Briareos Hecatonchires

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Briareos (Hecatonchires Cyborg System)
Appleseed character
Briareos carrying Deunan Knute on the poster for the 2004 Appleseed film
First appearance	15 February 1985
Created by	Masamune Shirow
In-universe information
Species	Cyborg
Gender	Male
Occupation	ESWAT

Briareos (Japanese: ブリアレオス, Hepburn: Buriareosu) [Hecatonchires Cyborg System] (ヘカトンケイレス, Hekatonkeiresu) is a character from Masamune Shirow's Appleseed manga and its adaptations in anime.^[1] He is one of the two protagonists of the series, the other being Deunan Knute. Briareos is a trained ESWAT officer, his point man is Deunan. They met in his father's SWAT unit before World War III broke out. Briareos and Deunan are lovers and have been involved since before the war. Since moving to Olympus with Deunan, they have joined the ESWAT unit (Extra Special Weapons And Tactics). He is named after Briareus the Vigorous, one of the Hecatonchires (hundred-armed giants) of Greek mythology. In the Japanese media, he is voiced by Yoshisada Sakaguchi in the Appleseed OVA, Jūrōta Kosugi in the Appleseed film, Kōichi Yamadera in Appleseed Ex Machina and Appleseed XIII, and Junichi Suwabe in Appleseed Alpha. In the English dub, he is voiced by Sean Barrett in the OVA, Jamieson Price in the first dub of the 2004 film, and David Matranga in all subsequent productions.^[2]