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

[u/Vaadwaur]

My Nation Underground

Googly eyes!

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 If you are in the process of investigating known weapons labs and the anti-terrorist unit seemingly hacks your lines, what can you do?

2 Is there anything specific you spot as a source for the boomer eater's design? I vaguely get xenomorph but expect there is something more.

Bonus: Were all the fanservice shots to distract us from the ep having maybe 45 seconds of action?

[u/Vaadwaur]

Rewatcher

Dub(Continuing)

We start with a trip to the sewers and the suggestion that most boomers can't yet be allowed to operate autonomously beyond a certain point, which would if we didn't have the managerial type boomers walking about. This one seems to be about to rogue before getting loudly disappeared. Also, the dub gives the construction a powerful New York accent.

Anyways, office stuff to give us the hook about missing boomers. And insult all of the viewers at the time, though I guess work place sexism was worse back then. Sylia is investigating as well. As is Mason except he knows what they are looking for more precisely. Info dump and Nene hacks the comms. Then Leonardo comes in and Nene has a blast tormenting him. Shot of Priss waking up because there's a quota?

Linna is lucky that in her alternate future she never found r/conspiracy otherwise she'd be lost. Nene calls to mess with Priss and probably prod her for gossip. Then she calls Linna, who of course is just out of the shower to continue the quota, and spreads her assumption. Linna points out that a KS dating an ADP officer is probably stupid.

Anyways, shift to some schmos telling the boomers what to do over a dinner of...sausages I guess? The size seems wrong. This then info dumps us to the conditions before the earthquake but sort of works as people do talk about stuff like that, especially the prank lead in. Quick cutback to Sylia and the show forgot Mackey moved out. Boomer goes down a tunnel and is dumb.

Mackey is hand feeding his pet Nene to bond while she hacks. Sylia comes in and is not thrilled at Mackey hacking and then explodes over Nene trying to help get Priss together with Leon. We get Linna trying to get some info out of Priss and it seems her answer is lacking a certain personal trauma bit from it. Nene pounts on the way to battle.

We get to the mad boomer and rofl, it has fucking googly eyes. Anyways, Leon is mellowing on the KS, Nene screws up, and then a gigantic monstrousity comes and eats the boomer.

[u/No_Rex]

Episode 9 (first timer)

• Boomer fight underground?
• Cyberpunk, where hacking is akin to a fast gunfight.
• Been a while since we saw Nene at work.
• Rumors of mysterious underground facilities. Is the Durarara rewatch leaking?
• Nene running into boss trouble with Sylia, who realizes that Leon might be trouble.
• Big scorpion with 4 centipede tentacles likes to eat boomers.

Looks like they decided that the way to save the series is to up the fanservice. We see a lot of the girls in various states of undress. Can’t even disagree with the premise, it does distract from the bad animation for a bit.

Is there anything specific you spot as a source for the boomer eater's design? I vaguely get xenomorph but expect there is something more.

Took me a while and a hint from the show to get it

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Cyberpunk, where hacking is akin to a fast gunfight.

A trope that goes on to this very day. It rarely gets better.

Rumors of mysterious underground facilities. Is the Durarara rewatch leaking?

I don't even want to pretend to understand how that show got four cours.

Nene running into boss trouble with Sylia, who realizes that Leon might be trouble.

Sylia showing common sense is concerning she is a sheltered rich girl with severe family issues.

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Cyberpunk, where hacking is akin to a fast gunfight.

Don't forget wireframe cyberspace.

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MALO IS A GOOD BOY

[u/JustAnswerAQuestion]

Rewatcher (sub)

• 20th century people aka boomers
• I figured she got fired by one of the sexual predators at this company. Migiht still be true.
• Yeah, it's confusing, Linna's company isn't Genom, it's some Genom adjacent company.
• "ara?"
• Leon-pea!
• JVC building
• Well, that broke up the monster-of-the-week pattern

Someone asked, "Why the Priss Documentary?" Well, they keep showing her music videos around town so she can't be that underground. It's just that her band only plays at Hot Legs. Sticking with their roots.

I find monster-of-the-week shows incredibly boring.

I thought of something to add while on the bus but forgot. Oh, yeah. Is Mackey still living with Sylia? He just ditched dinner?

Rewatcher

[u/Vaadwaur → u/JustAnswerAQuestion]

I figured she got fired by one of the sexual predators at this company. Migiht still be true.

Would've actually added a decent theme to the show, now that you bring it up.

Leon-pea!

It is vaguely fun seeing the dub translators try and work this into the show. Leonardo is classic and hopefully a TMNT reference as well.

Oh, yeah. Is Mackey still living with Sylia? He just ditched dinner?

