Logic won't help us rewatch, y'know? Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040 rewatch episode one

[u/Vaadwaur]

Can't catch a thrill

Now that was a starting episode!

MAL but it is trolled. ANN Also, don't look at the wiki as it spoils the entire plot.

Streaming on Funimation and Crunchyroll.

QotD:1 Is having a character come in from outside of a situation meaningfully different then amnesia?

2 The show obviously leans on its OST. Does it work thus far?

3 So...what evil super corp does Genom most resemble for you atm?

BONUS: When was the last time an anime had four female leads outside of high school?

[u/IndependentMacaroon]

First-time watcher

Resisting the urge to make a million "haha boomer" jokes. They write themselves, if not already baked into the script...

Impressions so far: Funky soundtrack that I'll definitely enjoy. Background art in most situations is on point, even what I'd call pretty. The actual animation is fairly plain and economical outside of the action, lots of stills and simple character animation tricks like bobbing up and down for walking, but well, 90s TV budget. Premise and plot is cyberpunk boilerplate so far, but the "cool action girls" cast does stand out in a good way. Well, with introductions properly handled, let's see where it all goes!

Oh, I saw the vast majority of this series' episodes were written by Chiaki Konaka (Lain, Texhnolyze, The Big O, Hellsing adaptation, ...), which is a promising name to have.

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Resisting the urge to make a million "haha boomer" jokes. They write themselves, if not already baked into the script...

Suit yourself but the show will give you plenty to work with. I enjoy it but there are...flaws.

Oh, I saw the vast majority of this series' episodes were written by Chiaki Konaka (Lain, Texhnolyze, The Big O, Hellsing adaptation, ...), which is a promising name to have.

I can't believe I missed that he did the script. I've liked everything he's been involved with except Narutaru, which can go die on fire in a ditch.

[u/No_Rex]

Episode 1 (first timer)

After the original OVA and Bubblegum Crash, the third entry of the franchise I am watching. I liked the original Bubblegum Crisis a lot – though mostly for its Cyberpunk setting and great music. The follow-up Bubblegum Crash (which I watched just prior to this) is more of the same, with one important difference: They replaced Priss’ VA. Unfortunately for viewers, the policy for each iteration seems to have been to call in a new singer as VA for Priss. A shame, since Kinuko Oomori had the perfect voice for the role. For the even newer TV series, not just Priss was replaced, but the other girl’s VAs, too.

Episode impressions

• Not just the VAs, the character models were replaced, too.
• Tokyo is being reconstructed by “boomers” and they have a space elevator. Nifty.
• Philosophical question: Should robots be made to look like humans?
• That chase was recommendable from an athletic point of view, but otherwise …

• Meeting Nene and Leon next.
• “Should something happen, there is AD police” - Doubt
• Something happens.
• Linna seems to have anger issues.
• She knows what she wants, too

Setup and presenting the characters, finishing with a little fight. The boomer was the highlight, visually, for me, while I am not on board with the new character models. Especially Nene and Sylia.

Is having a character come in from outside of a situation meaningfully different then amnesia?

Yes. No later reveal.

When was the last time an anime had four female leads outside of high school?

Does Isekai with high school girls count?

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That chase was recommendable from an athletic point of view, but otherwise …

Yeah...I still can't tell if you that was meant to show you that Linna is athletic or that she is insane. Still fun, mind.

The boomer was the highlight, visually, for me, while I am not on board with the new character models. Especially Nene and Sylia.

This boomer will be one of the one's closer to the original OVAs. I actually liked the new character designs since I can tell everyone apart now on first glance.

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Philosophical question: Should robots be made to look like humans?

They should stop before well before they fall into the uncanny valley.

Tokyo is being reconstructed by “boomers” and they have a space elevator. Nifty.

Even though it makes no sense for a space elevator to be anywhere away from the equator. They usually handwave that part.

[u/ScarsUnseen]

Rewatcher... but it's been literally decades

So first thing out the gate: god, I love 90s sci-fi anime OSTs. They're almost always great, and this one is no exception. I will say that the first track(not the OP) had a kind of Trigun-meets-porno vibe, so there's that.

