisoned intelligence.

Frustrated by a botched arrest, the Major dives straight into the Cabinet Intelligence Agency's servers to interrogate Gouda about his designs, while the rest of the team chases down a chain of refugee suicide bombers across the city.

An off-duty shooting drags Togusa into a courtroom where a slick defense attorney tries to paint him as a cyborg-hating cop. Behind the trial lies a web of prosthetic corruption and political ambition that Section 9 quietly moves to expose.

Kusanagi's Labyrinth is the eleventh episode of Ghost in the Shell: S.A.C. 2nd GIG, in which a hacking incident strands the Major in an unfamiliar district and draws her into a quiet story of two children who survived a plane crash.

Section 9 digs into the essay at the heart of the Individual Eleven virus while closing on Hideo Kuze. As Borma risks a dive into infected memories, the terror group stages a televised mass suicide, exposing the manufactured nature of the…

Afternoon of the Machines is the fifteenth episode of Ghost in the Shell: S.A.C. 2nd GIG. As the Tachikomas puzzle over their own sense of self during downtime, a bombing leads Section 9 to the scientist who first gave the think-tanks…

A cabinet meeting on the swelling refugee crisis exposes a plot against the Prime Minister, while Ishikawa's report from the Korean Peninsula finally sketches Kuze's wartime past and the day he traded his rifle for a camera.

Chasing a lead on Kuze in Taiwan, the Major ends up with an unexpected free evening and a young hustler named Chai. What starts as a street-kid's reckless drug scheme becomes her chance to pull one boy off a path toward a senseless gang…

Abandoned City is the twenty-second episode of Ghost in the Shell: S.A.C. 2nd GIG. A nuclear device turns up in an evacuated Fukuoka, and Section 9 slips into the deserted streets to prove the bomb is not the refugees' work but the mark of…

As the government moves to seize plutonium hidden on Dejima, Aramaki steers the Prime Minister toward a United Nations solution while Section 9 races the same cargo into the refugee island, and a single rifle shot ignites open war on the…

Aerial Bombing of Dejima is the twenty-fourth episode of Ghost in the Shell: S.A.C. 2nd GIG. With the Prime Minister ousted and Dejima under assault, Section 9 races on two fronts to free her and reach Kuze before the island is wiped out.

The Tachikoma spot an American submarine positioned to nuke Dejima without leaving a trace, while Batou tries to turn the pursuing Section 4 against the frame-up. Trapped under rubble with Kuze, Kusanagi finally hears the meaning behind…

The final episode of Stand Alone Complex 2nd GIG brings the Dejima refugee crisis to a head as the Tachikoma sacrifice themselves to halt a nuclear strike, Kusanagi reunites with Hideo Kuze, and Gouda's scheme collapses.

In this Ghost in the Shell: S.A.C. 2nd GIG entry, a hospital emergency exposes an anonymous patient as the world's most wanted bomber, Angel's Feathers. The revelation drags Section 9 to Berlin, where Batou's stakeout uncovers the…

A quieter 2nd GIG episode built around a poker table, where Saito's unbeaten streak prompts him to recount how he lost an eye. His tale runs back to a mercenary war in Central America and a rooftop duel with the Major, though the…

A 2nd GIG episode set on the refugee island of Dejima, where a push for autonomy is being deliberately inflamed from the shadows. Section 9 mounts a strike to seize the elusive leader Kuze, only for the Major's attempt to hack him to shake…

Picking up after the Dejima raid, this 2nd GIG episode chases a weapons deal to the island of Etorofu, where the mob means to sell plutonium to Kuze's refugees. Section 9 races to intercept as Kuze's grip on his followers tightens toward…

Escape in Defeat is the twenty-first episode of Ghost in the Shell: S.A.C. 2nd GIG. Section 9 loses its quarry, its aircraft, and two of its own, while the man they are hunting discovers his prize was a swindle.

Face is episode thirteen of Ghost in the Shell: S.A.C. 2nd GIG. A run of bespoke prosthetic faces sees Pazu framed for murder, and the culprit proves to be a spurned lover who has rebuilt herself into his exact double.

This is the episode index for the second Stand Alone Complex season, S.A.C. 2nd GIG, collecting its installment listing and directing readers to the season's main article for the wider continuing story of Section 9.

