Episode guide
THE GHOST IN THE SHELL: Season 1
10 episodes · premiered Jul 7, 2026
In the year 2029, Niihama City has become a technologically advanced metropolis. Due to great improvements in cybernetics, its citizens are able to replace their limbs with robotic parts. The world is now more interconnected than ever before, and the city's Public Security Section 9 is responsible for combating corruption, terrorism, and other dangerous threats following this shift toward globalisation.
- Episode 1: EPISODE 01: PROLOGUE + SUPER SPARTAN i Jul 7, 2026 · 25m During a raid on a meeting with a foreign representative that he suspects involves corruption and criminal activity, Public Security's Daisuke Aramaki encounters a mysterious cyborg…
- Episode 2: EPISODE 02: SUPER SPARTAN ii + JUNK JUNGLE i Jul 14, 2026 · 25m Kusanagi and her team begin operating as the Shell Squad after being scouted by Aramaki. At some point, the cyberbrain of the Foreign Minister's interpreter was infected by a virus…
- Episode 3: EPISODE 03: JUNK JUNGLE ii + MEGATECH MACHINE i + ii Jul 21, 2026 · 25m Kusanagi and Togusa take their suspect into custody after a furious chase in their Fuchikomas. Elsewhere, Aramaki and Batou are staking out Col. Malles when he is paid a visit by someone…
- Episode 4: EPISODE 04: ROBOT RONDO Jul 28, 2026 · 25m There has been a rash of attacks against humans by promotional sample robots. Kusanagi's team rounds up robots of that same model line, and they learn that they all share a common trait…
- Episode 5: EPISODE 05: PHANTOM FUND Aug 4, 2026 · 25m Kusanagi and the team go to the Far North to surveil a combat cyborg named Koil Krasnov. To determine what Koil is after and uncover corruption behind the expansion of Sagawa Electronics'…
- Episode 6: EPISODE 06: DUMB BARTER Aug 11, 2026 · 25m Kusanagi and her boyfriend are rushed to the hospital after being attacked without warning. They suspect Toru Soma, a terrorist that Kusanagi has a history with. Kusanagi and Togusa leave…
- Episode 7: EPISODE 07: BYE BYE CLAY Aug 18, 2026 · 25m A robot flees from Megatech Body Co., Ltd. Section 9 takes it into custody, only to find that the Puppet Master is inside it. The Puppet Master announces to Aramaki's team that it is "a…
- Episode 8: EPISODE 08: INTERMISSION + BRAIN DRAIN i Aug 25, 2026 · 25m Kusanagi regains consciousness after a brain-dive into the Puppet Master. Although they now know the truth behind what happened, Kusanagi keeps sensing the Puppet Master's presence from…
- Episode 9: EPISODE 09: BRAIN DRAIN ii Sep 1, 2026 · 25m Footage of the incident is leaked to the media by some unknown party, and Kusanagi is accused of murdering the terrorist in cold blood. Kusanagi, suspecting that the Ghorantl intelligence…
- Episode 10: EPISODE 10: BRAIN DRAIN iii + GHOST COAST + EPILOGUE Sep 8, 2026 · 25m Kusanagi loses her prosthetic body when it is gunned down, and she flees the scene with Batou as a disembodied brain. They go to Batou's safehouse to get her a new body, but she is…