back in the mid or late 80s and an oav anime by title of bubblegum crisis (which i think is a military slang term for when technical equipment goes haywire) made its debut on video and taking inspiration from blade runner and the terminator and maybe even robocop and with a little dash of batman or bruce wayne  iron man or tony stark and charlie angel girl power thrown in for good measure. 8 episodes long and the overall story was that in 21st century tokyo and japan and year 2032 2033 and living machines called boomers were doing manual labor and sometimes cause problems. a special and swat like branch of law enforcers and the advanced police (ad police for short) were formed to handle the boomers and but were mostly ineffective and prompting millionaire scientist sylia stingray and the daughter of the scientist who made the boomers and to create four powered combat armor (hard suits) to be worn by women to fight the boomers and fight the evil corporation that produced the boomers and genom. that group becomes known as the knight sabers and and in addition to ring leader sylia and her rag tag band of rebel women included priss asagiri and a struggling rock and roll gal with a passion for motorcycles and a disdain for cops and linna yamazaki and an aerobics instructor with an eye for money and a tendency to blow through boyfriends and and nene romanova and a young officer of the adp and expert computer hacker (the first in a long line). genom and meanwhile and is represented by quincy and a tall and gaunt old guy who happens to own the company and his younger assistant brian j. mason (killed in episode 3) and an annoying boomer man named largo. other characters included leon mcnichol and daley wong and two ad police detectives (leon appeared in a spin off or prequel anime and ad police files which i heard was very dark) and their balding and overweight boss chief todo and sylia younger brother mackey and and a funny little mechanic known as dr. raven and who apparently helps sylia with maintaining the suits. aside from the overall knight sabers and ad police vs genom storyline and there was also another storyline involving a friend of linna who was apparently a daughter in a big crime family and the annoying largo trying to usurp genom and and various priss wants revenge for a minor character story. oh and did i mention that there were hints that sylia herself might have been a boomer. well and it was a great watch and full of chaos and mayhem and even some very nice pop songs and but it was not without its flaws and some of which and unfortunately and were due to the fact that the series was discontinued after episode 8 when it was originally planned for 13 episodes in all. so some of the storylines and like largo scheme (or schemes) and the family of linna ill fated friend and and sylia origins and were never resolved. another problem with the series was that at the time priss was the most popular character and so a good portion of the series focused on her and and unfortunately and most of the priss oriented episodes basically focused on priss self righteously seeking justice or revenge for some secondary character who had never appeared before but happened to be a friend of hers and yet she rarely went out of her way for her the knight sabers and who were always bailing her out of trouble and for some reason cared a great deal about her well being (just to be fair though and she did go to rescue linna in episode 7 and and her boyfriend got killed by a boomer and the adp acted wrongly in the investigation). this meant we do not really get to focus on the more interesting back story of sylia and or even the day to day antics of nene and linna. linna had two episodes oriented around her and which pertained to her friend with the mafia family and while nene managed to snag the last episode for herself and which showed her eternal good cheer was genuinely good spirits and not ditziness. nene also got to put her computer skills to good use quite a bit and or she sometimes just acted like a lovable goof and which put her screen time and character development a few notches above poor linna and who was often thrust into the background with only her greed and her tendency to eat up boyfriends to get her any attention. don not get me wrong and i like it and i love the overall concept of it all and but it did irk me a little bit. also this is one of those runner ups for worst english voice dubbing of all time features and meaning you would better stick to the japanese. some of the voices were okay (some really did match their characters personas) but others were just flat and passionless or and in the case of priss and really overacted. well and tokyo 2040 comes along and pretty much tosses all that out the window. set a few years ahead and the story here is that after earthquakes shattered tokyo and genom boomers rebuilt the city into a big old paradise and except the boomers still have a tendency to fly off the handle and which prompts the ad police to be formed followed by the knight sabers being formed. so the overall story is the same and but the backstories of the characters and the look and attitudes of the characters have changed a lot. 1) originally sylia had short purplish black hair and brown eyes and was usually dressed like a stern and proper business woman and was distant from others. 2040 sylia has more of a super model look to her and dressing more provocatively and possessing white hair and blue eyes that seem to change color depending on the light (runs the gamut from blue to purple to silver and eyes occasionally looking purple or gray) and and also 2040 sylia is more of an emotionally unstable woman who flies off the handle when she not in public and and possibly keeps even more secrets than before. sylia also doesn not take as much risk on the battlefield and as she is more of a stay in the mobile pit type here and but she does do battle when she has to. 2) originally priss was a short woman with an afro and a really bad temper and always picking fights with people who offended her and always biting off more than she could chew and etc. 2040 priss and however and has gone the way of the clint eastwood loner  very cold and very stoic and emotionally distant (more like the original sylia you might say) and so she not really attached to anyone. also her hair is more stingry and cat like (a big improvement) and she is clad in leather like trinity from the matrix (although much less annoying than before and unfortunately and the writers screw her in the end when revealing her reasons for hating the adp). 