Ghost in the Shell: SAC 2045

Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045 (攻殻機動隊 SAC_2045 Kōkaku Kidōtai: SAC_2045) is a Japanese computer-animated anime webseries based on the 1980s Japanese manga series Ghost in the Shell by Masamune Shirow, set in the Stand Alone Complex sub-continuity.

The first season premiered exclusively on Netflix on April 23, 2020 in Japanese. The English dub was not made available until May 3 due to the COVID-19 pandemic causing production delays.

The second season premiered on May 23, 2022.

Cast[]

Image	Character	Seiyū	Dub Actor	Season	Ep(s).
Main Characters
	Motoko Kusanagi	Atsuko Tanaka	Mary Elizabeth McGlynn	1-2
	Batou	Akio Ōtsuka	Richard Epcar	1-2
	Togusa	Kōichi Yamadera	Crispin Freeman	1-2
	Daisuke Aramaki	Osamu Saka	William Frederick Knight	1-2
	Daisuke Aramaki	Hiroshi Naka	William Frederick Knight	2
	Ishikawa	Yutaka Nakano	Michael McCarty	1
	Ishikawa	Yutaka Nakano	David Lodge	2
	Saito	Tōru Ōkawa	Dave Wittenberg	1-2
	Pazu	Takashi Onozuka	Bob Buchholz	1-2
	Borma	Taro Yamaguchi	Dean Wein	1-2
	Tachikoma	Sakiko Tamagawa	Melissa Fahn	1-2
Secondary Characters
	Purin Esaki	Megumi Han	Cherami Leigh	1-2
	Purin Esaki	Megumi Han	Cherami Leigh	2	16
	Standard	Kenjirō Tsuda	Keith Silverstein	1-2
	John Smith	Kaiji Soze	Roger Craig Smith	1-2
	Chris Otomo Teit	Shigeo Kiyama	Armen Taylor	1-2
	Takashi Shimamura	Megumi Hayashibara	Max Mittelman	1-2
	Takashi Shimamura	Megumi Hayashibara	Jeannie Tirado (young)	1	12
	Suzuka Mizu	Umeka Shōji	Dawn M. Bennett	1-2
Recurring Characters
	Akafuku	Shō Okumura	Doug Erholtz	1-2
	Kanami	Sara Matsumoto	Kayli Mills	1-2
	Philip Kukushkin / Ginger	Tarusuke Shingaki	Euguen Leon	2	13
	Philip Kukushkin / Ginger	Tarusuke Shingaki	Euguen Leon	2

Episodic Characters[]

Image	Character	Seiyū	Dub Actor	Ep(s).
First Season
	Underwear Man	Yuji Murai	Derek Stephen Prince	1
	Nomads		¿?
	Nomads		¿?
	Brenda Rucker	Hitomi Shogawa	Philece Sampler	1, 3
	Quarterback	Taisuke Nakano	Ray Chase	1-2
	Spy	Eiichirō Tokumoto	David Vincent	1-2
	CEO of Obsidian	Takuya Nakashima	Steven Jay Blum	3
	Hemp Man	Takaaki Torashima	Steven Jay Blum
	Operator	Yūki Ishikari	Joe Zieja
	Nameless	Makoto Sahara	Matthew Mercer
	Valet		¿?
	Government Official	Tomohisa Asō	Steven Jay Blum	4
	Ada Byron	Tsugumi Iki	Laura Post	4-5
	Patrick Huge	Takaki Otomari	Steven Jay Blum	5
	US Embassy Staffer	Taisuke Nakano	Matthew Mercer	5
	Gary Hart	Yasuhiro Kikuchi	Armen Taylor	6
	Guards	Yuji Murai	Mark Whitten
	Guards		¿?
	Gary's Wife		Mona Marshall
	Kaede	Ikuko Tani	Mona Marshall	7
	Nashida	Mitsuaki Hoshino	Jake Eberle
	Iino	Ken Uo	John DeMita
	Nido	Minoru Inaba	Michael McCarty
	Takao Ochi	Eiichirō Tokumoto	Ben Lepley
	Cops	Makoto Kaneko	¿?
		Shōmaru Zōza	¿?
		Yūki Ishikari	¿?
	Fukufuku Bank AI	Akiha Matsui	Julia McIlvaine
	Agents of Section 3	Kengo Tsujii	Patrick Seitz	8
	Agents of Section 3	Kenji Takahashi	Mark Whitten	8
	Sanji Yaguchi	Yōhei Azakami	Robbie Daymond	9
	Akiko Otomo	Nanako Mori	Lauren Landa	9
	Shinya Uotori / King	Genki Muro	Robbie Daymond	10
	Shinya Uotori / King		Mick Wingert
	Koji Kogure	Itaru Yamamoto	Mick Wingert
	Tatsuya Hisata	Masaaki Yano	Kirk Thornton
	Kenji Isshiki	Tadaaki Doi	Bob Buchholz
	Shinya's Mother	Akiha Matsui	Sara Cravens
	Yoshie Shimamura	Hana Takeda	Karen Strassman	11
	Takanobu Yamada	Manabu Sakamaki	Ben Pronsky	11
	Yuzu Shimamura	Sumire Morohoshi	Ryan Bartley	11-12
	Paratrooper	Masaki Terasoma	Brook Chalmers	12
	Residential Cop	Shinya Takahashi	Brad Venable
	Yuzu's Parents	Makoto Sahara	¿?
	Yuzu's Parents	Wakana Kowaka	Sara Cravens
Second Season
	Nikolai Volkov	Makoto Kaneko	Denys Toliarenko	13
	1A84	Takanori Hoshino	Bob Carter	15
	Akina Murase	Mami Horikoshi	Dorah Fine	16
	Noda	Kazuhiro Nakaya	Greg Chun	17
	Shinjo	Chiharu Sawashiro	Khoi Dao	19-20
	Opeko	Riho Sugiyama	¿?	20, 22
	General Kusunoki	Jōji Nakata	John Bentley	23

