Production Companies

Bandai Visual, Production I.G, dentsu, ITNDDTD, Kodansha, Studio Ghibli

Overview

"When machines learn to feel, who decides what is human..."

Cyborg detective Batou is assigned to investigate a series of murders committed by gynoids—doll-like cyborgs, which all malfunctioned, killed, then self-destructed afterwards. The brains of the gynoids initialize in order to protect their manufacturer's software, but in one gynoid, which Batou himself neutralized, one file remains: a voice speaking the phrase "Help me."