Stylishly drawn, with a powerful and often haunting soundtrack, Gits isn't all shoot 'em up stuff, though. Backup comes from the tachikomas, spider-like robot tanks programmed to be chatty and inquisitive: they are like eight-year-old kids, but with deadly firepower. Her squad includes man-mountain Batou, who supplies the muscle, and the relatively unaltered human Togasu.
She may dress in a manner more befitting a sex worker than a government employee (one of the show's few concessions to typical anime) but she's a thoughtful – and deadly – heroine. The ghost in the title refers to the digitised brain – the "soul" of a computer, robot or enhanced human. On the trail of an elite hacker known as The Laughing Man, who is terrifying the big corporations, they are led by Major Motoko Kusanagi, who suffered a degenerative illness as a child that resulted in her entire body being replaced by cybernetics. But not if Section 9 and their kick-ass style of violence have anything to do with it. Information and computer power are the big assets now – ones that can be traded, smuggled, corrupted and exploited.
In this action-packed yet thought-provoking anime vision of things to come, based on the manga classic by Masamune Shirow (also known for his erotic art), humans have had their bodies and brains enhanced with all sorts of clever electronics: almost everyone has a computer port in the back of their neck (one of the many things the Matrix movies "borrowed" from Gits) meaning that people, and even entire governments, can now be hacked into. G host in the Shell (or Gits, to use its charming acronym) follows the adventures of Public Security Section 9, a special ops squad fighting terrorism in a fictional and futuristic Japanese city called New Port.
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