7.9/107 votes#1 - 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
7.8/108 votes#2 - 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
7.7/107 votes#3 - 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
7.6/107 votes#4 - 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
7.6/1037 votes#5 - The Ninth Jedi
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 9/22/2021
The daughter of a lightsaber-smith is pursued by dark forces while on a dangerous mission.
Director: Kenji Kamiyama
Writer: Kenji Kamiyama
7.5/108 votes#6 - 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
7.1/108 votes#7 - 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
7.1/107 votes#8 - 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
7.1/1014 votes#9 - SA: Public Security Section 9; SECTION-9
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 10/1/2002
Public Security Section 9 is an elite special ops unit that works directly under the control of the Prime Minister. They've been called in to rescue a high-ranking government official from a hostage situation. But something doesn't seem right to Major Motoko Kusanagi.
Director: Toshiyuki Kono
Writer: Kenji Kamiyama
7.0/107 votes#10 - 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
6.9/1011 votes#11 - SA: Automated Capitalism; ¥€$
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 4/1/2003
The Chinese government contacts Section 9 to let them know that an assassin may have entered Japan to kill a famous reclusive millionaire. Despite their considerable efforts, however, Section 9 is unable to contact him to warn him, so they go directly to his residence.
Director: Hideyo Yamamoto
Writer: Kenji Kamiyama
6.8/109 votes#12 - DU: Rhapsody - The Melody of a Bygone Nation; Pu239/94
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 4/3/2004
Plans have been leaked to terrorists that the plutonium recovered from the underground nuclear facility in Tokyo is to be moved. Section 9 is called in to ensure the plutonium reaches its destination, and Gohda is there again.
Director: Itsuro Kawasaki
Writer: Kenji Kamiyama
6.8/108 votes#13 - 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
6.8/109 votes#14 - PATRICK HUGE - Gift from God
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 4/23/2020
Aramaki sets off after Kusanagi in a race against time. GHOST begin their assignment, but Huge's cybernetic security forces them to alter their plans.
Director: Kenji Kamiyama
Writer: Kenji Kamiyama
6.7/109 votes#15 - 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
6.6/108 votes#16 - PIE IN THE SKY - First Bank Robbery
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 4/23/2020
Back in Japan after six years, Batou decides to take a break while waiting for his delayed team. Then some amateur bank robbers interrupt his fun.
Director: Kenji Kamiyama
Writer: Kenji Kamiyama
6.6/108 votes#17 - NOSTALGIA - All Will Become N
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 4/23/2020
Togusa has a strange episode while analyzing the data confiscated from Shimamura. When he wakes up, he and Batou head out to investigate.
Director: Kenji Kamiyama
Writer: Kenji Kamiyama
6.6/1014 votes#18 - DI: Reactivation; REEMBODY
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 1/1/2004
A group of terrorists identifying themselves as the "Individual Eleven" barricade themselves within the Chinese Embassy. Section 9 is called in to eliminate the terrorists without any civilian casualties, all before the scheduled police raid.
Director: Masaki Tachibana
Writer: Kenji Kamiyama
6.6/109 votes#19 - DI: Latent Heat Source; EXCAVATION
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 3/6/2004
A seemingly run-of-the mill hit-and-run turns into anything but when Togusa investigates. While in Tokyo, he discovers a secret from the past the GSDF is trying to keep hidden deep underground.
Director: Toshiyuki Kono
Writer: Kenji Kamiyama
6.6/108 votes#20 - 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
6.6/108 votes#21 - DI: Afternoon of the Machines; PAT.
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 8/7/2004
During a scheduled maintenance, the Tachikomas begin to chat away about the Individual Eleven. While talking in their new "forum", Batou and Togusa appear and take one of the Tachikomas - who just happens to be Batou's pet - with them to Spring-8 to look at the scientific evidence gathered on the Individual Eleven.
Director: Kenichi Takeshita
Writer: Kenji Kamiyama
6.6/107 votes#22 - 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
6.6/109 votes#23 - ASSEMBLE - What Came About as a Result of Togusa’s Death
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 4/23/2020
The Major and Smith clash over Section 9's new mission hunting post-humans. She orders Togusa to investigate a suspected spy near the Prime Minister.
Director: Kenji Kamiyama
Writer: Kenji Kamiyama
6.5/108 votes#24 - 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
6.4/109 votes#25 - AT YOUR OWN RISK - Divided by a Wall
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 4/23/2020
Armed by a generous patron, the Nomads attack Section 9 with AI drones. Togusa accepts a new mission from Japan's peace-seeking Prime Minister.
Director: Kenji Kamiyama
Writer: Kenji Kamiyama
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"IN: Return to Patriotism; ENDLESS∞GIG" is the best rated episode written by Kenji Kamiyama. It scored 7.9/10 based on 7 votes. It was directed by Masayuki Yoshihara. It aired on 1/8/2005 and is rated 0.1 points higher than their second-best episode, "IN: Kusanagi's Labyrinth; affection".