Beware of spoilers below if you haven’t seen the series yet!

Understanding the story

The interceptors and the decoy

It all starts with a detective in the Special Investigations Unit (SIU) squad of the Nihama police discovering that the detectives have had interceptors secretly put in them. Interceptors are machines put in the body that record everything a person sees and can transmit this information.
Superintendant Daido the chief of police did this with the help of a select few like the chief of Nihama police Nibu to secretly monitor the force. Specifically, it was to monitor the SIU and their findings concerning the ongoing laughing man investigation.
The detective gets killed when he discovers this (remember the flashing in his eyes that led to his car crashing) but with some luck he manages to give some photos as evidence to Togusa that used to work with him.
With these photos and the help of an SIU detective that talks to Togusa about interceptors, Togusa figures it out and section9 starts looking into the whole affair.

Photo evidence. Continue reading “Explanation of Ghost in the shell: Stand alone complex (gits:SAC)”

Beware of spoilers below if you haven’t yet seen it.

The deception

To understand the story we must first understand the two main groups acting in it, section 6 and section 9.
Section 6 is commanded by Nakamura and works under the foreign ministry of affairs.

Section 9 is commanded by Aramaki. Our main protagonist Motoko Kusanagi also known as the major belongs to it. Continue reading “Explanation of the Ghost in the shell movie (1995)”