8.7/10276 votesLoading...#1 - C: Smoke of Gunpowder, Hail of Bullets; BARRAGE
Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 10/1/2003
Despite their best efforts, the remaining members of Section 9 are rounded up one by one by the government forces; only Batou and Motoko are left.
Director: Kazunobu Fuseki
Writer: Taiki Sakurai
8.5/10232 votesLoading...#2 - IN: Return to Patriotism; ENDLESS∞GIG
Season 2 Episode 26 - Aired 1/8/2005
The tables seem to be turning in favor of Section 9, but the nuclear missile is still being prepared for launch.
Director: Masayuki Yoshihara
Writer: Kenji Kamiyama
8.4/10271 votesLoading...#3 - C: Left-Behind Trace; ERASER
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 8/1/2003
After being shot, Togusa's in the hospital and about to go into surgery, but he is desperate to pass on what he's learned to the rest of Section 9. As Togusa fights for his life, the rest of Section 9 takes over the case, but others within the government have learned of the investigation and are not happy.
Director: Kenichi Takeshita
Writer: Dai Sato
8.3/10239 votesLoading...#4 - C: Sunset in the Lonely City; ANNIHILATION
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 9/1/2003
The government orders Section 9 disbanded. Aramaki is taken away, and Togusa is arrested. Motoko assembles the remaining team members at HQ for one final mission. They prepare for a full-scale assault while Elite troopers and Armed Suits descend on Section 9 HQ.
Director: Yasuhiro Geshi
Writer: Taiki Sakurai
8.3/10217 votesLoading...#5 - IN: Kusanagi's Labyrinth; affection
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 6/5/2004
While field testing new recruits, the Major finds herself hacked, and an old woman tells her a story from her past.
Director: Jun Matsumoto
Writer: Kenji Kamiyama, Yutaka Oomatsu
8.2/10319 votesLoading...#6 - C: Public Security Section 9, Once Again; STAND ALONE COMPLEX
Season 1 Episode 26 - Aired 10/1/2003
Togusa has been released from jail and he's given papers showing the dissolution of Section 9. Out of work and depressed, he tries to find information on the others, but there is nothing available. Thinking that he has nothing left to lose, he goes to assassinate the man responsible when he is stopped by–Batou!
Director: Toshiyuki Kono
Writer: Dai Sato
8.2/10189 votesLoading...#7 - IN: Aerial Bombing of Dejima; NUCLEAR POWER
Season 2 Episode 24 - Aired 12/4/2004
The Prime Minister is taken into custody, and the military begins its strike on Dejima. The Major and part of Section 9 head to Dejima to try to hand over the nuclear device to the military there, in order to defuse the situation, while Ishikawa heads to SPring-8 to deliver the rest of the plutonium.
Director: Masaki Tachibana
Writer: Kenji Kamiyama
8.2/10183 votesLoading...#8 - IN: To the Other Side of Paradise; THIS SIDE OF JUSTICE
Season 2 Episode 25 - Aired 1/8/2005
Kuze manages to take down the jamming plane, but becomes trapped in rubble with the Major. The Tachikomas begin discussing what to do about the nuclear submarine they have spotted, and Batou manages to convince the special forces that have been sent to kill them to listen to him.
Director: Jun Matsumoto
Writer: Kenji Kamiyama
8.1/10197 votesLoading...#9 - DI: Beware the Left Eye; POKER FACE
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 7/3/2004
Saito recounts his first run-in with the Major, and how he became part of the group that would eventually become Section 9.
Director: Masayuki Yoshihara
Writer: Kenji Kamiyama, Taiki Sakurai
8.1/10176 votesLoading...#10 - IN: Escape in Defeat; EMBARRASSMENT
Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 11/6/2004
Much to the chagrin of Batou, Motoko, and the rest of the team, Kuze and the refugees manage to escape in one of the camouflaged boats. They are further hampered when an explosion causes heavy losses, leaving them unable to follow the fleeing boat.
Director: Masayuki Yoshihara
Writer: Kenji Kamiyama
8.0/10282 votesLoading...#11 - SA: A Perfect Day for a Jungle Cruise; JUNGLE CRUISE
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 2/1/2003
Marco Amoretti, a former Navy Petty Officer from the American Empire, has come to Japan and is committing heinous acts of brutality against women. Section 9 is assisted in this matter by the American Empire's CIA. While this doesn't sit well with Public Security's members, Batou finds the whole case particularly hard on his psyche as the nightmares from his past rear their ugly head.
Director: Jun Matsumoto
Writer: Dai Sato
8.0/10248 votesLoading...#12 - C: Vanished Medication; RE-VIEW
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 7/1/2003
Togusa is on the trail of the Laughing Man again, and this time, his investigations lead him towards both a leading micromachine corporation and an NGO called the Sunflower Society.
Director: Toshiyuki Kono
Writer: Dai Sato
8.0/10238 votesLoading...#13 - C: The Other Side of Good and Evil; EQUINOX
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 9/1/2003
The Laughing Man returns! And, just as he did six years ago, he kidnaps the president of Serano Genomics without being detected. Section 9 arrives at Serano's house too late, and sets out to find him.