Additional Voices[]

Zeke Alton (Season 2)
John Bentley (Season 2)
Steven Jay Blum (Season 1)
Bill Butts (Season 2)
Bob Carter (Season 2)
Brook Chalmers - Janitor (ep. 11)
Kevin M. Connolly (Season 2)
Sara Cravens (Season 1)
Doug Erholtz (Season 1)
Melissa Fahn - Student (ep. 11)
Dorah Fine (Season 2)
Erika Harlacher (Season 1)
William Frederick Knight (Season 1)
Lex Lang (Season 1)
Ben Lepley (Season 1)
Courtney Lin (Season 2)
David Lodge (Season 2)
Mona Marshall (Season 1)
Michael McCarty (Season 1)

Julia McIlvaine (Season 1)
Matthew Mercer (Season 1)
Kayli Mills (Season 2)
Laura Post (Season 1)
Derek Stephen Prince (Season 1)
Linsay Rousseau (Season 2)
Patrick Seitz (Season 1)
Keith Silverstein (Season 1)
Roger Craig Smith (Season 1)
Armen Taylor
Chris Tergliafera (Season 2)
Kirk Thornton (Season 1)
Abby Trott (Season 1)
Brad Venable (Season 1)
Dean Wein (Season 2)
Mark Whitten (Season 1)
Dave Wittenberg
Kimberly Woods (Season 2)
Jenny Yokobori (Season 2)
Joe Zieja (Season 1)

Credits[]

Notes[]

Mary Elizabeth McGlynn's first anime dub she voice directed since Glitter Force.
Dave Wittenberg's first anime project at Bang Zoom! Entertainment since Resident Evil: Damnation in 2012 and his first dubbing role since Ace Combat: Infinity in 2014.
Mick Wingert's first and so-far only anime dub contribution he's done at Bang Zoom!.
Euguen Leon's first anime dub he's done at Bang Zoom!.
Michael McCarty's first new anime dub for nearly 20 years since Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex.
- By the second season, however, David Lodge replaced Ishikawa in the second season.
Dean Wein's first new role for more than 10 years since Eureka Seven vol.2: The New Vision. and only anime dub contribution he's done at Bang Zoom!.

Transmission via Streaming[]

Company	Date	Category	Format	Content	Classification	Country
	May 3, 2020	Anime / Netflix Original Series	Digital	24 eps	16+	United States

External Links[]

Ghost in the Shell: SAC 2045 (Anime) at Anime News Network's Encyclopedia
Ghost in the Shell: SAC 2045 at the Internet Movie Database