full-episodes (26)

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  Section-9

  S1 : E1 | TV-MA | 27 min | Aired: 11.07.04

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

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  Testation

  S1 : E2 | TV-MA | 27 min | Aired: 11.14.04

  A heavy-assault multiped tank runs amok under the control of an unknown hijacker.

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  Android and I

  S1 : E3 | TV-MA | 27 min | Aired: 11.21.04

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

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  Intercepter

  S1 : E4 | TV-MA | 26 min | Aired: 11.28.04

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

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  Decoy

  S1 : E5 | TV-MA | 26 min | Aired: 12.05.04

  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.

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  Meme

  S1 : E6 | TV-MA | 26 min | Aired: 12.12.04

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

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  Idolator

  S1 : E7 | TV-MA | 26 min | Aired: 12.19.04

  It has come to the attention of the Minister of Home Affairs that Jenoma revolutionary leader Marcelo Jarti has been visiting Japan regularly every five months.

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  Missing Hearts

  S1 : E8 | TV-MA | 26 min | Aired: 01.02.05

  Kurutan, a friend of Kusanagi's, calls the Major to the hospital where she works to look into the source of a young girl's heart transplant.

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  Chat! Chat! Chat!

  S1 : E9 | TV-MA | 26 min | Aired: 01.09.05

  Kusanagi enters a chat room dedicated to The Laughing Man. Various crackpot (and a few plausible) theories are passed around JFK-style as the chat room members view various bits of evidence from The Laughing Man case.

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  Jungle Cruise

  S1 : E10 | TV-MA | 26 min | Aired: 01.16.05

  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.

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  Portraitz

  S1 : E11 | TV-MA | 26 min | Aired: 01.23.05

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

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  Escape From

  S1 : E12 | TV-MA | 26 min | Aired: 01.30.05

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

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  Not Equal

  S1 : E13 | TV-MA | 26 min | Aired: 02.06.05

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

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  Automated Capitalism - ¥€$

  S1 : E14 | TV-MA | 26 min | Aired: 02.13.05

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

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  Machines Desirantes

  S1 : E15 | TV-MA | 26 min | Aired: 02.20.05

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

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  Ag2O

  S1 : E16 | TV-MA | 26 min | Aired: 02.27.05

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

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  Angels' Share

  S1 : E17 | TV-MA | 26 min | Aired: 03.06.05

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

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  Lost Heritage

  S1 : E18 | TV-MA | 26 min | Aired: 03.13.05

  After a five-year wait, Chinese vice foreign minister Jin has been allowed access to the Kagashewa war memorial in Japan.

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  Captivated

  S1 : E19 | TV-MA | 26 min | Aired: 03.20.05

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

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  Re-View

  S1 : E20 | TV-MA | 26 min | Aired: 03.27.05

  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.

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  Eraser

  S1 : E21 | TV-MA | 26 min | Aired: 04.03.05

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

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  Scandal

  S1 : E22 | TV-MA | 26 min | Aired: 04.10.05

  The Head of the DEA is arrested for murder in connection with the raid at the Sunflower Society building.

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  Equinox

  S1 : E23 | TV-MA | 26 min | Aired: 04.17.05

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

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  Annihilation

  S1 : E24 | TV-MA | 26 min | Aired: 04.24.05

  Having learned the entire truth behind the Laughing Man incident from The Laughing Man himself, and having confirmed the information with Mr. Serano, Section 9 is finally ready to make their move against the man behind the corporate terrorism: Standing Secretary General Yakushima.

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  Barrage

  S1 : E25 | TV-MA | 26 min | Aired: 05.01.05

  Aramaki has been released under his own recognizance and meets with the head of the Ministry of Justice to explain the situation and ask for help in ensuring his team members safety, but the Minister of Justice is powerless to affect the situation beyond the prosecution of Yakushima.

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  Stand Alone Complex

  S1 : E26 | TV-MA | 26 min | Aired: 05.08.05

  After 15 days of fierce fighting, the Umibozu complete their operation to dismantle Section 9 by assassinating Kusanagi and capturing Batou.