In this near future scenario, people are increasingly becoming organic/machine hybrids, and the technology itself is achieving a remarkable level of artificial intelligence, to the point where Shirow and Oshii question the nature of a soul, here considered the very essence of a living intelligence, its "ghost".
At the end of the 1995 movie, heroine Major Kusanagi had effectively been destroyed. The action here picks up three years later, in 2032, and focuses on Kusanagi's partner Batou (voiced by Ôtsuka), another officer with "Section 9", a secretive Japanese counter-terrorism department.
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