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A fanlisting is where people unite to favor a particular subject. Batou is a character from the anime Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex.
Batou had served in a military special forces team before entering Section 9. Most of his body is comprised of cybernetic prosthetics. Despite the fact that exercise will do his cybernetic body parts no benefits, Batou lifts weights as a hobby. Based on several of the Stand Alone Complex episodes, Batou seems to have been in the American Imperial Army at some point before he joined Section 9, serving as a member of the Rangers. His unit was involved in World War III and was deployed to South America, where they accidentally stumbled across an American Imperial Navy unit conducting a covert operation codenamed "Project Sunset", which consisted of soldiers earing the trust of communities and then carry out war crimes, spreading terror and chaos in the enemy ranks. Batou's eyes are grey and clearly prosthetic, and are standard cybernetic equipment issued to Ranger Special Forces operatives.
Because of the nature of his ocular prosthetics, Batou suffers from the "Prosthetic Blind Spot." His implants are fixed in such a way that he has to turn his head to see what's in his peripherary. As such, a skilled attacker could run close, duck from Batou's field of vision, and land a devastating blow to his face which temporarily knocks his vision out, as demonstrated by Batou's former idol, the Olympic silver medalist boxer Zaitsev in episode 1.16, AG20.
Source: Wikipedia
Why Blind Spot?: Well, it's because of the source I found it in above where it claims that Batou has Prosthetic Blind Spot, and decided to take a part of that and make it as the site's name. I even think that it sounds cool and somewhat describes Batou perfectly with his prosthetic eyes.
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