But while the show disregards these cosmetic hallmarks of the genre, it adheres closer to the essence of cyberpunk than many of its contemporaries. There aren’t even a noticeable number of strangely colored mohawks present throughout the series 26 episodes. Every external scene isn’t backlit by neon signs, and every third person walking the streets isn’t sporting body modifications that are instantly apparent. Much of the genre’s visual hallmarks are absent here. If one were to only look at stills or even brief clips of Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, it would be understandable if they were to question just how “cyberpunk” the series actually is. One such team is Public Security Section 9, under the command of Chief Daisuke Aramaki and field commander Major Motoko Kusanagi. With full-body prosthetics giving people augmented physical capabilities and cyberspace that is so integrated that people’s minds can be directly hacked, governments are forging new teams to handle the ever-changing face of crime and cyber terrorism. Out of the ashes of war come technologically advanced societies that have begun to blur the line between humanity and machines, to the point where some individuals have completely shed their human bodies, transferring their ghosts into prosthetic ones, making where the cyber and the spirit end and begin harder than ever to define. It’s the year 2029, and humanity is still recovering from the last world war. So sit back and let me go into depth about why, even after all these years, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex is worth checking out. Its great storytelling and deep characters are set against a cyberpunk background unlike any other. Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex is a cyberpunk anime produced by Production I.G. that originally aired in 2002-2003 that continues to stand out, both in the world of anime, as well as the cyberpunk genre.
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