Original production: c2004.

Based on the comic book by Masamune Shirow.

Includes speical features.

Animation director, Yasushi Kawamura ; animator, Kiyoshi Ishimaru ; music, Tetsuya Takahashi, Boom Boom Satellites ; screenplay, Haruka Handa, Tsutomu Kamishiro.

Japanese voice actors: Ai Kobayashi. English voice talent: Jennifer Proud [and others]

Earth's last city, Olympus rose from the ashes of a global war on the backs of bioroids, artificial clones who make up half the city's population. Human terrorists seek a return to power and clash with a legendary soldiers, Deunan Knute and her boyfriend who is 75% machine. To save humanity and end the conflicts, retrieving the Appleseed is a must. Deunan alone holds it's secret.

Plucked from the last battlefields of the final war, mercenary Deunan Knute finds herself pressed into duty with the ESWAT, defenders of the Utopian city of Olympus. But serpents lurk beneath the peaceful surface of this apparent Garden of Eden, and new seeds of destruction have already been planted! Now it's up to Deunan and her former lover, the now-cyborg Briareos, to unravel a deadly web of plots that threaten to bring down Olympus from within.

MPAA rating: R; some violence.

Region 1; aspect ratio 16:9 presentation; Dolby Digital 5.1 ; Digital Surround Sound.

Japanese or English dialogue; optional English subtitle.