Members
| Agent | Speciality | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Daisuke Aramaki | Lieutenant Colonel/Section Chief | Head of Section 9 and advisor to Prime Minister Yoko Kayabuki. He and two other friends he served with under Colonel Tonouda were known as the Tonouda Three. Aramaki also has a brother that he has not seen in years. |
| Motoko Kusanagi | Major/Field Commander | Female cyborg and squad leader. She is a highly skilled melee fighter and one of the world's most skilled hackers and net divers. She is also the tactical leader of Section 9. When describing her, the Chief said her abilities are rarer than ESP. She has a lot of military connections, and is the kind of person that sections of the government hire to assassinate without leaving a trace. She can control two remote prosthetic bodies at once. |
| Ishikawa | Covert Intelligence and Technology/Executive Officer | Ishikawa is the covert intelligence and technology specialist. Like Togusa and Saito, he has a low prosthetic percentage. Ishikawa is a master at recognizing data manipulation, along with being highly skilled at hacking in general. |
| Batou | Lead Investigator | Batou is an ex-Ranger. Although not officially stated, he seems to jointly hold the position of 3rd in command with Ishikawa. He served in the military with Motoko and Ishikawa (under both of them), and has cybernetic eyes that are used by Rangers, improved strength from cybernetic arms, legs, and also contains other unlisted parts (these parts are not stated, but they can be implied). He primarily does field work with Togusa, and takes point for the Major on serious occasions. |
| Togusa | Investigator/2nd Field Commander | Togusa is mostly human, having only cybernetic memory upgrades and other small brain implants. To Section 9, Togusa is a reminder to them all of true humanity, because he is the most like a normal person compared to the rest of Section 9. He has a family, and strong moral beliefs that visibly get in his way. He primarily does work with Batou, but also investigates on his own at times. Togusa often plays the role of the idealist in Ghost in the Shell, and could easily be said to be the least likely to win in a fight against anyone else in Section 9. |
| Pazu | Investigator | Before joining the Public Security Commission, Pazu was rumored to have been involved with several yakuza gangs. He usually teams up with Borma. Pazu seems like a superficial character, but it is later revealed that there is more to him. He is the kind of person that says "I never sleep with the same woman twice," but his basis for such is later found to be that he does not want to pull others into the world he lives in. |
| Borma | Spotter, Investigator, and bomb specialist | Borma usually handles rear support for the rest of the unit and handles heavy weaponry during assignments. Borma does field work with Pazu, and information gathering with Ishikawa. Borma's character easily gets the least attention of any member of Section 9. |
| Saito | Tactical Sniper | Saito is Section 9's primary tactical sniper, and also a class A super sniper, known to have been a mercenary in the South American campaign. Saito possesses a long-range cybernetic eye called a Hawkeye that can be used for extreme accuracy by making use of satellite linked imaging data. Saito was recruited by the Major while they were on opposing sides. Saito has the second lowest prosthetic percentage in Section 9, but later starts getting new parts due to the requirements of his line of work. |
| Azuma | Recruit/Field Agent | One of Section 9's newly recruited field operatives from JGSDF intelligence. He was advised to the chief through a friend. |
| Yano | Recruit | One of Section 9's newly recruited rookie and field operatives alongside Azuma. |
| Tech Specialists | Tachikoma Maintenance/technological forensics and observation | These guys do Tachikoma maintenance and overall oversight of them. They also provide forensic data, and overall observations on technology. |
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