Many of the characters are similar to those in the OVA series. The Knight Sabers follow and defeat Galatea at a satellite orbiting Earth. Genom cuts AD Police's funding, resulting in a strike, however, Galatea's influence causes boomers everywhere to go rogue, trapping the Knight Sabers and the AD Police folks inside their own building.
Mason uncovers and reactivates Galatea, a humanoid based on Sylia's DNA who is able to control all boomers. Leon pursues Priss with romantic intentions, but does not know of her connection to the Knight Sabers. Meanwhile, the girls must deal with Sylia's younger brother Mackey. Mason seek to unlock more boomer technology. its leader Quincy Rosenkreutz and advisor Brian J. Over the course of the series, the Knight Sabers go after the rogue boomers, which frustrates the AD Police officers Leon McNichol and his partner Daley Wong. Yamazaki joins the group which consists of: Priss, a rock star Sylia, a boutique store owner and the group's leader and Nene, a computer whiz who also works within the AD Police as a dispatch operator. Although the AD Police are called in to stop the rogue Boomers, a renegade group called the Knight Sabers dressed in cybernetic, armored Hardsuits appear and save the day. Linna Yamazaki, a new office worker, observes a Boomer that has “gone rogue”, causing destruction and attacking people.
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The story takes place in Tokyo where much of the manual labor is done by robots called Boomers, which are run by a mega-corporation Genom.
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The series was later released on DVD, however the Japanese versions were simply the American DVD releases encoded to play for Region 2. The first volume was released on Januthe final volume was released July 26, 2000. Toshiba EMI released the episodes on both VHS and Laserdisc across 13 volumes, each containing two episodes. A retelling of the 1987 original video animation Bubblegum Crisis, the series premiered on TV Tokyo on Octowhere it ran for 26 episodes until its conclusion on March 31, 1999. Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040 ( バブルガムクライシス TOKYO 2040 Baburugamu Kuraishisu TOKYO 2040) is a Japanese anime series produced by Anime International Company (AIC).