don't waste your time.

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Say it ain't so!!! I haven't seen anything at all related to this show. I was hoping it'd be awesome. I'd still be willing to drop some money on it just to see more Appleseed
-- Sent from my 13 year old P.O.S. Desktop®

im about to start episode 6 and enjoying it so far. its not a step down from the films... although the art style is very different... it does look cheaper but I don't think its a bad thing.

it does look like a mesh between the original manga and the film... deunan and briareos outfits are straight out of the manga as are some vehicle designs and aspects of briareos himself... but then its mixed with the environments from the recent films.

I like it. not as much as the first film but definetly on par if not a little more enjoyable than the 2nd.

the kottos episode was just amazing.

I have huge problems with this series, but it's not the animation or the production values.

Rather my problems lie with the characterization of Deunan and the plots/scripts, taking steep turns for the worse. This series makes Deunan out to be a emotionally challenged woman, behaving like a teenage self-centered and reckless brat with a craving for attention that Briarios, not exactly behaving like an adult himself, has a hard time coping with. Far from the strong, independent and capable woman she was pictured as in the first film.

The story seems crammed into the short time that is each episode and makes little sense as well as has a hard time keeping my interest.

I loved Appleseed (2004) and liked Ex Machina (2007) a lot. XIII is a big letdown, it ruins Deunans character and fails to keep my interest even for the short 20 minutes of an episode.

This show was garbage. siderite's IMDB review is spot-on.

I feel bad for anyone that was amused by any of this poorly written, eye-rolling crap that looks like Playstation 2 graphics. Even the music blew. It sure didn't help that the first episode I saw on TV was Cretan Bull. Between this and Appleseed Alpha (another piece of crap but was at least visually impressive) this makes me think that Appleseed was never meant to be milked this much. Please end it now so it can at least die with a sliver of dignity remaining.

Japan tanked Deunan's character just as hard as they tanked Samus in "Metroid: Other M" and Aya in "3rd Birthday". 2010~2020 is starting to look like a decade of female characters being ruined while also being "compensated" by wearing less/tighter clothing (Deunan's "compensation" can be seen in Alpha). That's what the Japanese do best with games and animation: create great things and then run them into the ground later.