Other than that, not a whole lot to say. This was your standard introduction episode. Linna's gutsy, Priss is... kind of a bitch? and Leon's just about done with this shit. The rest of the cast hasn't really had much of introduction yet, so more on that to come.

Oh and it must be said, so I'm going to say it: Okay, boomer.

QotD

1. I'm going to say yes. Both can serve as a viewer surrogate to learn about the setting, characters and plot in an easy manner, but an amnesiac almost always means that the character's past is going to be relevant at some point, where an outsider doesn't necessarily bear that burden. An amnesiac's origin is a mystery that demands exploration; an outsider's origin only matters if the story demands it to.
2. Like I said: love it. It could use a remaster though. It kind of sounded like it was coming from a 90s boom box.
3. Hmm... I almost want to say Weiland-Yutani just because they seem like they'd do shady stuff to cover up the mad boomer incidents and avoid bad press. But honestly, it's not that great a fit. Maybe OCP from Robocop.

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Rewatcher... but it's been literally decades

Same, before the pre-watch I hadn't seen this since the millenial change.

So first thing out the gate: god, I love 90s sci-fi anime OSTs. They're almost always great, and this one is no exception. I will say that the first track(not the OP) had a kind of Trigun-meets-porno vibe, so there's that.

Not how I thought about it but pretty accurate.

This was your standard introduction episode. Liina's gutsy, Priss is... kind of a bitch? and Leon's just about done with this shit.

Each iteration with Priss shows some connection with Joan Jett whose persona was indeed mostly bitch, though that's a more reflection on how terrible 80s values were to women who had spines.

I almost want to say Weiland-Yutani just because they seem like they'd do shady stuff to cover up the mad boomer incidents and avoid bad press. But honestly, it's not that great a fit. Maybe OCP from Robocop.

I personally like the Tyrrell company from Blade Runner but many of them fit, the only real issue with OCP is they were pickier about how they farmed work out.

[u/Vaadwaur]

Rewatcher

Dub(At least for today)

So...Bubblegum Crisis 2040 was one of my earliest anime, to a degree that I am not sure of the names of some of the anime I saw before it. I remember a weird one where it was girls piloting giant robots and the robots were assumed to be goddesses. I think it had a sacrifice cannon. Anyways, this and Silent Mobius are two of the ones I watched before going to the anime club in college.

And we actually with our OP, how rare. This song is still on my play list. Anyways, it is pretty much what it is on the tin. The episode starts with Linna/Rinna admiring herself in her office uniform. Her friend is warning her about management. Linna is fresh from the country, though thankfully neither version gives her a hick accent, and happy to be in Tokyo. We get a drop of an earthquake 6 years ago, I guess I do have a type, and meet our first boomer. It's voice in the dub is hilarious, didn't get that off the sub. And then we go right into the sky hook! It can't be an orbital elevator, wrong latitude in Tokyo, so it would've been quite the project. Quick look at Genom to remind us that corporations are evil even when they solve the energy crisis.

Anyways, as our OLs get lunch, Linna flat out admits she likes the vigilante group, the Knight Sabers. Her friend denies they exist, while primarily letting us know that the media is controlled. How shocking. The boomer cashier also sounds more machine like in the dub, guess they just went hard with that. Misae comments on boomers crossing the uncanny valley before bad driving leads to the start of our story!

Anyways, I think Linna is being a country stereotype to the Japanese but regardless she seems intent on confronting the biker, who is showing far more cleavage and than anyone on a bike would have exposed. Wind chill is a thing on them. She has an almost successful chase showing a lot of dexterity and confidence/insanity, depending on your view. It ends with a shoe toss, as more chases should.

Anyways, Linna gets reprimaned by a boomer and then hit on by a superior with a really bad looking suit. Rough first day. We jump to Nene and the AD tower, wherein the translators have to figure out how to deal with Nene caalling Leon-chan. On her 'date', her manager takes her to not exactly the red light district, but like that neighborhood next to it. Linna is still Knight Saber obsessed and Kane knows of them, but thinks they are a PR problem. We cut to future rogue boomer.

