Project Zero-X

Ghost in The Shell: Project Zero-X, and officially known as Project Zero-X (Kanji: プロジェクォ‐ゼロ‐エツコ, Hepburn: Purojekto Zero-Ekkusu) or simply 0-X is a Psychological Police Action Drama Netflix Original Anime Series created by Ayato Ryujin, directed by Masamune Shirow, the creator of Ghost In The Shell series , and Kenji Kamiyama, the director of Ghost in The Shell: Stand Alone Complex.

Plot
Take place 2 years and 9 months after the end of the Individual Eleven case, Major Motoko Kusanagi was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel; Section 9 informed Motoko about a developed theory of that Interpol's Red Notice criminal-of-war Hang Song-Kyuk is responsible for the most of the foreigner-related crimes and terrorism acts in Tokyo, given underlying situation of World War III and the partially-related corruption witihin the Japanese government at the time.

To address the issue, Motoko, along with an associate of her former Chief-of-Staff Daisuke Aramaki, General Hirashi Hishikimori; founded a Special Mobilized National Security Task Force from General Hirashi's own SONARTac, and a joint task force of Special Forces Group, Special Assault Team, British's SAS 22nd Regiment, and Ukrainian Special Forces known as Team Alpha.

While the group investigates various crimes, the first season feature ongoing investigations into incidents that embroil the group in corruption within other branches of law-enforcement and of the Japanese government itself.

Production
Project Zero-X was animated by Studio Kai, along with Production I.G. (which held the original IP of the GITS series) and MAPPA Studio.

Similar to the original work of Stand Alone Complex, the series was developed as a spinoff "relative" to Ghost in The Shell: Stand Alone Complex with an alternate paralel timeline.

Music
The main orchestral soundtrack was composed by Sarah Schachner and Yoko Kanno. The first opening theme is "Karma Siren" by Ling Tosite Sigure for the first half of the season up to episode 16, with "Breaking The Habit" by Linkin Park was used for episode 11 and 12. The second opening theme is "SOSOS" also by Ling Tosite Sigure for the rest of the first season.

The ending theme was "feedback" by geek sleep sheep for all the episodes, with "Lithium Flower" by Scott Matthew was used for episode 11 and 12.

Episode List
See also: Project Zero-X/Episode List