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All-New, CG-Animated Sci-Fi Action Adventure Based on the Popular
“Appleseed” Franchise by the Creator of Ghost In The Shell

APPLESEED ALPHA

Directed by Shinji Aramaki & Featuring Songs by 12 Artists,
the original soundtrack to be released from unBORDE / WARNER MUSIC JAPAN Inc.
Available on Blu-ray™, DVD & Digital July 22
Get It Early on Digital July 15

Featuring Filmmaker Commentary & 11-Part Making-of Documentary

Culver City, CA (May 12, 2014) – The popular franchise “Appleseed” comes to new life in the CG-animated prequel APPLESEED ALPHA, available July 22 on Blu-ray™, DVD & Digital from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. World-renowned anime filmmaker Shinji Aramaki (Starship Troopers: Invasion) directs the latest installment in the sci-fi adventure franchise based on the original comic books by Shirow Masamune
(“Ghost in the Shell”) published by Seishinsha with a screenplay by Marianne Krawczyk (God of War game series, Star Trek game and BAFTA Award winner for character and story on God of War 2 game).
APPLESEED ALPHA depicts the early days of female soldier Deunan and her cyborg partner,
Briareos, as they embark on an action-packed journey in search of the legendary city of Olympus.

The APPLESEED ALPHA Blu-ray and DVD feature filmmaker commentary with director Shinji Aramaki and 11 making-of featurettes that track the film’s exciting journey from script to screen. In addition to showcasing the latest in state-of-the-art CGI technology, this animated film also features a killer soundtrack with 12 songs from today’s top international music artists, including Yasutaka Nakata (CAPSULE), Skrillex & Alvin Risk, androp, CAPSULE, DJ Fumiya (RIP SLYME), Passepied, Q;indivi+, tofubeats, AKLO, 80KIDZ, nishi-ken, and RAM RIDER. The original soundtrack will be released by unBORDE / WARNER MUSIC JAPAN Inc. , and Square Enix will release Play Arts Kai figurines of Deunan and Briareos this summer.




TRACK LIST
01. Try It Out (Try Harder Mix) / Skrillex & Alvin Risk（JAPAN ONLY）
02. Castle / AKLO
03. Tokyo City Underground / Passepied
04. MONSTER / DJ Fumiya
05. crosswind / tofubeats
06. NOWHERE / Q;indivi+
07. Emergency / 80KIDZ
08. RINGO / RAM RIDER
09. Acceleration / nishi-ken
10. SPACE / CAPSULE
11. You Make Me / androp
12. Depth / Yasutaka Nakata(CAPSULE)



i Hope Someone will post this soon. :)

Saw the trailer, the day this request was here, and does look good.
But it is stated it is a prequel to the original movies, so..... why is Briarios still a cyborg? It was stated already in both movies that we was turned to cyborg Inside Olympus.
It is official that this is a prequel when they did not find Olympus. This is huge plot-hole. :/

-you are-

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_Absolutely-

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-Wrong.

why should i get offended by a retard... ;)

I would like this as well. Hope someone can find it down the road :)

you're totally right ;)

I hope they release a complete edition like they did with Ex Machina (http://vgmdb.net/album/19219).
Both Incomplete (http://vgmdb.net/album/44351) (set as normal release) and the complete ost (http://vgmdb.net/album/19219) were released on the same day.
Personally, I think the first movie had the better soundtrack.
Movie will be out digitally in 15th of this month, and I will get it for sure, as it's my favorite Masamune Shirow manga.
I did not like much of the soundtrack in Ex Machina, except the score itself. This one I want to see if they learned with some mistakes of the second movie.

on itunes (https://itunes.apple.com/tr/album/appleseed-alpha-original-soundtrack/id891202136)

missing track 1.....

And on amazon (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Appleseed-Original-Soundtrack-APPLESEED-SOUNDTRACK/dp/B00LL9YQKE).

Judging by the track previews think I'm gonna like most of the soundtrack... why? Cause I like finding good in bad things :P

only for that- The soundtrack plays very bad in the movie, in the wrong moments, sound director of this movie did a shit job with it.
The score is almost good. I am pretty sure I will not like this shameless thing called..."original soundtrack" but I will give it a try...

