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Another prominent character is Leon McNichol (Furukawa), whose courting of Pris is as charmless as it is doomed: he is an officer in the A.D.
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Pris is unlucky in love: GENOM were responsible for her boyfriend's death whilst later she develops a relationship with an Android Boomer that survives on human blood (see Parasitism and Symbiosis) – but circumstances (she controls a Mecha that has a nuclear self-destruct) lead to Pris having to kill her. Known as Pris, she is a biker, rock star (her band is called The Replicants, one of several Bladerunner (1982) references) and the emotional centre of the show.
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The other Knight Sabers are the athletic Linna Yamazaki (Tomizawa) Computer expert/hacker Nene Romanova (Hiramatsu) and the shows main protagonist, Priscilla Asagiri (Ômori). Sylia, a genius like her father, forms the Knight Sabers: four women in hi-tech armoured suits, mercenaries who fight rogue Boomers and oppose GENOM. Sylia Stingray's (Sakakibara) Scientist father is murdered and his work stolen by the evil megacorporation GENOM, who use his designs to manufacture robots called Boomers, which are as likely to be used for evil as good. Voice cast includes Toshio Furukawa, Akiko Hiramatsu, Kinuko Ômori, Yoshiko Sakakibara and Michie Tomizawa. The above description came from Brian Edmond's Brian Edmond page, and was edited by yours truly.Japanese Original Video Animation ( 1987-1991 vt Bubblegum Crisis 2033). In response, Doctor Stingray's daughter, Sylia, formed the Knight Sabers to resist their plans in ways that the police and world governments could not. Genom's development of military boomers, and their continuing program of controlling the global economy and government poses a threat to the very future of humanity. In reality, Genom is far from the saviour of the world that they would project themselves to be. The above is the official, surface description of life in the 2030s. Noteworthy among these are some subtle (and not-so-subtle) animator's jokes and recurring arguments among fans as to whether or not Sylia is a boomer.
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Doctor Stingray was killed in a lab accident shortly after initial development was completed, but Genom has continued work on his brainchild, and boomers are now a major segment of the worldwide manual labour and military hardware market.īoomers are quite obviously inspired by the replicants from the movie Bladerunner, and the series has many direct references to both Bladerunner and a number of other western entertainment icons. Boomer technology is essentially a combination of robotics, cybernetics and artificial intelligence in human form, pioneered by Doctor Katsuhito Stingray. In the process of rebuilding the city, the Genom corporation has become a major world power, due to its introduction of boomers. The series begins in MegaTokyo of the year 2032, where much of the city has recently been destroyed by the second great Kanto earthquake of 2025. Personally, I wouldn't go so far as to call it cyberpunk, at least in the Gibson variety of the genre, but it is definitely a high-tech, near-future story. AnimEigo describes Bubblegum Crisis (BGC to its fans) as The Japanese Animated Cyberpunk Classic.