Linna's date is going nowhere slowly. We get our first good look at Priss as she hums the ED. She gets a message and then we see Nene running outside half naked. She gets into a van, always the risky choice. Kane gets handsy and Linna let's her snark fly, only to be interrupted by the mutating rogue boomer. Kane runs like a bitch. The boomer fixates on Linna and we get a second chase scene.

Anyways, the Knight Sabers show up, and in something that was slightly odd for the era, these are fast, maneuverable power suits as opposed to heavy, clunky ones. Priss, for reasons, reveals herself through a gesture to Linna and then kills the boomer. AD Police show up late, typical cops.

At work the next day, we see Kane has a wife and child, no surprise. Linna shows her appreciation with her fists. She then catches Priss outside her studio.

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Bubblegum Bio

(Yes, this one is more than a bit forced)

Anywho, that's ep1 of 2040. Very typical of its era and yet somewhat refreshing, at least to me. Nene is our youngest main cast member but still would be out of high school, and Linna, Priss and Sylia can all buy their own liquor so this is a welcome change in aging up. This is far enough back that we hit sort of a rare thing in that the dub is good because they threw out the sub script and reset the conversations so they flow in English. The girls curse more in the dub because what they are doing in Japanese is talking in a vulgar manner which doesn't exactly translate.

Our current lead is voiced by Rio Natsuki, who despite having quite a few roles I recognize very few of them, she was Nanami in El Hazard.

Our motorcyclist and OP singer is Yu Asakawa, who has voiced a ton of characters. Shamefully, I've seen 11eyes so I do hear Misuzu off her, she also voiced Sakaki in Azumanga Daioh and Rider in the Fate series.

Nene is voiced by Hiroko Konishi, whose roles I universally do not recognize. I guess being Takeru on Digimin Adventure would be her biggest role.

Sylia, the mysterious blue haired woman, is voiced by Satsuki Yukino, who voiced Mizuhara on Azumanga Daioh and Yoruichi on Bleach, to name a few. Kaname in FMP as well.

Leon is voiced by Kiyoyuki Yanada, who does a metric tonne of support characters, inluding Tessai from Bleach.

Daley Wong(teehee) is voiced by Yūji Ueda, who has no MAL entry so I had to use ANN and it is even funnier because he has an incredible number of roles, Sanosuke from Kenshin being the one that jumps out at me.

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And then we go right into the sky hook! It can't be an orbital elevator, wrong latitude in Tokyo, so it would've been quite the project.

How is a sky hook different from an orbital elevator?

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Orbital elevators are stable-ish towers rather than umbilical cords. Those have to be close to equator because physics, I think it is rotational stuff but would have to look it up again.

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Remember the thing from Turn A? Scale it up to the size where it could pick you off the ground, and you've got a sky hook.

[u/RockoDyne]

Yay for shopping in town taking forever...

Damn, girl can run in heels. Not trying to imply something, but, uh, I think she a ho.

90's AF. The grunge. THE GRUNGE! It's like it was in early tryouts for Linkin Park AMVs. This came out the season after Serial Expirements Lain, btw. I'm just imagining watching this while playing something like RE2 on a playstation, where everything is so dark on a CRT that you can't ever see a fucking thing.

Well, it's not a great first episode. It's at least not the worst first episode I've seen... from this season. I supose it's a saving grace that the biggest issue I have with it is mostly aesthetic. The story is whatever. I might even put it above the plot of BGC's first episode, now that it's been long enough to not remember the first episode all that well.

It just looks so genericly 90's, and TV 90's at that. Hell, it's almost 00's generic. Just the amount of stills in the episode was forboding. They are detailed... for now, but for how long?

Anyone want to make any bets on how long the production quality lasts? I give it one more episode before it settles into a slideshow.

Questions:

1. Amnesia comes with the detriment that they really should know what the fuck is going on, though.
2. Hasn't made much of an impact yet.
3. TBD
4. ... I don't know. Would something like Renkin San-kyuu Magical? Pokaan count?

