A.D. Police - To Protect and Serve (Complete Series)

A.D. Police is a re-make of the original A.D. Police. This was an anime that took place in the future, in an after math of a great earthquake japan need to be re-built so they used robot called boomers. the project worked they used Boomer for every day need but, a terrorist organization has used boomer and turn them in rouge boomers. with lives in peril of uncontrollable robots... the A.D. police are specialized cops in dealing with rogue boomer as cases like it. your going to just out of your seat in this one!

This series is pretty good. The animation isn't quite as nice as Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040, but it's better than the origional Bubblegum Crisis and Bubblegum Crash. For ten bucks less than the Special Edition of Jin-Roh or Akira you can get 5 hours of really good anime. There's twelve episodes on two dvd's. The second disc has a the normal "extra" features which include clean opening and closing animations, sketches, and art. You can choose from English, English with song subtitles, and Japanese with subtitles.AD Police plays more like a cop drama than a mecha anime.If you're into getting as much anime as you can for your dollar you should really pick this one up. Blue Seed would be another good series for a great price.

Has potential...some good bits here & there. But needs extension elaborate details, & show. English voice actors didnt do good job. Nice voice, but doesnt have high energy of japanese. Like they're bored reading their lines. (Considering how choppy short bits coulda been inserted into another show)

I highly recommend watching the Bubblegum Crisis and A. D. Police series if you get a chance. I have been a fan since the 90s.

It works so I’mHappy

It is just over 30 years since this OVA series began, and it has stood up remarkably well, despite multiple authors, lawsuits between participants, truncated series, reboots, and no definitive ending. That such a thing is even watchable today is amazing, that most (but not all) of it has appealed to so many different viewers over so many long years is a tribute to the genius (mostly) displayed in creating it. You won’t like all of it, for too many different directions were tried, but you will likely like most of it, and of how many things is that true?Let’s begin with Bubblegum Crisis (1987-1991), available in both  Blu-ray  and  DVD , a probably intended 13 half-hour-to-hour-long episode series, cut short to just 8. In 2032 just seven years after Tokyo was hammered by the Second Great Kanto Earthquake, a colossal corporation, Genom, is rising, unchecked by the government entities it corrupts or owns. Its products are artificial cybernetic lifeforms that are usually in the form of humans, with most of their bodies being machines. These wondrous inventions do great good for mankind,... when they are working properly. When they are not working properly, by accident or design, they become a menace to life, and are subject to destruction by the largely overworked and outmatched AD Police… and the Knight Sabers, an all-female group of powered exoskeleton equipped mercenaries. Interestingly, the ultimate goal of the Knight Sabers is not to destroy Genom, against whom most members have a blood debt or two, but rather to control it by destroying only its most destructive projects, products,... and people.The first three episodes form a loosely contrived trilogy introducing the Knight Sabers, explaining their origin, depicting their struggles, and showing their ultimate triumph over the schemes of Genom executive Brian J. Mason. This is followed by a single episode savage road duel between an automobile driver and a motorcycle gang, then by a two-episode heartbreaker about love-dolls, apparent vampirism, and Genom corruption. The last two episodes involve a character with a vendetta (based upon the events of an earlier episode), and a final episode focusing on Nene.Note: This isn’t the first American Blu-ray edition; that honor belonged to the legendary, long gone  Limited Edition  that I and most fans have never seen, but it is the first American Blu-ray edition since then. Like most fans I was thrilled, until I noticed the label on the upper right corner: “ALL 8 OVAs 1 DISC”.... Seriously? 333 minutes on one Blu-ray disc? (Until this I hadn’t seen more than 300 minute, 12 episode anime series with subtitles only on one Blu-ray disc.) Well, I’ve now watched it twice, once with English voice acting and once with English subtitles and Japanese voice acting, and by golly, it seems like they did it IMHO! Of course Extras are almost nonexistent: a couple of artwork galleries are selectable and 8 of the 9 animated music videos play one after the other on the Main Menu (missing only “Touchdown to Tomorrow”, weirdly the only animated music video with original artwork), but at this price I will gladly accept it in return for the Blu-ray!Unfortunately, now the two rights holding companies began to angrily split apart, forcing all sorts of problems. A truncated 3 OVA episode version of the arguably intended ending of the Bubblegum Crisis series,  Bubblegum Crash  (1991), was produced, but it pales somewhat in comparison with the preceding (being a bit too silly), though it is necessary to watch for fans of the original. An additional truncated 3 OVA prequel series  AD Police Files  (1990), depicting the origin and earlier adventures of character Leon McNichol, was also produced, but it is overly downbeat and depressing, not to mention inconclusive about the fates of characters other than Leon, especially his first partner.Next are the reboots, and as near as I can tell, no serious attempt was made to link any of these together. The first was  Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040  (1998-1999), a 24 episode TV series plus 2 OVA episodes reboot of “Bubblegum Crisis” and “Bubblegum Crash”. Now, as a rule, I don’t think much of reboots for obvious reasons: “Wow, the original was brilliant, unique, nothing quite like it! How can we achieve similar success? I know, let’s COPY it!...” (What can possibly go wrong with that, the world wonders?) More seriously, the problem with doing this (which I don’t recommend by the way; instead I’d advise adding sequels to the original story) is how do you do it successfully? Steer too close to the original, and (unless your animation really is better, which it usually isn’t, especially if you are going from OVA to TV) all you’ve got is a copy. Whoopee…. Steer too far away, and you risk destroying whatever appeal the original had for its audience. For this reason IMHO most reboots aren’t worth your time, but there are exceptions, and one I’m thinking of involves  Birdy the Mighty - Double Trouble  and  Birdy the Mighty - Final Force  the 4 episode OVA series and  Birdy the Mighty: Decode  the 25 episode TV series, plus 1 OVA. At first glance, with the OVA series animated by Madhouse and the TV series NOT animated by Madhouse, it should have been no contest, but the TV series succeeds by being better written. For one thing the main male character is less of a whiny wuss and more of a thoughtful contrast to Birdy’s insane recklessness. In addition a lot more thought was put into the complications of Birdy’s life and universe, including the whole hilarious Birdy_pretends_to_be_a_model/idol running joke.Similar things are going on in “Bubblegum Crisis”, “Bubblegum Crash” versus “Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040”. The biggest problem with the original IMHO is that except for the 3 episode opening and the 3 episode “Bubblegum Crash” closing, there is no particular structure to the 5 episodes in the middle, and most of the several different creators seem to have focused on Priss, excepting the 8th episode focusing on Nene. In contrast Sylia is largely a mystery, and Linna is largely a nonentity. However, in “Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040” all four of the main characters are more carefully plotted out and, in particular, are a lot more in conflict with each other, both over Sylia’s secrets from them... and problems with each other. A number of things brought over from the original series are more carefully planned, explained, and implemented in the reboot; in particular Mackey Stingray has been significantly changed. Finally, the multi-episode stories have no original series equivalent. About the only criticism I’d make of the reboot is that in contrast to the careful plotting of the beginning and the build up to the end, the final events of the ending seem a bit confused and rushed; however, it is noteworthy that it does make considerably more sense in the Japanese with English subtitles format.Next, although arguably a prequel, is the 12 episode TV series "A.D. Police: To Protect and Serve" (1999); essentially it’s a cop show about the adventures of a couple of mismatched partners,... REALLY mismatched partners, who just happen to serve in the A.D. Police. On the one hand it is pretty well written, and, unlike “AD Police Files”, this series actually has an ending; on the other hand, it is rather poorly animated and has a fairly downbeat and depressing ending, which goes with the downbeat and depressing halfway point. Now, if you like cop stories, you will probably like this; there is definitely some clever writing about the problems of being a cop at any time, in any situation. However, the science fiction seems a bit underwritten.Last is the 3 OVA episode series  Parasite Dolls  (2003), which is arguably another reboot since its connections with “A.D. Police: To Protect and Serve” (or “AD Police Files” for that matter) are iffy at best. Yet Another Serious Look at the Underbelly of Tokyo/Genom City starts out pretty well, if pretty dark and grim, but the individual episode endings don’t make much sense, and the final episode is so off the charts insane that it really messes up the series IMHO.Note: Naked female breasts pop up infrequently but occasionally in many of these shows (in the OVA’s) so be ye warned.Note: If you wish to watch these shows in internal chronological order, do this with the original set:AD Police FilesBubblegum CrisisBubblegum CrashReboots:A.D. Police: To Protect and Serve (1999)Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040 (1998-1999)Parasite Dolls (2003)

