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Summary: Very good
Review: Action-filled and exciting- the new suit design is very creative! Nail-biting!
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Summary: Rock, passion and courage
Review: BGC: Tokyo 2040 is a continuation of a great cyberpunk series Bubblegum Crisis/ Crash. This anime is telling a story about four brave girls fighting crime in MegaTokyo (everyone have their own reasons). Their 'crusade' is possible thanks to advanced Power Siuts they're wearing. There's only one problem - limited armour's power supply of and countless enemies to fight! Main plot in earlier series was berserker boomers (technologically advanced androids) - but only on the first sight. Everything was schemed by powerful yet mysteriuos international corporation - GENOM. In this bunch of new episodes our girls are still dealing with boomers, but this time their madness is caused by horrible work conditions and their treatment by humans? Want to know more - WATCH IT YOURSELF! Excellent graphic, good music and great story are undeniable advantages of this series. However, orginal Bubblegum is still much more better. If you haven't seen any of BGC saga episodes try to watch them from the begining (Bubblegum Crisis/ Bubblegum Crash/ Bubblegum Crisis: Tokyo 2040). You'll be amazed how good can be OLD, REAL ANIME!
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Summary: Good Remake
Review: I just finished watching this series, so I've decided to review it. This series is a remake of the original 8-episode "Bubblegum Crisis" OAV series. It's 26 episodes long and spans six DVDs. The first four DVDs contain four episodes each, and the fifth and sixth DVDs contain five episodes each. There are some nice extras, such as character profiles and voice actor credits. However, there is no credits list for the English Sylia voice actor. Credits for the Spanish voice actors would have been nice, too. The DVDs are trilingual, containing Japanese, English, and Spanish audio tracks. The opening and closing songs are in Japanese on all three tracks, and the in-episode songs are dubbed into English only. The Spanish track contains the Japanese audio of the songs. The English dub isn't quite as accurate as for the original "Bubblegum Crisis". My advice is to watch it in Japanese with English subtitles first and then in English. Sometimes, I like to watch DVDs in English with English subtitles. It allows me to easily see the changes in dialogue. With only two songs for the opening and closing credits, it would have been nice to dub them into English, but this wasn't done. As for the series itself, I won't say that it's better than the original series. It isn't, but it isn't worse either. Some things are the same, and some things are different. All of the character designs and voice actors (Japanese and English) are different. My one complaint about the character designs is that some characters, most notably Priss, have pale skin with no explanation, though Priss does sometimes appear darker. The series takes place in another universe than the original series. There is plenty of character development. The series doesn't focus on music as much as the original does, and the 2040 techno remix of "Konya wa Hurricane" doesn't appear in the series. The music that does appear is more techno and punk than the original music. Unfortunately, the final episode suffers from the same problem as the final episode of "Street Fighter II V". Too much time is devoted to fighting and visual effects. While the ending of this series is more satisfying (all of the characters return to Earth alive and well) than that of SF2V, they could have cut a lot of the visual effects and shown the Knight Sabers reuniting. Instead, the series ends with Sylia, Mackie, and Nigel at Sylia's old house; Leon apparently in a bar somewhere else; Nene and Linna on a tropical island; and Priss in the desert, singing. While we can assume that Sylia will go out looking for the others and find them, we aren't shown this. All of the hard suits except for Sylia's are trashed. Will she make new ones? Unlike SF2V, this series doesn't waste time with redundancies or episode recaps. Also, each episode is longer than episodes of SF2V. So, while this series is three episodes shorter than SF2V, it's actually longer. Overall, this is an enjoyable series, but the ending could have been better.
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Summary: best one yet
Review: I think this was way the best becouse it had the mast fighting in it and the story focust on nene
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Summary: Downhill From Here
Review: This disk introduces you to the new hardsuits (which kick the snot out of the old suits). It also starts to tie up many loose ends of the series. I'd say it is the best disk out of the series so far.
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Summary: Be prepared for more tumultuous episodes of BGC
Review: This DVD is a great value with 5 episodes. The girls get new suits but the action seemed to slow down a bit and the story dragged. Still, fans will enjoy this set of episodes and the nice cliffhanger at the end will leave you wanting volume 6. So long = )
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Summary: New Suits, less action, cliffhanger at the end...
Review: This DVD is a great value with 5 episodes. The girls get new suits but the action seemed to slow down a bit and the story dragged. Still, fans will enjoy this set of episodes and the nice cliffhanger at the end will leave you wanting volume 6. So long = )
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Summary: Be prepared for more tumultuous episodes of BGC
Review: This DVD was good, just not the "best". The producers are leading you up to the climatic end which is in Vol. 6. In these episodes, we find out more about the history of the AD Police, Sylia, the hard suits and Genom Corporation (specifically Mason). This volume kept me in my seat until I finished all the episodes but once again it left me hanging.
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Summary: A good disc, but a little of a dropoff
Review: This fifth disc (of six total) is the most disappointing--but only because the previous discs were so good. The chief problem is that it seems drawn out. There's a lot of fighting, but it doesn't really go anywhere. The creators may simply have moved too quickly toward the climax in earlier episodes, and realized they still had quite a few to go. A second problem is the new hardsuits: they're clearly designed to be sexy above all else (they just *try* too hard to be sexy), and they lack the cleaner, simpler look of the originals.That said, this is still a good disc, with important plot points revealed. In particular, we see why Mason wanted to free Galatea, and how she and the boomers operate. The artwork remains good (even if I don't like the hardsuit design), and there are some nice visual effects and interesting boomer designs. Even if it doesn't have all of the magic of some of the earlier discs, you'll still enjoy these episodes if you like BGC 2040. These are not BGC 2040's finest episodes, but they are an integral part of a good show, and they shouldn't be missed.
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Summary: A good disc, but a little of a dropoff
Review: This fifth disc (of six total) is the most disappointing--but only because the previous discs were so good. The chief problem is that it seems drawn out. There's a lot of fighting, but it doesn't really go anywhere. The creators may simply have moved too quickly toward the climax in earlier episodes, and realized they still had quite a few to go. A second problem is the new hardsuits: they're clearly designed to be sexy above all else (they just *try* too hard to be sexy), and they lack the cleaner, simpler look of the originals. That said, this is still a good disc, with important plot points revealed. In particular, we see why Mason wanted to free Galatea, and how she and the boomers operate. The artwork remains good (even if I don't like the hardsuit design), and there are some nice visual effects and interesting boomer designs. Even if it doesn't have all of the magic of some of the earlier discs, you'll still enjoy these episodes if you like BGC 2040. These are not BGC 2040's finest episodes, but they are an integral part of a good show, and they shouldn't be missed.
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