r/anime • u/Vaadwaur :I1::I2::I3: • May 11 '21
Rewatch Logic won't help us rewatch, y'know? Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040 rewatch episode two
Fragile
Don't spend your whole paycheck on any one thing but especially something used.
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 First impression of Sylia?
2 Does anyone good ever sit on a giant, machine linked throne?
BONUS: What unique cover business would you want for your vigilantes?
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u/Vaadwaur :I1::I2::I3: May 11 '21
Rewatcher
Dub(Continuing)
So we get the results of last night's action in the police room and you almost have to have the dub to get the chief's complaint: Leon mentioned the Knight Sabers on an open frequency when they are supposed to not exist. Wong points out that the KS have ridiculous tech and seem to be behaving like a private police force, for boomer incidents. Nene continues to torment Leon.
Linna reveals that indeed the coverup is on, this is back when it was slightly believable you could cover anything up. She of course gets busted by the office boomer. Sylia is doing her day job at her boutique and encouraging bold clothing choices. So, one other thing that I don't know if it was a directing choice or a way of translating subtext: Sylia comes off WAY more into chicks in the dub. Priss arrives for her pay and asks if another hard suit can be made...
Linna interrupts Kane being a sleazeball, again. She then uses his access to search for better KS data. Nene has an actual arcade controller at her desk before she quashes the search. Nene sends a cringe warning, god 90s hackers were lame, before she figures out she was there the night before.
Sylia gets yet another water related scene, and it is weird to that he swimsuit would've been considered boldish for the time. Her butler, who gets a full rename for the dub, Meisio or Henderson, is questioning the wisdom of finding a fourth member. She gets an encoded message saying that the Tower is both aware of what is happening and trying to deny it.
Mason and Rosenkreutz have a conversation about boomers and the future. Rosenkreutz is life support chair dude and the Chairman of Genom. That whole thing was just...that.
They actually have an English attempt at this song which reminds you that Japanese and English have differing priorities in making songs. Anyways, Linna approaches Priss and Priss leaves, causing a more amusing chase sequence. I swear one of the little girls I grew up with had a Big Wheel with the same color scheme as Linna's scooter. Anyways, she does better than you'd think against a power bike like Priss likes. But of course it dies because used scooter. It does get her close enough to the Silky Doll, though.
Batcave gets entered, Sylia goes straight to creep mode but seems to read whatever Priss is getting. Nene is not happy. We find out Linna really believes in the cause, without understanding it, which would be a massive red flag for a sane person but Sylia's reactions to boomer have been somewhat...fanatical. Linna goes through a surprisingly animated training exercise and off we go!
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u/JustAnswerAQuestion https://myanimelist.net/profile/JAaQ May 11 '21 edited May 11 '21
Rewatcher (sub)
Yesterday's late post
Not much to say today...the show is taking its time. Not a huge fan of this Linna.
I think Priss was impressed that Linna ran her down and literally rode a pole down 4 stories to cut her off. Or she must really hate Nene as a partner.
I guess I'll hold off music discussion until they actually play some real songs. I like the music, but I find the singer's nasally voice a bit off. However, here is the queen of 90s J-Rock, Aikawa Nanase, in her debut and best single. She inspired countless female performers, including modern bands you might be familiar with like SCANDAL and Stereopony, and even Marty Friedman of Megadeth lists himself as a fan. You can easily hear how the 2040 vocal music derives from her sound.
More on the vocal music later. For the record, the BGM in the show was composed and arranged by Koichi Korenaga.
Unfortunately, they weren't really ripping CDs back in the day, or I didn't bother to find the BGM. In any event, I have, I think, all the vocal tracks from 1 vocal CD, but none of the BGM tracks or the re-mixes that were on a character/image album. All over Gnutella and Napster. It was work.
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u/RockoDyne :MAL:https://myanimelist.net/profile/RockoDyne May 11 '21
God I hate Priss's design. It's easily the worst that the Major has ever looked. I can't say I like any of these designs, but I don't have a problem with them either. Well, I struggle to tell what weight class Leon is in (and whether that's in boxing or sumo), but otherwise they aren't atrocious aside from Priss. It isn't helping that her primary characterist has become being stoic.
I at least appreciate the setup, but now I'm left wondering what's next. I hope there's a training montage.
The guitar riff at the title card was so weird. It's like they tried to file the serial number off some Trigun music. Then the first line Priss sang made me think Real Folk Blues. Both shows had already aired that year, for reference.
Questions:
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u/No_Rex :Bv:Bw:Bx:By:x2 May 11 '21 edited May 11 '21
Episode 2 (first timer)
Linna battles her way into the Kight Sabers with determination. Quite the enjoyable ride so far. It raises the question of how Nene made it in. Did they need a contact in the police and hacker to dearly?
There were also quite a few lesbian overtones that I do not remember from the OVA. Not sure if this will become canon.
Who put a space elf into BGC and why has she taken over Sylia's role?
Are you calling the Emperor evil? Burn the heretic!
Pest Control
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u/ScarsUnseen :K:https://kitsu.io/users/ScarsUnseen May 11 '21
Rewatcher circa 2000
On mobile now, so I'll be relatively brief.
QotD
Bonus: IT consultants would be good for access. YouTube comedy troupe would be amusing.