Director: Jun Matsumoto
Writer: Junichi Fujisaku
8.0/10187 votesLoading...#14 - DI: Angel's Poem; TRANS PARENT
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 9/4/2004
The Major and Batou are flown to Berlin in an effort to track down a terrorist called "Angel's Feathers". While there, Batou attracts the attention of a young girl in a wheelchair.
Director: Toshiyuki Kono
Writer: Kenji Kamiyama
8.0/10187 votesLoading...#15 - IN: The Day the Bridge Falls; MARTIAL LAW
Season 2 Episode 23 - Aired 12/4/2004
The government declares martial Law in Dejima, believing that the refugees have a nuclear device and plan to use it to gain independence. When the refugees' connection to Kuze is cut off, one shot begins a bloody war.
Director: Toshiyuki Kono
Writer: Kenji Kamiyama
7.9/10281 votesLoading...#16 - SA: Tachikoma Runaway, The Movie Director's Dream; ESCAPE FROM
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 3/1/2003
One of the Tachikomas decides to take a little stroll through the city. It meets a little girl, Miki, who is searching for her lost dog and it agrees to help her. On their journey, the Tachikoma finds a strange box.
Director: Masayuki Yoshihara
Writer: Taiki Sakurai
7.9/10237 votesLoading...#17 - C: Corporate Graft; SCANDAL
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 8/1/2003
Motoko is about to be fitted for her new prosthetic body. But when the doctor arrives and begins the procedure, it's clear that she has no intent of letting Motoko out alive. Meanwhile, Aramaki receives a disturbing message that his brother has been kidnapped.
Director: Masaki Tachibana
Writer: Junichi Fujisaku
7.9/10182 votesLoading...#18 - IN: To Those Without Even a Name...; SELECON
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 6/5/2004
The Tachikomas, Ishikawa, and Borma locate a suspicious file believed to be the Individual Eleven virus, The Major, Batou, Saito go after Kuze, and the Individual Eleven prepare to put their plan into action.
Director: Masaki Tachibana
Writer: Kenji Kamiyama, Yutaka Oomatsu
7.8/10286 votesLoading...#19 - C: The Copycat will Dance; MEME
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 12/1/2002
As Togusa and Bato track down Nanao, Motoko and Paz are attempting to protect the Superintendent-General at a press conference about the police misuse of interceptors. When the virus does hit, Motoko and Paz have to act fast to save the intended victim. Meanwhile, the road to Nanao=A hits a dead end.
Director: Masaki Tachibana
Writer: Junichi Fujisaku
7.8/10272 votesLoading...#20 - C: Inside the Forest of the Sub-Imagoes; PORTRAITZ
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 3/1/2003
Togusa goes undercover at a hospital for patients with Closed Cyberbrain Syndrome, a hospital completely cut off from communication with the outside world.
Director: Toshiyuki Kono
Writer: Taiki Sakurai
7.8/10179 votesLoading...#21 - IN: Confusion at the North End; FABRICATE FOG
Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 10/2/2004
Section 9 heads to Etorofu in search of Kuze. During their investigations, the Major finds an interesting floppy disk on the body of a dead addict.
Director: Kenichi Takeshita
Writer: Kenji Kamiyama
7.7/10321 votesLoading...#22 - C: The Visual Device will Laugh; INTERCEPTER
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 11/1/2002
While working late, Togusa gets a call from one of his colleagues from his days on the police force. It seems that he's uncovered something strange happening with the investigators in the Laughing Man Unit, a special task force formed to catch the infamous cyber criminal known only as the Laughing Man. But before he can meet with Togusa, he's killed in a car accident.
Director: Hideyo Yamamoto
Writer: Shoutarou Suga
7.7/10198 votesLoading...#23 - DU: Natural Enemy; NATURAL ENEMY
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 2/7/2004
A routine live-fire exercise goes wrong, leaving a fleet of AI controlled helicopters flying above a refugee area, firing on anyone who comes near. And a mysterious and creepy man known as Gohda arrives to tell Section 9 how to handle it.
Director: Masayuki Yoshihara
Writer: Kenji Kamiyama, Junichi Fujisaku
7.7/10178 votesLoading...#24 - IN: Chain of Symmetry; CHAIN REACTION
Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 10/2/2004
Despite close scrutiny by the authorities, the Dejima refugees declare their independence. Kuze is suspected to be the mastermind behind this new resistance and Section 9 is sent to detain him.
Director: Kazunobu Fuseki
Writer: Kenji Kamiyama
7.7/10173 votesLoading...#25 - DU: Abandoned City; REVERSAL PROCESS
Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 11/6/2004
The city of Fukuoka is evacuated when a live nuclear bomb is found. With the Dejima Refugees targeted as the prime suspects, the government sends the Self-Defense Forces into the city.
Director: Itsuro Kawasaki
Writer: Kenji Kamiyama, Dai Sato
The Best Episodes of Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
Every episode of Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex!
In the future when technological enhancements and robotics are a way of life, Major Motoko Kusanagi and Section 9 take care of the jobs that...
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Best Episodes Summary
"C: Smoke of Gunpowder, Hail of Bullets; BARRAGE" is the best rated episode of "Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex". It scored 8.7/10 based on 276 votes. Directed by Kazunobu Fuseki and written by Taiki Sakurai, it aired on 10/1/2003. This episode scored 0.2 points higher than the second highest rated, "IN: Return to Patriotism; ENDLESS∞GIG".