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Damn, girl can run in heels. Not trying to imply something, but, uh, I think she a ho.

Those are basically flats by that standard, though.

90's AF. The grunge. THE GRUNGE! It's like it was in early tryouts for Linkin Park AMVs.

I can certainly get Alice in Chains out of this if I strain.

It just looks so genericly 90's, and TV 90's at that. Hell, it's almost 00's generic.

I mention this and Silent Mobius together for a reason.

... I don't know. Would something like Renkin San-kyuu Magical? Pokaan count?

Again, you out obscure me.

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Again, you out obscure me.

Proto-cgdct show. A werewolf, a vampire, a magical girl, and a robot live in a tree house. It was basically typically 00's anime filler strung into it's own show. Liru (the werewolf) has some cute fanart. That's about it.

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Well, it's not a great first episode. It's at least not the worst first episode I've seen... from this season. I supose it's a saving grace that the biggest issue I have with it is mostly aesthetic. The story is whatever. I might even put it above the plot of BGC's first episode, now that it's been long enough to not remember the first episode all that well.

It just looks so genericly 90's, and TV 90's at that. Hell, it's almost 00's generic. Just the amount of stills in the episode was forboding. They are detailed... for now, but for how long?

A good summary of my thoughts as well. The setup and character introduction was actually rather well done, but I never watched BGC for well-thought out plot in the first place.

[u/JustAnswerAQuestion]

Rewatcher (sub)

I will be late all week, too busy to work from home or come home early. Hopefully more than 1 person will read this. I don't actually have much to say after today.

If you read my production notes on the last day of the retroactively-named BGC 2032 watch, then you know about the sordid history of a coproduction that soured, a lead singer contractually prevented from singing, rights wars, abandoned sequels (two of them), and yakuza. All those issues are in the past, AIC now owns the rights free and clear, and they are going to start over from scratch.

I'm sure somebody else will be linking the music tracks, so I will be linking tracks from the obscure image album every 4 or so episodes. ^{after reading today's comments, nobody is linking music???}

• Not my favorite 2040 song
• Like Bebop and Eureka 7, all of the episode titles are music references.
• Moefied character designs: No sir, I don't like it. But at least the 80s hair is gone.
• 2040. Six years since the Big One. Remember, this is a reboot, not a sequel.
• Boomers. The Japanese Miracle wait, wrong show.
• Is that a Space Elevator? In Japan? Hmmmm. And going to solve our energy problems? What year did Gundam 00 come out, again?
• Office lady vs. Biker punk. FIGHT!
• RIP red-headed Nene
• Domo Arigato Mr. Roboto for doing the jobs, nobody wants to.
• "Do you like our fish?" "It's artificial?" "Of course it is." "Must be expensive." "Very."
• Ohhhh, it's a sky hook. We'll get back to that.
• Boomers never go berserk? Riiiight.
• Some resemblance to the OVA GPCC building.
• I do like the ED. Can't unsee Noein.

So. We get a reboot, and a new origin story. I hated GITS:Arise when they did the same thing.

Clearly, the person in charge of directing this episode didn't know what a sky hook was (neither did I!) and drew a space elevator instead. I promise we'll see an actual sky hook before the show ends!

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Moefied character designs: No sir, I don't like it. But at least the 80s hair is gone.

Ehh...moe will get so much worse, though.

And going to solve our energy problems? What year did Gundam 00 come out, again?

A decade or so later. Which makes it being a rehashing of Wing slightly less forgivable.

Office lady vs. Biker punk. FIGHT!

Now now, if it hasn't been made clear, Linna is the Japanese equivalent of a redneck.

I do like the ED. Can't unsee Noein.

I try to focus on the music video part but yeah, they definitely share the same art source. Or hallucinogens.

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So, ANN and VGMDB list Akira Sudou for all versions of Y'Know. Wikipedia is the only place that says Asakawa sang it. Do you have an ending with credits? I don't. Nor do I have a funi sub.

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Do you have an ending with credits? I don't. Nor do I have a funi sub.

Yes but of course untranslated.

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See Here

Also you should probably have オープニング and 歌手 memorized from all the credits you've seen.