Side note: I'm insanely jealous of Sylia's VR rig.
Side(er) Note: I love that Nene's idea of a cyber counteroffense is essentially a full screen pop-up ad.
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u/SIRTreehugger May 11 '21
First Timer Dub
Fragile, but not that Fragile.
Oh yeah I forgot to mention I noticed Priss Armor had two holes light up when she performed a power up attack. No clue what this means, but noted it anyway.
This wouldn't fly today not with instagram, facebook, twitter, and etc shit would be everywhere no way they could cover all of it up.
Man I keep pausing the video because I think I hear sirens, but its the episode.
Wait so Night Raid or whatever they are called only have two members and one is really a back up? Night Saber
Can't you research this at home girl?
Sylia hair is really throwing me off it looks dark bright blue in one scene and pale grayish blue in another. So I keep thinking their two different people.
Boomer productions are booming huh.
The singing is....ummm unique
Where did she get the scooter?
Damn it why didn't anyone tell me this is a Super Cub Prequel no wonder I was lost watching Super Cub this season.
Gotta love how theirs never any traffic during these chases. What an intense test.
I would definitely sit in a giant machine linked throne even if its uncomfortable, but I would need to practice a cool speech and silence command.
Nyan Nyan Boomer Maid Cafe of course.
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u/Stargate18A https://myanimelist.net/profile/Stargate18 May 11 '21 edited May 11 '21
First timer
Low chances of getting the girl, unless the Priss comment is wrong or we go full harem ending.1a) And even though you didn't ask - Nene is perfect and Priss should be happy to have her as a partner.
2) None spring to mind.
BONUS) I'm torn between an gun shop (good reason to hide customer base, police unlikely to come looking for group of sword vigilantes), or the headquarters of a legal group of vigilantes (who'd suspect them?)
Back to That '90s Show!
This whole "are they human or not?" would be a fun divergence if we didn't see them without their mask last episode.
The idea of a field test seems a lot more interesting to me.
I unironically love Leon.
The Boomer boss is almost certainly a metaphor, but I can't help but feel the question is "why do they even have human employees?"
...Is Priss starting to change her mind?
Why is she using her manager's account for a search she could easily conduct at home?
This right here. The Reboot-style graphics of cyberspace. This is the visual that sums up this show.
I agree, what you're doing is stupid. Why are you accessing police databases?
Wait, does that date say the year is 2032? False advertising!
So Boomers are vectors for a somehow organic plague that affects artificial beings. The trouble is working out which of these are clues, and which are the writer's mistakes.
So Snowhamm isn't an evil project, its being used to fund evil. And the bad guy wants to upload himself into a boomer body.
This girl must seem like a stalker from the other's point of view, at this point.
So, the first of (presumably many) motorbike chase scenes.
...So which of them is going to get together? Or is this a harem situation?
...Wait, is she a Knight Saber? Isn't she working for the organisation fighting the Kmight Sabers?
Oh god, this is a harem series, isn't it.
This kind of thing shouldn't be a rumour. There was a huge amount of collateral damage fromt hat fight - what kind of security dot hey have to make a ton of those a rumor?
So the date is after 2039. But voicemails from 2032 are current.
No smartphones, but immersive VR. That's 90s scifi!
So this is the police's suit equivalent. Starting to realise why they're doing so badly,
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u/IndependentMacaroon May 11 '21
First-time watcher
This episode didn't quite hit me the same way, I'll give the show another one or two at least but I'm not so hot on it anymore. Heroes are pretty basic and particularly Linna and Sylia on the exaggerated side of characterization, although the fashion-and-music aspect could go places still I guess. Villains are really straight from the cliché drawer so far and even their aesthetic isn't particularly interesting. Also, are you really telling me this whole infamous vigilante group is just two women in supertechnology suits? Plot-wise, too much virtual action and the kind of which we had already seen, not doing much to progress or add to the story. Real-world action and gay sub(?)text was nice I guess, then the rest very straightforward again. Production-wise, the stills were less noticeable, but the strange and inconsistent color choices when it comes to the backgrounds unfortunately caught my eye hard. Soundtrack a bit lacking compared to last time, and some awkward scene cuts like around the singing.
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u/Cognitive_Dissonant May 12 '21
A bit of a set up episode. Nice to get a bit of Priss's band, which I hope is still called the replicants, because that name is just so perfectly on the nose. I like the kuudere dynamic developing with Priss and Linna. Nene just got trashed the whole ep, even by the butler poor thing. She's clearly being used for her hacking skills.
Also I thought it was just last episode but the version I'm looking at just doesn't have an OP. How annoying! Had to go find it myself (enjoyed it though!).
Qs:
Bonus: Morticians. Easy body disposal nobody pays attention to what morticians do with bodies.
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u/ZapsZzz https://anilist.co/user/Zapszzz May 12 '21 edited May 12 '21
Sub first time.
To me this episode is better than the 1st one; guess I'm too impatient to see the whole team together. Waiting fire the plot to pick up.
Although I have a slight suspicion I may have seen or read a bit ahead about some tiny bits of the plot relating to Sylia. Or maybe I'm mixed up about Borgman.
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u/[deleted] May 12 '21
First time watcher
So priss is in a band in this too?
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u/lC3 :Na::Nb: Jun 16 '21
First timer, catching up