Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex

Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex (Japanese攻壳机动队STAND ALONE COMPLEX, Kōkaku Kidōtai STAND ALONE COMPLEX ) is a 26- episode anime television series from 2002, based on Masamune Shirow's Ghost in the Shell universe. It was cut up as a film and published as OVA entitled " The Laughing Man " in DVD. In 2004, she was charged with a second season under the title Ghost in the Shell: SAC 2nd GIG and 2006 with a television movie called Ghost in the Shell: SAC Solid State Society continued.

• 2.1 Music
• 2.2 Voice Actors

Content

Overview

The action takes place mostly in the fictional Japanese city of New Port City ( Niihama -shi) in 2030, where the members of the special unit section 9 are entrusted with the investigation of various cases of crime, espionage and terrorism. This includes the so-called case of the Laughing Man, who caused a stir several years ago, but was never cleared by the competent department of the police. In the course of investigations, a staff of Section 9 notice that the case of the Laughing Man is much more complex than it first appears and develops the all -inducing abduction to a case of economic crime on an unprecedented scale, in addition to members of the police also members of the ruling party are involved.

Connection to manga and movies

In terms of time playing Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex between the two movies Ghost in the Shell and Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence and thus also the manga series. The plot of the TV series, however, is completely independent and is not with the other productions in context. However, the episodes contain numerous allusions to movies and manga or quote motives of these.

Production and publication

The series has a budget of 800 million yen produced ( about 6 million euros ) from the Japanese studio Production IG and directed by Kenji Kamiyama. The higher-level framework, which extends over the entire series, was penned by Masamune Shirow, who also worked as a consultant for the production. The design of the characters was designed by Makoto Shimomura. The work took place in a specially established for this purpose, Department of Production IG called " Studio 9 " instead. The name was chosen in reference to the " Section 9" called special unit of the series is about.

Originally Ghost was in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex was designed as a self-contained series with 26 episodes. However, this was shortly after the first showing on television in Japan, which took place between October 1, 2002 and 25 March 2003 on the pay -per-view channel Animax, decided to produce a second season with 26 episodes also.

Stand Alone Complex between December 2005 and June 2006, published by Panini Video on eight DVDs: In the German-speaking countries was Ghost in the Shell. This includes the first and last DVD of four, the remaining three episodes per DVD. The first broadcast on German television took place between the 7th of May 2006 and July 30, 2006 by the television channel MTV.

Music

The music for the series was composed by Yoko Kanno and produced by Victor Entertainment, a subsidiary of JVC. The header title " Inner Universe " is sung by the Russian singer Origa, the credits entitled " Lithium Flower" by Scott Matthew.

Voice Actors

For the German version of the series, the Berliner Synchron Studio Hermes Synchron GmbH is responsible. The speaking roles of the characters Motoko Kusanagi, Batou, Togusa and Ishikawa were doing busy with the voice actors of the television series Stargate SG-1.