Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex

Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
Original Title	攻殻機動隊 STAND ALONE COMPLEX
Original Language	Japanese
Dubbing Studio	Magnitude 8 Post
Voice Director 1	Kevin Seymour
Voice Director 2	Mary Elizabeth McGlynn
Translation & Adaptation	David Fleming Marc Handler Mary Claypool
ADR Production	Animaze
Recorded	2004-2005
Dub Country 1	United States
Dub Country 2	Hong Kong
Original Country	Japan
Episodes	26
Year	2002-2003
Chronology
Successor	Ghost in the Shell: S.A.C. 2nd GIG

Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex (攻殻機動隊 STAND ALONE COMPLEX) is an anime television series produced by Production I.G and based on Masamune Shirow's manga Ghost in the Shell. It was written and directed by Kenji Kamiyama, with original character design by Hajime Shimomura and soundtrack by Yoko Kanno. The series originally aired in Japan between October 1, 2002 and October 1, 2003, consisting of 26 episodes. The series was released in North America on DVD in a joint distribution effort between Bandai Entertainment and Manga Entertainment between July 27, 2004 and July 26, 2005.

Synopsis In the future year of 2030, life between the digital and physical world has been blurred, and many people have become cyborgs with prosthetic bodies. Primarily set in the fictional Japanese city of New Port, the series follows the members of Section 9, a special-operations task-force made up of former military officers and police detectives. The series presents individual cases that Section 9 investigates, along with an ongoing, more serious investigation into the complex Laughing Man incidents.

Cast

Image	Character	Seiyū	Dub Actor
	Motoko Kusanagi	Atsuko Tanaka	Mary Elizabeth McGlynn
	Batou	Akio Ōtsuka	Richard Epcar
	Daisuke Aramaki	Osamu Saka	William Frederick Knight
	Togusa	Kōichi Yamadera	Crispin Freeman
	Ishikawa	Yutaka Nakano	Michael McCarty
	Saito	Tōru Ōkawa	Dave Wittenberg
	Pazu	Takashi Onozuka	Bob Buchholz
	Boma	Tarō Yamaguchi	Dean Wein
	The Laughing Man	Kōichi Yamadera	Steve Blum
	Ernest Serano	Toshihiko Nakajima	John Rubinstein
	Kurutan	Yūko Sumimoto	Amanda Winn Lee
	Operator	Eri Ohno	Debra Jean Rogers
	Togusa's Wife	Sakiko Tamagawa	Michelle Ruff
	Sugi	Nobuyuki Hiyama	Tony Oliver
	Tachikoma	Sakiko Tamagawa	Melissa Fahn
			Rebecca Forstadt
			Sandy Fox
			Sherry Lynn
			Julie Maddalena
			Lara Jill Miller
			Peggy O'Neal
			Colleen O'Shaughnessey
			Julie Ann Taylor

Episodic Characters

Image	Character	Seiyū	Dub Actor	Episode
	Foreign Minister	Ryūichi Horibe	Barry Stigler	1
	Old Man	Kōichi Kitamura	Simon Prescott
	Dread	Eiji Sekiguchi	Bob Papenbrook
	Umezawa	Kousei Hirota	Kirk Thornton
	Takekawa	Katsumi Chō	Michael McConnohie	1, 4, 10
	Matsuoka	Yūji Aoki	Paul Carr	1, 4
			Doug Stone	10
	Kubota	Taimei Suzuki	Michael Forest	1, 18
	Toshio Ōba	Shinichirō Miki	Richard Miro	2
	Litton	Hiroshi Itō	Douglas Rye
	Churnow	Sukekiyo Kameyama	Steve Kramer
	Marshall MacLachlan	Yōji Matsuda	Anthony Pulcini	3
	Abe	Mitsuaki Hoshino	Murphy Dunne
	Dr. Miyashiro		Matthew Kermit Miller
	Yamaguchi	Hiroyuki Kinoshita	Kirk Baily	4
	Yamaguchi's Wife	Michiko Neya	Lia Sargent
	Kunihiko Nibu	Yuzuru Fujimoto	Mike Reynolds
	Daido	Ryō Kamon	Christopher Carroll	4 - 6
	Fukami	Hiroshi Yanaka	Steve Bulen	4, 26
			Jamieson Price	6
	Ran	Ayako Itō	Julie Ann Taylor	5
	Ei Nanao	Ken Narita	Daran Norris	5 - 6
	Minister of Home Affairs	Yōsuke Akimoto	Tom Wyner	5, 19, 24
	Kanekichi Gondo	Shirō Saitō	Brad Sergi	7
	Moe	Miyu Tsuzurahara	Sherry Lynn	8
	J.D.	Tetsuya Iwanaga	Johnny Yong Bosch	9
	Baby Ruth	Kōichi Yamadera	Steve Blum
	Tanaka Watanabe	Mitsuru Ogata	Joey Camen	10
	Suzuki Sato	Atsushi Gotō	Kirk Thornton
	Marco Amoretti	Daisuke Gōri	Bob Papenbrook
	Marta	Ako Mayama	Barbara Goodson	11
	Kuroha	Minami Takayama	Mona Marshall
	Wataru Kannazuki	Ryūji Saikachi	William H. Bassett	12
	Miki	Akiko Yajima	Michelle Ruff
	Sakakibara	Mitsuaki Hoshino	Dino Andrade	13
	Eka Tokura	Michiko Yamamoto	Barbara Goodson
	Eka's Daughter	Yumi Kakazu	Kate Higgins
	Fem	Yuka Imai	Patricia Ja Lee	14
	Mr. Wang	Ikkyuu Juku	Loy Edge	14, 18
	Pavlo Zaitsev	Naomi Kusumi	John Rafter Lee	16
	Zaitsev's Wife	Yayoi Kazuki	Cindy Robinson
	Spy Leader	Fumihiko Tachiki	John Snyder
	Miyahara	Shihori Niwa	Julie Ann Taylor
	Seymour	Gara Takashima	Mari Devon	17
	Police Chief	Yūji Mikimoto	Jamieson Price
	Saori Tsujisaki	Akiko Hiramatsu	Kari Wahlgren	18
	Yuu Tsujisaki	Makoto Ishii	Steve Staley
	Hideo Tsujisaki	Katsuya Kobayashi	Michael Gregory
	Reiko Kanzaki	Arisa Ogasawara	Bridget Hoffman	19
	Cruzkowa Bosyeltnov	Mitsuki Yayoi	Carol Stanzione
	Paku	Yoshinori Muto	Peter Lurie
	Shūzō Kanzaki	Takehiro Koyama	Kevin Brief	19, 22
	Nogi	Yōsuke Naka	Barry Stigler	20
	Phoebe	Kaho Kōda	Wendee Lee
	Gayle Yasuoka	Mitsutaka Tachikawa	Kim Strauss	20 - 21
	Hisashi Imakurusu	Tōru Shinagawa	Paul St. Peter
	Niimi	Toshihiko Miki	Peter Spellos	20 - 22
	Sano	Ai Orikasa	Dorothy Elias-Fahn	22

