Ghost in The Shell: Stand Alone Complex

Major Kusanagi and Section 9 are called in to resolve a hostage crisis at a Geisha house staffed by android geishas.

When a heavy-assault multiped tank runs amok under the control of an unknown hijacker, Section 9 is called in to stop it.

A series of android suicides prompts Section 9 to investigate the manufacturer.

An old friend of Togusa's is murdered after sending him pictures concerning an unsolved case involving a hacker known as "The Laughing Man."

Section 9 suspects that the police investigators handling the Laughing Man case are using their primary suspect, a former Serano Genomics, Inc. programmer with a shady anti-corporate past as a decoy to hide some form of higher-level corruption.

Things go haywire as Kusanagi suspects that The Laughing Man has inserted a virus into the police units guarding the Superintendent-General.

When Jenoma revolutionary leader Marcelo Jarti returns to Japan following another failed assassination attempt, Section 9 trails him to determine why Jarti has been visiting their country.

Section 9 looks into the case of a young girl's troubling heart transplant, investigating the organs, the company that sold them, and the Yakuza.

While in a The Laughing Man chat room, Kusanagi hones in on an older man sitting at the table who has more knowledge about the Laughing Man incidents.

Marco Amereti, a former American Imperial Navy Petty Officer turned serial killer, has arrived in Japan and for the last two months has murdered several women by slicing the skin off their torsos in the form of a t-shirt.

The Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare has been hacked into and classified material from their database has been stolen.

Early in the morning, Baton's Tachikoma self activates and leaves the Tachikoma storage bay to explore the outer world.

Sixteen years ago Aka Turkuro, the daughter of a pioneering cyber company CEO, was kidnapped by a group opposed to cyberization.

Acting on a tip, Section 9 breaks up a cabal of thieves hell bent on wrecking a Japanese financial institution.

Kusanagi's reservations regarding Section 9's Tachikoma units comes to a head.

Sensitive information has been stolen from a U.S. Navy base and the primary suspect is a former Olympic silver medalist named Zaitsev.

Major Kusanagi and Chief Aramaki are visiting London for an anti-terrorism conference.

After a five-year wait, Chinese vice foreign minister Jin is allowed access to the Kagashewa war memorial in Japan. But he soon receives a death threat.

Former Japanese Prime Minister Kanzaki’s daughter has been abducted and Section 9 is called in to investigate her disappearance.

After the events of PORTRAITZ, Togusa uses J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye as a starting point and develops a theory that The Laughing Man is after something published on paper.

Togusa finds himself in the hospital after being shot, but is desperate to impart what he's learned to the rest of the group.

After the Head of the DEA is arrested for murder in connection with the raid at the Sunflower Society building, Aramaki orders Section 9 to go through all of the facility's records to determine who is pulling the strings behind the attacks.

The Laughing Man returns to again kidnap the CEO of Serano Genomics, just as he did six years before.

Section 9 is finally ready to make their move against the man behind the corporate terrorism: standing Secretary General Yakushima. Learning of Section 9’s planned move, Yakushima leaks the existence of the group to the press.