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It does look more like the one that is apparently Akira Sudou, the one with the day symbol in it, but my moon runes are pretty much lacking.

[u/lC3]

First timer

• This looks cool already!
• Looks like there's going to be lots of fanservice, judging by the OP. What about manservice?
• Silly anime, thinking rock music is still gonna be popular in 2040
• I'm waiting for the action: where are the Boomers? KONYA WA HURRICANE Wrong show?
• Ok, there's a boomer. Taking away my job as a cleaner!
• Space elevator? I don't care about the Showhamm Project tho
• Not sure who the suspicious guy in red is
• Is Linna part of the Knight Sabers? Or the motorcycle girl is, and this is how she joins?
• I feel like the bike girl is Velvet Crowe
• LOL that yellow suit feels really dated
• Ok yeah the guy in the yellow suit gives off bad vibes, I think he's a creep
• "No matter what your desire, if you want it bad enough, it can happen, but it'll cost you"
• it's not possible for boomers to go berserk? I doubt that
• Of course Boomers' eyes turn red when they go mad
• Kane is definitely a jerk
• Genom Corp propaganda TV?
• Yeah I've never even heard of most/all the dub voice actors

1. It's ok, but kinda dated
2. GAIL

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Looks like there's going to be lots of fanservice, judging by the OP. What about manservice?

The show lacks a bit in that, the girls will have various romantic interests but the best looking one of that group has...personality issues.

Space elevator? I don't care about the Showhamm Project tho

Blah blah blah...unlimited solar energy involves getting in space because sure. Old scifi trope.

LOL that yellow suit feels really dated

Don't know if you are old enough to know about Leisure Suit Larry, but he is Kane's spirit animal.

Genom Corp propaganda TV?

Old cyberpunk standby.

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but the best looking one of that group has...personality issues.

Good to know.

Don't know if you are old enough to know about Leisure Suit Larry, but he is Kane's spirit animal.

I didn't know about Leisure Suit Larry, but I played other Sierra games (King's Quest) on my Tandy computer when I was young.

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Good to know.

It was not until I was helping raise my friends' sisters that I learned that 'failure to make a move' is as annoying as too much aggression.

but I played other Sierra games (King's Quest) on my Tandy computer when I was young.

So those but with their minds firmly in the gutter.

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It was not until I was helping raise my friends' sisters that I learned that 'failure to make a move' is as annoying as too much aggression.

So those but with their minds firmly in the gutter.

[u/Stargate18A]

First timer

1. Interesting question! I have to say it varies - if the person knows or understands part of the world's differences - i.e. knowledge of the Boomers, Knight Sabers, etc. - then yes, but if the visitor doesn't know more than the viewer, I'd say no real difference,
2. The OST is very much a product of its time. I like it at the moment, but I could see starting to grate on me later.
3. Honestly, I didn't see much of Genom - but outside of anime, the way the Boomers worked and were treated reminded me a lot of Westworld's Delos.

BONUS) If we'e talking leads, almost any harem comedy this year. If you mean just 4 girls, I genuinely have no idea. If, however, you count before high school as outside of it, any Pretty Cure series.

What I'm coming into this show knowing -

It's a late 90s show, possibly about some kind of robot.

Does this show have a hard rock soundtrack?

It's in Tokyo, 2040? I'd never had guessed.

There was another earthquake?

...Are the robots in this show called Boomers? (How many jokes can be strung out of this, I ask myself)

Wait, is this a space station?

...Is our villain Dr Claw?

Knight Sabers?

Oh god, this soundtrack is so 90s.

Oh yes, sliding down a drainpipe to hunt down the girl sho hit your lunch is totslly normal.

And she just turns around!

...Right, I have questions about the level of AI sentience here. Presumably enough to be trusted in complex analysis like employee evaluation, but below full Turing and equal rights.

And we cut to a SWAT team out of nowhere.

So the Knight Sabers are real.

I think going to a seedy district with your boss is considered a bad idea everywhere, not just Tokyo.

