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Essence of Anime: Appleseed

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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.

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'

While the animation is not as awesome as the two 3D cell shaded movies, the story is pretty decent. Worth a look if you enjoyed the two 3D flicks and want more in the same universe.