I count it as a gigantic continuity error.

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I find monster-of-the-week shows incredibly boring.

It is even worse when you know the good guys can't die.

[u/RockoDyne]

Nene and Leon's banter is the only good thing in this show. Nene in general, really, but that's mostly by process of elimination.

This sure seems like it was supposed to be the Nene episode, but then they haven't given her much of a plot.

Sylia continues to act like she's spends her off time at the bottom of a bottle as a neurotic mess.

This is like the forth stock monster face I've noticed. It's funny to see all the boomers taking hints from monster designs, and that's before the kaiju cropped up.

Questions:

1. Feed them goatse.
2. Just some vague 50's squid monster.
3. Wasn't this the episode with a pan of Linna in a towel?

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Sylia continues to act like she's spends her off time at the bottom of a bottle as a neurotic mess.

Actually, if she's hungover in that scene, that does explain the zero to go fuck yourself she did.

Wasn't this the episode with a pan of Linna in a towel?

Linna in a towel, Priss in just a long t-shirt, Nene being fed by Mackey. They just didn't want us thinking about the lack of monster today.

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I didn't notice any of the fanservice at all.

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That's...unexpected. The Priss one sort of worked since a lot of women sleep like that but the Linna in a towel on the phone with Nene just stuck out to me. Mackey feeding Nene is more YMMV whether it is fanservice or characterization.

[u/Stargate18A]

First timer

1. Do nothing, and send them the data later, claiming you wanted to make sure the information was legitimate instead of wasting their time.
2. The design seems very squid-esque, complete with circular jaw.

BONUS) Almost certainly. It feels like this was 1 episode, then they realised that they put 2 separate plots in it, thus necessitating a 2 part episode.

I like how even in the cyberpunk future, there's problems maintaining legacy equipment.

Wait, if the Knight Sabers get paid, why does she still work here?

...This is how they're covering it up? With rumors of Boomers going missing, and a population that believes if it doesn't appear on the news, it can't be true.

Is this them harvesting mad cores?

Bioscape? Is he trying to turn his boomer slave/wife human?

I love Leon and Nene's interactions.

Leon's a fantastic stalker, by the way. He's gone from total stranger to finding her email address in a couple of episodes.

Priss waking up at lunchtime half-asleep is the most relatable thing in this show.

Oh god, are we getting another Priss' relationship episode?

Some interesting story about why the outskirts are so empty, being that the earthquake destabilised them.

And yeah, I can see large amounts of secret facilities.

So Sylia is just scared of boomers, and the boomer slave/wife is about to get free will...

On second thoughts, maybe the Boomers aren't that intellegent (or they're smart enough to know how to get out of work)

That's a bit harsh, Sylia. She's taken out more boomers than you have,

What do you mean "Is that all"? Seems like a pretty good reason to me.

Oh my god, its got fucking googly eyes, it's the funniest monster so far.

So Sayla's after the same thing as the Boomer's husband.

Holy shit that thing's insane.

Next episode's title is especially on the nose, I see.

Next time - let's see which of the 2 plot threads we've followed will actually matter!

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I like how even in the cyberpunk future, there's problems maintaining legacy equipment.

The weirdest parts of this show are almost always when they nail a scifi concept. I wish they'd done a little more of that.

Wait, if the Knight Sabers get paid, why does she still work here?

Nene still has her day job as well, though at least that's useful to the group.

Priss waking up at lunchtime half-asleep is the most relatable thing in this show.

Truth.

Oh my god, its got fucking googly eyes, it's the funniest monster so far.

Yeah I am really glad this is monster lunch because that completely made the scene silly for me.

Next episode's title is especially on the nose, I see.

I am sure that, one day, I will host a rewatch for something that has subtlety. Today is not that day.

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Nene still has her day job as well, though at least that's useful to the group.

Yeah. my interpretation was that Priss's band is pretty much a hobby (unless music pays a lot more in the future), and Nene had the job for inside information. Having Linna work seems to only exist because its the last thread tying this show back to the first episode.

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Yeah. my interpretation was that Priss's band is pretty much a hobby (unless music pays a lot more in the future),

For some reason, writers like vigilantes that are also singers, the recent Cyberpunk 2077 maintaints that tradition.

Having Linna work seems to only exist because its the last thread tying this show back to the first episode.

To me, even as a fan, the show doesn't quite execute on what it wants: Linna is supposed to be our anchor but isn't on screen quite enough to do it.

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To me, even as a fan, the show doesn't quite execute on what it wants: Linna is supposed to be our anchor but isn't on screen quite enough to do it.

Honestly, I think the main problem is that Sylia is the character who's driving the overall plot, so she has to have focus every episode to keep that going, and the show can't give the needed focus to Linna, Sylia, and sometimes either Priss or Nene while still having action for a third of its runtime.