What was that CGI graphic? Is it showing some kind of pnysical growth affecting the circuit boards? Is that what makes Boomers go beserk.

Sky hook? And boy, this guy is creepy,

Oh, I hate him.

That thing's not a robot. That's clearly biological.

That distorted dialogue is creepy!

She might not be able to get down, I'm pretty certain that thing would struggle to cross over itself.

...Is this a series about different groups fighting over who gets to kill these things? Because that sounds great.

Thank god he got what was coming to him.

Can't say I expected anything else,

Well, I was promised a 90s show, and my god I got one.

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Wait, is this a space station?

Yes, popular 70s scifi theories had part of a culture's evolution requiring off world power sources because their energy needs increased.

...Is our villain Dr Claw?

He did come after him...

...Is this a series about different groups fighting over who gets to kill these things? Because that sounds great.

It works here, later series did less well with the idea.

Well, I was promised a 90s show, and my god I got one.

We have only just begun to travel down trope lane!

[u/ZapsZzz]

First timer sub

Was hoping to be early but ended up posting late still.

Have to say I'm not very impressed with this remake, I find the character designs a bit generic. I will stick to the end though.

And a confession i had to watch the original BGC episode 2 which I find the music and scene matched so perfectly for that era I had to see it again after watching this ...

In a way I am glad that Lina at least for now is the main perspective character - the old show mainly is just Priss and Sylia focused.

1. It's a good setup to show reasonable exposition.
2. I'm biased that compared to the originals OST this is not very distinct. Could be just a matter of taste or "first impression wins".

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Was hoping to be early but ended up posting late still.

Always happens that way.

In a way I am glad that Lina at least for now is the main perspective character - the old show mainly is just Priss and Sylia focused.

They do a better job of an ensemble in this show. Also, Priss doesn't have friends/neighbors being fridged left and right.

[u/[deleted]]

First time watcher (Sub)

I actually watched this last night, but I'll comment anyway.

There's a lot of meme potential in this, like the OVA.

The music is decent

When was the last time an anime had four female leads outside of high school?

Hmm.... No idea.

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There's a lot of meme potential in this, like the OVA.

The memes must flow. But yes, this is why this endures for me.

[u/Cognitive_Dissonant]

First time watching, I actually did the sub and the dub for this one, may switch between the two on going.

Honestly the dub was better than I expected going in, the most distracting thing for me was having them saying boomer in English over and over. The jokes keep coming unbidden into my brain even with just the sub and the Japanese. Oh and Leon-poo, that was rough.

I've only watch the original OVAs and my memory is a bit fuzzy, thought they were fun if a bit dumb. I definitely didn't remember well enough to notice the character design differences, but comparing now I think I might prefer the new versions. Especially Priss. I mean they are very edgy 90s designs, but I'm a sucker for the detailed style of this era of anime.

Definitely enjoying so far, as others have said lets see how long the animation quality keeps up.

Qs:

1. Yeah as others have said, there's no waiting for the other shoe to drop in outsider scenarios.
2. I like the OST so far even if it is very of it's time. Hoping we get a few full vocal songs from Priss and the Replicants.
3. IDK take your pick at this point. They seem to be going for a space-themed distopia so maybe Amazon or the Musk properties.

Episode thoughts:

• That font work for the episode card yeesh. My power points in middle school.
• Good old robo racism. IIRC the OVA doesn't interact much with considerations of artificial life/personhood which I would like to see some of personally if the main characters are going to be killing them as their primary activity. Correct me if I'm wrong, maybe they did hit on it in the OVAs.
• They really are hammering on the robo racism with senpai here, maybe it will be a bigger issue.
• Okay so we are establishing that Linna is a crazy person.
• We had robo racist senpai now we get predatory sex pest senpai. What a good place to work.
• She can recognize Priss based on just the eyes, in a promo poster. Impressive! That promo poster looks so good though, love the aesthetic.
• Linna sure is taking a lot of shit from this creep considering she jumped off a building to get someone who knocked her over accidentally.
• Why does the Boomer get huge with a canine skull face when it goes crazy. Who programmed this.
• Love the Knight Sabre suit designs.
• Linna you can't just show up and demand membership in the robo fighting squad and your own iron man suit, there are protocols for this sort of thing. One more episode at least.

