Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex

While talking to Motoko at his desk, Aramaki doodles a few Laughing Man logos and then writes out and underlines twice the Japanese kanji 笑い男 which says Warai Otoko or "Laughing Man".

Steve Bulen, who voices Fukami, voiced the Section 9 Staff Cyberneticist/Coroner in Mamoru Oshii's 1995 movie Ghost in the Shell.

.A difference between audio tracks: In his meeting with Fukami, Togusa's Japanese seiyuu calls the intercepters new technology given approval for use, "as part of the revisions to the Sensory Perception Wiretapping Act."

The sign in the back alley near the bartender's place of business says STOP! THE 路上死 (Rojō Shi) - Stop the roadway deaths.

Kanji in Newspaper Daidō Reads: (From right to left, top to bottom) 新浜県警５１歳刑事課長 視聴覚素子不正使用疑惑 Niihama-kenkei 51-sai Keiji Kachō Shichōkaku Soshi Fusei Shiyō Giwaku Newport Prefectural Police's 51 year old Criminal Section Chief Suspected of Using Visual Devices Illegally

In the show's intro, as Motoko disconnects from her cyberlink, the bottom of the screen displays part of the Laughing Man's quote.