Appleseed

1988 [JAPANESE]

Action / Animation / Crime / Drama / Sci-Fi

9
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 80%
IMDb Rating 6.3/10 10 3453 3.5K

Top cast

Yôsuke Akimoto as Newsman
William Roberts as Bularios
Kôji Totani as Terrorist Leader
Toshiko Sawada as Athena Arayas
720p.BLU 1080p.BLU
620.24 MB
960*720
Japanese 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 7 min
Seeds 1
1.12 GB
1440*1080
Japanese 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 7 min
Seeds 16

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by abdurahman 7 / 10

A new restoration, a new appreciation.

Just finished watching the new restoration of Appleseed, which is sourced from the original camera negative for the first time ever -all previous versions were sourced from inferior video tape elements- and I have to say I'm impressed.The backgrounds are true pieces of anime art, and they pop like never before. The quirky character designs, the robots, and especially all the vehicles look gorgeous!Aside from the anticlimactic ending, my second viewing experience, especially with the comparatively low key original Japanese dub, has elevated the original Appleseed for me as one of the best OVA to come out of 1980s Japan.
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Reviewed by Jeremy_Urquhart 5 / 10

Looks and sounds cool, but it's otherwise a bit dull, sadly.

I don't really know about this one. Appleseed is watchable thanks to how appealing anime from this era looks and feels. There are some ideas here that are broadly interesting (not a lot's done with the premise or world; even less than you'd expect in something that's only about an hour long), and all the character designs are really cool. The music's definitely not bad either; the aesthetics are all there, and I think I would've dug this overall if the story had been a bit more interesting. I don't know if it's a good or faithful adaptation of the source material, but I do think that whatever storytelling was on offer here in this anime take on the story, it could've been done better.

Probably worth it for anime die-hards, but otherwise I don't really feel it's super worthwhile.

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