The opening episode of SAC 2045 reintroduces the Major and her crew as guns-for-hire in a war-torn United States. Between firefights with roving marauders and a quiet summons from an old superior, the ground is laid for their return to a…

The Major's crew is boxed in by an American cyber squad and pressed into service, while Togusa works the Dark Web to trace the mercenary outfit Ghost. Two threads, one in captivity and one in Los Angeles, close in on the same missing team.

The fifth episode of Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045, Gift from God has Aramaki rushing to reach Kusanagi while her mercenary crew launches its raid on the reclusive Patrick Huge, only to run headlong into his automated defenses.

The sixth chapter of Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045 pulls Section 9 into its first real briefing on the post-humans, a class of super-brained individuals blamed for a worldwide financial collapse. A captured specimen named Gary Harts turns a…

The eighth SAC_2045 episode brings the old team to Prime Minister Tate's office to weigh the post-human hunt, then follows Togusa on a solo spy hunt that ends with a faked death and a hard truth about who is really pulling strings.

In SAC_2045, one of Japan's three post-humans works his way up a chain of corrupt beneficiaries of the Tokyo Reconstruction project, and his hunt eventually points at the Prime Minister's own father-in-law.

The tenth episode of SAC_2045 tracks a wave of net-driven mob killings back through a voyeur app to a schoolboy, exposing an online justice platform called Think Pol that lets crowds condemn strangers to death.

As Purin dissects the Thinkpol program, the Major and Togusa probe the home life of Takashi Shimamura, a middle-school post-human whose obsession with Orwell reshapes a classroom tragedy into the seeds of revolution.

Episode thirteen of SAC_2045 sends Section 9 after Philip Kukushkin, a Russian cyberbrain engineer who claims to hold the key to the post-humans, only to find him assassinated and his mind hidden inside a robot.

The fourteenth episode of Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045, I've Awoken brings American special forces alongside Section 9 to bring down the tireless post-human Suzuka Mizukane during a running highway battle.

1A84 is the fifteenth episode of Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045. As Section 9 wrings answers from a captured spy and interrogates a rogue AI, the truth behind the Post-humans and the wrecked world economy comes to light, while suspicion…

Togusa grasps at last that he has been wandering inside his own memories, reliving a brutal captivity from sixteen years ago before waking into a ruined Tokyo of 2045. What looks like escape becomes a strange, quiet pilgrimage toward a…

The eighteenth episode of Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045, How to Build an Independent Nation splits the team between a rescue mission for Togusa in a volatile Shin-Tokyo and the Major's chase after a post-human threat aboard a stolen nuclear…

In the twentieth chapter of SAC_2045, Section 9 closes in on the post-human Suzuka Mizukane while learning the terrible rule that binds her fate to a nuclear arsenal. Purin breaks from Shinjo to chase Takashi across a strange new network,…

A Long Slumber is the twenty-first episode of Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045. To pry a hijacked nuclear submarine back from enemy hands, Section 9 splits into two teams to seize both Suzuka Mizukane and the sleeping Post-human Takashi…

The twenty-second episode of SAC 2045 turns on the awakened Takashi Shimamura, whose sudden gambit corners the Major's team. Nuclear control changes hands, allegiances blur, and a car bomb closes the hour on a chilling note.

The penultimate chapter of SAC_2045 hurls Section 9 against an American plan to gas Tokyo, as Takashi's spreading N phenomenon claims the team one by one and drives the standoff toward nuclear catastrophe.

The twelfth chapter of Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045 pulls Togusa into a buried-memory program hidden inside Takashi Shimamura's confiscated data. A trip to the boy's childhood mountains near Kyoto lets the detective relive scenes he never…

The sixteenth episode of Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045 turns three Tachikoma into detectives, sent to dig through Purin Ezaki's scrubbed history after the Major fears she may be an American plant. What they uncover is a childhood tragedy…

In the nineteenth SAC_2045 episode, a freshly rebuilt Purin thumbs a ride toward Tokyo while American commandos hunting the Post-humans meet Suzuka Mizukane's lethal calm. Two threads converge on a bridge where Takashi Shimamura waits.

Divided by a Wall is the second chapter of Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045. It cuts between GHOST's chaotic firefight against drone-backed insurgents and a quiet study in which Togusa is drawn toward the ghost of a disbanded Section 9.