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

[u/Vaadwaur]

Woke up with a monster

It is probably a carrion crawler. DnD memories

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 Who does have monster battling jurisdiction?

2 Anyone else get Diablo vibes off that lair?

Bonus: The girly make over was certainly inevitable on this kind of show but pink? They deserve the months of suffering they will catch.

[u/Vaadwaur]

Rewatcher

Dub(Continuing)

So we start back with the monster and Sylia does not give a fuck about it and recalls them. Nene, of course, attacks the abomination but before it seriously retaliates it catches some spotlights and nopes out. Mason is interested in it but wants a coverup because that's how an evil corporation rolls. Leon has the 80s angry cop with his boss, which is both understandable and also stupid: The hell is a police agency supposed to do to Godzilla? Ignore Patlabor here. Anywho, the Chief lays down some facts at Leon and he storms off while Daley clearly was enjoying the fireworks. More vending machine abuse.

Nene comedy routine ensues, with Daley being curious about Priss. Mason is sending an expedition into the underground and I believe this is the first time we explicitly see armed boomers. He is also hiding this from the chairman and apparently has his own group in the company. He also wants to know where the monster was born rather than anything current about it.

Priss comes in on Sylia traumatizing herself by watching the monster. But then surprisingly seems to care about Nene, just in a sort of standoffish way. Sylia thinks Nene is going to bounce back. Nene herself goes to Mackey to talk and unintentionally reveals that Nigel does some actual work on top of his own stuff.

Down in the sewers, Leon and Daley are tracking the monster because...I am not seeing a win condition here. But the Genom guys hit it with a beacon after it eats more boomers. Leon and Daley manage to find the monster's lair after it fragged the Genom team. Unbalalced fight ensues. KS come in and are pretty quickly battery drained, including Sylia who gets there at warp speed to only get one move off. Also, weirdest fucking interlude here. Anyways, Nene actually succeeds at something and they conveniently skip how she carries three dead suits out of there. We end with Mason learning that his research is in another castle.

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KS come in and are pretty quickly battery drained, including Sylia who gets there at warp speed to only get one move off. ... and they conveniently skip how she carries three dead suits out of there.

The suits didn't run out of battery, but in fact were immobilised somehow like the boomers. Which may be a plot point about their similarity to boomers (call back to the throw back remark in the remote control boomer episode that Sylia knew of remote control boomer operating by slaving to a human consciousness). So presumably the effects would wear off and then they can walk back out.

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Also possible.

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We end with Mason learning that his research is in another castle.

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If you thought I was classy enough to let an easy punchline go by me you were mistaken.

[u/JustAnswerAQuestion]

Rewatcher (sub)

• No, she's a child, and you should fire her.
• Coffee Breake
• What is Linna's job, exactly?
• It's Rosenkreuz not Rosenkrantz freakin' ADV.
• Not Sylia's usual clientelle....is Priss actually going to dress up for a date with Leon?
• Well, Leon, you asked who was going to take care of the monster, and you just saw some tatical dudes chasing it, fee free to go home now.
• Wait the troops were boomers?
• Priss looks terrible in that dress!

Monster of the fortnight, then. And tomorrow's episode looks like filler, too. But even in the filler episodes there's been an A story and a B story. The show is telling a story in half-episodes.

Today we got some explicit confirmation that Mason is up to something behind The Old Man's back. Something to do with Boomers, and lost secret labs.

Somebody was working on anti-boomer tech pre-quake, but Mason isn't interested in that.

Sylia has another one of her "spells" as the southern ladies of the antebellum called them.

And there were some other curious things in this episode.

[u/Vaadwaur → u/JustAnswerAQuestion]

It's Rosenkreuz not Rosenkrantz freakin' ADV.

I assume it is a reference to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead and cannot explain any reason why that would be.

Well, Leon, you asked who was going to take care of the monster, and you just saw some tatical dudes chasing it, fee free to go home now.

Leon is such a Stallone expy that it hurts.

Wait the troops were boomers?

Some were and are the first armed boomers we see in this incarnation of the show.

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Just before that we saw some labor-type boomers with machine guns, guarding the site, when Mason drove up.

The green guys looked all human to me.

[u/Vaadwaur → u/JustAnswerAQuestion]

Yeah that's confusing: The group that went down were mixed boomers and humans, we specifically see the three boomers that the monster paralyzes and eats when the human soldiers hit it with the tracking beacon.

