Appleseed is set in 2131, on an Earth scarred and barren in the aftermath of a non-nuclear war. Communication is sparse and pockets of soldiers still fight on, unaware that the war has ended. Deunan Knute is one such soldier until located and captured by a team led by her former, supposedly deceased, lover and the mysterious Hitomi. What should be a happy reunion is marred by the fact that Brearious, her ex-lover, not only seems to have ambiguous loyalties but he is also now barely human. To be precise, 25% human, 75% machine.
With big rabbit ears sensors.
Knute is taken to the city of Olympus where the harmony and beauty are in stark contrast to the wastelands she has been existing in for years. After the war, when no superpowers emerged unscathed, the city of Utopia has emerged more or less as the only political power in the world. Lead by a combination of military, elders and politicians, Olympus is a staggering feat of technology and design, where the human race seems to have found some way to exist without conflict, strife or disease. And that ‘way’ is a new race of humans, the Bioroids, a peaceful race devoid of ambition and hate that make up half the population of this new world. Genetically manipulated, they are ‘designed’ to act as protectors of the human race; to buffer them and ensure their future.
Or do they?
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