Author(s): Yu Kinutani

Manga

Stand Alone Complex takes place in the year 2030, in the fictional Japanese city of New Port. The story follows the members of Public Security Section 9, a special-operations task-force made up of former military officers and police detectives. The manga presents individual cases that Section 9 handles, along with an ongoing, more serious investigation into the serial killer and hacker known only as The Laughing Man.