Appleseed Alpha

Appleseed Alpha
Directed byShinji Aramaki
Written byMarianne Krawczyk
Based onAppleseed
by Masamune Shirow
Produced byJoseph Chou
Eiichi Kamagata
Music byTetsuya Takahashi
Production
companies
Lucent Pictures
Sola Digital Arts
Distributed byStage 6 Films
Release dates
  • July 15, 2014 (2014-07-15) (United States)
  • January 17, 2015 (2015-01-17) (Japan)
Running time
93 minutes
CountriesJapan
United States
LanguageEnglish

Appleseed Alpha (also styled as Appleseed α) is a Japanese–American animated military science fiction cyberpunk film. The English version's voice cast includes Luci Christian (Deunan Knute), David Matranga (Briareos) and Wendel Calvert (Two Horns). This film does not follow the previous Appleseed film canon; it is an alternate version of the story's origins. Briareos, for example, is already a cyborg and did not become separated from Deunan to be later reunited in Olympus to join ESWAT. A two-volume prequel manga by Iou Kuroda was published in Morning Two in 2014.

It was announced on February 11, 2014, that Sony Pictures Worldwide and Lucent Pictures Entertainment would be making a new CG-animated film.[1] Appleseed Alpha had an advance digital release on July 15, 2014.[2]

  1. ^ "Appleseed Manga Gets New CG-Animated Film by Shinji Aramaki". Anime News Network. February 12, 2014. Retrieved February 12, 2020.
  2. ^ Max Nicholson (May 12, 2014). "Appleseed Alpha Blu-ray Announced, Trailer Released". IGN. Archived from the original on July 12, 2014. Retrieved July 15, 2014.