Amazon.com: While rogue Boomer robots under the telepathic command of Galatea the Sotai ravage 21st-century Neo-Tokyo, romance unexpectedly flowers for the members of the all-female vigilante posse, the Knight Sabers. Sylia rediscovers her affection for the mechanic Nigel, who worked with her father to create the Boomers; tough-as-press-on-nails Priss accepts the advances of hard-bitten cop Leon; Mackie continues his pursuit of ditsy computer wizard Nene. (Linna, the newest member of the crew, hasn't met anyone yet, but there are several potential candidates on hand.) Mason, the sinister vice president of the Genom Corporation, freed the mysterious Galatea to help the Boomers reach the next stage of their evolution and supplant humanity, but she proves difficult to control. The robot Boomers begin as standard-issue zombies with glowing eyes but quickly mutate into bizarre forms, ranging from a giant fanged monster to a writhing mass of tentacles large enough to engulf a skyscraper. When they infiltrate Genom's massive system of power cables, they metamorphose into a enormous creature that is half serpent, half lamprey. There are plenty of gun battles, martial arts moves, and scenes of the characters riding to each other's rescue, but the storytelling is less interesting than the visuals and the plot borrows a little too heavily from Akira and other series. "Suggested 15 Up" for violence, profanity and brief nudity; alcohol and tobacco use. --Charles Solomon
All Things Fall Apart Bubblegum Crisis: Tokyo 2040 (2000): Vol. 5: Blood & Steel is the next to last DVD in the cyberpunk anime series about a team of four female vigilantes in cool hardsuits, fighting robots gone mad in the Tokyo of the near future. Vol. 5 has lots of playing time, with five episodes. The episodes are:
Episode 17: Moving Waves - The Boomer invasion becomes more than attacks by individual robots. With Galatea now awake and communicating with them, the boomers are a seemingly unstoppable wave of mecha, fusing with any machine they encounter. Their target: AD Police Headquarters. Nene, the chief, and a low level engineer are trapped inside. With communications to the outside world cut off, and the television media sending misinformation about the situation, what will happen to our heroes?
Episode 18: We Built This City - Finally getting a brief signal out to their comrades Leon and Daley, who have to figure out what is really going on with only the TV News pretending everything is fine, Nene and the tiny group of humans continues to run from the encroaching boomer wave. The Knight Sabers, still raw from their recent fight with Sylia, want to help too.
Episode 19: Are You Experienced? - The TV news can no longer pretend everything is sunny in Tokyo. Leon and the remaining officers in Tokyo come together to try to fight the Dragon Line, Genom's massive underground power cables, which have come to life. Since the Boomers no longer need a core to function, all previous weaponry is useless. Even the Knight Sabers' hardsuits need remodeling.
Episode 20: One of These Nights - Linna, Priss, Sylia, and Nene have finally overcome their disagreements and are reunited in the new hardsuits. But the massive Dragon Line looms over a now deserted Tokyo, the citizens having fled for their lives. Only Leon and Sylia's group remain, Sylia confident she is safe in her heavily fortified building headquarters. How can they defeat the Dragon Line when it is seeking to fuse with their hardsuits?
Episode 21: Over the Edge - Romantic tensions between Sylia and Nigel, Priss and Leon come to a head as they all face an uncertain future in the eerie urban landscape that was Tokyo. International armies are massing in Japan.
The animation in this series is extraordinary. The backdrops of an empty Tokyo are eerily fascinating.
Awesome! This part of the six DVD is well done. The story takes on a more "OH my god! The world is in Peril!" theme. It kept me on th edge of my seat just waiting for the next scene.
best one yet I think this was way the best becouse it had the mast fighting in it and the story focust on nene
It gets better and better! This series continues to get better and better and with the fifth DVD installment, the series focuses on relationships and betrayal.
This DVD features five episodes (episodes 17-21) and do things get interesting. With the first few episodes continuing where it was last left off, Nene stuck in the AD Police HQ with a few of her bosses trying to fend off boomers, you have the Galatea and Mason storylines. This is where the biggest difference between the old series and this series is evident. Although Mason is a baddie, the true baddie is Galatea. Also, the secret is pretty much revealed who the Knightsabers are.
People might be upset that the these episodes somewhat end the storyline for a few of our male bad guys but the concentration is on Galatea. I'm enjoying the progression of these episodes and I enjoyed this DVD.
As for the DVD itself, the menu is pretty cool and the sound is great for a TV series. Colors are beautiful in terms of video quality. As for special features, as before....hardly anything. Character design sketches for each character. Not much.
All in all, I'm used to anime DVD's having squat in terms of special features and another thing, I know there are previews for AD vision series, but I guess I'm not finding them anywhere on the series DVD's.
All in all, a must have for BGC 2040 fans. A great series!
A good disc, but a little of a dropoff 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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