Appleseed
1988 [JAPANESE]
Action / Animation / Crime / Drama / Sci-Fi
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Top cast
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A new restoration, a new appreciation.
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.