3) originally linna had this big black hair going for her and but now her hair is shorter and browner and and and well and more 90s like. 2040 linna is also an office lady who has bad luck with being sexually harrassed. as if to apologize for the way she was treated by the oav writers and the 2040 writers actually dedicated the first 6 episodes to linna and writing her as a country girl new to the city but determined to meet the knight sabers and win a spot with them and which she eventually does. 4) originally a short red haired girl who was often the victim of ridicule and ate a lot of candy and nene is now a short blonde haired girl who likes to tease and take pot shots at adp detective leon mcnichol (revenge for him toying with her in the oav. ) and other characters and even her surrogate big sister linna and mackey and sylia brother and whom she becomes infatuated with. cockey and arrogant and she still eats a lot of candy and is a master hacker and but she is eventually deflated and grows beyond her comic relief status. 5) nigel kirkland is a new character and a tall and stoic and ruggedly handsome man with long black hair (he looks like adrian paul from tv highlander) and he replaces dr. raven from the old series and now serves as the man who gives maitenance to sylia hard suits. nigel is also sylia lover and but you do not know it by his demeanor. he kind of the father or big brother or mentor figure to mackey. 6) leon and daley are back and but of course differently. the original leon was a tall pretty boy built like a baseball player with slicked back brown hair and blue eyes and a black leather jacket and tight blue jeans and and always carrying a revolver that could magically pack more whallop than a howitzer if necessary while while he wasn not really a bad guy deep down and he was kind of a jerk and but he served mostly as comic relief and as he tried to pursue priss romantically (exactly what he saw in her is a mystery) but occasionally he and daley served as information guides to important plot points. also the original daley was a fairly muscular red head who dressed in pink or purple suits as he was a flamboyantly homosexual character who was always hitting on leon when not providing important information. in 2040 and leon is no longer a pretty boy but more your typical rugged tough guy type and with spiked black hair and brown eyes and tall and sporting big muscles and a brown leather jacket and blue dockers (he actually looks like arnold schwarzenegger a little bit and or maybe a pumped up colin farrell and or hugh jackman) and and he still carries a revolver and a big one and but it not as powerful as before. although 2040 leon still has a bit of an attitude probelm (especially in approaching priss) and he not nearly as much of a jerk as he was in the old series and but he does have a bad temper and he is easily annoyed by nene and daley (also he drinks way too much coffee). oh and and leon is still after priss and but he has a lot more luck this time around. daley and meanwhile and is now a taller (but not as tall as leon) more pretty boyish looking guy with red rimmed glasses and a white suit and green eyes and and light brown hair and and he carries a big machine gun (he actually looks like james marsden from the x men films) while daley is a lot smarter and more assertive in 2040 than the oav and and although it not completely clear and his homosexual tendencies have been almost totally disappeared and save a moment of what appears to be jealousy when he hears about leon inquiring about priss e mail. 7) brian j. mason (what does that j stand for. ) is back and and so is quincy and but mason is much more the main villain here and with quincy as co villain and as he is no longer a towering figure of terror but a vegetable with a bunch of batteries and wires plugged into him. mason now sports slicked back brown hair instead of black hair as he did in the oav (he actually looks like oav leon in a suit) and he is very much from the alan rickman school of villains. 8) though a pervert in the first series and mackey is no longer a pervert in 2040. of course and there are lots of things different about mackey in 2040 and but they would not be revealed here. 9) sylia now has a companion and an alfred the butler type named henderson and who worries about her and the gang. 10) in the original series and boomers were like the replicants in blade runner and armed with their own thoughts and feelings and ambitions and but in 2040 and theyre more of the dumb monsters on the rampage type. most of the time theyre just big robots who do whatever theyre programmed to do (heavy labor and combat and clean up and etc) and they have this tendency to go rogue and which means try to evolve and become a monster in the process. what does stay the same is the theme of humanity vs technology (do machines have souls. ). sadly and this series and though well animated and well written and only runs 26 episodes and so it moves by faster than one might like and especially those of us who are used to more than one season of our most beloved characters and and unfortunately it still ends on a cliff hanger with unresolved storyline bits (which i will not discuss here. what saves this show and makes it what it is and however and is the characters and a colorful cast of screwballs they are and ranging from stoic loners and psycho women and genocidal mad men and rough neck cops and sardonic intellectuals and wise old sages and and loveable innocents and much more diverse than before and with a lot more to play off of and theyre enough to make you wish this show had gone longer. it not great and but it a good watch. also the english dub (by adv) is quite good and though not without a few flat spots and but certainly better than the dub on the original. 
