Koukaku Kidoutai: Stand Alone Complex - The Laughing Man


Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - The Laughing Man

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Alternative Titles

Japanese: 攻殻機動隊 Stand Alone Complex - The Laughing Man
English: Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - The Laughing Man
German: Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex 2nd GIG
Spanish: Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - The Laughing Man
French: Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - The Laughing Man
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Information

Type: OVA
Episodes: 1
Status: Finished Airing
Aired: Sep 23, 2005
Studios: Production I.G
Source: Manga
Genres: ActionAction, MysteryMystery, Sci-FiSci-Fi, SuspenseSuspense
Themes: Adult CastAdult Cast, DetectiveDetective, MechaMecha, PsychologicalPsychological
Demographic: SeinenSeinen
Duration: 2 hr. 40 min.
Rating: R - 17+ (violence & profanity)

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Score: 8.061 (scored by 1619116,191 users)
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Ranked: #5742
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Popularity: #3617
Members: 41,731
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Synopsis

In 2024, the terrorist incident known as "The Laughing Man Incident" occurred in which Ernest Serano, president of the groundbreaking micromachine company, Serano Genomics, was kidnapped and ransomed. One day, the case having remained unsolved for six years, Detective Yamaguchi, who has been investigating "The Laughing Man Incident," sends word that he wants to meet with Togusa from Public Safety Section 9. However, soon after sending this message, Yamaguchi, crucial to the success of the case, dies in an accident. Many days pass and in the midst of a police interview relay concerning suspicions behind interceptors, a forewarning is received from "The Laughing Man" of his next crime. The incorporeal hacker begins to move once again.

(Source: ANN)

Characters & Voice Actors

The Laughing Man

Supporting

Saito

Supporting

Ishikawa

Supporting
Nakano, Yutaka
Japanese

Aoi

Supporting

Pazu

Supporting
Onozuka, Takashi
Japanese

Staff

Kunisaki, Hisanori
Producer
Kamiyama, Kenji
Director, Script, Storyboard, Series Production Director
Wakabayashi, Kazuhiro
Sound Director
Yamamoto, Hideyo
Episode Director


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Ending Theme

"Inner Universe" by Origa




Reviews

Oct 28, 2007
Story:
Koukaku Kidoutai STAND ALONE COMPLEX: The Laughing Man OVA is taken directly from Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone Complex ~1st Gig~ story arc of the same name. It is mostly a retelling of the TV series (Think Cowboy Beebop TV episode 1 Vs. Cowboy Beebop: The Movie). Even though the animation was completed prior (in the first season of the TV series), it is not necessarily a cut and paste job. There is some additional material (not included in the TV series) and dialogue. It's not a lot, or easily noticable - if you haven't seen the TV series recently, you ...
Dec 16, 2010
Stand Alone Complex was based on Yoshiki Sakurai’s 2001 Media Ecology dissertation “The Whereabouts of the Other in the Future of Human-Robot Interaction” (「他我を宿す条件 ~人間・ロボット間コミュニケーションの行方~」).

It is about how the phenomenon of THE LAUGHING MAN — unique minds becoming individual components of a complex system acting as one collective consciousness (memes), and the phenomenon of THE TACHIKOMA — perfect machine copies of each other evolving individual differences, are the two inevitable consequences of data synchronization.

The interaction between these antithetical phenomena is explored on a literary level in Stand Alone Complex, and political in 2nd GiG.

Stand Alone Complex is the most cerebral anything anywhere, and it has ...
Oct 7, 2007
Mixed Feelings
it used clips from the show but all of the voice acting was redone, most of the time with different actors, for example in the show the laughing man sounds like a kid but in this he sounds like an adult with a deep voice, and alot of the words were changed completely form what they said in the show and you don't learn anything new from this it's just a 3-Hour recap of the first season of the show.

As for disk 2 THERES NOTHING ON IT! the best they hav is a 2min episode of tachicomic days and an awesome trailer to one of ...

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