Appleseed (OAV)
Alternative title:
Яблочное зёрнышко (Russian)
アップルシード (Japanese)
蘋果核戰 (Chinese (Taiwan))
애플시드 (Korean)
Genres:
action,
science fiction
Objectionable content:
Significant
Plot Summary:
After World War 3 the General Management Control Office construct an experimental city known as Olympus inhabited by humans, cyborgs and bioriods. Bioriods are a genetically engineered being created to serve mankind. They run all administration of Olympus. Olympus was meant to be a utopian society. But for some it is less of a utopia and more of a cage. Calon Mautholos, an Olympus city police officer, is one of these people. Calon secretly conspires with a terrorist, A. J. Sebastian, to destroy Gaia, a super computer that runs Olympus. Out to stop them are Olympus city police SWAT team members Deunan Knute and Briareos Hecatonchires. Deunan and Briareos are determined to stop the terrorist plot by any means necessary.
User Ratings:
679 ratings have been given [details]
Running time:
70 minutes
Vintage:
1988-04-21 (Japan)
Release dates: We have 9
Ending Theme:
"Crystal Celebration" by Risa Yuuki
Official website:
Links: We have 2
Trivia: We have 1
DVD Easter Eggs: We have 1
Comment:
Previously released in subtitled form by U.S. Renditions.
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| DVD (Region 1) |
| Appleseed (DVD) 2001-04-24 (from $8.36) |
| Appleseed [The Essence of Anime] (DVD) 2007-09-04 (from $6.99) |
| VHS |
| Appleseed (Dub.VHS) 1995-02-28 (from $4.19) |
| Appleseed (Sub.VHS) 1997-02-04 (from $18.97) |
Director: Kazuyoshi Katayama Screenplay: Kazuyoshi Katayama Music: Norimasa Yamanaka Original Manga: Masamune Shirow Art Director: Hiromasa Ogura Mecha design: Hiromasa Ogura (assistant) Jun Tamaya (assistant) Kiyomi Tanaka (assistant) Takahiro Kishida Assistant Character Design: Hidenori Matsubara Audio Director: Yasumasa Date Color Coordination: Yukie Ishida Filming Director: Masaaki Fujita In-Between Animation: Takeshi Honda Key Animation: Takashi Hashimoto Mechanical animation Director: Atsushi Takeuchi (assistant) Mechanical Supervisor: Hideaki Anno Planning: Kimo Hayase | Masako Katsuki as Yoshisada Sakaguchi as Mayumi Shou as Norio Wakamoto as Toshiko Sawada as Toshio Furukawa as Kumiko Takizawa as Mika Doi as Tamio Ohki as Yuji Mitsuya as | |||
Dubbing Director: Michael Bakewell Executive producer: Laurence Guinness Casting Director: Jill Wilmot Dubbing Mixing: Richard King Production Coordination: Upton S. Redmonton Re-Recording Engineer: Clive Mitchison | Bill Roberts as Larissa Murray as David Reynolds as Julia Brahms as Lorelei King as Vincent Marzello as Alan Marriott as | |||
Distributor: Madman Entertainment Pty. Ltd. (Australia & New Zealand) Manga Entertainment (UK) (Great Britain & Ireland) | ||||
(none) | Celine Monsarrat as Lionel Henry as Corinne Troisi as Fabrice Josso as Laurence Dourlens as Luc Bernard as Patrick Borg as William Coryn as | |||
Distributor: Manga Video (from September 1995) | ||||
(none) | Montse Moreno as Oriol Rafel as Concha García Valero as Luis Posada as María Pilar Quesada as Miquel Cors as Núria Trifol as Victoria Pagès as Amadeu Aguado as Claudi Domingo as Enric Isasi-Isasmendi as Josep María Zamora as Miriam Guilimany as Ramon Canals as Sílvia Gómez as Xavier Fernández as | |||
Distributor: Manga Films (Spain) Dubbing Studio: Q.T. Lever (Spain and Catalan dub) | ||||
(none) | Caterina Rochira as Daniela Fava as Diego Sabre as Felice Invernici as Marco Balzarotti as Paola Tovaglia as Pietro Ubaldi as Roberta Gallina as Sergio Romanò as Roberta Gallina as | |||
Distributor: Yamato Video | ||||
(none) | Dubbing: Splendit | |||
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(none) | Distributor: Manga DVD | |||
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(none) | Licensed by: Proware Multimedia International Co., Ltd. | |||
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