Nothing beats the first movie. EPIC! TOUCHING! BRUTAL!! PERFECT!

and on torrent http://www.monova.org/rss/torrent/8316011/Appleseed_Alpha_(2014)_Original_Sound_Track_OST_(M P3)_(iTunes).html

that torrent was deleted

I am thankful for you sharing that link. I downloaded it... but damn...
I feel like the person doing the sound direction was an American, as this sounds as typical vocal compilation of American movies where artists songs are put just because, to make the artists known... a strike of commercial...
Not worth my money
oh wait, yes. IT IS!! Yasutaka Nakata used the name APPLESEED to promote his new produced artists.

ONLY the last track (ending of the movie) is good, original and interesting. The rest is such a pile of cow shit. No wait... Cow shit is better then this.
RAM RIDER track might be good, but it will not be something to listen that often.
nishi-ken, is not bad. CAPSULE looks good but it starts to go on my nerves.
androp starts good but then it is destroyed with those vocals, and it kills the serious mood of the movie in the part where it appears.

MiL�, please restore my faith in humanity and tell me you dislike this.

The first movie had so many great tracks from band/solo people :(
I just hope the score is released. :/ There are some great compositions on it, not as good as the first movie and ex machina, but much more enjoyable.

Yes exactly! the last track, the one that plays during end credits. That's pretty much the only one I liked. Isn't it the one by Skrillex? the one that's not available outside japan? Looks like it's called "Try It Out".

Anyway yes Orie no worries the soundtrack to this movie is nothing special, not much to write home about. After watching the film last night I didn't get the feeling to want to re-listen the songs outside the movie. But for now let me just say about the movie as a whole, since the impressions are so fresh I want to get it out of the way.

As a whole, Appleseed Alpha is a mixed bag. A mixed bag of everything. Of good and bad ideas, of crap writing and good lines that characters say sometimes, of awesome photo-realistic CGI and some under-rendered scenes that look odd, of music that's not bad on its own but it's used out of place in a movie... it's... ugh man I really want to enjoy this movie and it starts strong, but there's a lot of things that have to be forgiven. A LOT.

First of all, yes it's better than Ex Machina. Personally I just couldn't get over the character designs they used in Ex machina, it was not cel-shaded anime (like the first film) nor realistic/human-like enough. It was something it between and I just wasn't a fan of that style. The characters lost its charm and appeal. Personal complain but that's what it is.

Now, Appleseed Alpha. It does look fantastic. BUT. If they made it darker and grittier in tone then why they didn't go all the way and show the characters getting bloody & dirty & sweaty & tired & all that. There's no blood in the movie yet machines get thorn to pieces. It's like Disney came over and said: no no no we gotta make this look good for kids, can't have blood in our show, no no no. Pffft what the hell.
Now that you think about it, yeah the first Appleseed was BRUTAL. Definitely brutal compared to this. And it wasn't even that dark in tone, it just didn't hold back when it comes to showing blood or mechanical guts.
I don't know, it just seems like since they went for this photo-realistic look then all the explosions and smoke should have some effect on characters and the way they look, but nope.. look all the same at the end as they did in the beginning.

The visuals. It all looks great, fascinating at times, so much detail... BUT there a few scenes where things on a screen don't look like they belong on the same screen. Maybe it's the lightning, maybe it's the shading, maybe it needed more time post-processing and rendering, I don't know, but it looked weird and out of place. Those scenes are far in between but it's just something that I noticed.
The running animation of Deunan's battle suit at the end was total crap. It was just garbage. It looked like stop-motion effects they used in the 60s for monsters or something like that. It's as if they didn't have a motion capture actor for the suit so they had to animate it by hand, that's why it ended up looking like crap.

And the writing is probably my biggest gripe. It's the things that characters say and ideas behind the events - some are good, some are plain dumb.

For example:
-tough time to be a cyborg.
-tough time to be anybody.

That's good, you know.

But something like: "I thought you just wanted to control it, not use it!" (talking about that monster weapon at the end)
What the fuck? How dumb is that?
Or that drama moment around 1 hour in movie, when the good guys got their asses kicked. What were talking about? What the fuck were they talking about? I know it's the kind of moment they suppose to find motivation to keep going, but Gosh, it was so unconvincing.

The bad ideas. Ugh.

