Batou had served in a military special forces unit and often states that he was a Ranger with the Japanese Ground Self Defense Force ( JGSDF ) before entering Section 9.

When the Major notices the new vehicle, she comments to Batou that " his tastes had changed.

She then tells Batou, who realizes that she's going to leave again, that every time he goes online, she'll be there right beside him.

it is here that Batou notices a young girl who talks to the statue, addressing it as " Angel.

* Many of the members of Section 9 in the Ghost in the Shell universe, specifically the main characters Major Motoko Kusanagi and Batou, are cyborgs dependent on regular maintenance ; there are several manga ( or graphic novel ) and artbooks set in the GitS universe, as well as two feature-length anime films, three television series and three video games.

The Major agrees to the merger just before Section 6 helicopter snipers destroy the shell and severely damage Batou and the Major.

;: Batou is a member of Section 9 and Major Kusanagi's second-in-command.

Shirow's characterization of Batou in the manga, and indeed the other members of Section 9, is notably more light-hearted than the characterization used in Mamoru Oshii's films of the same name.

Batou loses his temper and impulsively calls up Section 9 Chief Aramaki, demanding an explanation for Yano's death, then storms off announcing ( in the English translation ), " That … Koil is dead meat!

In another scene, after having rescued a little girl, Batou asks the Major if she considers herself " happy ".

During a psychic monitoring of the virtual contact between the main character of the manga and another entity on the net, the psychic states, " Something of substance, something fruitful has passed between them ," to which Batou remarks, " A persimmon maybe?

Also, as Batou treats them as individuals as opposed to interchangeable units, they begin to view themselves as such, which contributes to the development of their AI.

Four years in the making, the film focuses on Batou as he investigates a series of gruesome murders, while trying to reconcile with his deteriorating humanity.

The portrayal of Batou in Mamoru Oshii's films is very different from the depiction in the anime series.

In the films, as in the anime series, Batou is voiced by Akio Ōtsuka in Japanese and Richard Epcar in the English dubbed versions.

Like Oshii's films, the series suggests romantic tension between the Major and Batou.

The film was followed by a theatrical film sequel, Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence, produced in 2004, which was also directed by Oshii and places the character of Batou in the lead role.

* In the third episode of Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, " Android and I ", a 35mm reel of this film can be seen on a table, beneath a a reel of Alphaville, as Togusa and Batou are investigating the house of a suspect.

In a futile attempt to force open a hatch with her bare hands, she overloads her body to the point of catastrophic failure, and is nearly killed before Batou arrives with an anti-tank weapon.

Batou offers to let her stay as long as she likes, but she insists on leaving.

Batou gives her a car which has " 2501 " as the access code, which the Major suggests can be their private identification code for the next time they meet.

In the 2004 semi-sequel Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence, Batou and Motoko / 2501 briefly reunite towards the end of the film.

In one scene, Batou asks if it really is The Major inside of the gynoid's shell standing next to him.

In addition, Batou uses the number 2501 as the password for his car's security system.

Additionally, while trapped in a ghost hacking loop, Batou notices clues left by his " guardian angel " ( Motoko ) with one being the number 2501.

Before being rescued by Batou, both become aware that, as children, they were the only survivors of the plane crash that left Kusanagi in a coma.

From bottom left to top right: Paz, Borma, Saito, Batou, Motoko, Togusa, Aramaki, and Ishikawa.

In the 18th episode of " Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex 2nd Gig ", Batou is stationed on the monuments shoulder.

* In the third episode of Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, " Android and I ", a reel of this film can be seen on the shelf as Togusa and Batou are investigating the house of a suspect.

Kusanagi is frequently portrayed in the film as contemplative and brooding, in contrast to the down-to-earth nature of her colleague Batou.

Throughout the film, the Major makes her first " true " appearance in Kim's manor, where she breaks into the hallway component of Kim's looping false memories and inserts herself ( represented by the little girl prosthetic body she inhabited at the end of the first movie ), providing clues to alert Batou to Kim's attempted ghost-hack on himself and Togusa.

The Major's ghost eventually returns in person to help Batou on the Locus Solus gynoid factory ship.

After successfully locking down the ship and uncovering the truth behind the conspiracy, Kusanagi prepares to once again disappear into the Net, but reassures a despondent Batou that whenever he logs in, she will always be beside him.

