The year is 2029.
In a near-future Japan, corporate networks span the globe, and information flows instantly through electronic and optical systems. Yet despite this technological advancement, the world has not become so interconnected that nations and ethnic identities have disappeared.
Motoko Kusanagi, a full-body cyborg, commands an elite team that includes operatives such as Batou. While leading missions, she dreams of establishing a special unit dedicated to preventing crimes before they occur.
At the same time, Daisuke Aramaki of the Ministry of the Interior is planning a similar organization and recruits Kusanagi and her team. Thus, they begin operating as Public Security Section 9—an offensive intelligence and counterterrorism unit known as Ghost in the Shell.
As they confront cybercrimes and international conspiracies tangled within the vast electronic networks of the age, an investigation leads them to the existence of a mysterious hacker known only as Puppet Master.
What fate awaits Kusanagi? And what is the Puppet Master's true objective?
A new era of cyberpunk action begins—!!