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Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - The Laughing Man: Directed by Kazuyoshi Fuseki, Yasuhiro Geshi, Kenji Kamiyama, Toshiyuki Kôno, Jun Matsumoto, Ryûtarô Nakamura, Masaki Tachibana, Ken'ichi Takeshita, Hideyo Yamamoto. With Alison Matthews, Russell Roberts, David Kaye, Trevor Devall.
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- 2007-10-02
- Animation, Action, Drama
- 160
- Background
- Logo Design
- History
- Salinger References
"In the Ghost in the Shell series, Laughing Man proves to be the ultimate hacker, capable of such feats as hijacking multiple video streams simultaneously, taking over someone’s cybernetic brain entirely, or even editing his own images out of someone’s cybernetic eyes, and all in real time." The character's name is taken from the title of J. D. Sal...
The Laughing Man logo was designed by TERRATAG. Based in the UK, Terratag was asked to read a short story by J.D. Salinger, The Laughing Man, and to base the logo on that. The story centers around a boys' after school organization called the Comanche Club. The Comanche Club's Chief often brings the boys to Central Park for baseball games, and these...
The hacker's first appearance in the GITS: SAC storyline is six years before the anime starts, when he assaulted the head of Serano Genomics in public on February 3, 2024, hiding his face from eyewitnesses and cameras with his Laughing Man logo. The Laughing Man is such an expert that he can "steal eyes" of entire crowds, in real time—hacking their...
Other references to Salinger's book The Catcher in the Rye, include the red hunting cap that the real Laughing Man wears backwards and the baseball mitt with poetry written on it the laughing man carries while under the guise of a patient at a vocational aid center. Another is his reference to "phonies," a term used frequently by Rye's Holden Caulf...
Looking for information on the anime Koukaku Kidoutai: Stand Alone Complex - The Laughing Man (Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - The Laughing Man)? Find out more with MyAnimeList, the world's most active online anime and manga community and database.
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Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex is a Japanese anime television series produced by Production I.G and based on Masamune Shirow's manga Ghost in the Shell. It was written and directed by Kenji Kamiyama , with original character design by Hajime Shimomura and a soundtrack by Yoko Kanno .
In the year 2024, Ernest Serano was kidnapped and ransomed; the event was known as the Laughing Man incident due to the involvement of a world-class hacker of the same name.
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- Ai ORIKASA
- Kenji KAMIYAMA
- September 23, 2005
Jun 14, 2024 · This 2005 OVA version eschews almost everything from the first season’s Stand Alone stories, and instead streamlines the twelve Complex episodes into a more or less coherent, linear story,...
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Michael Adamthwaite. The Laughing Man. Page 1 of 5, 10 total items. In Theaters At Home TV Shows. Advertise With Us. Maj. Kusanagi takes over a long-running investigation after the lead...
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