List of Ghost in the Shell: SAC 2045 episodes

Ghost in the Shell: SAC 2045
Native name
Japanese	攻殻機動隊 SAC_2045
No. of episodes	24
Release
Original network	Netflix
Original release	April 23, 2020 (2020-04-23) – May 23, 2022 (2022-05-23)
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Ghost in the Shell: SAC 2045 is a Japanese ONA anime series based on the manga of the same name written and illustrated by Masamune Shirow. On April 7, 2017, Kodansha and Production I.G announced that Kenji Kamiyama and Shinji Aramaki would be co-directing a new Kōkaku Kidōtai anime production. On December 7, 2018, it was reported by Netflix that they had acquired the worldwide streaming rights to the series and that it would premiere on April 23, 2020. The series is in 3DCG and Sola Digital Arts collaborated with Production I.G on the project. Ilya Kuvshinov handled character designs. An English dub was not available until May 3 due to the COVID-19 pandemic causing production delays for its recording. It was stated that the series will have two seasons of 12 episodes each, with the second set released on May 23, 2022.

Series overview

Season		Episodes		Originally released
				First released	Last released
	1	12		April 23, 2020 (2020-04-23)
	2	12		May 23, 2022 (2022-05-23)

Episode list

Season 1 (2020)

No.	Title	Storyboarded by	Written by	Original release date

Season 2 (2022)