When the Tachikoma sacrificed themselves to save Batou, Major Kusanagi understands that she was wrong in halting the usage of the Tachikoma and proposes that they might have evolved to have ghosts themselves.

She shows up later as Chroma, CIS body, to warn Batou to stay away from the " Solid State Society.

An earlier but still influential school of painting, surrealism, had suggested the way of dealing with the dream experience, that event in which seemingly incongruous objects are linked together through the curious associations of the subconscious.

It ranged from two women members who had experienced premarital pregnancy to one couple twelve years married and seemingly unable to conceive.

The seemingly quiet ocean had crashed a wall of water from 10 to 100 feet high upon beaches crowded with bathers, drowning thousands of them and flattening villages along the shore.

This has been taken by some archaeologists, such as Stephen Lekson ( 1999 ), as evidence of the continuing reach of the Chaco Canyon elite system, which had seemingly collapsed around a century before.

In September 1898, Hannah Chaplin was committed to Cane Hill mental asylum — she had developed a psychosis seemingly brought on by malnutrition and an infection of syphilis.

The Mariners, who won a MLB record-tying 116 games that season, had a strong bullpen, and Indians manager Charlie Manuel had already pulled many of his starters with the game seemingly out of reach.

move seemingly had a strictly personal political motive – that is, fear and jealousy of his cousin Ptolemy – and thus the expansion was not set about in response to pressing military or economic needs.

This helped reduce the almost mystical reputation that floating-point computation had for seemingly nondeterministic behavior.

The latter was the new governor of Britannia, and had seemingly won the natives over after their earlier rebellions ; he also controlled three legions, making him a potentially significant claimant.

Rabbi Yosef was faced with the child of a woman who had left a religious marriage without religious divorce and had a child in the second marriage, seemingly an open-and-shut case of Mamzer status.

In several accounts, it was explained that the explosion of the planet Krypton had opened a " dimensional warp " ( similar to a wormhole in modern theoretical physics ) which allowed the vehicle carrying the young Kal-El to reach Earth in a relatively brief time, and a large amount of planetary debris had also passed through this " warp " and emerged near Earth at virtually the same time, accounting for the seemingly improbable abundance of kryptonite material and its availability to Superman's enemies.

* In the final episode of the BBC time travel / cop show Ashes to Ashes ( Series 3, Episode 8 ), it is revealed that the world that Alex Drake awoke to after being shot, which Sam Tyler described and that other major characters inhabit, is a kind of Limbo, one seemingly specifically for members of the police force, who had died in violent or sudden ways, with Gene Hunt taking on a role similar to that of a Psychopomp or Charon of Greek mythology, helping " the troubled souls of Her Majesty's Constabulary " accept their deaths and move on to Heaven.

After his success with Brainiac, Luthor was given the seemingly dead body of Doomsday, who had been defeated by the Kryptonians, to study as it had “ potential ”.

" Naturalist Joseph Menges had also told Hagenbeck about an animal alleged to live in Africa, described as " some kind of dinosaur, seemingly akin to the brontosaurs.

This was driven in some part by scientific naiveté, namely an early belief that seawater was incapable of freezing ( as late as the mid-18th century, Captain James Cook had reported, for example, that Antarctic icebergs had yielded fresh water, seemingly confirming the hypothesis ), and that a route close to the North Pole must therefore exist.

Scott knew nothing of horses, but felt that as they had seemingly served Shackleton well, he ought to use them.

While he had hoped that Cardassia's joining the Dominion would strengthen their power, he felt that they were no longer in control of even their own planet, having to report to the Dominion representative Weyoun and the Founders, and Cardassian troops were being sacrificed seemingly meaninglessly without his permission.

Given that starters knew only the target recipient's name and address, they had a seemingly impossible task.

The recession went on into the early first decade of the 21st century, bringing an end to the seemingly unlimited prosperity that the country had hitherto enjoyed.

Inscriptions on the Fasti Triumphales come to a seemingly abrupt full-stop in 19 BCE, by which time the triumph had been absorbed into the Augustan Imperial cult system in which only the emperor-the supreme Imperator ( or very occasionally, a close relative who had glorified the Imperial gens )-would be accorded such a supreme honour.