S2.E3 ∙ Clearance

A new 3D version of Ghost in the Shell: Solid State Society.

A watery world called Aquarius that is destined to destroy all of the planet Earth. Can the great Yamato stop this devastation?

When alien nightmares attacked humanity's push into interstellar space, Noriko Takaya's father sacrificed himself to stop the advance. What he bought for mankind was time. Time to create a weapon capable of stopping the monsters once and for all. Now that weapon is nearly ready and a teenager Noriko is determined to be in the battle, though it's not until she models herself after the top pilot candidate Kazumi Amano that she discovers her own abilities. However, even as Noriko and Kazumi become both partners there's one aspect of this war that will affect them unlike any other: Pilots traveling faster than light experience time differently than those left on Earth. That means even if Noriko survives each battle, home will no longer be the same place!

First, a brutal terrorist attack on a NASA base takes place deep in the Arizona desert. Then ten days later, the corpse of a CIA man is found floating in the Seine in Paris. Are the two events connected? Monsieur Lassar of the French Secret Service thinks there is a connection, but he can't figure it out. He hires International terrorist, spy and master criminal Kousaburo Kuki to help. Kuki discovers film superstar Lamia Vindaw is the key to the mystery. She has become the focus of a CIA operative in Paris and more sinisterly, the target of a bizarre vampire cult. Can Kuki get to the bottom of the mystery and save the glamorous Miss Vindaw - or will he too become just another number in the bloody body count?

2112; the summer before Akane Tsunemori was assigned to Criminal Investigation Department. Teppei Sugo, an accomplished pilot of the Defense Army, joins the military operation in Okinawa. Three months later, an unmanned combat drone opens fire on the Ministry of Defense in Tokyo. Enforcer Tomomi Masaoka is dispatched to Sugo's military base to investigate the truth behind this case.

The war between the star ship Solo and the extraterrestrial Buff Clan culminates in a last cataclysmic offensive against each other.