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CriticCrunch has 7 Shunsuke Sakuya titles in its catalog, ranked by quality percentile.
2015
Animation · Science Fiction

Ghost in the Shell: Arise - Border 1: Ghost Pain
2013 · Movie · Voice
Top 18%Crunchyroll · Included

Ghost in the Shell: Arise - Border 4: Ghost Stands Alone
2014 · Movie · Voice
Top 23%Crunchyroll · Included

Ghost in the Shell: Arise - Border 3: Ghost Tears
2014 · Movie · Voice
Top 28%Crunchyroll · Included

Ghost in the Shell: The New Movie
2015 · Movie · Voice
Top 34%Crunchyroll · Included

Ping Pong the Animation
2014 · Series · Voice
Top 38%Crunchyroll · Included

O Maidens in Your Savage Season
2019 · Series · Voice
Top 47%HIDIVE · Included

as Ishikawa (voice) · Voice
Crunchyroll · Included
The story is set in 2027, one year after the end of the fourth non-nuclear war. New Port City is still reeling from the war's aftermath when it suffers a bombing caused by a self-propelled mine. Then, a military member implicated in arms-dealing bribes is gunned down. During the investigation, Public Security Section's Daisuke Aramaki encounters Motoko Kusanagi, the cyborg, wizard-level hacker assigned to the military's 501st Secret Unit. Batou, a man with the "eye that does not sleep," suspects that Kusanagi is the one behind the bombing. The Niihama Prefectural Police detective Togusa is pursuing his own dual cases of the shooting death and a prostitute's murder. Motoko herself is being watched by the 501st Secret Unit's head Kurutsu and cyborg agents.
Dir. Masahiko Murata, Kazuchika Kise · With Maaya Sakamoto, Ikkyu Juku, Kenichirou Matsuda

as Ishikawa (voice) · Voice
Crunchyroll · Included
The upcoming installment's story takes place amidst signs of postwar reconstruction in the winter of 2028. Tensions are rising in New Port City as demonstrations are held concerning the interests of foreign cartels. This leads to a shooting incident involving riot police. It all started with a cyberbrain infection released by the terrorist "Fire Starter." An independent offensive unit led by Makoto Kusanagi entrusts the suppression of the situation to their ghosts and aims for their own justice. Below the surface of the incident, lies the "tin girl" Emma and the "scarecrow man" Burinda Junior. As Kusanagi deals with the incident, she draws near to what those two ghosts were seeking.
Dir. Susumu Kudo, Kazuchika Kise · With Maaya Sakamoto, Ikkyu Juku, Kenichirou Matsuda

as Ishikawa (voice) · Voice
Crunchyroll · Included
Posing as lovers on vacation, Motoko and Batou work to try to stop a terrorist organization whose symbol is the Scrasath. Meanwhile, Togusa investigates a murder of a man who possessed a prosthetic leg manufactured by the Mermaid's Leg corporation.
Dir. Kazuchika Kise · With Maaya Sakamoto, Ikkyu Juku, Kenichirou Matsuda

When a ghost-infecting virus known as Fire-Starter begins spreading through the system resulting in the assassination of the Japanese Prime Minister, Major Motoko Kusanagi and her elite team of special operatives are called in to track down its source.
Dir. Kazuya Nomura, Kazuchika Kise · With Maaya Sakamoto, Ikkyu Juku, Kenichirou Matsuda

as Ryuuichi 'Dragon' Kazama (voice) · Voice
Crunchyroll · Included
Makoto 'Smile' Tsukimoto and his friend Yutaka 'Peco' Hoshino have been playing table tennis together since they were kids, but as they enter high school, they find that the game, and how they see it, has changed. Peco, brimming with confidence and energy, wants to be the best in the world, but the reserved Smile has little fighting spirit and doesn't want to sacrifice others' happiness just to win, despite his innate talent. As the two grow, and experience the ups and downs of the sport – and life – they try to figure out exactly who they really are and what drives them to play.
With Koki Uchiyama, Fukujuro Katayama, Yousei Bun

The girls in a high school literature club do a little icebreaker to get to know each other: answering the question, "What's one thing you want to do before you die?" One of the girls blurts out, "Sex." Little do they know, the whirlwind unleashed by that word pushes each of these girls, with different backgrounds and personalities, onto their own clumsy, funny, painful, and emotional paths toward adulthood.
With Hiyori Kouno, Chika Anzai, Momo Asakura

In an alternate version of the present, Tokyo has been decimated by a shocking terrorist attack, and the only hint to the identity of the culprit is a bizarre video uploaded to the internet. The police, baffled by this cryptic clue, are powerless to stop the paranoia spreading across the population. While the world searches for a criminal mastermind to blame for this tragedy, two mysterious children - children who shouldn't even exist - masterfully carry out their heinous plan. Cursed to walk through this world with the names Nine and Twelve, the two combine to form "Sphinx," a clandestine entity determine to wake the people from their slumber - and pull the trigger on this world.
With Soma Saito, Atsumi Tanezaki, Kaito Ishikawa
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