History Anime / GhostInTheShellSAC2045

The series launched on April 23rd, 2020, exclusively on Creator/{{Netflix}}. The show will have two seasons with the second season being set to be released on April 2022.

A CompilationMovie of the first season will also release on November 26, 2021.

* MsFanservice: The opening sequence have The Major naked (see below).

* MsFanservice: The Major is naked on the opening sequence.

* MsFanservice: The Major's new design give her a body less voluptuos than usual. Even so, she is naked on the opening sequence.

The series launched on April 23rd, 2020, exclusively on Creator/{{Netflix}}. The show will have two seasons.

* InternetCounterattack: Takashi developed a program called Think Pol (he named it after the Thought Police in ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour'') that targets people said to have evaded justice in some respect and asks users to vote on their guilt. All those that vote guilty have their votes converted into a [=DDoS=] attack that overwhelms the cyberbrain firewall of the target and causes them to see vision of eyeless copies of the voters assaulting them. Enough guilty votes can outright kill a person.

* {{Retcon}}: In regards to certain aspects of the worldbuilding. ''Stand Alone Complex'' head writer Dai Sato thoroughly researched the original source manga and it's shared connection to ''Manga/{{Appleseed}}'' to firmly establish a DividedStatesOfAmerica where the Cold War came to a peaceful resolution with 1/3rd of the United States splitting off to become the Russo-American Alliance (including California where ''2045'' takes place,) and then the US itself would lose the Second American Civil War, where another 1/3rd would split off into the American Empire that served as the GreaterScopeVillain of ''SAC''. This largely left the United States themselves as a nation that no longer played a major aspect on the world stage, but Prime Minister Kayabuki's declaration in the last episode of ''2nd Gig'' confirmed that both were independent nations from the American Empire. Because Dai Sato was not brought back to pen the encompassing script for ''2045'' (he was brought in for episode 9), these details have been mostly thrown out, and it's all but implied that the American Empire has always been the United States with all 50 of its states. The dialogue is written so that "AE" and "US" are used interchangeably.

A CompilationMovie of the first season will also release on November 26, 2021. Meanwhile, the second season will be released on November 12, 2021.

The series launched on April 23rd, 2020, exclusively on Creator/{{Netflix}}. The show will have two seasons. A CompilationMovie of the first season will also release on November 26, 2021.

* DivergentCharacterEvolution: The Tachikomas that the team took with them when they left Section 9 are given different colors, differentiated by the paint schemes they had when they were sent away at the end of the first season. One of them is the default blue color, one is silver, one is construction yellow with black markings, and one of them is Uchikoma green. They also seem to have different performance abilities, such as features for added mobility or a heavier arsenal, and their pods are smaller since they're expected to be carrying cyborgs rather than humans. Once Section 9 is reformed, several more Tachikomas that still have their original configuration show up.

* JurisdictionFriction: Public Security Section 3 once again tries to get in the way of Section 9 potentially being raised again. [[spoiler:This was after the Major informed Togusa to keep an eye out on who's trying to put bugs on the PM's residence.]]

* {{Retcon}}: In regards to certain aspects of the worldbuilding. ''Stand Alone Complex'' head writer Dai Sato thoroughly researched the original source manga and it's shared connection to ''Manga/{{Appleseed}}'' to firmly establish a DividedStatesOfAmerica where the Cold War came to a peaceful resolution with 1/3rd of the United States splitting off to become the Russo-American Alliance (including California where ''2045'' takes place,) and then the US itself would lose the Second American Civil War, where another 1/3rd would split off into the American Empire that served as the GreaterScopeVillain of ''SAC''. This largely left the United States themselves as a nation that no longer played a major aspect on the world stage, but Prime Minister Kayabuki's declaration in the last episode of ''2nd Gig'' confirmed that both were independent nations from the American Empire. Because Dai Sato was not brought back to pen the script for ''2045'', these details have been mostly thrown out, and it's all but implied that the American Empire has always been the United States with all 50 of its states. The dialogue is written so that "AE" and "US" are used interchangeably.

The series launched on April 23rd, 2020, exclusively on Creator/{{Netflix}}. The show will have two seasons.

* CouldSayItBut: Purin wants to help out with the MurderOfTheWeek only for the Major to point out she's not in Section 9, so the Major can't give her any orders. Purin is disappointed until the rest of the team point out the Major is actually saying she's free to do whatever she wants, including carry out her own investigation.

In the year 2045, after an economic disaster known as the Simultaneous Global Default which destroyed the value of of all forms of paper and electronic currency, the "Big 4" nations of the world are engaged in a state of never-ending "Sustainable War" to keep the economy going.

* MurderDotCom: In "NET PEOPLE: Reasons Leading to Flameout", a computer program called Think Pol locks onto people who have generated the most hate response on the internet, then pols a random number of people as to whether they should be forgiven for their crimes. If the answer is "no", the response of those who voted no is converted into a simultaneous hack that can overwhelm any cyberbrain. A businessman who direct-hacked a female employee against her will gets [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil three million negative responses]], while the Prime Minister being accused of taking bribes gets a [[ApatheticCitizens mere two thousand]] (which Section 9 is easily able to fight off).

* HeKnowsTooMuch: This is John Smith's intent the moment he hires GHOST for the NSA mission. Only a call to the U.S. President by Aramaki saves them from being scrubbed from existence along with the rest of the mission.

* {{Squee}}: The blue Tachikoma is absolutely overjoyed when he finds Togusa.

* DirtyCop: [[spoiler:Togusa sees Takeshi's old memories in Kyoto in "NOSTALGIA" where local police officers execute a man in a ditch.]]

* ArtisticLicenseShips: As part of the effort to convince John Smith to not kill the Major and her team, Aramaki borrows the US President's personal fighter jet, which has the callsign of Marine One. The naming convention of a presidential vehicle being named X One only applies when the President is personally on board - since Aramaki is the only person in the plane, that convention would not apply.

** The first season has the concern raised by Section 9 that they'll be treated as government-type contractors to the American Empire. A similar story is found in ''Film/GhostInTheShell2017'', where Section 9 is still a government agency, but the Hanka Electronics corporation has enough influence to hire them out as private contractors.

** Sanji Yaguchi uses a cybernetic arm to go around punching the heads off people, which literally explode from the force of the blows. He was able to do that even with his organic arm, but [[RealityEnsues only once]].