Relentless technological development has resulted in the creation of Boomers, artificially intelligent androids with the potential to free mankind from physical labor. But anything that can be used can also be misused...
The prequel to Bubblegum Crisis.
All 3 episodes on one DVD.
File 1 - The Phantom Woman
AD Police rookie Leon McNichol gets his first lesson in the school of hard choices when he and his partner Geena are given the job of tracking down the cause of several incidents of Boomers running amuck. They soon discover that a defective Boomer is illegally reactivating Boomers which have been scrapped -- and one of these Boomers has a vivid memory locked in her mind; the image of the man who destroyed her. The image of Leon McNichol.
File 2 - The Ripper
Detective Ailis Kara doggedly investigates a string of vicious murders, the victims all prostitutes, and all found with their abdomens slashed open. Along the way, she meets a female executive who has had herself artificially augumented to get ahead in business. Is there a connection between the newly available implants and the murders? At what point does one stop being human, and become a machine? Ailis Kara is about to find out.
File 3 - The Man Who Bites His Tongue
ADPolice officer Billy Fanword, critically wounded in battle with a runaway Boomer, is used as an experimental subject for a cyber-operation, and reborn as an invicible Cyborg Policeman. But Billy, who can only confirm his humanity by biting his tongue, soon finds out that invincibility isn't all it's cracked up to be.
Audio: Japanese, English
Subtitles: English
Format: DVD-9, Region: 1 - NA
Rating: 18+, Run Time: 120 min.
Released: 1990
Aspect Ratio: 4:3, COLOR
Extras: Image Gallery, Program Notes, Promotional Trailers, Music Videos
Directors: Akira NISHIMORI, Takamasa IKEGAMI
Screenplay: Noboru AIKAWA, Tony TAKEZAKI, Toshimichi SUZUKI
Voice Actors: Tessho GENDA, Toshio FURUKAWA, Yoko MATSUOKA
© 1990, 2004 by A.I.C., Inc & Youmex, Inc.