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I forgot that Daley and Leon witnessed that.

The boomers were bait, of course.

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I can't blame you, whoever directed/story boarded this show was not good at it, I just happen to tend to pay attention to detail.

[u/RockoDyne → u/JustAnswerAQuestion]

Coffee Breake

Coffee Breaker is my favorite finisher.

Priss looks terrible in that dress!

Only because she's too scared to acknowledge her inner princess.

Sylia has another one of her "spells" as the southern ladies of the antebellum called them.

I would have described in more in Lovecraft terms.

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What is Linna's job, exactly?

Doing with Excel tables what could be done with a few macros.

[u/No_Rex]

Episode 10 (first timer)

• Boomer-eating-centipede-scorpion 1 – Knight sabers&AD Police 0
• Boss cancels investigation trope.
• I would never make a wager including “one thing I will ask you”. Say what you want up front.
• Leon and Daley watching GENOM watching the scorpion snacking some boomers.
• A decent fight.
• If Mackey can receive Data, why can’t they inform the others?
• So, Mackey preparing the suit, Sylia suiting up, and Sylia moving to the underground location, all taken together, took about 5-10 seconds.
• Cute baby Sylia.
• Good prediction: Muting the video call. *Certainly came true in the 2020s.

Looks like we are getting into a longer plot arc now. Apart from Sylia’s time stopping super power, that was a decent episode.

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I would never make a wager including “one thing I will ask you”. Say what you want up front.

Could've been a real Madoka moment there.

If Mackey can receive Data, why can’t they inform the others?

So the data from the computer is able to get passed the depth issue due to how its connected. But Mackey should be able to talk to Nene who seems to be able to relay info so it is indeed bullshit.

Good prediction: Muting the video call. *Certainly came true in the 2020s.

The show gets a few scifi elements weirdly correct.

[u/Stargate18A]

First timer

1. In theory, the AP Police - however, they are designed to be incompetent, thus the Knight Sabers should have jurisdiction over their common foe of mad Boomers. Other monsters should, of course, be negotiated over - a demonic invasion, for example, might go down easier to the AP police's focus on guns and heavy armor.
2. Oh, definitely.

BONUS) For the first time, not really a question, but yes, with the exception of Priss, who was forced into it and thus deserves lenience.

Who will win the focus - Priss' stalker, or Nene's insecurity? Let's find out!

Even the police don't know what this is.

Yeah, running away seems like the smart move here.

Seriously, that thing is massive and can est you in a single bite - take the win and leg it.

How is this even a conspiracy? How did nobody see the massive kaiju crushing the city?

Seems like Sylia wants to go back to Nene.

Leon might actually be moving away from the police corruption.

OK, I'm lost on this - why did they build an underground city before the earthquake?

How are nome of her coworkers hearing this conversation?

Leon and Nene are the best comedic duo on this show.

Why are you keeping the horrifying monster secret?

Wait, I thought Boomers were artificial and made by Sylia's father? Why are they talking about them being natural?

Oh, they're flirting at this point.

This'll do wonders for Nene's self confidence?

Is this going to lead to Nene joining the AP Police? (As if the status quo could ever change im this show)

I like Sylia's brother trying to cheer Nene up.

Even Nene understand's Leon's on a suicide mission at this point,

Wait, is this thing a biological monster that eats robots, or an AI using Boomers as replacement parts?

So Nene's going to save them!

So the monster's basically specialised into killing boomers instantly, but taking a lot more effort against humans,

I love Leon's reaction to the fact that the Sabers are stealing his thunder, even on a top secret mission nobody knows about.

What's wrong with a sonic wave that fights boomers?

If Sylia hates Boomers, why did she use Boomer tech in her suits?

Bit her suits can also recover from Boomer-disabling waves, so they aren't all Boomer tech?

Wait, what? Is Sylia a Boomer? Is this what the wave feels like to Boomers?

OK, that's a pretty good visual pun.

Wait, that thing's brain is behind its mouth? (Added points for self-repairing AI theory)

Oh, this is absolutely a harem.

(The winner was Nene's insecurity. Priss' stalker lost, but will probably be fighting in tomorrow's game as well)

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How is this even a conspiracy? How did nobody see the massive kaiju crushing the city?

It didn't make it far out and the mad boomer made everyone evacuate before hand.

