The drama series is divided into 14 "short story" episodes released to Blu-ray and DVD and exclusively aired on BS Digital and Star Channel airing from 2014 and 2015, with limited advanced theatrical screenings dividing the series into 7 "chapters", each comprising two episodes.

Broadacsts on online streaming services follow the theatrical and video release format, dividing the series into 7 chapters instead of the 14 episodes.

[6] Four novels featuring new original stories set during the series penned by Yamamura and overseen by Oshii were published.

This does not include revenue from the drama series, which was not made public, or blu-ray and DVD sales.

[14] The series reuses some ideas and elements from Oshii's 2011 novel Bankuruwase: Keishi-chou Keibi-bu Tokushu Sharyou Ni-ka (番狂わせ 警視庁警備部特殊車輌二課)("Giant-Killers: Metropolitan Police Department Security Department Special Vehicles Section 2")[15] in which a similar new generation of SV2, some of whom have the same names as their TNG counterparts, have to stop a terrorist attack on a soccer match.

Characters from Bin Konno's Tokyo-wan Rinkai-shou Azumi-han series also have cameo appearances in this novel, as Oshii was inspired to write it due to how Konno's series first made references to SV2 and had a cameo appearance by Goto from Patlabor.