Product Details

• Actors: Toshio Furukawa
• Directors: Kazuyoshi Katayama
• Format: Animated, Color, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Manga Video
• DVD Release Date: September 4, 2007
• Run Time: 68 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000S1MMB6
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #190,507 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars False Advertizing, February 24, 2010

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James S. Taylor (Scarborough, Ontario Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Essence of Anime: Appleseed (DVD)

If you want to see what you are really getting in this DVD, go look at the version under product number 660200407926 here on Amazon. That version will also give you content based reviews, which this is not.

This is to warn you that this is not "Widescreen Presentation," despite what it says on the box, which Amazon has copied to their description. Manga Video has merely taken the old, full screen version and stuck it in a cardboard wrapper claiming it is widescreen and hiding the fact that it is the other product. Go ahead: compare the ISBN numbers on the wrapper and the DVD inside. The wrapper is the ISBN for the product here on this page. The ISBN on the DVD inside is the full screen version referred to above.

I have this on my widescreen TV right now. The only way to get it into a so-called widescreen is to either zoom the picture (thus cutting off the top and bottom, and degrading the detail) or set it to show the picture full screen, which gives everything wrong proportions, making people in particular look squat and wide. So, get ready to enjoy those gigantic black bars on the right and left of the picture if you want to view it in proper aspect ratio.

I have had the same problem with other Manga Video releases that have been put out in these "new" silver cardboard wrapped editions, such as Perfect Blue.

5.0 out of 5 stars A true classic indeed..., February 13, 2012

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T. Davis "Anime Fiend" (Chicago) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Essence of Anime: Appleseed (DVD)

There's not much I can say about this classic title that hasn't been said already.
I'm sure there are great reviews elsewhere online but if ;you love classic cyber-punk/mecha anime, this is your ticket.
The English dub is the only version I've ever watched and it rocks. I wish Manga Entertainment was still releasing titles as strong as it used to...(sigh)

Great story (I won't give it away but it deals with fighting terrorism), great animation, likeable characters, Masamune Shirow does not fail. Grab it.

4.0 out of 5 stars An interesting turn around for me..., April 7, 2010

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T. Coleman - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Essence of Anime: Appleseed (DVD)

When I first watched this OVA, it was just after finishing the Manga of the first Takuban and I was disgusted with how the Anime company changed so much of the tale. As the decades trudged on, I grew to a small liking of this tale and the animation within.

Honestly, you just don't see this type of Anime anymore. It did well within the budget it had and the intense Lack of moe girls was uplifting for myself. This and 'Black Magic M-66' rounds out the best of Shirow Masamune's work adapted by someone else.. though Shirow actual drew & wrote the story boardings for '~M-66'