Kenji Kamiyama	...	(Director)
Mary Claypool, Junichi Fujisaku	...	(Writer)
Atsuko Tanaka	...	Major Motoko Kusanagi
Osamu Saka	...	Chief Daisuke Aramaki
Akio Ôtsuka	...	Batou
Kôichi Yamadera	...	Togusa
Yutaka Nakano	...	Ishikawa
Tôru Ôkawa	...	Saito
Takashi Onozuka	...	Paz (2 episodes, 2003)
Taro Yamaguchi	...	Borma
Mary Elizabeth McGlynn	...	Major Motoko / ... (2 episodes, 2003)
William Knight	...	Chief Daisuke Aramaki
Richard Epcar	...	Batou
Crispin Freeman	...	Togusa
Michael McCarty	...	Ishikawa
Dave Wittenberg	...	Saito
Bob Buchholz	...	Paz (2 episodes, 2003)
Dean Elliott	...	Borma
Ethan Murray	...	Doctor / ... (2 episodes, 2003)
Hiroshi Yanaka	...	Fukami
Dino Andrade	...	Children (51 episodes, 2002-2005)
Kevin Brief	...	Kanzaki (51 episodes, 2002-2005)
Loy Edge	...	SWAT (51 episodes, 2002-2005)
Barbara Goodson	...	Maruta (51 episodes, 2002-2005)
Michael Gregory	...	Reiko (51 episodes, 2002-2005)
Kate Higgins	...	Children (51 episodes, 2002-2005)
Paddy Lee	...	Fom (51 episodes, 2002-2005)
Michael McConnohie	...	Commander (51 episodes, 2002-2005)
Liam O'Brien	...	Fake Laughing Man (51 episodes, 2002-2005)
Peggy O'Neal	...	Girl (51 episodes, 2002-2005)
Douglas Rye	...	Litton (51 episodes, 2002-2005)
Barry Stigler	...	Foreign Minister (51 episodes, 2002-2005)
Doug Stone	...	Matsuoka (51 episodes, 2002-2005)
Julie Ann Taylor	...	Miyahara (51 episodes, 2002-2005)
Kari Wahlgren	...	Sales Person (51 episodes, 2002-2005)
Tom Wyner	...	Interior Minister (51 episodes, 2002-2005)
Bob Papenbrook	...	Doorman (50 episodes, 2002-2005)
Mari Devon	...	Seymour (27 episodes, 2003-2005)
Ryûji Saikachi	...
Natsuo Tokuhiro	...
Shiro Saito	...
Daisuke Egawa	...
Hikari Yono	...
John Snyder	...	Kazundo Gouda (23 episodes, 2004-2005)

Comments: A New Beginning, A New Threat...

Summary: Stand Alone Complex (2nd Gig) continues to grow more pointedly political as it progresses. The agents of Public Security Section 9 discover that the cases they're investigating are linked to the troubled relations between Japan and Imperial America: The latter is attempting to reassert its global military dominance while grappling with its economic weakness. But the prime minister and her cabinet face those problems. Batou, the Major, and the rest of the Section have to deal with unrest among the refugees, suicide bombers, and the Individualists. The members of the Individual Eleven--except for Kuze, their leader--commit mass suicide in a bloody spectacle that recalls the theatrical death of the great Japanese writer Yukio Mishima in 1970. The Tachikoma robots speculate that as they are abandoning collective consciousness and developing individuality, a dependence on the Net is leading humans in the opposite direction. That trend makes people more vulnerable to the micro-machines and cyber-viruses of the Individualist plot--unless Section 9 can thwart it in time. (Rated 13 and older: violence, violence against women, brief nudity, alcohol, drug and tobacco use) --Charles Solomon