In 2024, a terror event dubbed the 'Laughing Man Incident' unfolded when Ernest Serano, chief of the micromachine firm Serano Genomics, was abducted and demanded ransom. After six years of stagnation, Detective Yamaguchi, who had been probing the case, dispatched a note requesting a meeting with Togusa from Public Safety Section 9. Yet moments after sending the message, Yamaguchi—essential to cracking the mystery—perished in an accident. His sudden death left a void in the team. Days later, amid a police interview chain probing the motives of interceptors, a warning arrived from 'The Laughing Man' about a attack. The warning included cryptic coordinates. Authorities race to decipher the clues. The spectral hacker reemerges, poised to act again.
Production I.G Japan