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I bought this anime after I discovered that it was spin off of the
oh-so-funky Bubblegum Crisis series. (If you have not seen Bubblegum
Crisis WHY NOT!?)
I must admit that I was very disappointed. The three episodes follow
the life of AD Police rookie Leon McNichol and his exploits in the
anti robot unit he is assigned to. The animation is quite poor quality
as are the stories, which all tend to rip off other shows and movies
(one of them is a total Robocop clone, in fact some of the scenes
seem shot for shot rip offs.
As absorbing as 3x3 eyes actually is, the dubbing is a huge let down,
and you may find your self rewinding the tape at times to actually
comprehend what they're saying.
The dubbing and music are not very impressive either. I was expecting
a lot more than this from a spin off of BGC, instead it is just an
excuse to get some tits out and show lots of people dying in several
different ways. The stories try to look at the problem of mechanisation,
the age-old problem of 'if we make intelligent machines what does
it mean to be human etc, but largely fails.
 5/10.
Seen it before, and many others have pulled it off better.
Since this review was originally written, you can at least buy all
3 episodes on one tape (a cynical marketing ploy or kind gesture?
You decide...). So there is, at least, some value for money here -
its the sort of tape that plays to Manga's old image, rather than
the "World Cinema" distributor it now evidently sees itself
as.
Its true that AD Police is really a spin off in location rather than
spirit, but it did fit in well with the rest of Manga's Cyberpunk
collection. Personally I don't think much of it either, but the target
audience of boozed up clubbers will probably enjoy it.
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