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"Understanding Standalone Complex *spoilers*" , posted Fri 19 Dec 23:47

I saw the last episode awhile ago and didn't really catch the story since everything went by so fast.... anyway the subject just recently came up on another forum and it got me thinking.

I'm still trying to figure out the end of Ghost In the Shell: Standalone Complex... I don't quite understand why at one point Major Kusanagi was posing as the Laughing Man. From what I gather the Laughing Man was a program that became smart enough to take human form... which was labeled as a "standalone complex". The last couple episodes are kind of frantic and confusing... the remaining Tachikoma get wasted trying to save Batou, Section 6 is completely captured... but that was their plan and everyone except Togusa knew about it. Kusanagi gets her head blown off... but it was a decoy android. Hmmmm makes me worry about when it's going to air on Adult Swim... the show will have to be editted quite a bit.

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