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Volume 1
Shadow Wars
bgc2040All New! All Different! All Action! In the aftermath of the great earthquake, one ruthless corporation stands ready to take over the devastated city of Tokyo with an army of synthetic monsters. Only one small band of female mercenaries is ready to stand against the monolithic power of Genom, but in this case four women are all it takes! Armed with the most incredible combat suits ever designed, the Knight Sabers wage a desperate war in the shadows, combating the monstrous by-products of technology run amuck with courage, sweat and blood. It's a deadly trial by fire as the acclaimed cyberpunk masterpiece is reborn in a new action-packed series!
Volume 2
Trial by Fire
Face to face with the automated insanity of a mad boomer, the newest Knight Saber learns the limits of her hard suit in a traumatic exchange of mechanical fury. Genom unleashes a new wave of rogue boomers, and the AD Police declare open war on the Knight Sabers! A bloody street battle is the only way out as, trapped in a maze of intrigue carefully laid by conspiring foes, the vigilante heroines fight to survive. Sylia's brother Mackey joins the team as the whole town goes up in flames in the second stunning volume of Bubblegum Crisis: Tokyo 2040!
Volume 3
Metal Storm
The war against Genom escalates, and the Knight Sabers find themselves forced to deal with even deadlier forms of boomer crime. An insane husband seeks retribution against a cheating wife with the ultimate revenge weapon, and a killer cybercar prowls the streets of Tokyo in search of human prey.
Volume 4
Rampage
A cannibalistic boomer runs amok, pulling its victims into the sewers and devouring them like a giant spider. The Knight Sabers find themselves hopelessly outmatched... and then the monster chooses Sylia as its next victim!
Volume 5
Heartbreaker
Linna is forced to make a choice between friends and family when a trip back home has unexpected repercussions. With Linna missing and Sylia and Nene out of action, Priss finds herself facing her most deadly adversary yet, a gargantuan military boomer that she cannot possibly stop alone. Time is running out for both the Knight Sabers and the city of Tokyo as titans clash in the fifth spectacular volume of BUBBLEGUM CRISIS - Tokyo 2040!
Volume 6
Mindbender
Mysterious clues about Sylia's hidden past begin to surface as the Knight Sabers are drawn into a deadly race to discover a missing research facility. But even as they near their objective, the team starts to fall apart, and the real reasons for the Knight Sabers' existence come into question. Underneath the ruins of old Tokyo, the ultimate nightmare begins to awake as a long buried secret turns into a deadly trap in the sixth shocking volume of Bubblegum Crisis: Tokyo 2040.
Volume 7
Cataclysm
The nightmare is loose, and the fate of the human race is in the hands of a madman! As the true origin of both the Knight Sabers and the Sotai is unveiled, the team breaks apart, leaving the protection of Tokyo in the hands of the AD Police. But Genom has already engineered the destruction of the ADP as well! The last relics of law and order are blown to ashes and dust as Mason unleashes Galatea.
Volume 8
Contagion
Trapped in a tower of concrete and iron, Nene and the remaining members of the AD Police fight a losing battle against an army of killer boomers. Stripped of their armor, the Knight Sabers must attempt to reunite and stage a daring rescue as a living wave of bio-organic metal sweeps through the ADP tower like the hands of a mad god!
Volume 9
Kill Zone
Stripped for action... The city of Tokyo becomes a killing field as the Knight Sabers join with the remnants of the A.D.Police in a desperate battle to stop the boomer onslaught. As Galatea extends her reach throughout the Dragon Line, Sylia is forced to unveil an all new series of HARDsuits with spectacular advanced capabilities... but will even that be enough when the boomers outnumber the Sabers by a thousand to one? Human flesh melds with liquid metal to form the ultimate fighting machine!
Volume 10
Burning Metal
The city of Tokyo has been abandoned. Now only the Knight Sabers remain, but even with their new HARDsuits, the relentless waves of mad Boomers begin to take their toll. As Galatea's powers continue to expand, the Knight Sabers find themselves driven back again and again, until they literally have no place left to run. Gathering the alst human survivors, the Sabers prepare to make a desperate last stand.
Volume 11
Avatar
Like a multi-headed serpent, the branches of the Dragon Line become the arms with which Galatea seeks to crush the last vestiges of human resistance in Tokyo. Only the Knight Sabers remain, mankind's last line of defense against the nightmarish spawn of man and machine...but can even the Sabers defeat a beast with a million eyes and the mind of an insane child?
Volume 12
Deathstrike
In a desperate race against time, the three remaining knight sabers stage a desperate final attck on Galatea's orbiting citadel. With a limited supply of power and oxygen, they must battle their way through a horrifying gauntlet of living machines before Galatea can activate the Umbrella and spread the boomer plague across the entire planet.
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The pace is quite a bit slower than the original and the music just isn't anywhere near the standard set by the original. The character design (particularly Sylia) reminds me of characters from El Hazard. There are some nice aspects to the story-line and I can only hope that things will improve as the series progresses. I'd really like to see this series succeed, but, what I've seen so far does not inspire confidence.
I used to have the first two volumes on subtitled VHS. Although I had my doubts about the series, I found that I couldn't resist repurchasing the series on DVD at a heavily discounted price.