A good anime

AD Police Files: To Protect and Serve (1999): 4/10: After greatly enjoying AD Police Files (1990) I was looking forward to this updated series. What a disappointing mess.The first disk is a repetitive find malfunctioning robot (In the series they are called Voomers but trust me they are simply robots), Shoot said robot (one bullet usually does the trick) Find new malfunctioning robot. (This town doesn't need the AD Police it needs the consumer protection agency)Actual plot doesn't rear its head for half a dozen episodes and when it does it's a sleeper. The villain is right out of Batman complete with silly explosives designed to look like toys and a big secret. There is a double-crossing love interest with a big secret. There is a guy who endlessly shows pictures of his kids and how he is going to retire soon (No secret what happens to him.) There is a big company that owns everything. (Gee you think they have a big secret.)You can see the secrets a mile away and the entire plot reminds me of the background story on a third rate Playstation game. (Think Twisted Metal not Final Fantasy) The show also demonstrates some of the sloppiest police work around. (If your going to arrest a subject under surveillance shouldn't you cut off the exits first?) Also the characters seem to drink at Leaving Las Vegas levels (one entire episode takes place entirely at the bar.)The voice work on the dub is surprisingly good but the animation is the last straw. Done in that Ken Burns style (pan the photo as substitution for action) it is cheap and like the show itself repetitive.I'll admit I watched all twelve episodes as they are short and I really hoped for a good payoff at some point. I certainly wouldn't recommend anyone else take the same plunge.