Summaries

Three different, unique stories about an elite police force called the AD Police.

In the future, many difficult and undesirable jobs are handled by specially designed androids called BUMAs or boomers. Unfortunately, many of them have a danger to going beserk and when that happens, only the AD Police are equipped and trained to deal with them. When one AD cop is killed in one of these missions, his life insurance may be cancelled due to some unanswered questions. To clear that up, two cops decided to investigate the target android's background on their free time. Unknown to them, another android is following them with her own agenda...—Kenneth Chisholm <[email protected]>

Set several years before the original Bubblegum Crisis, This trio of disturbing cases, focusing on rookie Leon McNichol and his partner, Jeena Malso, challenge what it truly means to be human, what it truly means to be a machine, and how truly thin the border between humanity and machines is. In Vol. 1: The Phantom Woman, Jeena and Leon investigate the circumstances behind the death of a fellow AD Policeman, and Leon is stalked by a boomer who he had destroyed long ago... In Vol. 2: The Ripper, a series of grotesque prostitute murders, committed by a woman who has given up her humanity for her work, are investigated by a woman who is contemplating the loss of her own. And Vol. 3: The Man Who Bites His Tongue, deals with the near death of a police officer, and subsequent transformation into a Robocop-like cyborg, bereft of all but the very last parts of humanity, the only way he can keep his mind focused is to inflict pain upon himself, the only human sensation he has left.—Miriani

Details

Keywords
  • police officer
  • mecha
  • ova
  • seinen
  • dementia anime
Genres
  • Thriller
  • Horror
  • Sci-Fi
  • Crime
  • Animation
Release date May 24, 1990
Motion Picture Rating (MPA) Not Rated
Countries of origin Japan
Language Japanese
Production companies Anime International Company (AIC) Bandai Entertainment Inc. Artmic

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Tech specs

Runtime 2h 1m
Color Color
Sound mix Stereo
Aspect ratio 1.33 : 1

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