Motoko Kusanagi

About Kusanagi, Motoko

Motoki Kusanagi is best known as the commanding officer of Section 9, a covert ops unit she was recruited to lead by Aramaki. She's shrouded in mystery—her origins, real name, and actual birthdate remain unknown. What we do know is that she was fully cyborged as a child and cycled through multiple artificial bodies as she grew up, which basically made her a master at piloting and controlling cyborg bodies with unusual flexibility, sometimes even running multiple simultaneously. Her hacking skills are equally legendary. She's officially classified as a Super Wizard Class Hacker and moves through cyberspace just as fluidly whether she's jacked in directly or operating remotely from a body. In the Stand Alone Complex continuity, her personal life stays firmly off the record, but the original manga portrays her as bisexual and shows her in a relationship with Section 1's leader for a time. She can't realistically be older than 60, since widespread full-body cyborgization didn't become common until around that era. These days, she prefers inhabiting a body that appears to be in her twenties. In the Stand Alone Complex design, she's most recognizable by her short violet hair and matching violet eyes. The Arise series reimagines her with indigo hair, blue eyes, and depicts her as younger while she's struggling for independence from the Army's Unit 501.

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Height

5'6"

Anime Appearances23

Motoko Kusanagi

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Koukaku Kidoutai

Koukaku Kidoutai: Stand Alone Complex

Koukaku Kidoutai: Stand Alone Complex - Tachikoma na Hibi

Koukaku Kidoutai: Stand Alone Complex 2nd GIG

Innocence

Koukaku Kidoutai: Stand Alone Complex - The Laughing Man

Koukaku Kidoutai: Stand Alone Complex 2nd GIG - Individual Eleven

Koukaku Kidoutai: Stand Alone Complex - Solid State Society

Koukaku Kidoutai 2.0

Koukaku Kidoutai Arise: Another Mission

Koukaku Kidoutai Arise: Ghost in the Shell - Border:1 Ghost Pain

Koukaku Kidoutai Arise [.jp]

Koukaku Kidoutai: The Ghost in the Shell

Koukaku Kidoutai 1.5: Human-Error Processer

Koukaku Kidoutai 2: Manmachine Interface

Koukaku Kidoutai: Stand Alone Complex

Koukaku Kidoutai: Stand Alone Complex

Koukaku Kidoutai: Arise - Sleepless Eye

Koukaku Kidoutai Shousetsu Anthology

Koukaku Kidoutai: The Human Algorithm

Sakamoto, Maaya

Tanaka, Atsuko

Kwan, Andrea

Matthews, Alison

Maxwell, Elizabeth

McGlynn, Mary Elizabeth

Motoko Kusanagi

Details

Koukaku Kidoutai

Koukaku Kidoutai: Stand Alone Complex

Koukaku Kidoutai: Stand Alone Complex - Tachikoma na Hibi

Koukaku Kidoutai: Stand Alone Complex 2nd GIG

Innocence

Koukaku Kidoutai: Stand Alone Complex - The Laughing Man

Koukaku Kidoutai: Stand Alone Complex 2nd GIG - Individual Eleven

Koukaku Kidoutai: Stand Alone Complex - Solid State Society

Koukaku Kidoutai 2.0

Koukaku Kidoutai Arise: Another Mission

Koukaku Kidoutai Arise: Ghost in the Shell - Border:1 Ghost Pain

Koukaku Kidoutai Arise [.jp]

Koukaku Kidoutai: The Ghost in the Shell

Koukaku Kidoutai 1.5: Human-Error Processer

Koukaku Kidoutai 2: Manmachine Interface

Koukaku Kidoutai: Stand Alone Complex

Koukaku Kidoutai: Stand Alone Complex

Koukaku Kidoutai: Arise - Sleepless Eye

Koukaku Kidoutai Shousetsu Anthology

Koukaku Kidoutai: The Human Algorithm

Sakamoto, Maaya

Tanaka, Atsuko

Kwan, Andrea

Matthews, Alison

Maxwell, Elizabeth

McGlynn, Mary Elizabeth