-
Batou (****anese: バトー, Hepburn: Batō) is a main male
character in
Masamune Shirow's
Ghost in the S**** series. He is the second-best
melee fighter in Section...
- act of revenge.
Batou and
Togusa enter a
yakuza bar to
question the
current boss, only to be
threatened by the bar occupants.
Batou opens fire, killing...
- when
Batou makes some
comments about it.
Aramaki lifts his hair to
reveal metallic parts,
possibly for his cyberbrain. This
incident freaked Batou out...
-
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...
-
Puppeteer was a
fragment of herself, but
Batou already knew from
being linked to her
during the dive.
Batou concludes that the
ultimate identity of the...
- One
considers itself Batou's personal Tachikoma,
which has the
personality of a
hyperactive child. It is special,
given that
Batou pampers it with natural...
-
months wondering what
happened to the rest of
Section 9
before encountering Batou. The
whole thing turns out to have been Aramaki's plan,
sacrificing Section...
- but
Batou shields Kusanagi's head in time to save her brain. As
Section 9
closes in on the site, the
snipers retreat.
Kusanagi wakes up in
Batou's safe...
- and
Batou is
forced to
disconnect her. They
trace the
hacker to a
yakuza nightclub,
where they are
lured into a trap. An
explosion destroys Batou's eyes...
-
mills and
hulling mills moving towards steam power.
Economic historian Jean
Batou argues that the
necessary economic conditions existed in
Egypt for the adoption...
