Anime AD Police (A.D.V. Films)

[Billy Shears]

I rented the series yesterday and watched the first episode before I went to bed. From what I saw (and what I remember), I liked it.

The backdrop is that a gigantic earthquake leveled Tokyo. They rebuild the city, and the corporation heading this plan is the Genom Corp. Thus, they rename the city Genom City, and have replaced many minimum-wage jobs with intelligent robots who are programmed after human beings.

The series is about a member of the AD Police who hunts down these robots that are called "boomers". What they do is they fuse their "core", the source of all their abilities to other A.I. controlled robots. When the two are fused together, they create a giant mech. The AD Police must destroy the core before the boomers levels the city.

PS: For thsoe who read the thread before I edited it, sorry for the crappy summary.

[Dagger]

I know this takes place in the same basic universe as Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040, but I was wondering just how much the two anime have in common. For example, are there any shared characters?

~Dagger~

[Billy Shears]

[QUOTE=Dagger IX1]I know this takes place in the same basic universe as Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040, but I was wondering just how much the two anime have in common. For example, are there any shared characters?

~Dagger~[/QUOTE]

The most I've seen of Bubblegum Crisis 2040 is the trailer on the AD Police DVD, so I can't answer that question, sorry. But Bubblegum Crisis does seem similar, because of the city backgrounds and minor details like that. But the character designs are different from one another.

Anyway, Episode 2 describes more about the boomers, and the idea behind them is pretty cool. I won't ruin it for you, my fellow OBers ;)

[Meggido]

From what has been said about the first two episodes it sounds like it is a prequel for Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040. There is no background for the AD Police in it and so they probably decided to make a series to fill in the gaps.

[Billy Shears]

[quote name='Meggido']From what has been said about the first two episodes it sounds like it is a prequel for Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040. There is no background for the AD Police in it and so they probably decided to make a series to fill in the gaps.[/quote]

After looking on ANN, "AD Police" is staged a few years before "Bubblegum Crisis: Tokyo 2040". The strange thing is that they happen in the same city, but in BGCT: 2040, I heard the city is called "Mega-Tokyo", but in "AD Police", its named "Genom City". Isn't that weird? :confused: