Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex

Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
Original title	攻殻機動隊 STAND ALONE COMPLEX
transcription	Kōkaku Kidōtai: Stand Alone Complex
genre	Science fiction
Anime television series
Country of production	Japan
original language	Japanese
year	2002
Studio	Production IG
length	25 minutes
Episodes	26th
Theme music	"Inner Universe" ( Origa )
Director	Kenji Kamiyama
idea	Kenji Kamiyama, Masamune Shirow
music	Yōko Kanno
First broadcast	October 1, 2002 - March 25, 2003 on Animax
German-language first broadcast	May 7th - July 30th, 2006 on MTV
synchronization
Light novel
country	Japan
author	Jun'ichi Fujisaku
illustrator	Kazuto Nakazawa
publishing company	Tokuma Shoten ( Tokuma Dual Bunko )
First publication	January 21, 2004 - February 4, 2005
expenditure	3

Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex ( Japanese 攻殻機動隊 STAND ALONE COMPLEX , Kōkaku Kidōtai STAND ALONE COMPLEX ) is a 26-part anime television series from 2002 based on Masamune Shirow's Ghost in the Shell universe. It was also edited as a film and released on DVD as an OVA entitled "The Laughing Man". In 2004 it continued with a second season entitled Ghost in the Shell: SAC 2nd GIG and in 2006 with a television film called Ghost in the Shell: SAC Solid State Society .

content

→ Main article : List of episodes from Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex

The laughing man logo

overview

The action takes place mainly in the fictional Japanese city of New Port City (Niihama-shi) in the year 2030, where the members of the special unit Section 9 are entrusted with solving various cases of crime, espionage and terrorism. This also includes the so-called case of the laughing man , which caused a stir several years ago, but was never cleared up by the responsible police department. In the course of their own investigations, the employees of Section 9 discover that the case of the Laughing Man is much more complex than it initially appears and that the triggering kidnapping is developing into a case of white-collar crime of unimagined proportions, among the members of the police force members of the ruling party are also involved.

Connection to manga and movies

In terms of time, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex takes place between the two films Ghost in the Shell and Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence and thus also after the manga series . However, the plot of the television series is completely independent and is not related to the other productions. Nevertheless, the individual episodes contain numerous allusions to films and manga or quote motifs from them.

Production and publication

The series was produced on a budget of 800 million yen (about 6 million euros ) by the Japanese studio Production IG under the direction of Kenji Kamiyama . The overall framework, which extends over the entire series, comes from the pen of Masamune Shirow, who also worked as a consultant for the production. The design of the characters was created by Makoto Shimomura . The work took place in a dedicated department of Production IG called “Studio 9”. The name was chosen based on the special unit called "Section 9", which the series is about.

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

In German-speaking countries, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex was published by Panini Video on a total of eight DVDs between December 2005 and June 2006 . The first and last DVD contain four episodes each, the remaining DVDs three episodes each. The first broadcast on German television took place between May 7, 2006 and July 30, 2006 by the television station MTV . After the license was given to Studio Nipponart, the studio re-released the series on June 26, 2015 on DVD and Blu-Ray.

music

The music for the series was composed by Yōko Kanno and produced by Victor Entertainment, a subsidiary of JVC . The opening credits "Inner Universe" are sung by the Russian singer Origa , the credits are " Lithium Flower" by Scott Matthew .

Voice actor

The Berlin dubbing studio Hermes Synchron GmbH is responsible for the German version of the series . The speaking roles of the characters Motoko Kusanagi, Batou, Togusa and Ishikawa were cast with the voice actors of the television series Stargate SG-1 .

role	Japanese speaker ( seiyū )	German speaker
Batou	Akio Ōtsuka	Tilo Schmitz
Boma	Taro Yamaguchi	Andreas Hosang
Daisuke Aramaki	Osamu Saka	Hasso Zorn
Ishikawa	Yutaka Nakano	Erich Rauker
Motoko Kusanagi	Atsuko Tanaka	Christin Marquitan
Paz	Takashi Onozuka	Thomas Schmuckert
Saito	Tōru Ōkawa	Michael Bauer
Togusa	Kōichi Yamadera	Klaus-Peter Grap

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b c d} Into the Network: The Ghost in the Shell Universe. Production IG, accessed December 23, 2009 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - Staff & Cast. Production IG, accessed December 23, 2009 . 
3. ^ Solid State Society - Behind the Scenes Part 1: Tomohisa Nishimura (producer). Production IG, accessed December 29, 2009 . 
4. ↑ Broadcast dates for the Japanese premiere. Anime News Network, accessed December 27, 2009 . 
5. ↑ Panini Video publications. Anime on DVD, accessed January 6, 2010 . 
6. ↑ Broadcast dates of the German first broadcast. fernsehserien.de, accessed December 27, 2009 . 
7. ↑ ^{a b} Information on Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex . Anime News Network, accessed December 22, 2009 . 

Web links

• Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Official Japanese website
• Official English website