When the girl gets kidnapped... how the hell nobody heard a helicopter land right around the corner? Oh I guess everyone was too busy shooting at each other. How convenient. And what a cheap ass writing it is.
The evil lady cyborg, the ninja assassin type. Why the hell did she need a gun in her hand with the laser pointers on her fingers? 5 laser pointers for what? So she can manually point them at the target? Shouldn't there be a better aiming system built in in her brain or eyes or something?... since she's such a hi-tech cyborg. So basically yeah, it looked cool for that scene, but it was also dumb as fuck.
The mobster-gangster boss guy, the cyborg. What does it take to kill this guy? Or yeah I forgot, we're in a Disney movie, no killing. Kill him once - he gets repaired; kill him twice - he's back from the rubble, grenade didn't even scratch him, kill him thrice - hi's fine, of course he didn't fall to his death.

The music. Yes there are some decent compositions in the score, not the licensed song tracks. Will see if the score will get released, most likely not though, cause it's not not very big, and the movie itself is not as big of a release as the first or Ex machina for that matter.
I'm gonna check out this full tracks from iTunes release now, will see what's what, but yeah there are some annoying ones.


Saw the trailer, the day this request was here, and does look good.
But it is stated it is a prequel to the original movies, so..... why is Briarios still a cyborg? It was stated already in both movies that we was turned to cyborg Inside Olympus.
It is official that this is a prequel when they did not find Olympus. This is huge plot-hole. :/

Oh and about that, they call it a prequel, but it's not. It's more of a what's popular to say these days... RE-IMAGINING. It's like Batman Begins (2005) compared to Batman (1989). Certain elements are taken from the same source material, yet some of them are altered and added something new... and everything is more technical and realistic in tone.

there is blood... but black. I take that it's what happens when you get cyborg.
Briareos smashing the girl cyborg head of screen you do see "blood", in a "good amount". You do see it in very moments of the movie but they are black.

I actually loved the Gangster's personality. :p He had that geek guy working for him in the matters of cyborg, so we don't know how much good he is to make him BADASS.
I do agree what does it take to kill him, but It was character I did like and it's design every time he talks and all those things moving, it was awesome.
Some great lines, i agree with you there
"You gotta have to trust me. AHAHA trust me!!" that is one I loved, and that one when they got out of gas. XD
I expected Talos to be a Final Boss, but he did not offer much fight tin the end.

when the girl is kidnapped and no one heard the chopper... that song is misplaced..

Dunan movements... I see what you mean. Did not see it like that at the time. It is flagrant when she is running.

And we have the problem of PLOT HOLE.

So they want us to believe this is a Prequel?? if that is the truth, then why is Briareos a Cyborg?
It was already explicit in both last movies that Briareos was turn into cyborg IN OPLYMPUS!!! This cant be a prequel, never!!! I refuse to accept this as a Prequel, and more like a new GAIDEN. I want a sequel to this movie where to go get new people to take to Olympus as the ending gives us that hint.

The movie is amazing with the details and it's presentation. no doubt about it. The visuals Glorified the mecha designs even more then you could possible think it would.
martial arts choreography, although little, were amazing to see.
I did not like Dunan character design at first, but you just needed to get used to her face. I love those moments like first person shooter camera view. :)

Appleseed ex machina, for me at the time was way ahead in graphics. I actually loved the conception of cell shading mixed with CGI. Imagine my face when I saw how downgraded was Biohazard Degeneration. Appleseed Ex Machina was slapping That movie from here to china and to the next solar system.

But, again the blood.... you do have it.... but the only human in the movie is Dunan, and all others are cyborg, and blood being black I don't consider something like censorship in it. They are cyborgs. :/ do you get what I mean?

Oh yeah you liked Ex Machina's style? :D Well I totally understand that, and it's a matter of preference of course, maybe I just couldn't get over Dunan's redesign. Yeah that's probably it, didn't like her new face xD In that regard her look in Alpha is more acceptable to me. Yes it takes some time to get use to, but eventually she's alright and by the end I've grown to like her. It's a good thing they didn't sexualize her too much (didn't give her big boobs) when it's so common for female characters these days. She's more of a realistic version of what a soldier girl would look like in that world.

The first Appleseed CGI movie has a perfect art style in my eyes. I absolutely love that kind of combination of cel-shaded characters on detailed backgrounds. The opening action scene in a ruined city at night totally blew me away when I first saw so many years ago. It's still wonderful, always will be.
When Appleseed Ex Machina came out in 2007 there was another CGI movie released around the same time - Vexille, and frankly I liked it more then Ex Machina. The art style in particular was very appealing. That was the kind of cel-shading with more realistic looking people that I liked. Wish Ex machina had that style, but it didn't.