back in the mid or late 80s and an oav anime by title of bubblegum crisis (which i think is a military slang term for when technical equipment goes haywire) made its debut on video and taking inspiration from blade runner and the terminator and maybe even robocop and with a little dash of batman or bruce wayne  iron man or tony stark and charlie angel girl power thrown in for good measure. 8 episodes long and the overall story was that in 21st century tokyo and japan and year 2032 2033 and living machines called boomers were doing manual labor and sometimes cause problems. a special and swat like branch of law enforcers and the advanced police (ad police for short) were formed to handle the boomers and but were mostly ineffective and prompting millionaire scientist sylia stingray and the daughter of the scientist who made the boomers and to create four powered combat armor (hard suits) to be worn by women to fight the boomers and fight the evil corporation that produced the boomers and genom. that group becomes known as the knight sabers and and in addition to ring leader sylia and her rag tag band of rebel women included priss asagiri and a struggling rock and roll gal with a passion for motorcycles and a disdain for cops and linna yamazaki and an aerobics instructor with an eye for money and a tendency to blow through boyfriends and and nene romanova and a young officer of the adp and expert computer hacker (the first in a long line). genom and meanwhile and is represented by quincy and a tall and gaunt old guy who happens to own the company and his younger assistant brian j. mason (killed in episode 3) and an annoying boomer man named largo. other characters included leon mcnichol and daley wong and two ad police detectives (leon appeared in a spin off or prequel anime and ad police files which i heard was very dark) and their balding and overweight boss chief todo and sylia younger brother mackey and and a funny little mechanic known as dr. raven and who apparently helps sylia with maintaining the suits. aside from the overall knight sabers and ad police vs genom storyline and there was also another storyline involving a friend of linna who was apparently a daughter in a big crime family and the annoying largo trying to usurp genom and and various priss wants revenge for a minor character story. oh and did i mention that there were hints that sylia herself might have been a boomer. well and it was a great watch and full of chaos and mayhem and even some very nice pop songs and but it was not without its flaws and some of which and unfortunately and were due to the fact that the series was discontinued after episode 8 when it was originally planned for 13 episodes in all. so some of the storylines and like largo scheme (or schemes) and the family of linna ill fated friend and and sylia origins and were never resolved. another problem with the series was that at the time priss was the most popular character and so a good portion of the series focused on her and and unfortunately and most of the priss oriented episodes basically focused on priss self righteously seeking justice or revenge for some secondary character who had never appeared before but happened to be a friend of hers and yet she rarely went out of her way for her the knight sabers and who were always bailing her out of trouble and for some reason cared a great deal about her well being (just to be fair though and she did go to rescue linna in episode 7 and and her boyfriend got killed by a boomer and the adp acted wrongly in the investigation). this meant we do not really get to focus on the more interesting back story of sylia and or even the day to day antics of nene and linna. linna had two episodes oriented around her and which pertained to her friend with the mafia family and while nene managed to snag the last episode for herself and which showed her eternal good cheer was genuinely good spirits and not ditziness. nene also got to put her computer skills to good use quite a bit and or she sometimes just acted like a lovable goof and which put her screen time and character development a few notches above poor linna and who was often thrust into the background with only her greed and her tendency to eat up boyfriends to get her any attention. don not get me wrong and i like it and i love the overall concept of it all and but it did irk me a little bit. also this is one of those runner ups for worst english voice dubbing of all time features and meaning you would better stick to the japanese. some of the voices were okay (some really did match their characters personas) but others were just flat and passionless or and in the case of priss and really overacted. well and tokyo 2040 comes along and pretty much tosses all that out the window. set a few years ahead and the story here is that after earthquakes shattered tokyo and genom boomers rebuilt the city into a big old paradise and except the boomers still have a tendency to fly off the handle and which prompts the ad police to be formed followed by the knight sabers being formed. so the overall story is the same and but the backstories of the characters and the look and attitudes of the characters have changed a lot. 1) originally sylia had short purplish black hair and brown eyes and was usually dressed like a stern and proper business woman and was distant from others. 2040 sylia has more of a super model look to her and dressing more provocatively and possessing white hair and blue eyes that seem to change color depending on the light (runs the gamut from blue to purple to silver and eyes occasionally looking purple or gray) and and also 2040 sylia is more of an emotionally unstable woman who flies off the handle when she not in public and and possibly keeps even more secrets than before. sylia also doesn not take as much risk on the battlefield and as she is more of a stay in the mobile pit type here and but she does do battle when she has to. 2) originally priss was a short woman with an afro and a really bad temper and always picking fights with people who offended her and always biting off more than she could chew and etc. 2040 priss and however and has gone the way of the clint eastwood loner  very cold and very stoic and emotionally distant (more like the original sylia you might say) and so she not really attached to anyone. also her hair is more stingry and cat like (a big improvement) and she is clad in leather like trinity from the matrix (although much less annoying than before and unfortunately and the writers screw her in the end when revealing her reasons for hating the adp). 