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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.