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AD Police
Review
by: Matt
McConnel 
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Ok, if
you are dead set on getting this video or DVD, then be warned.
Do not watch that first episode; it’s an attempt to make anime
a la Miami Vice with direction by Terintino. Ughhhh,
brain hurts. This one is a stinker.
Apparently
this series is set before the events of Bubblegum Crisis
2040, and this shows. The AD Police has just been formed,
and has started to draw the best and brightest police from
the world to Tokyo. Then there are our protagonists, a native
Japanese and German recruit. The German, Hans, has some interesting
characterization, but this is left by the wayside in favor
of his attempts to nail a nurse using the SAME PICK UP LINE
every time. There is so much promise here that is left hanging.
The violin playing girlfriend, whom I might add doesn’t speak
till the end of the third episode, and other little things
are not explored. Instead, the attempts at a hard, gritty,
street cop action with comedy are harped on with all the success
of trying to swat a mosquito with a Buick. Clash, boom, sis,
boom, bah; look at us, we’re tough cops. Blah. I am unimpressed.
Plus the soft-core hantai during the end credits does not
help the credibility.
There
are moments. The ‘old style’ Boomers, properly translated
now as Voomers, are interesting, and for once we are given
an explanation of why they went rouge. Nanites apparently
make up the core, and when there go wonk, all hell breaks
loose. Apparently, by BGC2040, this problem has been
solved by Genom, but now they WANT the boomers to go rogue.
But that’s another series, and a better one at that. In fact
all of these moments I refer to are how AD Police ties
to its sequel, Bubblegum Crisis 2040. The AD Police
are here a necessity, later they become an absurdity and anachronism
as Boomer technology improves and they are held back by Genom.
In fact, the only viable thing that I drew from these first
three episodes is the tragic decline of the AD Police, something
that could have easily been slipped into BGC2040, and
might have been, I don’t know since the entirety of it has
not come out in the States yet.
“Since
brevity is the soul of wit…” this was not worth the shipping
that it came in. If it had not been for that first episode
with the ghastly animation, AD Police would only have
been mediocre; the animation is all right even if the writing
was ghastly. As it is however, it’s bad.
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