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. Theatrical screening of the English dub of the first two episodes of the 2026 anime, plus bonus content.

Maaya Sakamoto
as Motoko Kusanagi (voice)

Hiroki Yasumoto
as Batou (voice)

Kazuhiro Yamaji
as Daisuke Aramaki (voice)

Yuichi Nakamura
as Togusa (voice)

Tomoko Kaneda
as Fuchikoma (voice)

Kousuke Goto
as Ishikawa (voice)
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To be fair, this isn't intended to be a stand-alone cinema experience. It is the first two episodes in a spinoff series based around the film from 1995 and the manga that inspired that. As far as it goes, the animations themselves do what you'd expect from the opening of a series: they introduce us ...