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Storyboarded by	Written by	Original release date
13	1	"DOMINO EFFECT / Silly Kukushkin"	Tensai Okamura	Ryō Higaki	May 23, 2022 (2022-05-23)
Section 9 hears of a Russian cyberbrain engineer named Kukushkin claiming to have knowledge about the Posthumans' code while seeking asylum in India. Kukushkin is poisoned with polonium by a Russian assassin before the group can save him, but the autopsy shows the corpse was a robotic body double. The Major tasks Batou and Purin with finding the real Kukushkin. As the two search his room, Purin deduces that Kukushkin transferred his consciousness into an assistant bot, but is unaware of a Posthuman woman named Suzuka Mizukane looking over her shoulder. The Major hunts down Suzuka before she can leave with Kukushkin but loses her in the crowd. As the Major, Purin, Batou, and Paz leave with Kukushkin, they are attacked by the Russian assassin, and after defeating him, notice Suzuka speeding towards them armed with heavy weaponry.
14	2	"CLOSE CALL / I've Awoken"	Tensai Okamura	Ryō Higaki	May 23, 2022 (2022-05-23)
Section 9 fights off both Suzuka and a couple of American special combat cyborgs on the bridge as they attempt to capture Kukushkin for their own reasons. Purin uses a trio of Tachikomas to chase down Suzuka but is forced to stop her pursuit when Suzuka wirelessly hijacks a passenger jet and aims at right at Purin, forcing her to hack into the jet herself and steer it away. As Section 9 carries Kukushkin away, Aramaki meets with Tate to discuss a traitor in his office who leaked information about Kukushkin to John Smith.
15	3	"FACTOR / 1A84"	Sōichi Masui	Ryō Higaki	May 23, 2022 (2022-05-23)
The Major tasks Purin with talking to the AI in Kukushkin's cyberbrain. Purin connects with it and discovers the AI named 1A84, developed by the NSA to find a way to make all of humanity prosper while giving the American Empire an extra advantage. 1A84 tried to satisfy their command, and decided that war would be the quickest way to make humanity prosper in the long run. However, its actions ended up creating the Simultaneous Global Default that plunged the world's economy into chaos and made most of humanity worse off. The NSA soon threatened to put 1A84 into stasis when it wouldn't give them their desired answer, so 1A84 implanted itself within the brains of various humans, both to escape the NSA and to try to understand human emotion while completing its overall objective. 1A84 then tries to install itself into Purin's cyberbrain, but soon remarks that it was already "used" by another. Meanwhile, Saito and the Major finish tracking the mole in PM Tate's office, and discover it is John Smith himself. As the Major and Batou arrest John Smith and escort him out of the PM's office, the Major is alerted to Purin sneaking out of Section 9 and stealing a car, heading for the PM's office herself. As Purin approaches the PM with a pistol, she shoots one of Tate's SP's before he can assassinate him, but is gunned down by the rest of his escort in response.
16	4	"MEMORIES / Born in Heaven"	Tensai Okamura	Harumi Doki	May 23, 2022 (2022-05-23)
After John Smith is locked in a cryogenic chamber, Tate and the Japanese government meet to decide the fate of Section and Purin. Meanwhile, the Tachikomas decide to do their own investigation into Purin's past, in hopes of saving Section from disbanding again. After traveling across Niihama, the Tachikomas find an external storage cluster. As they read the stored memories, they find that Purin, as child, was involved with one of Section 9's cases from fifteen years ago when her entire family was killed by Marco Amoretti. She was rescued by Batou and put into witness protection shortly thereafter. Unbeknownst to the Tachikomas, Sections 9 have been tracking their progress resulting in Batou becoming distraught over not recognizing Purin sooner. Eventually, Section 9 and Purin are cleared of suspicion, with the blame for the assassination attempt placed on the SP that Purin shot. The Tachikomas decide to use Purin's stored memories to create a new prosthetic version of her, while one of them inserts the 1A84 code into her program.
17	5	"ROOM 101 / Man's Search for Meaning"	Sōichi Masui	Kurasumi Sunyama Kenji Kamiyama	May 23, 2022 (2022-05-23)
Togusa is reliving his memories of working as an undercover police operative. After resisting torture and chatting with another man named Noda, the gangsters demand Togusa shoot Noda to prove his loyalty, but Togusa refused and escaped with Noda into a snowy wilderness, only for Noda to sell him out. As his enemies surround him, Togusa questions his own memories, when suddenly he wakes up on a train with Noda. The train arrives at "N." As everyone steps onto the platform, Noda reveals that Togusa's flashback was actually his own, and he carried the guilt of selling out his partner until "Big Brother" used "Miniluv" to purify his heart. Togusa tries to find Takashi in the crowd by the platform but loses him. Unable to reconnect with his team wirelessly, Togusa stumbles upon an old, abandoned tobacco shop with a pay phone, and calls Batou via landline.
18	6	"N-POWER / How to Build an Independent Nation"	Masayuki Miyaji	Ryō Higaki Kenji Kamiyama	May 23, 2022 (2022-05-23)
A 3D-printed copy of Suzuka infiltrates the USS Arkansas and massacres the sailors on board. Back in Niihama, Section 9 traces Togusa's call to a phone near "Shin-Tokyo Station." Batou, Ishikawa, and Saito head out to retrieve him, while the Major warns that about three million people have gathered in the same area for some unknown purpose. Meanwhile, Togusa wanders into a supposedly unfinished construction site, only to find a bustling street market with a wide variety of people gathered around. Togusa's ignorance of the situation causes the crowd to label him "N-Po," and a schoolgirl named Kanami escapes with him, warning that he'll be sent to "Room 101" if he's captured. Later, Tate tells the Major and Aramaki about the Arkansas hijacking, and the message that the Posthumans now have a nuclear submarine to wage war as the Nation of N. Togusa continues trying to evade his pursuers while following a surprisingly agile Kanami, when he's saved at the last minute by Batou. The next morning, American special forces begin airdropping into the area as Saito discovers Takashi and Suzuka standing near their landing zone.
19	7	"TRUTH POINT OF CONTACT / Bridge of Promise"	Sōichi Masui	Dai Satō Kenji Kamiyama	May 23, 2022 (2022-05-23)
20	8	"DEMI DEUS / Those Who Evolve Toward Divinity"	Tensai Okamura	Daisuke Ōhigashi Kenji Kamiyama	May 23, 2022 (2022-05-23)
21	9	"LAST RESORT / A Long Slumber"	Tensai Okamura	Harumi Doku Kenji Kamiyama	May 23, 2022 (2022-05-23)
22	10	"OPERATION STANDOFF / The Battle Begins"	Sōichi Masui	Kurasumi Sunayama Kenji Kamiyama	May 23, 2022 (2022-05-23)
23	11	"DOOMSDAY / The Moon over the Ruined Castle"	Tensai Okamura	Ryō Higaki Kenji Kamiyama	May 23, 2022 (2022-05-23)
24	12	"DOUBLE THINK / Event Boundary"	Masayuki Miyaji	Harumi Doki Kenji Kamiyama	May 23, 2022 (2022-05-23)

References

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