Look carefully at the gradations of skin tone, or the hair movement on Deunan’s head, or the shading and movement of Iris’ face at the campfire. The CGI and motion-capture is extraordinary, highly detailed and fluid, with a real sense of weight and presence in the character movement, and astonishing varieties of light and texture. There should be enough to reward those fans here, or even casual anime fans. So I’m watching this as a standalone, and long-time fans will just have to be patient with me. I can’t pretend to know enough about the series’ history to say whether “Appleseed Alpha” is faithful or aberrant or whatever. When Talos and his assassin henchwoman Nyx take Iris hostage, Deunan and Briareos go to her rescue. In addition to being from the utopian city of Olympus, they find that Iris is also the key to a massive advanced weapons system sought by the villainous Talos in his bid to rule the re-building civilization. On a final mission to clear their debt to him, they rescue a young woman named Iris and her bodyguard Olson from a drone attack. Now there’s a new feature length film, “Appleseed Alpha.” This CGI-animated prequel is set in the gutted cityscapes that remain after the Global War, and explores the early days of the beautiful, jutting soldier Deunan and her companion, the cyborg warrior Briareos.Īt this point in their shared history, Deunan and Briareos are just guns for hire for the cyborg warlord Two Horns, in the remains of New York City.
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