World War Three is over, but for nomad soldier Deunan Knute and her cyborg lover, Briareos, the greatest challenge lies ahead, not in the abandoned cities and DMZs of a post-war battlefield, but on the streets of a new "utopia."

Appleseed Hypernotes, never before collected in America, features an 80-plus-page Appleseed tale, plus reams of detailed information about and art of the characters, machines, and weapons of Appleseed, presented in a non-Westernized, right-to-left reading format, as originally published in Japan.

Story and art by Shirow Masamune.

Printed in the original Japanese right-to-left format!

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