Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Maaya Sakamoto | ... | Motoko Kusanagi (voice) | |
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Ken'ichirô Matsuda | ... | Batou (voice) |
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Ikkyu Juku | ... | Daisuke Aramaki (voice) |
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Kazuya Nakai | ... | Borma (voice) |
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Kenji Nojima | ... | Tsumugi (voice) |
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Mayumi Asano | ... | Kurutsu (voice) |
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Megumi Han | ... | Chris (voice) |
Miyuki Sawashiro | ... | Logicoma (voice) | |
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Mugihito | ... | Robert Lee (voice) |
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Naoto | ... | Osamu Fujimoto (voice) |
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Shunsuke Sakuya | ... | Ishikawa (voice) |
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Takurou Nakakuni | ... | Saito (voice) |
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Tarusuke Shingaki | ... | Togusa (voice) |
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Yôji Ueda | ... | Paz (voice) |
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Atsushi Miyauchi | ... | (voice) |
In the year 2027, a year following the end of the non-nuclear World War IV, a bomb has gone off in Newport City, killing a major arms dealer who may have ties with the mysterious 501 Organization. Public Security official Daisuke Aramaki hires full-body cyber prosthesis user and hacker extraordinaire, Motoko Kusanagi, to investigate.
So yeah the story does fit perfectly & neatly as a prequel etc, but the storytelling is mostly very dull, the pacing of it feels like sleepwalking, it lacks strong emotions, no character development. If you watched the other films then you get the point - timewise it's an early phase for the characters so you could say it makes sense to have them intentionally underdeveloped. But still, I expected more depth from this series and this was very flat. The 2nd movie was way better.