Detective Togusa (Kōichi Yamadera) is assigned to work with cybernetically-enhanced Batou (Akio Ōtsuka) to investigate a series of murders. Female sex-bots are killing their owners and then self-destructing. The cops trace the bots back to a company called Locus Solus which may have ties to organized crime.
This continues the what-is-a-soul-and-who-gets-to-have-one philosophizing from the first movie. I found it a little hard to follow, but that could be because I was expecting more plot. I kept waiting for it to be something more, but it's pretty straightforward as a crime story because it would rather ask questions about morals and ethics when dealing with consciousness. That's fine. It's a choice. Batou is a less interesting character than Major Kusanagi was and the movie suffers a little from her absence, if only because he clearly hasn't moved on.
Also, and this is purely personal, I hate the term "gynoid." I understand that it is technically correct, since the robots are female and the andro in android means male but I don't like it. Probably because it's too close to a dumber version used by incels. It just set my teeth on edge every time they said it in the movie.
This is streaming in its entirety on YouTube but I could only find the dubbed version, not the original Japanese audio.
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