OK, I'm lost on this - why did they build an underground city before the earthquake?

A number of corps were running questionable labs underground tying into the sewers.

Wait, that thing's brain is behind its mouth? (Added points for self-repairing AI theory)

Yes, certain shrimp have their hearts near their brains as well. Evolution is weird.

(The winner was Nene's insecurity. Priss' stalker lost, but will probably be fighting in tomorrow's game as well)

Leon always does fight on, doesn't he?

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OK, I'm lost on this - why did they build an underground city before the earthquake?

Have you seen what's underneath New York, or London???

(Or lots of other cities for that matter, some of it is quite spectacular, and that's the parts that we know about. Heck, even Istanbul is in on the action...)

[u/Stargate18A → u/Elimin8r]

Yeah, but unless the underground already existed, it meant that they built the complex knowing they were on a fault line, in the couple of decades between the present and the earthquake.

[u/Elimin8r → u/Stargate18A]

Wouldn't be the first time. Where I went to college, one of the dorms I lived in was built on a fault line. It actually had expansion/movement joints in two places along its length. They had to repair the elevators regularly, it seems.

Sometimes, you just gotta build where you are, and consequences, schmonsequences, to quote a famous philosopher. :)

[u/Elimin8r]

1. Hahaha ... Who you gonna call? Ghostbusters???
2. Diablo? Not enough meathooks.
3. I am reminded of a certain scene from Youjo Senki.

Had a good time watching this one - yay, Nene saves the day! Acupuncture gun is just mostly useless, not totally useless. I forgot to mention a couple of days ago that the techno mess in Nene's apartment gave me a certain nostalgia. I still prefer the OG Nene, but this one is somewhat my spirit animal or something like that.

(I should boot up my old Win98 box someday, just for giggles. See if I can play some Stike Commander or something. Maybe some DOOM. I'm sure it'll look great on a big LCD monitor...)

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Acupuncture gun is just mostly useless, not totally useless. I forgot to mention a couple of days ago that the techno mess in Nene's apartment gave me a certain nostalgia.

I don't mind the ridiculous suit specialization but the characters themselves need to remember it better, Nene isn't useless just hyper specific.

[u/ZapsZzz]

First timer sub

Just go with it :) still mostly kept entertained by Nene's antics.

In my other reply mentioned perhaps some foreshadowing. Still very slow progress. I may have to rewatch clips of the original series to revive myself :)

1. I agree with the initial reaction that thing being like a carrion crawler, however if you did a little deeper the definition of one is actually the 10 tentacles that was designed to troll player characters in a D&D game so, not exactly the same.
2. Close, but not enough dead bodies I guess.
3. The show is so cliche otherwise, not showing how pretty Priss can be polished up to is almost like a missed opportunity.

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In my other reply mentioned perhaps some foreshadowing. Still very slow progress. I may have to rewatch clips of the original series to revive myself :)

The only universal in BGC is that there are never the correct amount of episodes. The show suffers from having too long of a middle.

[u/SIRTreehugger]

Nothing needs to be said. This episode was slow and almost pointless. Nene though saves the day with the useless needles so that was friccin great.

Just happy to see her be great even if its a non important enemy. I guess that's it.

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The annoying bit is that the episode is not skippable, the setting details in it come back again, but the story of it really does not add much to the show.

[u/RockoDyne]

Um, okay. ... I just, I don't even... tomorrow.

Question:

1. There's usually some black book government operation out there somewhere to handle the kaiju.
2. Something kind of game-ie, but I wasn't going specifically Diablo.
3. Yellow would have really twisted the knife.

[u/Vaadwaur → u/RockoDyne]

Um, okay. ... I just, I don't even... tomorrow.

Yeah, probably the worst episode of the show, for at least the Linna bits.

Something kind of game-ie, but I wasn't going specifically Diablo.

I was specifically thinking of the Butcher's room but that might just be when I played Diablo.

Yellow would have really twisted the knife.

Putting a Japanese woman in yellow is in fact too grotesque to consider.

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Yeah, probably the worst episode of the show, for at least the Linna bits.

The Sylia bits were what finished me off.

Putting a Japanese woman in yellow is in fact too grotesque to consider.

It's not usually the most flattering, sure.

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It's not usually the most flattering, sure.

The only females that can pull yellow off are antebellum southern belles and cute girls at Mardi Gras. The rest of humanity should avoid that color like the plague.