Review: Appleseed

Within the vast range of anime movies that I have watched, Appleseed caught my imagination perfectly; it opened up the idea of our future and the idea of how people will live along side their creations.

Appleseed deals with a lot of complex issues which are treated within what could be scene as an extended opening scene. The issues Appleseed deals with include how are creations can become as complex as we our selves are, what happens when we see both humans and alternative life as different rather than universal and equal. The subject of relationships is thrown into Appleseed as the main character Dunen discovers her boyfriend is still alive, but only due to being turned into a cyborg in order to survive.

The opening of Appleseed sees Dunen fighting off a collective of rogue soldiers, within a destroyed world, after the earth was brought close to the end, through a global war, set within 2131. Her team is wiped out very fast and she has to run, when a group of E-Swat fighters drop in around her, annihilate the rogue soldiers and neutralize Dunen.

E-Swat had been sent in to extract Dunen from the only world that she knows, and take her back to the city Olympus, referred to by from those within, as a utopia, where everyone lives equally.

After Dunen wakes up in Olympus, she has everything explained to her. Where she is, what she is doing and why she has been brought to the city. She is here to help, to stop what is originally seen as a code or virus which could eliminate one of the best creations that human kind has developed, the bioroid. This demise of the bioroid was developed as a fail safe for the human population to ensure that things do not lose control and turn nasty, but with some one set out to release the devastating issue upon the bioroid population, then there is only one way to stop things.

Dunen is here to make sure this does not happen, she has to find something that was left to her by her mother, when she was very young. It is the key to stopping the virus and takes her on an emotional trip through forgotten memories and feelings. Upon discovery of the key, things are thought to be resolved, for a very short period of time, until the true information about what the virus is. This results quite clearly in an all out battling struggle to reach the viruses storage facility and stop it from being released.

I’ve seen Appleseed a handful of times and it always captures my imagination, so I can only imagine that anyone who is interested in watching a good sci-fi or anime movie, would enjoy Appleseed.

Appleseed is rated 4 out of 5 stars by Sycrid.
Originally Posted on Edd The Zombie

Regards,
Sycrid