On Saturday evening some friends and I watched the Japanese anime movie Appleseed. We all liked the movie, even with the boring parts that so many anime movies seem to have. There were some things we didn’t understand, but of course we kept watching anyway. The story had some plot holes, some things weren’t explained very well, and the writers seemed to want to make the viewer sympathetic towards bioroids. The whole time, though, I was thinking that they should just get rid of them.

The characters were flat (character-wise) and there wasn’t much character development to speak of. But that’s not what you watch anime for, is it?

Appleseed had some great action sequences and the particle effects were awesome. Great explosions and smoke. The movie seemed to be completely done in 3D computer graphics (like Toy Story). But unlike the Pixar films, characters were 3D but were shaded with a 3D cell shader, to give them a somewhat 2D look. The 3D environments were amazing. The graphics were amazing. This movie just looked really cool, and it’s obvious that the 3D artists put a lot of work into it.