AD POLICE (1989) (anime)

Buy it!

Would you recommend this? Meh--not to anyone who loves Bubblegum Crisis. Much of what is strong about BGC is missing here.


Technically any good? The animation is great for the time period and I really like the character designs. The acting is fine, too. But the story hates women (lots of imagery featuring woman-shaped objects/people being harmed, destroyed, or acting crazy) and the universe is MUCH darker than the one in the original Bubblegum Crisis. There is almost no character dynamic here and what does exist is pretty damn cliche. Tough, gritty cops, sweating and killing in the line duty does not really end up feeling like a world soon-to-be inhabited by heroic, mad-robot-fighting women in super-robot-suits.


How did it leave me feeling? Meh. It was fine, but it really highlighted why the AD Police characters are supporting characters in the main BGC storyline--they're the cliches that the Knight Sabers replace. It also shows off why the Knight Sabers are needed. But why wait for them to show up? Just watch the original Bubblegum Crisis!


Would you sit through it again? Not really. Maybe. Meh, I don't know.

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