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2029, a near-future Japan. The full cyborg Motoko Kusanagi envisions a task force that preemptively strikes emerging threats. She and her team are scouted by Daisuke Aramaki as Public Security Section 9, AKA the "Shell Squad." An international conspiracy hints at a hacker known as The "Puppet Master." What fate awaits Kusanagi? What is the hacker's endgame?
10 episodes
Aired July 7, 2026
In the year 2029, Niihama City has become a technologically advanced metropolis. Due to great improvements in cybernetics, its citizens are able to replace their limbs with robotic parts. The world is now more interconnected than ever before, and the city's Public Security Section 9 is responsible for combating corruption, terrorism, and other dangerous threats following this shift toward globalisation.
1. EPISODE 01: PROLOGUE + SUPER SPARTAN i
25 minJuly 7, 2026
During a raid on a meeting with a foreign representative that he suspects involves corruption and cr…
2. EPISODE 02: SUPER SPARTAN ii + JUNK JUNGLE i
25 minJuly 14, 2026
Kusanagi and her team begin operating as the Shell Squad after being scouted by Aramaki. At some poi…
3. EPISODE 03: JUNK JUNGLE ii + MEGATECH MACHINE i + ii
25 minJuly 21, 2026
Kusanagi and Togusa take their suspect into custody after a furious chase in their Fuchikomas. Elsew…
4. EPISODE 04: ROBOT RONDO
25 minJuly 28, 2026
There has been a rash of attacks against humans by promotional sample robots. Kusanagi's team rounds…
5. EPISODE 05: PHANTOM FUND
25 minAugust 4, 2026
Kusanagi and the team go to the Far North to surveil a combat cyborg named Koil Krasnov. To determin…
6. EPISODE 06: DUMB BARTER
25 minAugust 11, 2026
Kusanagi and her boyfriend are rushed to the hospital after being attacked without warning. They sus…
7. EPISODE 07: BYE BYE CLAY
25 minAugust 18, 2026
A robot flees from Megatech Body Co., Ltd. Section 9 takes it into custody, only to find that the Pu…
8. EPISODE 08: INTERMISSION + BRAIN DRAIN i
25 minAugust 25, 2026
Kusanagi regains consciousness after a brain-dive into the Puppet Master. Although they now know the…
9. EPISODE 09: BRAIN DRAIN ii
25 minSeptember 1, 2026
Footage of the incident is leaked to the media by some unknown party, and Kusanagi is accused of mur…
10. EPISODE 10: BRAIN DRAIN iii + GHOST COAST + EPILOGUE
25 minSeptember 8, 2026
Kusanagi loses her prosthetic body when it is gunned down, and she flees the scene with Batou as a d…
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