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DVD Appleseed (Limited Collector's Edition with Metal Case)
The 2004 Appleseed feature is a reworking of the earlier video based on the manga by Masamune Shirow (Ghost in the Shell). In 2131, most of humanity has withdrawn to the glittering city of Olympus after a devastating war. When the curvaceous Deunan Knute comes to Olympus, she encounters her former comrade Briareos, now a cyborg, and the lovely android Hitomi. The fate of Hitomi, Olympus, and humanity rest on the lost "Appleseed" technology that Deunan's mother helped to develop. A standard series of chases, mecha battles, and confrontations leads to a predictable ending. When the original Appleseedappeared in 1988, it felt like a summary of anime's past, while Akira pointed the way to the future. This new version feels like a mishmash of Ghost in the Shell, Akira, Jin-Roh, Evangelion, and other, more exciting works. The motion-capture CG is typically weightless, and the mecha look oddly squat. (Rated R: violence) --Charles Solomon
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Good Anime In General.
Hi there, I bought this DVD and I'm happy with it, however the storyline is fairly well composed and the scenes are great, the characters lack. Most of the anime is based on character shading. This means the characters have been modified to look *3-d* but they are not (computer graphic artists insert shades to create and illusion for your eyes to make them look *3-d* or CGi [Computer Generated Imaging]), this was very disappointing. I have been a Anime Fan for more over 5 years. I have seen almost every great anime out there. I bought this anime because I have never seen it, I loved the story line, it's simple to understand, the action was fairly well composed as well. This is the second anime I've seen done with character shading and I dis-like the art. However for the creativity and excellent action I gave it 3 out of 5 stars. I suggest if you have not seen Ghost In The Shell yet buy this DVD watch it, then go watch GiTS (Ghost In The Shell), The story line somewhat resembles GiTS because of the Bio-roids (half human half robot or cyborgs theme), all though GiTs is not CGi or Character shading just plain anime it has a great storyline, very well animated, great action, over all wonderful anime. But if you have seen GiTS in the past I suggest you pass on buying this anime unless you find wasting your moneya good thing. D/L it.
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Really cool
AS an entire package I will have to give this movie 5 stars what i mean is the action,the characters,the pure digital animation,the dvd quality,it adds up to a 5 star experince especially if you have HDTV the pure HD video transfer is probally the best i have seen and the sound is terrific.If it were soley on the story it would be more like 4 stars we have been there done that kind of story,robots,sexy characters,explosions,end of civilazation,meaning of life kind of stuff ...what a minute that sounds cool so what I think I'll go whatch it again right now.Buy it!
Appleseed looks great, falls a little short
Special Edition DVD is nice and all, not having the regular one I couldn't compare. The metal box looks and feels quite nice, but might not be worth the extra money. The movie itself looks spectacular and has a unique style of animation. The voiceovers (Jap w/ subs) sound quite well done compared to some anime. Plot is somewhat unique as compared to some other typical anime storylines, but nonetheless falls a little short of my expectations. Good action movie, but never has any humorous breaks typical of anime.
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