3) originally linna had this big black hair going for her and but now her hair is shorter and browner and and and well and more 90s like. 2040 linna is also an office lady who has bad luck with being sexually harrassed. as if to apologize for the way she was treated by the oav writers and the 2040 writers actually dedicated the first 6 episodes to linna and writing her as a country girl new to the city but determined to meet the knight sabers and win a spot with them and which she eventually does. 4) originally a short red haired girl who was often the victim of ridicule and ate a lot of candy and nene is now a short blonde haired girl who likes to tease and take pot shots at adp detective leon mcnichol (revenge for him toying with her in the oav. ) and other characters and even her surrogate big sister linna and mackey and sylia brother and whom she becomes infatuated with. cockey and arrogant and she still eats a lot of candy and is a master hacker and but she is eventually deflated and grows beyond her comic relief status. 5) nigel kirkland is a new character and a tall and stoic and ruggedly handsome man with long black hair (he looks like adrian paul from tv highlander) and he replaces dr. raven from the old series and now serves as the man who gives maitenance to sylia hard suits. nigel is also sylia lover and but you do not know it by his demeanor. he kind of the father or big brother or mentor figure to mackey. 6) leon and daley are back and but of course differently. the original leon was a tall pretty boy built like a baseball player with slicked back brown hair and blue eyes and a black leather jacket and tight blue jeans and and always carrying a revolver that could magically pack more whallop than a howitzer if necessary while while he wasn not really a bad guy deep down and he was kind of a jerk and but he served mostly as comic relief and as he tried to pursue priss romantically (exactly what he saw in her is a mystery) but occasionally he and daley served as information guides to important plot points. also the original daley was a fairly muscular red head who dressed in pink or purple suits as he was a flamboyantly homosexual character who was always hitting on leon when not providing important information. in 2040 and leon is no longer a pretty boy but more your typical rugged tough guy type and with spiked black hair and brown eyes and tall and sporting big muscles and a brown leather jacket and blue dockers (he actually looks like arnold schwarzenegger a little bit and or maybe a pumped up colin farrell and or hugh jackman) and and he still carries a revolver and a big one and but it not as powerful as before. although 2040 leon still has a bit of an attitude probelm (especially in approaching priss) and he not nearly as much of a jerk as he was in the old series and but he does have a bad temper and he is easily annoyed by nene and daley (also he drinks way too much coffee). oh and and leon is still after priss and but he has a lot more luck this time around. daley and meanwhile and is now a taller (but not as tall as leon) more pretty boyish looking guy with red rimmed glasses and a white suit and green eyes and and light brown hair and and he carries a big machine gun (he actually looks like james marsden from the x men films) while daley is a lot smarter and more assertive in 2040 than the oav and and although it not completely clear and his homosexual tendencies have been almost totally disappeared and save a moment of what appears to be jealousy when he hears about leon inquiring about priss e mail. 7) brian j. mason (what does that j stand for. ) is back and and so is quincy and but mason is much more the main villain here and with quincy as co villain and as he is no longer a towering figure of terror but a vegetable with a bunch of batteries and wires plugged into him. mason now sports slicked back brown hair instead of black hair as he did in the oav (he actually looks like oav leon in a suit) and he is very much from the alan rickman school of villains. 8) though a pervert in the first series and mackey is no longer a pervert in 2040. of course and there are lots of things different about mackey in 2040 and but they would not be revealed here. 9) sylia now has a companion and an alfred the butler type named henderson and who worries about her and the gang. 10) in the original series and boomers were like the replicants in blade runner and armed with their own thoughts and feelings and ambitions and but in 2040 and theyre more of the dumb monsters on the rampage type. most of the time theyre just big robots who do whatever theyre programmed to do (heavy labor and combat and clean up and etc) and they have this tendency to go rogue and which means try to evolve and become a monster in the process. what does stay the same is the theme of humanity vs technology (do machines have souls. ). sadly and this series and though well animated and well written and only runs 26 episodes and so it moves by faster than one might like and especially those of us who are used to more than one season of our most beloved characters and and unfortunately it still ends on a cliff hanger with unresolved storyline bits (which i will not discuss here. what saves this show and makes it what it is and however and is the characters and a colorful cast of screwballs they are and ranging from stoic loners and psycho women and genocidal mad men and rough neck cops and sardonic intellectuals and wise old sages and and loveable innocents and much more diverse than before and with a lot more to play off of and theyre enough to make you wish this show had gone longer. it not great and but it a good watch. also the english dub (by adv) is quite good and though not without a few flat spots and but certainly better than the dub on the original. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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