Logicoma

The Logicoma, model number LCM22, is a walking tank introduced in Ghost in the Shell: Arise and carried over into Ghost in the Shell: The New Movie. Its full designation marks it as an autonomous-follower logistics system, and Miyuki Sawashiro provides its voice. In silhouette it echoes the other spider-legged tanks that Section 9 relies on.

Four legs carry the machine, each able to roll on wheels fast enough for highway travel, and it rounds out its build with a single spherical eye, forward manipulators, and grappling rope launchers reminiscent of a certain web-slinger. What sets it apart from the Fuchikoma and Tachikoma is the absence of any cockpit; in place of a crew space it carries a rear cargo bay where Motoko stows handheld ordnance. Togusa points out that the unit exists to move logistics rather than to fight, and Batou, normally fond of spider tanks, has little patience for a model so thin on weapons, armor, and room for a rider.

The design does not stay static. The New Movie, the 2015 follow-up to Arise, shows an upgraded version during its climax that adds weapons and a rough improvised cockpit, and a later batch in the same film arrives with proper pilot capsules and heavier armament, bringing them close to Tachikoma capability.

In Arise a single Logicoma out of Section 9 is handed to Motoko as a bodyguard before she assembles her own team, and she is taken aback by how dated it is when it tries to talk to her using a pair of signal lamps. More of them turn up across the series, kept in service only because Aramaki cannot afford newer hardware. By the close of the 2015 film Togusa is seen piloting a customized unit, and Motoko commands at least seven of them, each finished with a color-matched pilot capsule and markedly stronger weapons.