Appleseed is the latest anime movie featuring a manga series by Shirow.
It's a visually stunning piece of animation, being one of the few anime in recent history to be fully rendered in 3D. One area where being fully computer generated fails is in the display of human emotions : the character's faces look and feel flat, for the lack of a better word. There is plenty of potential for emotive content which felt unfulfilled throughout the movie. That being said, its worth getting this DVD just for the opening 10 minutes introduction : the fight scene, rescue and then approach to Olympus city really get your expectations up : too bad the rest of the movie fails to deliver.
I didn't like the storyline : feels very badly written and paced. Too much information dumping in the form of unbroken dialog.
That being said, this IS a Shirow work, and there are hints of interesting themes and ideas, though nowhere near as many or as good as in the GITS movies. Setting : desolation on a world wide scale after the N-th world war. Humans and bioroids (cyborgs?) are at war, except in the city of Olympus. The humans in Olympus have put a computer AI in charge of the city, and it introduces a certain proportion of Bioroids into the population as a stabilizing factor (since bioroids don't hate or feel emotions, this reduces the chances of conflict and war - in times of tensions there will be more bioroids, etc)
On one hand you have bioroids as the destroyers of mankind, since they are at war with humanity outside Olympus. On the other hand you have bioroids as the saviours of mankind, since some believe that having a part bioroid society is the only way to prevent future world wars.
You have Deunan, human female, who was previously in love with Briaeros, who is now a bioroid.
Bah. This could have been so good =Þ
4 comments:
I'm an anime fan. I do not like Shirow. Is that sacrilege?
Shirow is a mangaka....he hasn't done any anime....if you consider those anime-renditions of his work HIS work...then its sacriledge. :P
Shirow has excellent vision in sci-fi and mecha-design (and drawing really hot babes too). GITS and Appleseed anime has nothing to do with him unfortunately, except basing it on his work.
Appleseed was entertaining in its own right imho. But i might be biased because i read the manga and knew what was going on.
GITS manga is also his, isn't it? But I figure that it's a lot different from GITS movie. Everyone was talking about how groundbreaking it was - admittedly, it's very nice on the eyes, and very memorable - but the story was meh.
Anyway, his work lacks the crazy. I generally tend to like crazy stuff.
How did you read the Appleseed manga? I never knew you to be the manga kind of person.
i liked the first GITS but i didn't like appleseed although the fight scenes were cool - derivative but cool. i dunno - the movie and all tried toooo hard.
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