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''Appleseed'' is a four volume [[Cyberpunk]]/Mecha manga written between 1985 and 1989 by [[Shirow Masamune]], of ''[[Ghost in the Shell]]'' fame, as well as its OVA and feature film adaptations. Set in [[After the End|post-apocalyptic]] 22nd century, the story follows the [[Action Girl]] Deunan Knute and her [[Beast and Beauty|cyborg partner and lover]] Briareos Hecatonchires. The two join the special forces of the Olympus city, an enclave of peaceful life on the planet devastated by the [[World War III]] (and recovering from World War ''IV''), whose population consists equally of both normal humans and "bioroids", [[Artificial Human|Artificial Humans]]
The original manga saw Deunan and Briareos join Olympus's counter-terrorism unit ESWAT after being discovered in the wastelands and offered a life in [[Utopia|Utopian]]
The one-shot OVA was produced in 1988 and has little in common with the original manga except the setting and the characters. The plot concerns a colleague of Deunan and Briareos, who feels that instead of Utopia, Olympus is a [[Gilded Cage]] designed to prevent humans from living a fulfilling life. To destroy this cage, he conspires with a professional terrorist and it's up to Deunan and Briareos to stop them.
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Sixteen years later, the first feature film was released. Just like the OVA, it shares little with the original manga and diverges even in the premise: instead of joining ESWAT together, Deunan and Briareos are separated by accident long before coming to Olympus and have to regain mutual trust over the course of the film. The main plot centers on the struggle of two equally extremist [[Fantastic Racism|racist]] factions in Olympus, each desiring to destroy either the original humanity, or the bioroids to make way for the other. The movie featured a unique for that time style of animation that seamlessly blended traditional anime designs and [[All CGI Cartoon|CGI]] and which was later reused in the sequel and an unrelated movie ''[[Vexille]]'', produced largely by the same people.
''[[Appleseed Ex Machina]]'', the [[Oddly-Named Sequel 2: Electric Boogaloo]] to the 2004 movie, is set two years after it and sees the idyllic relationship between the protagonists challenged by the introduction of Tereus, a [[Super Prototype]] bioroid who is for all intents and purposes a clone of Briareos minus the fact that he didn't have his entire body replaced with cybernetic prosthetics. The situation is worsened when all cyborgs in Olympus (including Briareos) start getting hijacked by a [[Knight Templar]] seeking to unite humanity once and for all... in quite an unsettling manner. The producer of the second movie was [[John Woo]]. Yes, ''[[Heroic Bloodshed|that]]'' John Woo
It also has a 2011 CGI anime series named ''[[Appleseed XIII]]''. The series is produced by Jinni's Animation Studios in association with Production I.G and under the direction of Takayuki Hamana with Junichi Fujisaku as script supervisor.
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* [[Land of One City]]: Olympus.
* [[Leap and Fire]]
* [[Les Yay]]: Although there is little even in terms of [[Subtext]] to back it up, there are scenes both in the OVA and in the first movie hinting at a mutual attraction between Deunan and Hitomi. Not so much in the manga, with Deunan explicitly saying she's "not into that" when Hitomi drunkenly [[Glomp|Glomps]]
* [[Lethal Chef]]: Deunan in the manga.
* [[Lightning Bruiser]]: Briareos uses (or, more accurately, is built into) the Hecatonchires-class full-body cyborg chassis, a towering juggernaut of a military prototype that is amongst the strongest, toughest rigs ever to exist, and boosts his reflexes to superhuman levels as well.
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* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: The whole plot of ''Ex Machina'' is solely driven by lots of highly stupid decisions by anyone involved. {{spoiler|1=Possibly hundreds of thousands of deaths could have been avoided if the PSAs not said "might pose a risk to health" but "will turn you into cyber-zombies and might force the police to kill you".}}
* [[Turned Against Their Masters]]: The master computer Gaia in the second volume of the manga. Ironically, it was trying to protect mankind.
* [[Turn in Your Badge]]: {{spoiler|General Uranus in the movie does so without being told to after Briareos warns him that he and the Regular Army were really the [[Unwitting Pawn|Unwitting Pawns]]
* [[Unorthodox Reload]]: Briareos has spare magazines stored ''in'' his forearms.
* [[Unwitting Pawn]]: {{spoiler|The Regular Army.}}
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