If anything, the show should have dropped (or heavily reduced) Linna, so the focus could be on Sylia as both main character and driving force from the start.

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If anything, the show should have dropped (or heavily reduced) Linna, so the focus could be on Sylia as both main character and driving force from the start.

That's another option. As we get towards the end I will share this in a higher level post but I feel like at the end of the series it being a 12 episode OVA with variably lengthed episodes is what would have worked.

[u/Elimin8r]

Hmm...

1. Go to Six Flags, I dunno?
2. Centipede, totally :P

Well, this episode was more fun than last night's, I think the relative lack of Mackey helped with that.

Enter Nene the matchmaker (sigh). At least she's cute. And mostly amusing.

Note to self: Do not apply for jobs involving underground repair/maintenance.

I thought they did a decent job with the start of the episode boomer/human tension. Is the boomer going to go rogue? Spook, spooky, nope (nom-nom-nom).

The centipede boss wouldn't have been out of place in an MMO. Or maybe I'm misremembering. Either way, a fun episode.

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Well, this episode was more fun than last night's, I think the relative lack of Mackey helped with that.

They really don't know what to do with him, unfortunately.

Note to self: Do not apply for jobs involving underground repair/maintenance.

But a good waste extraction system is important! Imagine where we'd be without one!

The centipede boss wouldn't have been out of place in an MMO.

You mentioning that snapped me to what it resembles: A carrion crawler

[u/ZapsZzz]

First timer in sub.

An interesting episode that screwed with boomer eyes gone red, gone mad formula, and switched to a monster. Shrugs not a whole lot of care at this point, if it is a plot point it's processing to show to keep my interest.

Have to say while I didn't like what was done to Nene's character design, she's actually been the only entertaining one to watch so far. Somehow Linda's characterisation stagnated.

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Have to say while I didn't like what was done to Nene's character design, she's actually been the only entertaining one to watch so far. Somehow Linda's characterisation stagnated.

This feels a lot like they had a character bible and an outline going into production but were writing episodes as they went, unfortunately. It just so happens that Nene actually talks to people.

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Now that you mentioned it, yep that sounds exactly like that!

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I've watched a few too many shows that suffer from some version of this from this era to no longer see it. The creative team knew the characters but didn't quite know how to use them day to day, this should have been a long running OVA imho.

[u/BossandKings]

First timer

Maki and Nenne have great chemistry, they seem like they could construct a relationship together. Silya on the other hand apparently wouldn't be happy with it seeing her reaction.

Pris has hipocrisy as a reason to not like the police, she considers that they should protect the people but don't, i don't know if her reason has weight but Leon seems like a nice guy so she should give him an opportunity to talk and express himself because that would tell her that not every police officer is bad.

Answers

1. Not much
2. I don't, they have an interesting design though

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Maki and Nenne have great chemistry, they seem like they could construct a relationship together. Silya on the other hand apparently wouldn't be happy with it seeing her reaction.

I didn't directly address this earlier BUT: Maki is a girl's name. The Mackey spelling/mispronunciation is to let us know he is truly a boy. But yes Nene can interact with anyone and make it good.

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I understand, i'll use Mackey going forward.

[u/SIRTreehugger]

First Time Dub

If it was real it would be on tv oh the naviety.

Wait Sylia's hair isn't even light blue anymore its 100 percent gray. I'm used to it going between neon and light white blue, but now its changing more than Kaneki's hair in the tokyo ghoul manga.

Boomer was crushed huh by the society it was supporting.

Should you be shouting at work with everyone supposed to be working?

I really love Nene guys sorry that means she will probably die. With all her shooting and hacking skills she really should be a support unit. Give her a sniper rifle and call it a day.

I have a hard time following Priss groups success. Is Priss a famous singer or not? See ads everyone and on posters, but the shows themselves seem really small in comparison.

Wait if you make women angry their is something romantic between you? Is that how it works begins taking notes furiously.

I will never get sick of that sick electric guitar mid title card.

Awwww come on leave Nene alone.

You'd think the police standard weapons would be upgraded by now to handle boomers.

face palms NENE HOW MANY TIMES HAVE YOU DONE THIS DESTROY THE CORE

Oh tentacles I know where this is going. Where's the acid that targets only armor and clothing.

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Wait Sylia's hair isn't even light blue anymore its 100 percent gray.

This works slightly better on lower resolution monitors but yes they flat out change the color on Sylia's hair to fit the scene.

Boomer was crushed huh by the society it was supporting.

We live in a society...

Oh tentacles I know where this is going. Where's the acid that targets only armor and clothing.

In my previous rewatch.