The gangster dude, yeah he was like a comic relief for the movie. Though I couldn't understand why is it ok for him to keep coming back. I mean yeah obviously they spent a lot of time on his designs and all those details so... killing him off would be a waste. :P I thought what does it remind me of - his facial moving parts - and then realized, it's Transformers movies.

I forgot to mention the sound design of Alpha. It's pretty good. The sound effects and gunshots, it's well done. The guns give that sense of umph! it's satisfying. Though the standard rifles (that are used a bit too often throughout the movie) sound a little weak. Maybe it's intentional, since it's the future they have suppressed sound. And defense turrets on top of that walking tank at the end, their trra-ta-ta-ta is kinda weak too. Trust me I was right next to a turret when it was fired on a ship, it suppose to sound stronger than that -_- , but then again maybe it's the future so...

As for the blood, yes you're right, and I understand what you mean - the robot blood, the cyborg internal liquids blood. Indeed I stand corrected, there's blood, it's just not always noticeable and guess I wanted to see more of it. But since they're all cyborgs then it's normal not to have too much blood in them. Re-watching the fire fights I see that sometimes they do spill blood, sometimes they don't. Also it was strange when regular bad guys drop like flies from a standard pistol when they should be cyborgs and should be able to take a few bullets to the chest. Again if those guys drop from a pistol then how the heck did Two Horns survive a grenade blast right under his feet? (And how did Iris even get to open a hatch in a tank to through grenade in?) Not even spilling any black blood :x And later we see two bad guys die instantly from a grenade thrown by Briareos from a humvee. Examples like these is what makes a bad writing. It's like the rules of combat can be bent according to a situation, the writer decides who wins and who loses based not on a common sense but on what's convenient for the story at that particular moment. Might seem like I'm nitpicking but it's actually very important to have consistent rules in a fictional world, otherwise suspension of disbelief is broken.

I've enjoyed the movie, really did, just wish it was tighter in some parts.

Here (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2014-07-16/appleseed-alpha-cg-anime-film-screenshots-unveiled/.76735) it says that the new film is "a reboot that will depict the early days of Deunan and Briareos in search of the legendary city of Olympus." So at least someone in there acknowledges it as a reboot and not a prequel. It's a good thing. I hope there's more to come to Appleseed franchise in this same style.

Oh and I realized that the track at the end is not the one by Skrillex, it's "Depth" by Capsule, the last track on OST. Yeah so it's pretty good, one of the highlights.
"Space" by Capsule is also good. If that's the one you mean was starting to get on your nerves, i can see why it's doing that, it can get repetitive after a while, but I've only listened to it once so far, so I'm good ^_^
"You Make Me" by androp. I don't have much problem with it. The vocals are distorted enough, I think it goes along with the music in the track. It's not bad.
For some reason I like "Tokyo City Underground". It's lighthearted and sunny, the chorus is kinda catchy. A movie could use a track like that for a change.
One track I can't stand is "Castle" by AKLO. It plays during introduction of your favorite character - Two Horns. Very appropriate. But damn... it's so pompous, so stupid =_=

they're going to release the complete edition of the ost with the original score by tetsuya takahashi in 2cd format.
Release Date Jan 14, 2015


WPZL-30921~3 | APPLESEED ALPHA ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK COMPLETE EDITION - VGMdb (http://vgmdb.net/album/48856)
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tracklist
Disc 1 (The Soundtrack)

01 Try It Out (Try Harder Mix)
02 Castle
03 Tokyo City Underground
04 MONSTER
05 crosswind
06 NOWHERE
07 Emergency
08 RINGO
09 Acceleration
10 SPACE
11 You Make Me
12 Depth

Disc 2 (The Original Score by Tetsuya Takahashi)

01 Appleseed α
02 pointless
03 He's a goner
04 She'd never go without you
05 Drone Hunt
06 My name is Olson
07 Talos
08 You have to make a choice
09 Trouble
10 Tank!!
11 You did good, Iris
12 It's time for us to change
13 Secret base
14 Fanatic
15 Open your eyes, and see your future
16 Engine ignition began
17 Thanks for droppin’ in
18 You gave us purpose
19 We finish this!
20 I was made for this mission
21 You gave me hope
22 Horizon

out tomorrow!

anyone have this?