Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex

[adam]

I just finished this series, and, for me, this is absolutely hands-down the best anime I've ever seen. I am incredibly excited that the new season is coming out, but I'm trying to convince myself that there is no way it would be as good, so as to reduce my potential disappointment.

I'm not sure what it was, specifically, that made it seem this way to me, but one of the things I rather liked about it was the depth of the characters. They seem so well developed.

Anyway, one thing was puzzling me that I couldn't figure out...it may have been explained, and I'll need to re-watch the episode, but I thought I'd throw the question out here in the meantime. When Togusa is undercover at the clinic, he sees the Laughing Man, and afterwards, when he tries to sketch him, he ends up drawing the laughing man logo, as though his memory had been hacked. But Togusa is fully organic. That's what's puzzling me. I mean, I know he at least has cybernetic comm systems, but is he supposed to be more cyberdized than that? Or did I miss something?