Appleseed (OAV)
Alternative title:
Appleseed - Kampf um die Freiheit (German)
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:
766 ratings have been given [details]
Running time:
70 minutes
Vintage:
1988
1988-04-21 (Japan)
Release dates: We have 17
Ending Theme:
"Crystal Celebration" by Risa Yuuki
Official website:
Links: We have 3
Trivia: We have 2
DVD Easter Eggs: We have 1
Comment:
Previously released in subtitled form by U.S. Renditions.
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| Blu-ray (Region A) |
| Appleseed - The Original 1988 OVA (Blu-ray) 2022-01-25 (from $23.96) |
| DVD (Region 1) |
| Appleseed (DVD) 2001-04-24 (from $17.04) |
| Appleseed - The Original 1988 OVA (DVD) 2019-04-30 (from $142.00) |
| Appleseed [CA] (DVD) 2001-04-24 |
| Appleseed [The Essence of Anime] (DVD) 2007-09-04 (from $59.99) |
| Appleseed [The Essence of Anime] [w/ Ghost in the Shell UMD] (DVD + UMD) |
| DVD (Region 2) |
| Appleseed (DVD) 2005-11-14 |
| VHS |
| Appleseed (Dub.VHS) 1995-02-28 (from $19.98) |
| Appleseed (Sub.VHS) 1991-08-01 |
| Appleseed (Sub.VHS) 1997-02-04 (from $77.38) |
Director: Kazuyoshi Katayama Screenplay: Kazuyoshi Katayama Unit Director: Tetsu Kimura Music: Norimasa Yamanaka Original Manga: Masamune Shirow Art Director: Hiromasa Ogura Mecha design: Hiromasa Ogura (assistant) Jun Tamaya (assistant) Kiyomi Tanaka (assistant) Takahiro Kishida Sound Director: Yasumasa Date Director of Photography: Masaaki Fujita Executive producer: Hirohiko Sueyoshi (Bandai) Shinji Nakagawa (Tohokushinsha) Yutaka Takahashi (MOVIC) Producer: Atsushi Sugita (Bandai) Hiroaki Inoue (AIC) Masaki Sawanobori (MOVIC) Tarō Maki (Tohokushinsha) Tōru Miura (AIC) Assistant Character Design: Hidenori Matsubara Background Art: Atsushi Ioki (Studio Jack) Chiyoe Misawa (Atelier BWCA) Hiroshi Sasaki Hisae Oomiya (Studio Jack) Katsumi Takao (Studio Jack) Katsutoshi Yui (Studio Jack) Keiko Imamura (Studio Jack) Keiko Kaneko (Atelier BWCA) Kumiko Nagashima (Atelier BWCA) Masanori Kikuchi Mitsuru Ishii (Atelier BWCA) Satoru Hirono Tadashi Iwasa (Atelier BWCA) Toshiyuki Nishimura (Atelier BWCA) Tsutomu Ishigaki Tsutomu Nishikura (Studio Jack) Yoshihiro Sakamoto (Atelier BWCA) Yoshinori Hirose Yukari Matsuzawa (Atelier BWCA) Yukihiro Shibutani Cel Check: Eri Nakamura Hiromi Anzai Hiromi Nishino Kazumi Sakayori Kōji Ōtsuki Takayuki Nishida Yurie Ōtsuki Character Animation Director: Hidenori Matsubara (assistant) Color Coordination: Yukie Ishida Editing: Eigo Makioka (Kakesu Editing Room) Satoru Ishida (Kakesu Editing Room) Shūichi Kakesu (Kakesu Editing Room) Filming Director: Masaaki Fujita In-Between Animation: Akira Oguro Chizuko Nakamura Fumiko Tateyama Fumio Hiramura Hiroyuki Horiuchi Hisako Tanabe Katsushi Sakurabi Keiji Gotō Keiko Sakuma Kiyotaka Fukushima Koichi Nakaochi Kōji Nagatani Kunihiro Abe Masahiko Ōuchi Masahiro Okamura Masashi Yanagishita Miho Saitō Seiji Handa Takafumi Watanabe Takeshi Honda Takuya Iinuma Tatsuo Kashima Tatsuya Ando Toshimasa Kuwabara Toshiya Watanabe Yurie Sugihara Key Animation: Akihiro Izumi Akira Takeuchi Atsushi Okuda Atsushi Takeuchi Atsushi Yano  Eiji Suganuma Hideaki Matsuoka Hidetoshi Yoshida Hiroaki Gōda Hiroki Kanno Jirō Tanaka Katsutoshi Tsunoda Keiichi Nakao Kiichi Takaoka Kōichi Motoyama Masahiro Andō Masaya Irahara Miki Fujita Naoko Ozawa Nobuyuki Ikigame Shinsuke Terasawa Takahiro Kishida Takashi Hashimoto Toshiko Baba Yoshiharu Shimizu Yutaka Minowa Mechanical Supervisor: Hideaki Anno Photography: Hideo Suzuki (Mushi Production) Hiroshi Isakawa (Mushi Production) Kazunori Suzuki (Mushi Production) Norihide Kubota (Mushi Production) Norihiko Sawada (Mushi