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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WizarDru" data-source="post: 1629018" data-attributes="member: 151">BG 2040 is the updating of one of the pioneers of OVAs, Bubblegum Crisis.  Yes, it's a goofy name. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  2040 updated the franchise, which has been very uneven over the years (including the A.D. Police shows, among others).  The 2040 series is pretty good, although it doesn't really float my boat.  Essentially, the 2040 version is a streamlined, somewhat better written version than the originals.  BGC virtually made 'girls in battlesuits' a genre....and while it gets a little cheesecakey, it doesn't go in for fan service or anything like that.  It's one part angst, one part silliness, two parts revenge and five parts robot butt-kicking.    It's mostly notable, to me, as the last series my friend collected on subtitled videotape; after that, it was DVD all the way.    Why you can find it at your <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00023BN7E/qid=1088534010/sr=8-1/ref=pd_ka_1/103-7875430-3060627?v=glance&s=dvd&n=507846" target="_blank">local video store</a>, on Tuesday  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />.  As it has been licensed, all copies of the digital files have been, for the most part, purged from the online community.  I plan to pick up the dubbed and subtitled version.  I got the first 8 episodes via a Hong Kong release, but will pick up the US version as soon as possible, for the better subtitling and bonus features.  Gungrave really suprised me, in that it shows superheroic butt-kicking in the present day, then immediately jumps back, for about 15 episodes, into the past.  From episode 2 to episode 9 or so, you don't see ANY fantastic elements.  When the 'necrolyze' techonology starts appearing, it's pretty creepy stuff.  Imagine a mob war with zombies.  Yeah.</blockquote>

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