Serial Experiments Lain: 10/10
WHAT. THE. FUCK. The three words I have repeated all throughout the show. The series likes to dip its finger into your brain and you'll like it for some reason. The series sticks to its title as you don't get a single crumb of info until you're halfway in the show. When shit hits the fan, it doesn't spread. No, it sends it right back to the asshole that shit it out. That's just how the story goes for this series. The concept of the story is also scary as the world we live in is working toward the series' setting.
It's an old series but plaster in better animation and you got yourself a series that dwarfs "getting stuck in an online game" theme. It's just that close in our daily lives with technology. Overall, it's a great show. You'll overlook the animation as the opening song is really that good and the story is mind boggling.
Appleseed XIII: 0/10
It's shit. No really, it's shit. It's an appleseed series that is a god damn shame. Why? Because it is when you compare the 2004 and 2007 movie with this crap in terms of animation. It's hard to believe this had 13 episodes considering the time gap of 24 years. It bombards with stained glass images that the animators apparently think it IS better than showing you cutscenes, it also follows through with unreasonable hairdo that makes yugioh proud. The story is not enough to make you forget the greatest insult done to its heroine as she turns into some pouty cutie wannabe that is way far from the 2004 movie or the deus ex. It is a complete character change and it's really not that great because primarily, that's the support character hitomi already does. Come to think of it, she barely had any hand in this series despite her position.
Appleseed Alpha: 5/10
Appleseed for me is something that gives you satisfaction from start to finish. Alpha, two years after the sad XIII OVA series is yet another XIII-ish movie series. Thing is, the movie isn't actually done. It's just 1 part of a set that has the danger of getting rushed to end or being left hanging. Another is that the characters, although bree became cooler than before, deunan didn't but i guess that takes some getting used to until.. well.. hitomi looks like a clone. Sorry, to be specific, she was cloned and the original doesn't look different when the clone itself said that she was "made" so with that in mind, the source should LOOK different as the whole predicament centers around the knowledge of the source. I mean, who in their intellectual mind would just manufacture a clone and not alter its appearance to further protect the original? I take that as something as a lazy/no attention to detail.
It's not as awful as XIII but it's too early to settle that this is great either. So far, the CG is the only thing going for it.
Appleseed Deus Ex Machina: 4/10
I'll make this short and say the movie is about skynet but with zombies. Animation was good, Nyx gave me a hard on and hitomi's jaw-dropping. Nothing else to say really. It didn't give me the feeling I had when I watched appleseed 2004 movie.