| Appleseed is the story of Deunan Knute and her cyborg partner Briareos Hecatonchires, trained soldiers who end up becoming police officers in the planned utopian nation of Olympus. However, this utopia is far from perfect and the two find themselves fighting superweapons gone haywire, terrorists and fundamentalists bent on destroying the dream of humanity's future, and internal conflicts that threaten to tear Olympus apart. An excellently-drawn manga, although Shirow's plot and dialogue can get a bit complicated at times. A character to watch for is the cute, adorable and irrepressible Hitomi, a bioroid who demonstrates some of the finer aspects of Shirow's character design. |