YMMV / Appleseed

• Awesome Music:
  • The 2004 film had practically an All-Star Cast when it came to the world of electronic music, with notable contributors such as Ryuichi Sakamoto, Boom Boom Satellites, Paul Oakenfold, and Basement Jaxx.
  • Crystal Ceremony from the 1988 OVA.
  • Alpha is no slouch in the music department either, with a strong dubstep showing including titles like "I'm a' Try it Out", and contributions from many Japanese dubstep artists like "Acceleration by Nishi-ken, "You Make Me" by androp, and "Depth" by CAPSULE.
• Complete Monster: Deunan Knute and Briareos Hecatoncheires have dealt with plenty of dangerous criminals as part of their job to uphold the peace in Olympus, but none have been quite as vile as these three:
  • 1988 OVA: A.J. Sebastian is the terrorist head of the Human Liberation Union. A Cyborg with an undying hatred for bioroids and a lengthy conviction history, Sebastian is introduced assisting his squad in holding several bioroid families hostage, killing a cop tasked to guard him. Partnering with the cop Charon, Sebastian ultimately plots to deactivate the Gaia computer controlling Olympus's power, just so he can activate the Multipede Cannon and use it to destroy the city. Killing anybody who stands in his way, Sebastian, despite his claims of desiring freedom for humans, is willing to kill both bioroid and human alike during his eventual Multipede destruction spree, ultimately caring more about the carnage.
  • 2004 film: Colonel Hades is introduced inspecting an army of Landmates he commissioned for a terrorist attack he soon executes against bioroid life extension facilities in a thorough attempt at genocide. When he learns of the Appleseed, which would render those facilities moot, Hades intercepts the ESWAT team sent by Athena on a secret mission to retrieve it and massacres the team save for Deunan and Briareos, who escape the bloodbath, as well as a single Regular Army mole who shared his feelings towards bioroids. When Briareos reveals to the Regular Army that the Elders were using them for their own genocidal means, Hades tries to kill him and Deunan over General Uranus's objections. A genocidal racist whose hatred of bioroids was ultimately a means to nurse prior grievances against Deunan's father and stroke his own ego, Hades shows himself to be the most personal menace Deunan ever had to deal with during her ESWAT career in any continuity.
  • Alpha (2014): Talos is a former soldier turned leader of Triton who seeks to rebuild the world in his own violent image. After deducing that a utopia is an impossible dream, Talos began to see war as the new way of life, seeking to find and awaken an Olympus war machine in order to cause untold amounts of destruction. When he kidnaps his old war pal Olsen and the bioroid Iris, Talos torturously downloads the whereabouts of the war machine from Olsen's mind, gunning him down afterwards. After finding that the war machine is designated to destroy to New York, Talos allows it to happen, hoping to showcase his power to the rest of world with the intent to sacrifice his own citizens. Despite claiming to be helping people, Talos is nothing but a power-hungry sociopath with a messiah complex.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: The Connexus in Ex Machina as a must-have product. It's basically a smartphone, only you wear it rather than hold it. The first version of the iPhone came out the same year as the movie (later it is revealed to be a tool used to brainwash cyborgs and normal humans to do terrorist acts).
• Les Yay: Although there is little even in terms of Subtext to back it up, there are scenes both in the OVA and in the first movie hinting at a mutual attraction between Deunan and Hitomi (For example, Hitomi asking Deunan what it's like to be in love). Not so much in the manga, with Deunan explicitly saying she's "not into that" when Hitomi drunkenly Glomps her in the shower.
• Magnificent Bastard: See here.
• Moral Event Horizon:
  • Colonel Hades's Ignored Epiphany in the 2004 film.
  • The Elders are firmly convinced that Gaia considered humanity well past the MEH long before General Uranus and the Regular Army instigated a coup against the Olympus government aimed at destroying the Bioroids, to the point where they shut down Gaia as soon as they detect it changing its mind on that point even slightly. That is itself a MEH for the Elders, as in shutting down Gaia, which manages their life support systems, they're putting humanity's gradual extinction over their own lives. Only the possibility of Redemption Equals Death at the end of the climactic D-Tank sequence could make up for that.
• Narm:
  • Ex Machina has lots of mildly narm scenes and dialog lines. Arguably it applies to the whole plot, as all the problems are really the result of Too Dumb to Live by both the main characters and the government.
  • Take a shot every time the word "paradise" is mentioned in Appleseed XIII. You'll likely be passed out on the floor within a few episodes... and it Just. Doesn't. Stop.

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