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Shinji Aramaki (荒牧 伸志, Aramaki Shinji) is well known among anime fans as the director and designer of such classics as APPLESEED, and METAL SKIN PANIC.
In this episode CINEPOD talks to Aramaki in Tokyo about how he began in the anime business, the changes that computerization
has brought to the industry, and his work that often describes humans and machines in a complicated and symbiotic relationship.
 Appleseed (アップルシード, Appurushīdo), the film that consolidated Aramaki's position in the first rank of anime directors. Released in
Japan in 2004 the film is based on the characters created by Masamune Shirow in the original "Appleseed" manga
published in 1985. In the film, female soldier Deunan Knute has survived World War III, and finds herself in the utopian city
of Olympus which is populated by humans and humanoids, and watched over by the artificial intelligence Gaia. Deunan becomes
one of the city's guardians but discovers that the mutants have more than a working relationship with her...
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