Director: Sonoda Kenichi

Summary: In 'Megatokyo 2033 AD' the city begins to recover from the earthquake. The Knight Sabers a group of mercenaries battle against the GENOM Corporation. In 'Largo (episodes 4-6)' a mystery man attempts to discredit the Knight Sabers.

In the year 2032, the Knight Sabers, a small group of techno-savy female mercenaries, battle the evil GENOM Corporation, which controls most of Mega Tokyo. In these episodes, the Knight Sabers turn the tables on a mysterious vehicle that has been hunting down motorcycle gangs. Later, the girls must contend with a bevy of female convicts who crash land outside of Mega Tokyo and may be behind a recent string of murders. Finally, a shady figure known as Largo sets out to discredit the Knights Saber by creating look-alike Boomers that seem far too much like the real thing.

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The second instalment of the popular Japanese anime, Bubblegum Crisis 2 contains the fourth, fifth and sixth episodes of the eight original videos. In a devastated high-tech Tokyo of a Blade Runner-ish future, four beautiful women disguised by their heavily armed exoskeletons protect society from killer androids and from an ambitious corporation that tries to take over the world, while also having complicated personal lives. The cute teenager NeNe always has a crush on someone or other; flighty Linna has to fit her superhero life into a busy social schedule; and Priss has her career as a rock singer as well as a habit of feeling emotional. Only the austere Sylia is entirely in control of her life--so much so that she needs the others for a bit of productive chaos.

In the episodes included they deal with a mysterious car that is riding down motorcyclists, help a tragic android who is vampirising citizens to feed a damaged friend and cope with attempts by an evil conspirator to frame them for mass mayhem. The stories rely rather too heavily on extended sequences of fast bikes and car racing, or mechanised bodysuits and big robots tearing each other apart, but the plotting can be subtle and the emotional scenes tense and fraught. Someone trying to get a sense of anime's strengths and weaknesses could do a lot worse than start here.

On the DVD: the disc is presented in a visual aspect ratio of 1.33:1 and has a very loud Dolby Digital 2.0 soundtrack which presents every screech of tortured metal vehemently and every pounding anthem in the slightly pompous score. There are no extras apart from a very extended documentation of the credits. --Roz Kaveney

Main Language:	Japanese
Region:	Region 2
Special Features:	Photo - 1. Cell Art Gallery, DVD-ROM Only - 1. Song Lyrics, 2. Linear Notes
Subtitles:	English, French
Year:	1987
Release Date:	October 8, 2001
Runtime:	132 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	M V D 2004
Keywords:	Animated, Collection, Bubblegum, General, Crisis, Fiction, Science, Animation, Horror, Episodes, Vol, Sci, Fi, Baburugamu, Kuraishisu
Genre:	Science Fiction