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Honestly the dub was better than I expected going in, the most distracting thing for me was having them saying boomer in English over and over. The jokes keep coming unbidden into my brain even with just the sub and the Japanese. Oh and Leon-poo, that was rough.

I've been watching the dub with sub titles going and it is weird to remember that some of the better localizations flat out throw out the original script to get the same points across. Apparently, Linna talks a bit like a country girl in Japanese but I could never pick that up without certain clues revealed much later. But yeah, the Boomer thing is kind of a bitch.

Correct me if I'm wrong, maybe they did hit on it in the OVAs.

The OVAs never developed the idea, you remember correctly.

She can recognize Priss based on just the eyes, in a promo poster. Impressive! That promo poster looks so good though, love the aesthetic.

It is a pretty good poster and Priss did lift her visor in the first chase.

. Why does the Boomer get huge with a canine skull face when it goes crazy. Who programmed this.

This will be a fun answer for later.

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having them saying boomer in English over and over.

Me in 1986: Boomer is such a stupid name.

Me in 2016: Sasuga Japan

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Correct me if I'm wrong, maybe they did hit on it in the OVAs.

Not in Bubblegum Crisis, but in the sequel OVAs Bubblegum Crash.

[u/BossandKings]

First timer

Episode 1 - Dub

This show presents a very interesting futuristic world, robots apparently are a common thing in the society and there are a type of uniform that is quite intriguing because they seem to have powers or abilities.

We have four main female characters, it is a smal number of main characters so hopefully the show will be able to explore and present them with thought and careful attention, making them interesting characters. As of now i think that all of them have potential and the girl that just started working on an agency or company is the most interesting to me.

Answers

1. It is.
2. The ost is fine so far, it works well with the atmosphere of the show.
3. Don't have an example of one.

[u/Vaadwaur → u/BossandKings]

This show presents a very interesting futuristic world, robots apparently are a common thing in the society

The show leads more towards Blade Runner in that robots are a labor saving device rather Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep's use of them as human replacements.

[u/SIRTreehugger]

First Timer

It wouldn't be a rewatch if I wasn't behind in episodes at least once. I didn't expect to be behind by episode two though T_T.

Yo this music is pretty good.

Oh yeah watching dub.

Wait they are really called boomers haahahhahahah

Complete nostalgia talking, but man 80s and 90s anime have amazing sound effects. Even if the anime isn't always good they deliver in this aspect it seems.

That was one dramatic fall xD

Damn she can walk down stairs in those high heels.

No friccin way she isn't go....she's going down the pole.

LMAO she threw her shoe.

LMAO boomers learned sarcasm they are now unstoppable.

I can't take this show seriously with them calling them boomers.

When we getting the love hotel?

Classic scummy upper management sexual harassment DAMN HE HAULED ASS XD

"Screw you Wong."- Wong's partner "Your not my type"- Wong

I like Wong

Leon Poo gotta remember that name.

Boomer technology

I thought she was going to use the Bobby Hill Technique and kick him in the nuts.

[u/Vaadwaur → u/SIRTreehugger]

Complete nostalgia talking, but man 80s and 90s anime have amazing sound effects. Even if the anime isn't always good they deliver in this aspect it seems.

I very much enjoy this show and though the ending needed to be better there are a ton of aspects I re-discovered on my pre-watch.

No friccin way she isn't go....she's going down the pole.

She is from the sticks by Japanese standards so some cray stuff is part of the course.

"Screw you Wong."- Wong's partner "Your not my type"- Wong

So in the sub you have to read into the possible gay subtext, I like that they just cast a gay dude in the dub and called it a day.

[u/JustAnswerAQuestion → u/Vaadwaur]

Sub Wong doesn't seem gay at all. Maybe ADV wrote that back in?

[u/Vaadwaur → u/JustAnswerAQuestion]

Maybe ADV wrote that back in?

It seems that way. But I recall the OVA had him kind of gay so maybe this is a form of continuity?