Ghost in the Shell Anime

Ghost in the Shell anime review.

Major Motoko Kusanagi is an agent on the trail of a notorious and extremely dangerous hacker known as the Puppet Master. Major Kusanagi’s body, like that of the vast majority of the people in this futuristic setting, has built in cybernetic enhancements to augment her physical and mental abilities. This enhanced outer body is called one’s “shell”, while their inner spirit and personality is their “ghost”. Many people, such as Major Kusanagi, have had their bodies so enhanced and changed by these cybernetic components that their ghost is the only thing that separates the machine from the human. The rise of these new electronics paved the way for a new breed of hacker. Since most people had been surgically enhanced with cybernetic body and brain augmentations, this enabled especially skilled hackers to actually hack in to other people’s bodies. Even ghosts are no longer safe from hackers, and ghost-hacked victims are reduced to nothing more that a soulless shell used for the hacker’s bidding. One individual hacker has risen above the rest as the most mysterious and dangerous. This incredible supercriminal is the Puppet Master. Major Kusanagi is assigned to track down the Puppet Master, and in the process winds up uncovering a governmental conspiracy while at the same time dealing with her own inner demons involving conflicting feelings about her true self.