Ghost in the Shell: SAC 2nd GIG

Anime television series
title	Ghost in the Shell: SAC 2nd GIG
Original title	攻殻機動隊 SAC 2nd GIG
transcription	Kōkaku Kidōtai SAC 2nd GIG
Country of production	Japan
original language	Japanese
year	2004
Studio	Production IG
length	25 minutes
Episodes	26th
genre	Science fiction
Theme music	"Rise" ( Origa )
Director	Kenji Kamiyama
idea	Kenji Kamiyama, Mamoru Oshii , Masamune Shirow
music	Yōko Kanno
First broadcast	January 1, 2004 - January 8, 2005 on Animax
German-language first broadcast	August 6, 2006 - February 19, 2007 on MTV
synchronization

Ghost in the Shell: SAC 2nd GIG ( Japanese 攻殻機動隊 SAC 2nd GIG , Kōkaku Kidōtai SAC 2nd GIG ) is the second season of Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex , an anime television series based on the Ghost in the Shell universe based by Masamune Shirow . In 2006 the series continued with a television movie called Ghost in the Shell: SAC Solid State Society .

content

→ Main article : List of episodes from Ghost in the Shell: SAC 2nd GIG

World and classification to the first series

Stand Alone Complex 2nd GIG takes place in 2032, in a world that is strongly shaped by the events of the third and fourth world wars and is characterized by strong social differences, Section 9 has come together again and with a successful mission against a group of hostage-takers who were occupying the Chinese embassy, ​​brought back into conversation. The new Prime Minister is under strong pressure and does not allow Section 9 to fully use her accustomed freedoms, which does not meet with approval from the members.

action

Since the Prime Minister has received a death threat, Section 9 is supposed to ensure her protection. The lady barely escapes death in an attack by the Independent Elf . Shortly afterwards, another enemy comes into play with the devious Kazundo Gouda . This is superordinate to the section and abuses the members for his corrupt plans to start a war between the refugees and the incumbent government.

Kuze , the leader of the revolutionary refugees, wants to use the plutonium he has bought to force the Japanese government to comply with his demands. While the department is still trying to dissuade Kuze from his plans, the government has already declared martial law over Dejima and is besieging the city. Shortly afterwards, individual incidents occurred in the heated atmosphere, triggering the start of a major military offensive.

It turns out, however, that a nuclear weapon could never have been detonated and that the actual bomb should have been fired from an American submarine. The target of the bomb is the city of Dejima , with which Gouda would have got rid of the rebels at the same time as the government would have united behind them, had it not been for the Tachikoma , AIs that have achieved their own consciousness, had selflessly sacrificed themselves by using the satellite that their AI was on to intercept the nuclear weapon.

main characters

Section 9

• Chief Daisuke Aramaki  - Head of Section 9
• Motoko Kusanagi  - Major and Deputy Head, Full Cyborg
• Batou  - former ranger, full cyborg
• Togusa  - Batou's partner, former police investigator
• Ishikawa  - specialist in online research
• Saito  - experienced sniper
• Pazu  - rumored to be a former member of the yakuza
• Borma  - explosives expert
• Tachikoma  - nine spider-like sentient battle tanks with a shared memory

Well-known recurring characters

• Kubota  - Army intelligence officer, former colleague of Aramaki
• Interior Minister  - Aramaki's superior, also holds his old post in the new cabinet
• Forensic team of Section 9  - often referred to as “red coats” because of their typical clothing
• Female general-purpose androids of Section 9  - make tea, operate computers, take calls, or fly tilt rotor planes

New recurring characters

• Prime Minister Yoko Kayabuki  - first woman to serve as Prime Minister of Japan
• Chief Secretary of the Takakura Cabinet  - the power broker behind the new coalition government
• Kazundo Gouda  - Head of the Cabinet's Intelligence Service
• Hideo Kuze  - member of the terrorist group "The Independent Elf"
• Proto  - New member of Section 9, Tachikoma maintenance technician, Bioroid prototype
• Azuma  - New member of Section 9, Operations Agent
• Yano  - New member of Section 9, novice and operational agent
• Fumiya Dobashi  - journalist, expert in the field of "Independent Elf"
• Yousuke Aramaki  - Aramaki's long-missing brother ( mentioned in Stand Alone Complex ).

Production and publication

The first season, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex , was originally conceived as a self-contained series with 26 episodes. However, shortly after the first broadcast on Japanese television, it was decided to produce a second season. The basic concept for their plot was designed by Mamoru Oshii , the director of the two films Ghost in the Shell and Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence . The aim was to portray the outbreak of war in the series and to create a strong opponent for Section 9. Political events of the present also flowed into the design of the plot.

As with the first season, Ghost in the Shell: SAC 2nd GIG was also produced under the direction of Kenji Kamiyama in Studio 9 of the Japanese anime production studio Production IG . Masamune Shirow, the creator of the ghost-in-the-shell universe, was again in an advisory capacity for production. The design of the characters introduced in the second season comes from Takayuki Goto and Tetsuya Nishio .

The series was first broadcast on Japanese television between January 1, 2004 and January 8, 2005 on the pay-per-view channel Animax . As in the first season, the story of "Individual Eleven" was also released as a film on DVD .

In German-speaking countries, Ghost in the Shell: SAC 2nd GIG by Panini Video was published on a total of eight DVDs between August 2006 and May 2007. The first broadcast on German television took place almost parallel between August 6, 2006 and February 19, 2007 by the television broadcaster MTV .

After the license was given to Studio Nipponart, the studio released a new edition of the series on July 31, 2015 on DVD and Blu-Ray.

music

The music for the series was composed by Yōko Kanno , who had already taken on this task in the first season. The opening credits "Rise" will be sung again by the Russian singer Origa , the credits " Living Inside the Shell" by Steve Conte and Shanti Snyder .

Voice actor

The German version of the series was again created by the Berlin dubbing studio Hermes Synchron GmbH . The roles of the main characters were cast with the same speakers who were used in the first season.

role	Japanese speaker ( seiyū )	German speaker
Members of Section 9
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
More characters
Hideo Kuze	Rikiya Koyama	Lutz Schnell
Kazundo Gouda	Ken Nishida	Udo Schenk
Prime Minister Kayabuki	Yoshiko Sakakibara	Claudia Urbschat-Mingues

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b c} Into the Network: The Ghost in the Shell Universe. Production IG, accessed January 6, 2010 . 
2. ↑ Interview: Kenji Kamiyama. Production IG, accessed January 6, 2010 . 
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Ghost in the Shell: SAC 2nd GIG - Staff & Cast. Production IG, accessed December 27, 2009 . 
4. ↑ Broadcast dates for the Japanese premiere. Anime News Network, accessed January 6, 2010 . 
5. ↑ Panini Video publications. Anime on DVD, accessed January 6, 2010 . 
6. ↑ Broadcast dates of the German first broadcast. fernsehserien.de, accessed on January 6, 2010 . 
7. ↑ Information on Ghost in the Shell: SAC 2nd GIG. Anime News Network, accessed December 27, 2009 . 

Web links

• Ghost in the Shell: SAC 2nd GIG in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Official website (English / Japanese)