Production) Takashii Yamamoto (Mushi Production) Toshiaki Yamaguchi (Mushi Production) Production Advancement: Shunichi Yamamoto Recording Adjustment: Hitoshi Yamada Song Selection: Kiyoshi Suzuki (Suzuki Music Publishing) Theme Song Arrangement: Norimasa Yamanaka Theme Song Composition: Norimasa Yamanaka Theme Song Lyrics: MASATO Theme Song Performance: Risa Yūki Trace Machine: Hiroko Tofuya | Masako Katsuki as Yoshisada Sakaguchi as Mayumi Shō as Norio Wakamoto as Toshiko Sawada as Toshio Furukawa as Kenichi Ono as Kōji Totani as Kumiko Takizawa as Mari Yokoo as Masayuki Omoro as Mika Doi as Nobuyuki Furuta as Takao Ōyama as Tamio Ōki as Yasunori Matsumoto as Yōsuke Akimoto as Yūji Mitsuya as Yuzuru Fujimoto as | |||
Animation: Artland Ashi Productions Aubec Big Bang D.A.S.T Corporation Dongyang Animation Group Donguri Kaname Production Mushi Production Neo Media Nishiko Pro Random Samtack Studio Emu Studio Korumi Studio Life Studio Live Studio Look Studio Mumin Studio NOA Studio Random Studio Rod Studio Ship Studio Wombat Thunder Production Watanabe Promotion Animation Production: GAINAX Film Developing: Tokyo Laboratory Opticals: Maki Production Sound Effects: Sound Box Soundtrack: King Records special effects: Light Magic Sweetening: Artland Dongyang Animation Dragon Production NVC Studio Bogey Studio Look Studio Mac Studio NKon Trans Arts Co. Watanabe Promotion Titles: Maki Production | ||||
Dubbing Director: Michael Bakewell Producer: David Keith Riddick (US Renditions Version) Justin Sevakis (Discotek; Blu-ray) Robert Napton (US Renditions Version) Blu-Ray Authoring: Justin Sevakis (Discotek Blu-ray) Casting Director: Jill Wilmot Commentary: Jonathan Clements (Manga UK version) Dubbing Mixing: Richard King Logo Animation: Will Culpepper II (US Renditions) Production Coordination: Upton S. Redmonton Re-Recording Engineer: Clive Mitchison Script Adaptation: John Wolskel Special Thanks To: Ethan Fogg | Bill Roberts as Larissa Murray as David Reynolds as Julia Brahms as Lorelei King as Vincent Marzello as Adam Henderson as Alan Marriott as Jeff Harding as William Dufris as | |||
Cover Design: Nippan Design Team (US Renditions) Distributor: Madman Entertainment (Australia & New Zealand) Manga Entertainment (Great Britain & Ireland) Sony Music Entertainment (Canada) DVD Production: AIX Media (Manga Ent. DVD) HD Film Scan: Tokyo Laboratory (Discotek Blu-ray) Post Production: 525 Post Production Production Association: MediaOCD (Discotek release) Recording Studio: Worldwide Productions Ltd. Subtitles: Ultra Studios | ||||
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ADR Director: Patrick Borg | 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) Dubbing: S.T.A.R.T. | ||||
Translation: Josep Llurba (Catalan dub) Screen Inserts: César Martínez (Spain dub) | 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 Angel de Gracia as Claudi Domingo as Enric Isasi-Isasmendi as José Javier Serrano as Josep María Zamora as Sílvia Gómez as Alex Meseguer Amadeu Aguado Angel de Gracia Anna Romano César Martínez Claudi Domingo Enric Isasi-Isasmendi Enrique Encarnación Jordi Campillo José Javier Serrano Josep María Zamora Mario Arpal Miguel Marquillas Ramon Canals Xavier Fernández | |||
(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) | Katja Liebing as Reinhard Schulat as Ghadah Al-Akel as Luise Charlotte Brings as Stephan Schleberger as | |||
Dubbing: Splendid Synchron GmbH | ||||
(none) | Distributor: Manga DVD | |||
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(none) | Licensed by: Proware Multimedia International Co., Ltd. | |||
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