February 2, 2007
Vexille - Upcoming Anime from Appleseed’s Creators
First reported on 24Framespersecond, Fumihiko Sori (Producer of Appleseed) directing a new cyberpunk anime called, Vexille for Shochiku Films. The description is as follows:
From the creators of APPLESEED, comes a Full CG animation Sci-Fi Action film. 2077 - 10 years has passed since Japan had decided to leave the United Nations to go into isolation. They have completely blocked the islands with an ultra magnetic field which prevents anyone to see what is going inside, nor for people to travel in/out of the country. This was a result to opposing to a treaty which UN has passed, preventing the development of all bio and robot technology which has evolved drastically and has become a threat to the human beings. When Japan finally begins to move, the US government sends in a special force team SWORD, lead by a female commander Vexille, to investigate what is really happening inside the closed country.
While this sounds interesting, I’m hoping to see projects that depict a more complex “robots and AI are taking over the world!” scenario - possibly ones which stress more individuality among a various groupings of AIs and sentient robots. One can imagine scenarios where competing interests are keeping some on humanity’s side, others fervently opposed, and more still somewhere in the middle.
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7 Comments on Vexille - Upcoming Anime from Appleseed’s Creators »
February 3, 2007
Hugo @ 11:48 am:
Sadly very little information on this title. How “up-and-coming” is it? Should I be expecting it within the next few months, or within a year, or five years?
The information superhighway is surprisingly sparse of information. Though plenty of road-side whorehouses :P.
SFAM @ 6:30 pm:
Hi Hugo, 24framespersecond claims that this is due to be released in August of this year. I’m guessing that this is just a Japanese release date though.
June 16, 2007
randomrob @ 1:36 pm:
The spam in this place is killing me….
Look forward to this film though.
SFAM @ 2:02 pm:
I Randomrob, I couldn’t agree more. Previously Akismet was catching about 1000 messages of spam a day - it still is. Unfortunately now like 20 of them are getting through. Previously there were none. I gotta upgrade something to fix this….hopefully that will address it.
October 29, 2007
Anonymous @ 5:17 am:
“One can imagine scenarios where competing interests are keeping some on humanity’s side, others fervently opposed”
That’s why I like ‘Transformers’ so much!
February 29, 2008
SciFiDrive @ 3:14 pm:
action’s great they advanced animation up a notch. Those jags remind me of Dune’s sandworms.
Klaw @ 7:40 pm:
Yeah saw a copy of this a few weeks ago. Animation is on par with Appleseed, story is about as deep though. Worth a viewing for sure.