Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex: The Laughing Man

攻殻機動隊 STAND ALONE COMPLEX -THE LAUGHING MAN-

Section 9, commanded by Daisuke Aramaki and led on the ground by Major Motoko Kusanagi, hunts an A-level hacker and would-be political assassin known only as the Laughing Man, whose identity keeps slipping through every trap the team sets. Saitou and Ishikawa work the surveillance side as the case widens into the corporate cover-up the Laughing Man's crimes keep exposing. This manga retells the Laughing Man arc of the Stand Alone Complex TV series.