Additional Voices

Dino Andrade Stephen Apostolina Kirk Baily Kevin Brief Richard Cansino Tina Carlisi Paul Carr Steve Cassling Ewan Chung Fleet Cooper Mari Devon Peter Doyle Murphy Dunne Loy Edge David Ellenstein Doug Erholtz Jonathan Fahn Melissa Fahn Michael Forest Rebecca Forstadt Barbara Goodson Kim Mai Guest Carolyn Hennesy Kate Higgins Taliesin Jaffe Neil Kaplan R. Martin Klein William Frederick Knight Steve Kramer Lex Lang Amanda Winn Lee John Rafter Lee

Jay Lerner Dave Mallow Michael McConnohie Mary Elizabeth McGlynn Steve McGowan Paul Mercier Liam O'Brien Peggy O'Neal Tony Oliver Bob Papenbrook Jamieson Price Anthony Pulcini Mike Reynolds Debra Jean Rogers Joe Romersa Douglas Rye Lia Sargent Screaming Mad George Joshua Seth Kevin Seymour Christopher Corey Smith Michael Sorich Paul St. Peter Skip Stellrecht Doug Stone Karen Strassman Kim Strauss Kirk Thornton Kari Wahlgren Rafer Weigel Ezra Weisz Daniel Woren

Alternate Dub

An alternate dub was created for airing on Animax's Channel in Southeast Asia.

Image	Character	Seiyū	Dub Actor
	Motoko Kusanagi	Atsuko Tanaka	Andrea Kwan
	Batou	Akio Ōtsuka	Russell Wait
	Daisuke Aramaki	Osamu Saka	Rik Thomas
	Togusa	Kōichi Yamadera	Darren Pleavin
	Tachikoma	Sakiko Tamagawa	Sarah Hauser

Notes

• Mary Elizabeth McGlynn replaces Mimi Woods as Motoko, as Woods had retired from voice acting in 2002.
• Crispin Freeman replaces David Richard Thompson as Togusa.
• Fukami is voiced by Jamieson Price in Episode 6, though is voiced by Steve Bulen in his other appearances. This is most likely due to Fukami's identity being unrevealed in the episode, and thus the Casting Director thought it to be a separate character.
• The Tachikoma are all voiced by a single voice actress in the original Japanese version, while the dub utilizes separate female voice actresses portraying them (for example, Batou's favorite is voiced by Sandy Fox, while the one who reads books is Lara Jill Miller).

Transmission

Date(s)	Channel	Country
2004-2005	Cartoon Network (Adult Swim)	United States
2005-2006	YTV	Canada
2007-2008	Anime Central	United Kingdom
2008-2009	Sci-Fi	Australia
2013-2017	Cartoon Network (Toonami)	United States

Video Releases

Distributor	Year	Format	Contents	Region	Country
Bandai Entertainment	2004-2005		The Complete Series	1 NTSC	United States
			7 Volumes
Sony Music Entertainment	2004-2005		The Complete Series		Canada
			6 Volumes
Bandai Entertainment	2006		The Complete Series		United States
			7 Discs
	2008		The Complete Series
			7 Discs
Manga Entertainment	2017		The Complete Series	A DVB-T
			4 Discs
	2018		The Complete Series	B DVB-T	United Kingdom
			11 Discs

See Also

• Ghost in the Shell
• Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence
• Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - Solid State Society
• Ghost in the Shell: S.A.C. 2nd GIG
• Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - The Laughing Man
• Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex 2nd GIG - Individual Eleven
• Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - Tachikomatic Days
• Ghost in the Shell: Arise
• Ghost in the Shell: The New Movie

External Links

• Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex (anime) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
• Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex at the Internet Movie Database