- Maaya Sakamoto (Motoko Kusanagi (voice))
- Hiroki Yasumoto (Batou (voice))
- Yuichi Nakamura (Togusa (voice))
- Kazuhiro Yamaji (Daisuke Aramaki (voice))
- Kousuke Goto (Ishikawa (voice))
- Toru Nara (Saito (voice))
- Marie Oi (Operator (voice))
- Tomoko Kaneda (Fuchikoma (voice))
THE GHOST IN THE SHELL — S1E7
Episode: EPISODE 07: BYE BYE CLAY
Air Date: 2026-08-18
Runtime: 25 min
Overview
A robot flees from Megatech Body Co., Ltd. Section 9 takes it into custody, only to find that the Puppet Master is inside it. The Puppet Master announces to Aramaki's team that it is "a life form that arose spontaneously in the sea of information." Moments after it requests political asylum, it is stolen by an unknown party.